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

But by comparison with the railroad, the motor car is a relatively new object of popular worship, so it is too much to hope that it may be brought within the bounds of civilized usage quickly and easily.

These two pieces of information for each dictionary form that is matched by a text form constitute the table of dictionary usage.

When a match is found, an entry is made in the table of dictionary usage.

( The address of the information cell is also supplied by the table of dictionary usage.

When the index words or electronic switches are reserved because of actual usage in the statements described above, the position or order of the statements within the program is not important ; ;

There is no justification for systematizing the random statements of Irenaeus about the image of God beyond this, nor for reading into his imprecise usage the later theological distinction between the image of God ( humanity ) and the similitude of God ( immortality ).

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

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.

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 ).

This is primarily due to the widespread usage of the Aramaic language as both a lingua franca and the official language of the Neo-Assyrian, and its successor, the Achaemenid Empire.

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.

Amplitude modulation is inefficient in power usage ; at least two-thirds of the power is concentrated in the carrier signal, which carries no useful information ( beyond the fact that a signal is present ).

For each element a of a group G, conjugation by a is the operation φ < sub > a </ sub >: G → G given by ( or a < sup >− 1 </ sup > ga ; usage varies ).

The usage of Stokoe's system is currently restricted to academic circles.

The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only.

In modern English, " Americans " generally refers to residents of the United States, and among native speakers of English this usage is almost universal, with any other use of the term requiring specification of the subject under discussion.

Later, his published letters were the basis of Waldseemüller's 1507 map, which is the first usage of America.

Qualified individuals do not include any employee or applicant who is currently engaging in the illegal use of drugs when that usage is the basis for the employer's actions.

In modern usage, the term is sometimes used improperly as a catch-all classification of " other world religions " alongside major organized religions.

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.

This usage dates from 1843 when Punch magazine applied the term to satirical drawings in its pages, particularly sketches by John Leech.

In the West it was known as the feast of the Conception ( passive ) of Mary, and was associated particularly with the Normans, whether these introduced it directly from the East or took it from English usage.

Kipper season refers ( particularly among fairground workers, market workers, taxi drivers and the like ) to any lean period in trade, particularly the first three or four months of the year ; possibly a reference to the above usage, or to the need to live frugally during such a period, by ( for instance ) living on kippers.

In sport, the term has come into common usage by television commentators, particularly in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

The potential decline in library usage, particularly reference services, puts the necessity for these services in doubt.

In this context, linguists today use jargon to denote a particularly rudimentary type of pidgin ; however, this usage is rather rare, and the term jargon most often refers to the words particular to a given profession.

In contemporary usage, Quisling is synonymous with traitor, and particularly applied to politicians who appear to favour the interests of other nations or cultures over their own.

Mixed-race usage of " nigga " is still considered taboo, particularly if the speaker is white.

** Media franchise, ownership of the characters and setting of a film, video game, book, etc., particularly in North American usage

Recent linguistic research suggests that today, certain elements of Cockney English are declining in usage within the East End of London and the accent has migrated to Outer London and the Home Counties: in London's East End, some traditional features of Cockney have been displaced by a Jamaican Creole-influenced variety popular among young Londoners ( sometimes referred to as " Jafaican "), particularly, though far from exclusively, those of Afro-Caribbean descent.

Onions have particularly large cells that are readily observed at low magnification ; consequently, onion tissue is frequently used in science education for demonstrating microscope usage.

Seatbelts that automatically move into position around a vehicle occupant once the adjacent door is closed and / or the engine is started were developed as a countermeasure against low usage rates of manual seat belts, particularly in the United States.

The usage of the word is widespread throughout much of the UK, particularly in Wales and the north of England, in places such as Yorkshire, Lancashire, and the English Midlands.

However, through its association with the Young British Artists and the Turner Prize during the 1990s, its popular usage, particularly in the UK, developed as a synonym for all contemporary art that does not practice the traditional skills of painting and sculpture.

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.

A third usage ( particularly that of the influential Lyons 1968, 1977 ) defines the term antonym as referring to only gradable opposites ( the long: short type ) while the other types are referred to with different terms.

In Malay, ' lah ' is used to change a verb into a command or to soften its tone, particularly when usage of the verb may seem impolite.

In modern usage, kidnapping or abduction of a child is often called child stealing and parental kidnapping, particularly when done not to collect a ransom but rather with the intention of keeping the child permanently ( often in a case where the child's parents are divorced or legally separated, whereupon the parent who does not have legal custody will commit the act, also known as " childnapping ").

The word chapel is in particularly common usage in the United Kingdom, and even more so in Wales, for independent or nonconformist places of worship ; and in Scotland and Ireland for Roman Catholic churches.

The usage is particularly common in movies, television and comic books and much less so in modern prose science fiction.

This may be related to the contemporary British slang usage, where " bobbins " can be used to denote something negative, particularly in theatrical circles.

Through its association with the Young British Artists and the Turner Prize during the 1990s, in popular usage, particularly in the UK, " conceptual art " came to denote all contemporary art that does not practice the traditional skills of painting and sculpture.