This oppidum ( a Latin term meaning an important town ) on the banks of the River Exe certainly existed prior to the foundation of the Roman city in about AD 50.

In case of a vacancy, the remaining term is to be filled at the next town election.

( Note, however, that the term " powder magazine ", a store for gunpowder, as e. g. in the town of Williamsburg, Virginia, restored to its colonial form, would be well understood by current English speakers, though recognized as an archaicism.

* In the United Kingdom, the term was used until 1974 in England and Wales, and until 1975 in Scotland and 1976 in Northern Ireland, " both for a city or town which is organized for self-government under a municipal corporation, and also for the governing body itself.

The name refers to the area of Logudoro ( term originated as corrupt blending of the kingdom's name of Logu de Torres ) in which it is spoken, mainly a northern subregion of the island of Sardinia which mainly defers to Ozieri ( Othieri ) and Nuoro ( Nùgoro ) for culture and language, as well as history, with important particularities in the western area, where the most important town is Ittiri.

When USC opened in 1880, tuition was $ 15. 00 per term and students were not allowed to leave town without the knowledge and consent of the university president.

In many states of the US, the term town does not have any specific meaning ; it is simply an informal term applied to populated places ( both incorporated and unincorporated municipalities ).

Moreover, in some states, the term town is equivalent to how civil townships are used in other states.

Some New England states use the term shire town to mean " county seat ".

Some writers discount settlements that were abandoned as a result of a natural or human-made disaster, using the term only to describe settlements which were deserted because they were no longer economically viable ; T. Lindsey Baker, author of Ghost Towns of Texas, defines a ghost town as " a town for which the reason for being no longer exists ".

The term chalcedony is derived from the name of the ancient Greek town Chalkedon in Asia Minor, in modern English usually spelled Chalcedon, today the Kadıköy district of Istanbul.

The origin of this term is obscure, but is often explained as being derived from the expression voix de ville which means " voice of the city " or " songs of the town.

While Bayreuth was previously ( 1199 ) referred to as a villa ( village ), the term civitas (" town ") appeared for the first time in a document published in 1231.

Larger cities may have more than one, but this term appears to come from around the 17th century ; in the stereotype, when a city grows large enough to house a sufficient mass of town drunks, the area where they congregate becomes known as Skid Row.

In the Canadian province of New Brunswick, the term shire town is used in place of county seat.

The distinction between a town and a city similarly depends on the approach adopted: a city may strictly be an administrative entity which has been granted that designation by law, but in informal usage, the term is also used to denote an urban locality of a particular size or importance: whereas a medieval city may have possessed as few as 10, 000 inhabitants, today some consider an urban place of fewer than 100, 000 as a town, even though there are many officially designated cities that are very, very much smaller than that.

It is the largest and most populous town of the District of Stratford-on-Avon, which uses the term " on " to indicate that it covers a much larger area than the town itself.

Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt, a former town council member, was reelected to a second term in November 2011.

This event gave rise to the term Zabernism ( from the German name of the town ), meaning abuse of military authority, or unwarranted aggression.

The earliest recorded name for the town was ' Aberbrothock ', a reference to the Brothock Burn which runs through the town, the prefix ' Aber ' coming either from the Gaelic ' Obair ', or the earlier term ' Aber ' which could be either Goidelic or Brythonic for ' river mouth '.

The term ' ballroom dancing ' is derived from the word ball, which in turn originates from the Latin word ballare which means ' to dance ' ( a ballroom being a large room specially designed for such dances ).

In common terminology, the term " at bat " is sometimes used to mean " plate appearance " ( for example, " he fouled off the ball to keep the at bat alive ").

* A seldom used term for a sharply struck ground ball in baseball, used mostly in Vintage base ball

Reported events include teleportation ( a term Fort is generally credited with coining ); poltergeist events ; falls of frogs, fishes, inorganic materials of an amazing range ; unaccountable noises and explosions ; spontaneous fires ; levitation ; ball lightning ( a term explicitly used by Fort ); unidentified flying objects ; unexplained disappearances ; giant wheels of light in the oceans ; and animals found outside their normal ranges ( see phantom cat ).

The Spanish masticar is also frequently used, along with the slang term " bolear ," derived from the word " bola " or ball of coca pouched in the cheek while chewing.

In North America, the term football refers to a ball made of leather, which is required in professional and collegiate football.

Reported events that he collected include teleportation ( a term Fort is generally credited with coining ); poltergeist events, falls of frogs, fishes, inorganic materials of an amazing range ; crop circles ; unaccountable noises and explosions ; spontaneous fires ; levitation ; ball lightning ( a term explicitly used by Fort ); unidentified flying objects ; mysterious appearances and disappearances ; giant wheels of light in the oceans ; and animals found outside their normal ranges ( see phantom cat ).

In humans, the term embryo refers to the ball of dividing cells from the moment the zygote implants itself in the uterus wall until the end of the eighth week after conception.

The term " musket " is applied to a variety of weapons, including the long, heavy guns with matchlock or wheel lock and loose powder fired with the gun barrel resting on a stand, and also lighter weapons with Snaphance, flintlock or caplock and bullets using a stabilizing spin ( Minié ball ), affixed with a bayonet.

Other ancient competitions included throwing a cast iron ball attached to a wooden handle – the root of the term " hammer throw " due to their resemblance to the tools.

However, in a Channel 4 documentary aired 3 June 2011, reporter Nick Cook showed an RAF pilot's report, obtained from RAF archives, reporting a UFO incident with a similar red ball of fire on a bombing mission over Germany, but dated 1942 and taken with fact that the term was already in use by radar operators in 1944, must raise some doubt as to the origin of the term

The term " Brooklyn " is used to describe when a bowler obtains a strike by throwing the ball into the opposite pocket, known as the Brooklyn pocket.

Tweeners ( a term derived from " in-between ") are bowlers that deliver the ball in a manner that falls somewhere in between stroking and cranking.

Many schools had a summer ball to celebrate the end of term, but this did not have any of the cultural or social significance of the US prom.

The term kusudama is sometimes, rather inaccurately, used to describe any three-dimensional modular origami structure resembling a ball.

; Old Market: In Bristol skittles the term Old Market refers to the felling of the front pin, the middle pin and the back pin with one ball and is considered slightly bad luck because the remaining frame of pins offers less chance for a decent frame score with the middle column of pins felled.

* Any Old How: the term used to describe a ball that has missed its intended target, but has knocked over quite a few pins that count towards the score.

The term automatic refers to the fact that the bets were automatically summed and a ticket issued when a bet was registered on the issuing machines, and it provided a safe and virtually fraud free method of betting, replacing the earlier jam-pot totes, which used either paper transactions or some method of counting bets like steel ball bearings.

ball ; slang term, usually used in buying stocks )

" Roque " is not to be confused with " roquet ", the term used in both roque and croquet for the bonus shot a player earns after striking another ball ( on which he is not " dead ") with his own.

There is also the remote term of God-given spitter, which is when the ball is naturally dampened by moist air or light rainfall, which allows pitchers to be able to throw pitches with sharper breaks, much like a spitball.