Most pennies of Kings William I and II show a front-facing bust of the king on the obverse ( which was a departure from the Anglo-Saxon kings, who mostly used a sideways-facing bust ), surrounded by a legend, usually ( King William, or William King of the English — The P may have been a late usage of the letter wynn, a P-shaped rune which had the sound value of a " w ").

In fields of scholarship outside numismatics, the term front is more commonly used than obverse, while usage of reverse is widespread.

According to encyclopaedia Iranica, AFGHAN ( afḡān ) in current political usage means any citizen of Afghanistan, whatever their ethnic, tribal, or religious affiliation is.

In non-technical usage, a "( secret ) code " typically means a " cipher ".

In Greek, the adjective kyriak-ós /- ē /- ón means " belonging, or pertaining, to a Kýrios " (" Lord "), and the usage was adopted by early Christians of the Eastern Mediterranean with regard to anything pertaining to the Lord Jesus Christ: hence " Kyriakós oíkos " (" house of the Lord ", church ), " Kyriakē " (" day of the Lord ", i. e. Sunday ), or " Kyriakē proseukhē " ( the " Lord's prayer ").

For determining whether someone is intoxicated by alcohol by some means other than a blood-alcohol test, it is necessary to rule out other conditions such as hypoglycemia, stroke, usage of other intoxicants, mental health issues, and so on.

While the North American perception is important to understand the usage of the term, it by no means dominates a wider global view, where the fundamentalist debate was not so influential.

In common language usage, " fruit " normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of a plant that are sweet and edible in the raw state, such as apples, oranges, grapes, strawberries, and bananas.

He also facetiously " advocated " forbidding the usage of everyone's right hand, based on the assumptions that more difficulty means more work and more work means more wealth.

Due to its similarity to an oblique minuscule " y ", an actual " Y " is substituted in modern pseudo-old-fashioned usage as in " Ye Olde Curiositie Shoppe "; the first word means and should be pronounced " the ", not " ye " ( archaic form of " you ").

In Australia, Canada, and the UK, all usage of the word holiday means time away from normal employment or education.

His major contributions were the introduction of a closed tuned circuit in the generating part of the transmitter, and its separation from the radiating part ( the antenna ) by means of inductive coupling, and later on the usage of crystals for receiving purposes.

After realising that, he also provided the means to build such a rail network by inventing a rotary phase converter suitable for locomotive usage.

The word narcissism, from the myth of Narcissus, means " inordinate fascination with oneself ; excessive self-love ; vanity " in casual usage.

It is difficult to determine which programming languages are most widely used, and what usage means varies by context.

After the Spanish conquest in the 16th century, Quechua continued to see considerable usage, as the " general language " and main means of communication between the Spaniards and the indigenous population, including for the Roman Catholic Church as a language of evangelisation.

Curia in medieval and later Latin usage means " court " in the sense of " royal court " rather than " court of law ".

* de facto standards which means they are followed by informal convention or dominant usage.

The exact meaning of this old term, and the reasons it came into common usage, are unknown ; in Scandinavian languages, lapp means " a patch of cloth for mending ", which may be a description of the clothing, called a gakti, that the Sámi wear.

The Trishaw has been discontinued for usage as a means of transportation after 1980.

As shōjo literally means " girl " in Japanese, the equivalent of the western usage will generally include the medium: girls ' manga ( 少女漫画 shōjo manga ), or anime for girls ( 少女向けアニメ shōjo-muke anime ).

In Cockney rhyming slang, bread means money ; this usage is derived from the phrase " bread and honey ".

The American Heritage Dictionary ( 2000 ) uses the following two sentences to illustrate the difference, noting that the distinction " is useful in principle, but it is by no means widely observed, and considerable variation in usage occurs at all levels.

Nomisma is a latinisation of the Greek νόμισμα ( nomisma ) which means " current coin / custom ", which derives from νομίζω ( nomizō ), " to hold or own as a custom or usage, to use customarily ", in turn from νόμος ( nomos ), " usage, custom ", ultimately from νέμω ( nemō ), " I dispense, divide, assign, keep, hold ".

For most services, the network provides a permanent virtual circuit ( PVC ), which means that the customer sees a continuous, dedicated connection without having to pay for a full-time leased line, while the service-provider figures out the route each frame travels to its destination and can charge based on usage.

This was the beginning of the end for marching timpani: Eventually, standard concert timpani found their way onto the football field as part of the front ensemble, and marching timpani fell out of common usage.

In human anatomical usage, anterior refers to the " front " of the individual, and is synonymous with ventral, other than in the head.

The anteroposterior axis is preferred usage for describing the axis connecting the front and the back in humans.

The military usage evolved very quickly in the First World War, until whole systems of extensive main trenches, backup trenches ( in case the first lines were overrun ) and communication trenches had been developed, often stretching dozens of kilometres along a front without interruption, and some kilometres further back from the opponent's lines.

Incorrect usage can cause trauma to the front incisors ; the correct technique is to displace the chin upwards and forward at the same time, not to use the blade as a lever with the teeth serving as the fulcrum.

In general usage, this rear camera is used to take higher resolution images, whereas the front facing camera is used for lower resolution face-to-face conversations with other users using the FaceTime communication platform.

The most common modern usage of mirror writing can be found on the front of ambulances, where the word " AMBULANCE " is often written in very large mirrored text, so that drivers see the word the right way around in their rear-view mirror.

The main reason for the gradual downfall of SVT usage in combat was not its technical disadvantages ; rather, the reason was that, with the immense, continual demand for rifles in the front lines, Soviet factories could produce other, simpler designs in far greater quantities in the same length of time it took to produce the SVT.

A device known as an In-vehicle Unit ( IU ) is affixed on the lower right corner of the front windscreen within sight of the driver, in which a stored-value card, the CashCard, is inserted for payment of the road usage charges.

In Māori usage, the marae atea ( often shortened to marae ) is the open space in front of the wharenui or meeting house ( literally " large building ").

Russian internal passport: front cover, first page, last page ( usage terms )

A mail slot ( American and Canadian usage ) or letterbox ( British usage ) is a slot, usually horizontal but sometimes vertical, about 30 cm by 5 cm ( 12 inches by 2 inches ), cut through the middle or lower half of a front door.

In recent American English usage, a car's fascia is its front-end " look "-grille, headlamps, front bumper, and other details.

It should not to be confused with the more general usage of military front, describing a geographic area in wartime.

This sense of the term is different from the more general usage of military front which indicates a geographic area in wartime, although a Soviet Front usually operates within designated boundaries.

In the highest positions on the fingerboard, where the neck on an EUB gets considerably thicker, the left hand usage can be modified with the whole hand being brought round to the front of the instrument and the thumb taking the place of the index finger.

In North American usage this is usually the rear seating block beneath the gallery in the orchestra stalls whereas Britain it can mean either the area immediately in front of the orchestra, or the whole of the stalls seating area.

The front airbags use a dual-threshold, dual-stage technology that can adjust the timing and speed of each airbag deployment depending on the degree of impact and the driver's or front passenger's seat belt usage.

This sense of the term " front " is not identical with the more general usage of military front which indicates a geographic area in wartime, although a Soviet Front may operate within designated boundaries.

Restricted logistical support imposed limits on the usage of artillery ammunition and the number of divisions the Allies could effectively employ in the front lines.