Extreme caution should be used, however, to avoid the conflicting usage of an index word or electronic switch which may result from the assignment of more than one name or function to the same address.

Semantic ambiguity arises when a word or concept has an inherently diffuse meaning based on widespread or informal usage.

Much like the relationship between British English and American English, the Austrian and German varieties differ in minor respects ( e. g., spelling, word usage and grammar ) but are recognizably equivalent and largely mutually intelligible.

In popular usage, abjads often contain the word " alphabet " in their names, such as " Arabic alphabet " and " Phoenician alphabet ".

Though the word atom originally denoted a particle that cannot be cut into smaller particles, in modern scientific usage the atom is composed of various subatomic particles.

It breaks language down and analyzes its component parts: theory, sounds and their meaning, utterance usage, word origins, the history of words, the meaning of words and word combinations, sentence construction, basic construction beyond the sentence level, stylistics, and conversation.

In some expressions it retains this pan-American sense, but its usage has evolved over time and, for various historical reasons, the word came to denote people or things specifically from the United States of America.

From this widening usage has come the more modern sense of the word.

Since the development of cannon, the word " artillery " in practice has largely meant cannon ; in contemporary usage it usually refers to shell-firing guns, howitzers, mortars, and rockets.

There is some confusion over the origin of this usage of the word akimbo.

Old Norse shows this usage of the word as an honorific in a few cases, as in baldur î brynju ( Sæm.

The word accintus meaning a soldier ( literally, " girt " as for battle ) attests this differing usage.

However, a title came into usage from the first word of the book in Koine Greek: apokalypsis, meaning " unveiling " or " revelation ".

In English usage, the word bean is also sometimes used to refer to the seeds or pods of plants that are not in the family leguminosae, but which bear a superficial resemblance to true beans — for example coffee beans, castor beans and cocoa beans ( which resemble bean seeds ), and vanilla beans, which superficially resemble bean pods.

The word Christ ( or similar spellings ) appears in English and most European language, owing to the Greek usage of Christós ( transcribed in Latin as Christus ) in the New Testament as a description for Jesus.

This is the most common usage of the word.

This is the most common usage of the word.

Possibly the most common usage of the word " community " indicates a large group living in close proximity.

The word " Mexico " as spoken in its original Nahuatl, and by the Spaniards at the time of the conquest, was pronounced originally with a " sh " sound (" Mesh-ee-co "), as opposed to current pronunciation, and was transcribed with an " x " as was the usage in Spanish at the time.

This institution, with its name, was later emulated by other powers and is reflected in the modern usage of the word ( see Consul ( representative )).

The word " strategy " had only recently come into usage in modern Europe, and Clausewitz's definition is quite narrow: " the use of engagements for the object of war.

In standard Greek usage, the older word " ecclesia " ( ἐκκλησία, ekklesía, literally " assembly ", " congregation ", or the place where such a gathering occurs ) was retained to signify both a specific edifice of Christian worship ( a " church "), and the overall community of the faithful ( the " Church ").

" The word " mathematics " may have originally been plural in concept, referring to mathematic endeavors, but metonymic shift — that is, the shift in concept from " the endeavors " to " the whole set of endeavors "— produced the usage of " mathematics " as a singular entity taking singular verb forms.

At the end of the 1980s, the word " cartoon " was shortened, and the word " toon " came into usage with the live action / animated feature Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( 1988 ), followed two years later by the TV series Tiny Toon Adventures ( 1990 ).

In later Hindu usage, all the Vedic Ādityas lost identity and metamorphosed into one composite deity, Surya, the Sun.

Such usage by Hindu groups should not be confused as Sikhs.

He leaves references to the sexual organs as in the original: persistent usage of the words " lingam " and " yoni " to refer to them in older translations of the Kama Sutra is not the usage in the original Sanskrit ; he argues that " to a modern Hindu " lingam " and " yoni " mean specifically the sexual organs of the god Shiva and his wife, and using those words to refer to humans ' sexual organs would seem irreligious.

* in modern usage, anything loosely related to Hindu tradition

Whereas in general usage it is common to assume that illusion is false, Hindu philosophy makes a distinction between Maya ( illusion ) and falsehood.

However, this is not an exclusive usage, and many Hindu groups including Scheduled Castes and Vaishya have adopted this title without any significant warrior status or ties.

In the original usage of the word, " Pandit ", synonymous to " Purohits ", refers to a Hindu, almost always a Brahmin, who has memorized a substantial portion of the Vedas, along with the corresponding rhythms and melodies for chanting religious verses or singing them during prayers or rituals.

Its usage is confined to Hindu male exponents.

Jan Nattier writes that, whereas mantra has ancient Hindu usage back to the Vedas, dharani does not predate Buddhism.

Hindu law in its current usage refers to the system of personal laws ( i. e., marriage, adoption, inheritance ) applied to Hindus, especially in India.

Polyphosphates gave renewed life to soap products at a time when surfactants were a threat though expensive, and these same polyphosphates spelled the decline of soap usage when the synergism between polyphosphates and synthetic detergent actives was recognized and exploited.

The Civil War was a significant force in the eventual dominance of the singular usage by the end of the 19th century.

As a simple, cheap and reliable device, the Russian abacus was in use in all shops and markets throughout the former Soviet Union, and the usage of it was taught in most schools until the 1990s.

Until the 17th century, art referred to any skill or mastery and was not differentiated from crafts or sciences, but in modern usage the fine arts, where aesthetic considerations are paramount, are distinguished from acquired skills in general, and the decorative or applied arts.

The first abjad to gain widespread usage was the Phoenician abjad.

The term alphasyllabary was suggested for the Indic scripts in 1997 by William Bright, following South Asian linguistic usage, to convey the idea that " they share features of both alphabet and syllabary ".

In Italian, possibly following a tradition of antiquity, the Arcipelago ( from medieval Greek * ἀρχιπέλαγος ) was the proper name for the Aegean Sea and, later, usage shifted to refer to the Aegean Islands ( since the sea is remarkable for its large number of islands ).

In 386 Justina and Valentinian received the Arian bishop Auxentius, and Ambrose was again ordered to hand over a church in Milan for Arian usage.

The meaning was eventually further generalized in its modern English usage to apply to any outrageous act or exhibition of pride or disregard for basic moral laws.

While at the time the process was openly referred to as colonization (" takushoku " 拓殖 ), the notion was later reframed by Japanese elites to the currently common usage " kaitaku "( 開拓 ), which instead conveys a sense of opening up or reclamation of the Ainu lands.

When the grammatical dual form of Ajax is used in the Iliad, it was once believed that it indicated the lesser Ajax fighting side-by-side with Telamonian Ajax, but now it is generally thought that that usage refers to the Greater Ajax and his brother Teucer.

The term was popularized by G. L. Trager and Bernard Bloch in a 1941 paper on English phonology and went on to become part of standard usage within the American structuralist tradition.

Of the capabilities present in the BBC Micro but absent from the Electron, the teletext-style mode 7 was particularly conspicuous because of the very low memory usage in that mode ( just less than 1 kB ) and the high number of BBC programs that used it.

Aon said its conduct was not deliberate, adding it had since " significantly strengthened and enhanced its controls around the usage of third parties ".

By making the mass number of soldiers blend within the landscape / painting, it shows that he believed that the usage and depiction of landscape was just as significant as a historical event, such as a war.

Society at Nauplia was divided into 3 classes: nobles, citizens and plebeians ; and it had been the ancient usage that the nobles alone should hold the much-coveted local offices, such as the judge of the inferior court and inspector of weights and measures.

According to the FidoNet Nodelist, BBSes reached their peak usage around 1996, which was the same period that the World Wide Web suddenly became mainstream.

In 1991, Steven Fanning argued that " it is unlikely that the term ever existed as a title or was in common usage in Anglo-Saxon England ".

The later usage was in part attributed to the choices of gold, silver and bronze to represent the first three Ages of Man in Greek mythology: the Golden Age, when men lived among the gods ; the Silver age, where youth lasted a hundred years ; and the Bronze Age, the era of heroes, and was first adopted at the 1904 Summer Olympics.

The thermosetting phenolic resin was at one point considered for the manufacture of coins, due to a shortage of traditional material ; in 1943, Bakelite and other non-metal materials were tested for usage for the one cent coin in the US before the Mint settled on zinc-coated steel.

Noteworthy in the following statement is the usage of the term " not far " ( non longe ) which was also used to describe the distance between Birka and the Uppsala temple:

The first known usage of the term blue whale was in Melville's Moby-Dick, which only mentions it in passing and does not specifically attribute it to the species in question.