Originally, the term antioxidant specifically referred to a chemical that prevented the consumption of oxygen.

Originally the word " broadband " had a technical meaning, but became a marketing term for any kind of relatively high-speed computer network or Internet access technology.

Originally a neutral term, since the mid-1960s it has acquired a somewhat derogatory meaning, implying a paranoid tendency to see the influence of some malign covert agency in events.

Originally the term " Bronze Age " meant that either copper or bronze was being used as the chief hard substance for the manufacture of tools and weapons.

Originally the term FAQ referred to the Frequently Answered Question itself, and the compilation of questions and answers was known as a FAQ list or some similar expression.

Originally a router was called gateway, but the term was changed to avoid confusion with other types of gateways.

Originally the standard English term was " mercantile system ".

Originally, " maschinenpistole " was simply the German word for personal, automatic military weapons, while " submachine gun " was a term coined by John T. Thompson, American inventor of the Thompson submachine gun.

Originally, the term nori was generic and referred to seaweeds including hijiki.

Originally, the term referred to the presiding officer of a ceremony or meeting ( i. e., chairman ), but today it most commonly refers to an official.

Originally the penstock was the name of the valve, but the term has been extended to include all of the fluid supply hydraulics.

Originally, in the time of the Man ' yōshū, the term was used to distinguish " short " poems from the longer chōka.

Originally the term was used literally, for a matrix switch controlled by a grid of crossing metal bars, and later was broadened to matrix switches in general.

Originally, a " local and popular term " first applied to the Ismailis of Syria, the label was orally transmitted to Western historians and thus found itself in their histories of the Nizaris.

Originally, therefore, the term " creole language " meant the speech of any of those creole peoples.

Originally, this term was used for all factitious disorders.

Originally the term was associated with mid-1960s white artists who performed soul and R & B that was similar to the music released by Motown Records and Stax Records.

Originally the term referred to smaller guns that could accompany a field army on the march and when in combat could be moved about the battlefield in response to changing circumstances ( field artillery ), as to opposed guns installed in a fort ( garrison artillery / coastal artillery ), or to siege cannon or mortars which were too large to be moved quickly, and would be used only in a prolonged siege.

Originally, the term was used to describe the use of waste food by second animals, like the carcass eaters that follow hunting animals, but wait until they have finished their meal.

Originally the term was used to describe a ridiculous but amusing person.

Originally a specific class of poet, contrasting with another class known as fili in Ireland and Highland Scotland, the term " bard ", with the decline of living bardic tradition in the modern period, acquired generic meanings of an epic author / singer / narrator, comparable with the terms in other cultures ( minstrel, skald, scop, rhapsode, udgatar, griot, ashik ) or any poets, especially famous ones.

Originally, the term " coarse wavelength division multiplexing " was fairly generic, and meant a number of different things.

Originally entitled Called Home ( which is the Amish term for death ), it ran 182 pages long, the equivalent of three hours of screen time.

Originally referring to the location of a venue and its productions on a street intersecting Broadway in Manhattan's Theatre District, the hub of the theatre industry in the United States, the term later became defined by the League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers as a professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, or a specific production that appears in such a venue, and which adheres to related trade union and other contracts.

Originally a lumbering town, the name derives from an Indian term meaning " place of echoes ".

Originally referred to as Baby for several months, she was eventually named Abby May after her mother.

Originally, however, this referred to certain key priests of important churches of the Diocese of Rome, who were recognized as the cardinal priests, the important priests chosen by the pope to advise him in his duties as Bishop of Rome ( the Latin cardo means " hinge ").

Originally designed as a follow-on to the PDP-11, DEC's VAX-11 series was the first widely used 32-bit minicomputer, sometimes referred to as " superminis ".

Originally, " disc " ( sometimes spelled " disk ", although this is now uncommon ) referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs.

Originally this name referred to the polders surrounding Bruges and dates from a period before the counts of Flanders expanded their territory.

Originally modeled on the Psalms and other poetic passages ( commonly referred to as " canticles ") in the Scriptures, Christian hymns are generally directed as praise and worship to the monotheistic God.

Originally from West-Central Africa, Bantus began a millennium-long series of migrations referred to as the Bantu expansion that first brought them to East Africa about 2000 years ago.

Originally, the name " POSIX " referred to IEEE Std 1003. 1-1988, released in 1988.

Originally, the player character was referred to as " the Stranger ", but by the end of Ultima IV he becomes universally known as the Avatar.

Originally, the word " Finland " referred only to the area around Turku ( hence the title, " Finland Proper " for the region ).

Originally ( along with a top-hat and walking-cane ), Etonian dress was reserved for formal occasions, but boys wear it today for classes, which are referred to as " schools ".

Originally barcodes represented data by varying the widths and spacings of parallel lines, and may be referred to as linear or one-dimensional ( 1D ).

" Originally it only referred to grease or oil smeared on for medicinal purposes ; its use in the Coverdale Bible in reference to Christ ( cf.

Originally, though, it referred to the first meal of the day, eaten around noon, and is still occasionally used for a noontime meal, if it is a large or main meal.

Originally, dinner referred to the first meal of a two-meal day, a heavy meal occurring about noon, which broke the night's fast in the new day.

Originally, intention referred to a " stretching out " (" in tension ," lat.

Originally, cantaloupe referred only to the non-netted, orange-fleshed melons of Europe.

Originally the concept simply referred to society ’ s ability to regulate itself.

Originally described as Labrus niloticus, among the marine wrasses, the species has also been referred to as Centropomus niloticus.

Originally it referred to people of French and then Spanish descent who were born in Louisiana, to distinguish them from immigrants.