Sometimes the word country is used to refer both to sovereign states and to other political entities, while other times it refers only to states.

Sometimes, a disk operating system can refer to the entire operating system if it is loaded off a disk and supports the abstraction and management of disk devices.

Sometimes, the word ' Europe ' is used in a geopolitically limiting way to refer only to the European Union or, even more exclusively, a culturally defined core.

Sometimes, these terms refer simply to the array of varieties of English spoken throughout the world.

Sometimes, " international English " and the related terms above refer to a desired standardisation, i. e. Standard English ; however, there is no consensus on the path to this goal.

Sometimes the notion of suburb may even refer to people in real misery, who are kept at the limit of the city borders for economic, social, and sometimes ethnic reasons.

Sometimes manufacturers or retailers refer to tungsten carbide as a metal, but it is a ceramic.

* Skinny Dual In-line Package ( SDIP or SPDIP ) – Sometimes used to refer to a 0. 3 in.

Sometimes " convection " is even used to refer specifically to " free heat convection " ( natural heat convection ), as opposed to forced heat convection.

Sometimes, the term " unit interval " is used to refer to objects that play a role in various branches of mathematics analogous to the role that plays in homotopy theory.

Sometimes the term " selysche " is also used in a more general way to refer to adjacent settlements near a bigger city, including urban-type settlements ( selysche miskoho typu ) and / or villages ; however, ambiguity is often avoided in connection with urbanized settlements by referring to them using the three-letter abbreviation smt instead.

Sometimes terms which refer to branches of soil science, such as pedology ( formation, chemistry, morphology and classification of soil ) and edaphology ( influence of soil on organisms, especially plants ), are used as if synonymous with soil science.

Sometimes this term is used to refer to art movement related to or influenced by surrealism, which occurred after a so-called period of " historical surrealism ".

Sometimes elongation may instead refer to the angular distance of a moon of another planet from its central planet, for instance the angular distance of Io from Jupiter.

Sometimes it is used to refer to people who act rudely or uncivilized in public.

Sometimes, the term " consumerism " is also used to refer to the consumerists movement, consumer protection or consumer activism, which seeks to protect and inform consumers by requiring such practices as honest packaging and advertising, product guarantees, and improved safety standards.

Sometimes " hyperspace " is used to refer to the concept of additional coordinate axes.

Sometimes " Piers Plowman " was referred to as the author of the poem, and when writers refer to a list of medieval authors, they will often mention Piers Plowman as an author's name or a substitute for one.

* Sometimes ' substitutionary atonement ' is used to refer to ' penal substitution ' alone, when the term also has a broader sense including other atonement models that are not penal.

Sometimes people refer to numbers as being " astronomically large ".

Sometimes called pitfalls or dark patterns, this informal use of the term has come to refer to classes of commonly reinvented bad solutions to problems.

Sometimes people also use “ spatial coherence ” to refer to the visibility when a wave-like state is combined with a spatially shifted copy of itself.

Sometimes the term " material " is used more narrowly to refer to substances or components with certain physical properties that are used as inputs to production or manufacturing.

Sometimes the term face is used to refer to a simplex of a complex, not to be confused with a face of a simplex.

Sometimes a quilombo would become a real independent multi-ethnic state.

Sometimes aspiring citizens may have to pass a test, swear allegiance to their new state and renounce their prior citizenship.

Sometimes it is desired to bring a database back to a previous state ( for many reasons, e. g., cases when the database is found corrupted due to a software error, or if it has been updated with erroneous data ).

Sometimes the inner phase itself can act as an emulsifier, and the result is a nanoemulsion, where the inner state disperses into " nano-size " droplets within the outer phase.

Sometimes the overall state of technology is described as a factor of production.

Sometimes this practice is taken to excess, and the head of state begins to believe that he is the only symbol of the nation, resulting in the emergence of a personality cult where the image of the head of state is the only visual representation of the country, surpassing other symbols such as the flag, constitution, founding father ( s ) etc.

Sometimes a head of state assumes office as a state becomes legal and political reality, before a formal title for the highest office is determined ; thus in the since 1 January 1960 independent republic Cameroon ( Cameroun, a former French colony ), the first President, Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo, was at first not styled président but ' merely ' known as Chef d ' état ( literal French for ' Head of State ') until 5 May 1960 ; in Uganda, military coup leader since 25 January 1971 Idi Amin was formally styled military head of State till 21 February 1971, only from then on regular ( but unconstitutional, not elected ) President.

Sometimes, mendelevium can even be shown to exhibit a monopositive ( I ) state.

Sometimes, an inexpensive rental property will be advertised by a fake landlord, who is typically out of state ( or the country ) and asking for the rent and / or deposit to be wired to them.

Sometimes what the legislature wishes to accomplish cannot be done simply by the passage of a bill, but rather requires amending the state constitution.

Sometimes, a state wishing to achieve independence from a dominating power will issue a declaration of independence ; the earliest surviving example is Scotland's Declaration of Arbroath in 1320, with the most recent example being Azawad's declaration of independence in 2012.

Sometimes the state of motion is emphasized, as in rotating frame of reference.

Sometimes the term de facto single-party state is used to describe a dominant-party system where laws or practices prevent the opposition from legally getting power.

Sometimes ethnic groups are subject to prejudicial attitudes and actions by the state or its constituents.

Sometimes referred to as the " gatherer of the Russian lands ," he tripled the territory of his state, ended the dominance of the Golden Horde over the Rus, renovated the Moscow Kremlin, and laid the foundations of the Russian state.

Sometimes the clergy of a state church with a formal hierarchy are called prelates without having ordinary jurisdiction.

Sometimes the accept state ( s ) function as " Final " ( halt, trapped ) states.

Sometimes border controls exist on internal borders within a sovereign state.

Sometimes, as an alternative to the definition of " home " as a physical locale (" Home is where you hang your hat "), home may be perceived to have no physical location, instead, home may relate instead to a mental or emotional state of refuge or comfort.

Sometimes the word polytrope may be used to refer to an equation of state that looks similar to the thermodynamic relation above, although this is potentially confusing and is to be avoided.