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.

This usage has been regarded as Eurocentric by some, and the alternative terms Lesser Antarctica and Greater Antarctica ( respectively ) are sometimes preferred.

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.

Many references to fire in tarot are related to the usage of fire in the practice of alchemy, in which the application of fire is a prime method of conversion, and everything that touches fire is changed, often beyond recognition.

While the specific definition has changed over time, modern usage refers to a typically non-realistic or semi-realistic drawing or painting intended for satire, caricature, or humor, or to the artistic style of such works.

In 1995, due to its more global usage, the name was changed from " European " to " Enhanced.

Their usage rates can be changed easily, such as electrical power, raw-material inputs, and over-time and temp work.

Modern Esperanto usage may in fact depart from that originally described in the Fundamento, though the differences are largely semantic ( involving changed meaning of words ) rather than grammatical or phonological.

During the more radical phase of the Revolution from 1793 to 1794, the usage and depiction of Hercules changed.

On 1 January 1987, the name of this municipality was officially changed from " Frobisher Bay " to " Iqaluit "-aligning official usage with the name that the Inuit population had always used ( although, many documents still referred to Iqaluit as Frobisher Bay for several years after 1987 ).

After the first series was filmed, the house which had been used for the Meldrews ' house ( near Pokesdown, Bournemouth ), in location sequences changed hands, and the new owners demanded nearly treble the usage fees that the previous owners had asked for.

The Finns and Estonians have changed their usage of the term Saxony over the centuries to denote the whole country of Germany ( Saksa and Saksanmaa respectively ) and the Germans ( saksalaiset and sakslased, respectively ) now.

Data embedding performance is not changed in comparison with the fastest approach of the first protection level usage.

In Alberta, the county used to be a type of municipal status ; but this was changed to " municipal district " under the Municipal Government Act, when the County Act was repealed in the mid-1990s, at which time they were also permitted to retain the usage of county in their official names.

New York Times editor and usage writer Theodore M. Bernstein said the paper changed the spelling from hippy to hippie to avoid the ambiguous description of clothing as hippy fashions.

The spelling changed to Harlem in keeping with contemporary English usage, and the district grew ( as part of the borough of Manhattan ) into the vibrant center of African American culture in New York City and the United States generally by the 20th century.

Although the portraits and legends changed with the political changes in France, the denomination remained in usage until the First World War under what was known as the Latin Monetary Union, the " Euro before the Euro ", so-to-speak.

As with other racial and ethnicity based terms, formal and common usage have changed markedly through the short history of this term.

* A Brazilian playboy: while in first this term had the same usage as in English, from the 1990s to the 2010s it changed its meaning to a local version of yuppie which first appeared in Greater Rio de Janeiro.

One can speculate that feminism has changed some linguistic usage in this respect.

The usage and meaning of the doctorate has changed over time, and it has also been subject to regional variations.

Originally, the term " bath-room " referred only to the room where the bathtub was located, which was usually a separate room, but this connotation has changed in common North American usage.

Jo has been changed to Joe, the more common spelling for males, and Bessie is now Beth, the former name having fallen out of usage as a nickname for Elizabeth.

This factor is made more complex by the fact that the usage of words has changed a great deal between classical and modern Arabic.

The British Foreign Office and other branches of the British government used to use the older spelling of " Jedda ", contrary to other English-speaking usage, but in 2007 changed to the spelling " Jeddah ".

Room usage changed over the years.

As fashion changed from stiff shirt collars to soft, turned-down collars, the four-in-hand necktie knot gained popularity ; its sartorial dominance rendered the term " four-in-hand " redundant usage, shortened " long tie " and " tie.