Chives have been cultivated in Europe since the Middle Ages, although their usage dates back 5000 years.

In his essay " Chicanismo " in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures ( 2002 ), Jose Cuellar dates the transition from derisive to positive to the late 1950s, with a usage by young Mexican-American high school students.

In English outside of North America, full dates are written as 7 December 1941 ( or 7th December 1941 ) and spoken as " the seventh of December, nineteen forty-one " ( exceedingly common usage of " the " and " of "), with the occasional usage of December 7, 1941 (" December the seventh, nineteen forty-one ").

In common with continental European usage, however, all-numeric dates are invariably ordered dd / mm / yyyy.

Their usage in engraving tools also dates to early human history.

This usage dates back to the Medieval period, where the phrase ' not worth a fart ' would be applied to an item held to be worthless.

A term that predates the usage of file manager is directory editor, which dates back at least to 1978.

This usage dates from a historical period where classes and sets were not distinguished as they are in modern set-theoretic terminology.

The term nursery rhyme is used for " traditional " poems for young children in Britain and many other countries, but usage only dates from the 19th century and in North America the older ‘ Mother Goose Rhymes ’ is still often used.

The usage of " private " dates from the 18th century, when the army of Napoleon Bonaparte first established the permanent rank of soldat.

The term was in common usage throughout the 20th century but the first known use in print dates from 1850.

With the meaning of " motor-powered load carrier ", it has been in usage since 1930, shortened from " motor truck ", which dates back to 1916.

The damned Yankee usage dates from 1812.

" Bull ", meaning nonsense, dates from the 17th century, while the term " bullshit " has been used as early as 1915 in American slang, and came into popular usage only during World War II.

This criticism dates back to at least 1770 ; the usage dates back to Old English.

The technique of pi – theorem ’ s usage (`` the method of dimensions ’’) became widely known due to the works of Rayleigh ( the first application of the pi – theorem in the general case to the dependence of pressure drop in a pipe upon governing parameters probably dates back to 1892, a heuristic proof with the use of series expansion, to 1894 ).

It is true that usage of the labarum was not restricted to Asturias, and, moreover, dates back to the time of Constantine the Great ( who used this symbol during the battle of Battle of the Milvian Bridge ).

The common usage of " something that has really occurred or is the case " dates from the middle of the sixteenth century.

This dates back to the early 20th century ; the Oxford English Dictionary notes its first usage in this capacity in 1913.

The earliest known recorded usage of the term dates to an 1808 short story describing a spread of " fire-cakes and dough-nuts.

Its first known usage in English dates from 1739 in The Gardeners Dictionary Vol.

In the Muslim world, the usage of miswak — a type of chewing stick consisting of the roots or twigs of the Arak tree ( Salvadora persica ), which have antiseptic properties — is common practice and dates to pre-Islamic times .. Muhammad popularized the use of miswak and some erroneously believe it to have been his invention.

When entries are being retrieved from this file, the table of dictionary usage indicates which entries to skip and which entries to store in the computer.

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.

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.

There are many official terms that differ in Austrian German from their usage in most parts of Germany.

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 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.

When a specific allophone ( from a set of allophones that correspond to a phoneme ) must be selected in a given context ( i. e. using a different allophone for a phoneme will cause confusion or make the speaker sound non-native ), the allophones are said to be complementary ( i. e. the allophones complement each other, and one is not used in a situation where the usage of another is standard ).

Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Homeopathy and Naturopathy are cited as examples The term appears to have entered into usage through the National Institute of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ), which began to employ it as a substitute for alternative medical systems as a way of differentiating widely comprehensive systems of medicine, such as Ayurvedic medicine, from specialized alternative approaches.

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.

Abstraction is a process by which higher concepts are derived from the usage and classification of literal (" real " or " concrete ") concepts, first principles, or other methods.

However, advanced well-foots can reduce power usage by twofold or more from older models.

Such usage does not imply murderous actions, and any emotional implications ( e. g., rage, fear, excitement ) must be gleaned from context.

* general assessment: services only fair ; in 2006 the government sold a 51 percent stake in the national telephone company and ultimately plans to retain only a 23 percent stake in the company ; fixed-line connections stand at less than 1 per 100 persons ; mobile-cellular usage, fostered by multiple providers, is increasing rapidly from a low base

This shuttle usage can be as transport between locations, or to and from parking lots.

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

Aside from those pharmaceutical products directly incorporating biological agents or materials, even developing chemical drugs is considered to require substantial BME knowledge due to the physiological interactions inherent to such products ' usage.

HTML's usage of character references derives from SGML.

Home to 120 species of fish and at least that many species of birds, the lake has shrunk dramatically in the last four decades due to the increased water from an expanding population usage and low rainfall.

Long a disparaging term in Mexico, the term " Chicano " gradually transformed from a class-based term of derision to one of ethnic pride and general usage within Mexican-American communities, beginning with the rise of the Chicano movement in the 1960s.

In the case of persons that common usage has called saints from " time immemorial " ( in practice, since before 1500 or so ), the Church may carry out a " confirmation of cultus ", which is much simpler.

This usage was also retained in Latin and the languages derived from Latin ( e. g. French église, Italian chiesa, Spanish iglesia, Portuguese igreja, etc.

Traditional nautical usage strongly distinguishes officers from crew, though the two groups combined form the ship's company.

In military usage, a gun is a cannon with a high muzzle velocity and a flat trajectory, useful for hitting the sides of targets such as walls, as opposed to howitzers or mortars, which have lower muzzle velocities, and fire indirectly, lobbing shells up and over obstacles to hit the target from above.