the inclusion of the term " indivisible " in the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States flag ); before this, the construction " the United States are " was more common.

The exact derivation of the term is unknown, but it has been thought that in early Canadian football, the scoring of a single was signalled with a red flag.

The term flag is also used to refer to the graphic design employed by a flag, or to its depiction in another medium.

The term Aappalaartoq ( meaning " the red ") is also used for both the Greenlandic flag and the flag of Denmark.

The term is now applied generically to tools that flag suspicious usage in software written in any computer language.

In practice, many countries ( such as the United States and the United Kingdom ) have identical flags for these three purposes ; national flag is sometimes used as a vexillological term to refer to such a three-purpose flag ( 23px ).

In, 1962, during Hollings ' term as Governor, the Confederate flag went up above the South Carolina Statehouse where it was flown underneath the US and state flags.

The generic term for these naval equivalents of army generals is flag officer.

* The Butcher's Apron is a pejorative term for the flag, common among Irish republicans.

* Bikenibeu Paeniu # Second term as Prime Minister and flag issue

The U. S. state of Alabama's flag is officially " a crimson cross of St. Andrew on a field of white ", however the reference is used only to describe the shape without using the vexillological term saltire.

In common naval use the term flagship is fundamentally a temporary designation ; the flagship is wherever the admiral's flag is being flown.

Details are uncertain due to the scarcity of source material and a lack of cultural referents ; compounding the matter is a linguistic difficulty: In Manchu the term gūsa denotes a large military formation called a " banner " and tu refers to a flag known as a " banner ", but in Chinese ( the language used in nearly all the pertinent records ) the character qi ( 旗 ) is used for both meanings.

The term Red Ensign is often used to refer to the Canadian Red Ensign, the former de facto national flag of Canada.

He also created the National Economic and Social Development Board ( NESDB ), which continues to play an important role in Thailand's economic development, exemplified in Sarit's favorite term ; " patana " ( development ), and slogan ; " Nation, Religion, Monarch ", represented by red, white and blue colors respectively in the Thai flag.

The term is somewhat misleading, as many tricolours have more than three colours, as they are often charged with contrasting emblems ( the flag of India as a prominent example ).

Some vexillologists take the meaning of the term at its barest, and simply use it to describe any flag containing just three colours, irrespective of the design.

While Spriggs and Roberts used the same name for their flags, their flag designs were quite different, suggesting that already " Jolly Roger " was a generic term for black pirate flags rather than a name for any single specific design.

Although the French Navy no longer uses the term " destroyer " ( French: destructeur ), the largest frigates are assigned pennant numbers with flag superior " D ", which designates destroyer.

The incongruous English term " flag catcher " seems to have been perpetrated and perpetuated by American Dragon Boat Association racers based in the state of Iowa, since the Chinese character doesn't translate to " catcher " but rather " puller " or " grabber ".

The flag was created in 1920 by the members of the UNIA in response to the enormously popular 1900 coon song " Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon ," which has been cited as one of the three coon songs that " firmly established the term coon in the American vocabulary ".

The term Pan-African colours refers to two different sets of three colours: green, yellow and red ( inspired by the flag of Ethiopia ), and red, green and black ( which were adopted by the United States-based Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, or UNIA ).

The term is used as a matter of convenience by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and other Churches to refer to books of their Old Testament which are not part of the Masoretic Text.

Taxonomically speaking " invertebrate " is no more than a term of convenience.

In referring to taxonomy of the Animalia, " invertebrata " is a term of convenience, not a taxon ; it has very little circumscriptional significance except arguably within the Chordata.

However, few linguists who now study Khoisan languages accept their unity, and the name " Khoisan " is used by them as a term of convenience without any implication of linguistic validity, much as " Papuan " and " Australian " are.

Lawrence Cohn, author of Nothing but the Blues, writes that " rhythm and blues " was an umbrella term invented for industry convenience.

Whichever term is used, deflationary theories can be said to hold in common that " he predicate ' true ' is an expressive convenience, not the name of a property requiring deep analysis.

Many non-French-speaking observers ( over ) generalize Walloons as a term of convenience for all Belgian French-speakers ( even those born and living in the Brussels Region ).

Erich Fromm contends that, " The term ' the unconscious ' is actually a mystification ( even though one might use it for reasons of convenience, as I am guilty of doing in these pages ).

The term " legal professional " may be used for convenience.

On January 31, 2011, Subway lawyer, Valerie Pochron, wrote to Casey's General Stores, a chain of Iowa-based convenience stores, demanding the small chain to cease using the term " footlong " in advertisements for its 12-inch sandwiches.

Slugs as a group are far from monophyletic ; biologically speaking " slug " is a term of convenience with little taxonomic significance.

The term was again suggested as a convenience to writers of business letters by such publications as the Bulletin of the American Business Writing Association ( 1951 ) and The Simplified Letter, issued by the National Office Management Association ( 1952 ).

Though almost all video cameras fit this definition, the term is most often applied to those used for surveillance in areas that may need monitoring such as banks, casinos, airports, military installations, and convenience stores.

The term ' Atlantic languages ' is kept as a geographic term of convenience.

The term for shows that seem to be giving material for slash writers to use is " pre-slashed ", sometimes " pre-slashed for your convenience ".

The Strategic Bombing Survey of the atomic attacks, released in June 1946, used the term liberally, defining it as: " For convenience, the term ' ground zero ' will be used to designate the point on the ground directly beneath the point of detonation, or ' air zero.

" Bento " originates from the Southern Song Dynasty slang term (), meaning " convenient " or " convenience.

For the purpose of convenience, the term Eskrima shall be used to refer to these interchangeable terms for the rest of the article.

Where actual seafaring vessels are not involved, the term pirate radio is a political term of convenience as the word " pirate " suggests an illegal venture, regardless of the broadcast's actual legal status.

Used as a universal term of convenience, the word is vague and takes different meanings according to various needs.

It has to be borne in mind that any typological system has heuristic value as a convenience for description, and need not reflect phylogeny: each category ( term ) may include representatives of many distantly related taxa, each of which may well have close relatives that are in another category ( term ) or that are not migratory and thus fall completely outside the typology.