While sovereignty has roots in antiquity, in its present usage it is essentially modern.

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

In more modern English usage, the term " adobe " has come to include a style of architecture popular in the desert climates of North America, especially in New Mexico.

The abbreviation " andy ", coined as a pejorative by writer Philip K. Dick in his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, has seen some further usage, such as within the TV series Total Recall 2070.

The term anti-Semitic has been used on occasion to include bigotry against other Semitic-language peoples such as Arabs, but such usage is not widely accepted.

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.

Widespread usage of antibacterial drugs in hospitals has also been associated with increases in bacterial strains and species that no longer respond to treatment with the most common antibacterials.

As Ásatrú implies a focus on polytheistic belief in the Æsir usage of the term in Scandinavia has declined somewhat.

In modern ground forces ' usage, the meaning of armour has expanded to include the role of troops in combat.

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 has also been controversy about the role of pharmaceutical companies in marketing and promoting antipsychotics, including allegations of downplaying or covering up adverse effects, expanding the number of conditions or illegally promoting off-label usage ; influencing drug trials ( or their publication ) to try to show that the expensive and profitable newer atypicals were superior to the older cheaper typicals that were out of patent.

For example, one meta-analysis reviewing human brain lesions has shown a left hemisphere bias during tool usage.

In the face of screen-reader software, braille usage has declined.

However, as of 2011 adoption of the new terms has been slow and usage has been limited in the marketplace and in the press, with notable exceptions such as Linux operating systems, several textbooks and scientific research papers.

Unlike a number of other countries, rail travel in the United Kingdom has enjoyed a renaissance in recent years with kilometres / miles travelled matching and surpassing the highs of the 1940s ( see usage figures below ).

BCI has coordinated usage of the language since 1971 for augmentative and alternative communication.

The distinctions also reflect an important and significant technical difference between memory and mass storage devices, which has been blurred by the historical usage of the term storage.

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.

Under the plan which starts within 90 days, Bell will be able to charge wholesale service providers a flat monthly fee to connect to its network, and for a set monthly usage limit per each ISP customer the ISP has.

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.

The recent increase of catfish farming in the Mississippi Delta has brought about an increase in its usage in Cajun cuisine in the place of the more traditional wild-caught trout ( the saltwater species ) and red fish.

Second language varieties of English in Africa and Asia have often undergone " indigenisation "; that is, each English-speaking community has developed ( or is in the process of developing ) its own standards of usage, often under the influence of local languages.

Its usage is mostly restricted to engravings on stone and jewelry, although inscriptions have also been found on bone and wood.

These alphabets have since been replaced with the Latin alphabet, except for decorative usage for which the runes remained in use until the 20th century.

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.

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

" However, the meaning of this term is not certain as, in late seventeenth-century usage, the term negro would have been normally used, and the phrase " black Man " could mean either dark-skinned or black-haired.

" 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.

While Britain, Australia and New Zealand have traditionally employed the European usage ( below ), they have been moving to the U. S. system more recently.

For Robert Price " docetism ", together with " encratism ", " Gnosticism ", and " adoptionism " has been employed " far beyond what historically descriptive usage would allow ".

Historically, a dot was positioned above certain consonants to signify Séimhiú, however this has largely been replaced by the usage of the letter H, although this dot can still be seen in Gaelic Script.

In the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on January 19, 1996, health minister Gerald Malone noted that the title doctor had never been restricted to either medical practitioners or those with doctoral degrees in the UK, commenting that the word was defined by common usage but that the titles " physician, doctor of medicine, licentiate in medicine and surgery, bachelor of medicine, surgeon, general practitioner and apothecary " did have special protection in law.

In current usage, one approach to defining euthanasia has been to mirror Suetonius, regarding it as the " painless inducement of a quick death ".

Baslieus, a title which had long been used for Alexander the Great was already in common usage as the Greek word for the Roman emperor, but its definition and sense was " King " in Greek, essentially equivalent with the Latin Rex.

Although in contemporary usage free markets are commonly associated with capitalism, free markets have been advocated by socialists and have been included in various different proposals for market socialism.

This often creates a discrepancy between contemporary usage and that which has been accepted, over time, as being correct.

As of today, the Law Reform Commission recommendation still stands and has not as yet been acted upon ; the Firearms Act consists of the initial 1925 Act amended by approximately eighteen separate Acts and is well understood by only a handful of those directly involved in its drafting, amendment or usage.

The concept of habitus has been used as early as Aristotle but in contemporary usage was introduced by Marcel Mauss and later re-elaborated by Pierre Bourdieu.

According to Lemley, it was only at this point that the term really began to be used in the United States ( which had not been a party to the Berne Convention ), and it did not enter popular usage until passage of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980.

However, this is often regarded as difficult to implement and therefore does not see common usage outside of very low-power designs.

In early usage people regarded the underlying hardware ( rather than the contents ) as the file.

The polls revealed the substantial usage share of Galeon, though its popularity was regarded as owing to lack of stability evident in Mozilla's browsers.

Puns may be regarded as in-jokes or idiomatic constructions, given that their usage and meaning are entirely local to a particular language and its culture.

From this usage in the Romanticist Celtic Revival, Samhain is still popularly regarded as the " Celtic New Year " in the contemporary Celtic cultures, both in the Six Celtic Nations and the diaspora.

However, in technical discourse and in American usage, the term " weasel " can refer to any member of the genus, or to the genus as a whole. The animal of the weasel farts frequently, among those that do not are the stoat, the polecats, the ferret, and the European mink ( the superficially similar American mink is now regarded as belonging in another genus, Neovison ).

Such usage is regarded by some authorities as a misapplication of the name to be discouraged.

The reduplicated form moin moin is often heard, although some authors claim it is regarded by locals as tourists ' usage.

However, due to unauthorised usage, and what she regarded as a misrepresentation of her characters ( particularly Falco's father, implied to be a drunken wife-beater ), Lindsey Davis was highly displeased.

Within the social sciences, however, the usage has become more generalized to all human groups that explicitly regard themselves and are regarded by others as culturally distinctive.

While evangelism is usually regarded as converting non-Christians to Christianity, this is not always the proper usage of the word.

Most writers on international law have regarded this method of preventing such acts of hostility as unjustifiable, on the ground that the persons taken as hostages are not the persons responsible for the act ; that, as by the usage of war hostages are to be treated strictly as prisoners of war, such an exposure to danger is transgressing the rights of a belligerent ; and as useless, for the mere temporary removal of important citizens till the end of a war cannot be a deterrent unless their mere removal deprives the combatants of persons necessary to the continuance of the acts aimed at ( see W. E. Hall, International Law, 1904, pp. 418, 475 ).

The term " magnum opus " is distinguished in usage from " masterpiece " by a requirement that it is a work on a large scale, and by the absence of a requirement that it is generally regarded as among the creator's most successful works.

Now that the terminology has received official approval in the UK ( Craven v White ) this usage should be regarded as erroneous.

Most of its partisans regarded Gallicanism as a revival of the most ancient traditions of Christianity, a persistence of the common law, which law, according to some ( Pithou, Quesnel ), was made up of the conciliar decrees of the earliest centuries or, according to others ( Marca, Bossuet ), of Canon laws of the general and local councils, and the decretals, ancient and modern, which were received in France or conformable to their usage.

However, this usage is not universal, and some define middle power to include nations that can be regarded as regional powers.

In terms of public usage and acceptance, it is regarded today as one of the first truly successful bike sharing programs.

Cardozo biographer Kaufman, for example, questioned the usage of the term " Hispanic " in the justice's lifetime, stating: " Well, I think he regarded himself as a Sephardic Jew whose ancestors came from the Iberian Peninsula .”

The spelling " phorb " is sometimes used, and in older usage this sometimes includes graminoids and other plants currently not regarded as forbs.

Thirty years later, Brown revisited the issue in an introductory text for the general public, writing that in " three reasonably clear instances in the NT 1: 8-9, John 1: 1, 20: 28 and in five instances that have probability, Jesus is called God ", a usage Brown regarded as a natural development of early references to Jesus as " Lord ".

Note that a lexical definition is descriptive, reporting actual usage within speakers of a language, and changes with changing usage of the term, rather than prescriptive, which would be to stick with a version regarded as " correct ", regardless of drift in accepted meaning.

The term is different than the usage in the UK in the sense that this term is not commonly regarded to cover pro-democracy politicians in the territory's legislature, nor prominent barristers and solicitors who are vocal in criticising the government, amongst others.

The first federal legislation broadly dealing with hydroelectric development regarded its competition with navigation usage ; with the passage of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 Congress made it illegal to dam navigable streams without a license ( or permit ) from them.