Usage of the term bodhisattva has evolved over time.

Usage has shifted again, according to Hartmann et al., since 2001 and the September 11 attacks, with the mainstream media using the term less, in order to characterize America as multicultural.

According to Fowler's Modern English Usage ( 1965 ), the correct term is " the Received Pronunciation ".

Usage of the term became popular in the late 1980s and 1990s, originally in reference to BBS operators.

In A Dictionary of Modern English Usage ( 1926 ), H. W. Fowler states that applying the word nigger to " others than full or partial negroes " is " felt as an insult by the person described, & betrays in the speaker, if not deliberate insolence, at least a very arrogant inhumanity "; but the second edition ( 1965 ) states: " N. has been described as ' the term that carries with it all the obloquy and contempt and rejection which whites have inflicted on blacks.

Usage of the term RMI may denote solely the programming interface or may signify both the API and JRMP, whereas the term RMI-IIOP ( read: RMI over IIOP ) denotes the RMI interface delegating most of the functionality to the supporting CORBA implementation.

The term was later exported to France ( H. W. Fowler's Modern English Usage ).

Usage of the term in the Latin West changed as the Middle Ages progressed, but its connotation remained negative and its exact definition continued to be unclear.

Usage of the term " Miao " in Chinese documents dates back to the Shi Ji ( 1st century BC ) and the Zhan Guo Ce ( late Western Han Dynasty ).

Usage of the term republic is inconsistent but, as a minimum, it means a state or federation of states that does not have a monarch.

Usage of the term " Intelligent Dance Music " has been criticised by electronic musicians such as Aphex Twin and is seen by artists such as Mike Paradinas as being peculiar to the U. S.

Usage of the term to describe large molecules varies among the disciplines.

However, according to Webster's Dictionary of English Usage, flautist is the preferred term in British English, and while both terms are used in American English flutist is " by far the more common choice.

Usage of the terms by art historians varies somewhat, with some using the term more restrictively than others.

In The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style, Bryan Garner unambiguously recast the term as inelegant variation.

Usage of the term increased after it was featured in Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code.

Usage of the term “ prom ” is more common and appears to be a colloquial and regional practice.

Usage can differ between areas of application: for example, in hydrology, the terms " forecast " and " forecasting " are sometimes reserved for estimates of values at certain specific future times, while the term " prediction " is used for more general estimates, such as the number of times floods will occur over a long period.

Usage of the term has developed over time.

Usage of the term in this sense became common in the 1970s.

Usage of the term includes:

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage stated that modern use of the term is largely limited to advertisements, headlines and banners, where its conciseness is valued.

Usage of the term is applied to various situations and civilizations within history, despite its popular mis-association with a numerical, statistical minority.

Widely and often cited, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage is renowned for its witty passages, such as:

In the United Kingdom, Thomas Erskine May's Treatise on the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament ( often referred to simply as Erskine May ) is the accepted authority on the powers and procedures of the Westminster parliament.

Fowler's English Usage describes it as " ugly ", Strunk and White say that it " damages a sentence and often leads to confusion or ambiguity ", and the Chicago Manual of Style calls it " Janus-faced ".

It is used less often in British English, where it is standard usage to leave it out, with some notable exceptions such as the Oxford University Press, though its use is recommended in the British Fowler's Modern English Usage.

Usage of chibi in this manner often constitutes a form of catharsis for the readers and the writer, similar to the practice of having the actors in a play appear on stage to take a bow at the end of a performance, including characters who were killed off in the body of the play.

Usage of billhooks also varies from country to country — in Sweden they were often used for cutting fodder for livestock ( in the UK a gorse or furze hook would have been used ); in France and Italy they were widely used for pruning vines ( only recently has wine making come back to the UK ), and miniature billhooks were used for harvesting grapes during the ' vendange ' in France ; in the Netherlands they were often used in a carpenter's workshop ( in the UK use of a small hand axe was more common ), and they were also found in the coopers ' workshops in France ( known as a cochoir, and used in the making of wooden barrel hoops ).

Usage of pilpul in this sense ( that of " sharp analysis ") harks back to the Talmudic era and refers to the intellectual sharpness this method demanded.

Reid also refers to Matthew K. Gray's well-respected website, Internet Statistics: Growth and Usage of the Web and the Internet, which indicates a dramatic leap in web use around the time of Mosaic's introduction ( p. xxv ).

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage ( page 720 ) refers to three statistical studies of passive versus active sentences in various periodicals: " the highest incidence of passive constructions was 13 percent.

Usage note: Afghan refers to the people ; Afghani refers to the national currency.

Usage of the term " Columbia Basin " in British Columbia generally refers only to the immediate basins of the Columbia and Kootenay Rivers and excludes that of the Okanagan, Kettle and Similkameen Rivers.

Usage share refers to the relative market adoption of various products, for example:

Usage: Rubric refers to decorative text or instructions in medieval documents that were penned in red ink.

In August 2007, Microsoft issued its Game Content Usage Rules, a license intended to address the legal status of machinima based on its games, including the Halo series.

Usage of completely automatic updates is far more widespread in the consumer market, due largely to the fact that Microsoft Windows added support for them, and Service Pack 2 of Windows XP enabled them by default.

In the Task Manager utility under Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, the graphical displays labeled " PF usage " and " Page File Usage History ," despite their labels, reflect not the pagefile contents but the total ( or current ) commit charge.

In the same display, the " Mem Usage " column in Windows XP and Server 2003, or the " Working Set ( Memory )" column in Windows Vista and later, shows each process's current working set.

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