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Usage (language)
Kamis, 2026-03-19 08:39:02

The usage of a language or language variety is the ways in which its written and spoken variations are routinely employed by its speakers; that is, it...

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Usage share of web browsers
Jumat, 2026-05-29 07:51:35

The usage share of web browsers is the portion, often expressed as a percentage, of visitors to a group of web sites that use a particular web browser...

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Quotation mark
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 22:31:52

The usage of a pair of marks, opening and closing, at the level of lower case letters was generalized. By the nineteenth century, the design and usage began...

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Usage share
Senin, 2012-11-12 22:11:48

Look up usage share in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Usage share may refer to: Usage share of BitTorrent clients Usage share of instant messaging clients...

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Usage share of operating systems
Rabu, 2026-05-13 19:23:53

The usage share of an operating system is the percentage of computers running that operating system (OS). These statistics are estimates as wide scale...

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Water usage effectiveness
Minggu, 2026-06-07 16:56:40

Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE) is a sustainability metric created by The Green Grid in 2011 to attempt to measure the amount of water used by datacenters...

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Common English usage misconceptions
Rabu, 2025-12-03 05:11:52

language usage that are documented by a reliable source to be misconceptions. With no authoritative language academy, guidance on English language usage can...

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Local usage details
Minggu, 2023-11-26 20:15:16

Local usage details (LUD) are a detailed record of local calls made and received from a particular phone number. These records are regularly available...

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Usage of Paris
Senin, 2026-04-27 05:42:03

The usage (or use) of Paris was the liturgical usage of any of the churches and monasteries of medieval Paris, especially as adopted for usage outside...

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Internet
Rabu, 2026-06-03 01:58:27

governance in either technological implementation or policies for access and usage. Each constituent network sets its own policies. The overarching definitions...

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Usage message
Minggu, 2026-05-03 13:00:27

In computer programming, a usage message or help message is a brief message displayed by a program that utilizes a command-line interface for execution...

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List of aircraft by date and usage category
Jumat, 2026-01-23 00:17:05

This is a list of aircraft by date and usage. The date shown is the introduction of the first model of a line but not the current model. For instance...

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List of countries by rail usage
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 05:11:17

This is a list of countries by rail usage. Usage of rail transport may be measured in tonne-kilometres (tkm) or passenger-kilometres (pkm) travelled for...

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Garner's Modern English Usage
Kamis, 2026-01-29 15:41:10

Garner's Modern English Usage (GMEU), written by Bryan A. Garner and published by Oxford University Press, is a usage dictionary and style guide (or "prescriptive...

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History of libraries
Selasa, 2026-05-26 10:52:00

staffing, libraries for targeted audiences, architectural merit, patterns of usage, and the role of libraries in a nation's cultural heritage, and the role...

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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 22:40:58

Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926), by H. W. Fowler (1858–1933), is an English usage dictionary. It details the usage of selected words, morphemes...

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Usage-based insurance
Selasa, 2025-10-07 00:48:48

Usage-based insurance (UBI), also known as pay as you drive (PAYD), pay how you drive (PHYD) and mile-based auto insurance, is a type of vehicle insurance...

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U and non-U English
Jumat, 2025-12-26 03:42:23

U and non-U English usage, where "U" stands for upper class and "non-U" represents the aspiring middle classes, was part of the terminology of popular...

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Power usage effectiveness
Senin, 2026-05-25 23:45:10

more energy efficiency metrics on data centers, see Data center. Power usage effectiveness (PUE) or power unit efficiency is a ratio that describes how...

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Codon usage bias
Selasa, 2025-12-09 22:00:48

Codon usage bias refers to differences in the frequency of occurrence of synonymous codons in coding DNA. A codon is a series of three nucleotides (a...

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Global Internet usage
Rabu, 2026-06-03 20:05:45

Global Internet usage refers to the number of people who use the Internet worldwide. As of 2025, an estimated 6 billion people worldwide were using the...

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Nationwide Mutual Usage Service
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 00:05:44

Japan's Nationwide Mutual Usage Service (全国相互利用サービス, Zenkoku Sōgo Riyō Sābisu) is a system that allows for reciprocal use and interoperability between...

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Comma
Jumat, 2026-06-05 07:44:37

other languages, particularly European ones, although the rules on comma usage – and their rigidity – vary from language to language. Commas are placed...

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Health and usage monitoring systems
Minggu, 2026-05-31 12:32:36

Health and usage monitoring systems (HUMS) is a generic term given to activities that utilize data collection and analysis techniques to help ensure availability...

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Eh
Minggu, 2026-04-19 14:56:40

The spelling of this sound in English is quite different from the common usage of these letters. The vowel is sounded in one of the continental manners...

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Practical English Usage
Kamis, 2026-01-29 13:16:32

Practical English Usage is a standard reference book aimed at foreign learners of English and their teachers, written by Michael Swan. Published by Oxford...

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The Cambridge Guide to English Usage
Kamis, 2026-01-29 13:25:54

Cambridge Guide to English Usage by Pam Peters is a usage dictionary, giving an up-to-date account of the debatable issues of English usage and written style....

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Le Bon Usage
Kamis, 2026-01-29 13:06:48

Le Bon Usage (French pronunciation: [lə bɔn‿yzaʒ], Correct Usage), informally called Le Grevisse, is a descriptive grammar of French first published in...

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Style guide
Minggu, 2026-05-10 10:00:48

practices in writing style, usage, language composition, visual composition, orthography, and typography by setting standards of usage in areas such as punctuation...

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Disk Usage Analyzer
Rabu, 2026-01-14 21:33:57

Disk Usage Analyzer is a graphical disk usage analyzer for GNOME. It is part of GNOME Core Applications. It was originally named Baobab after the Adansonia...

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Usage perspective development
Jumat, 2024-06-07 08:51:37

Usage perspective development, UPD, describes a procedure from human factors and ergonomics, which analyses and integrates the user requirements already...

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Fuck
Minggu, 2026-06-07 05:17:14

it is usually considered to be first attested to around 1475. In modern usage, the term fuck and its derivatives (such as fucker and fucking) are used...

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Modern American Usage
Jumat, 2014-02-07 09:42:36

Modern American Usage may refer to: Follett's Modern American Usage, a 1966 usage guide for contemporary American English by Wilson Follett Garner's Modern...

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Trolleybus usage by country
Rabu, 2026-05-06 03:11:36

are valued in the Vancouver transit network for their "greener" energy usage and emissions (relying on hydro-electric power), their quieter operation...

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Modern kana usage
Sabtu, 2025-10-18 12:25:38

kana usage (現代仮名遣い, gendai kanazukai) is the present official kanazukai (system of spelling the Japanese syllabary). Also known as new kana usage (新仮名遣い...

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Saint-Usage
Senin, 2019-12-30 07:30:33

Saint-Usage may refer to the following places in France: Saint-Usage, Aube, a commune in the department of Aube Saint-Usage, Côte-d'Or, a commune in the...

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International status and usage of the euro
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 23:49:44

currency formally replaced 12 currencies of the original eurozone states, its usage was inherited in territories such as Montenegro which had used pre-euro...

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Kaffir (racial term)
Rabu, 2026-05-20 00:29:07

the 5 March 2008 sitting of the South African Parliament shows how the usage of the word is seen today: We should take care not to use derogatory words...

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Acceptable use policy
Minggu, 2026-05-03 04:54:05

An acceptable use policy (AUP)—also referred to as an acceptable usage policy or, in certain commercial contexts, a fair use policy (FUP)—is a formal...

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Computer Usage Company
Kamis, 2026-05-28 03:13:42

Computer Usage Company (CUC) (1955–1986), sometimes called Computer Usage Corporation, was the first independent company to market custom software programming...

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Survey of English Usage
Minggu, 2025-06-29 01:42:59

The Survey of English Usage was the first research centre in Europe to carry out research with corpora. The Survey is based in the Department of English...

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Usage-based models of language
Jumat, 2026-04-10 09:05:38

between linguistic structure and usage. The term "usage-based" was first coined by Ronald Langacker in 1987. Usage-based models of language have become...

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That
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 10:48:47

what, though this has since changed, and that has recently replaced some usage of the modern which. Pronunciation of the word varies according to its role...

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Semicolon
Jumat, 2026-05-29 01:57:15

using the semicolon "with propriety" for English texts, and more widespread usage picks up in the next decades. Around 1640, in Ben Jonson's book The English...

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Usage-centered design
Kamis, 2026-03-26 19:40:27

Usage-centered design is an approach to user interface design based on a focus on user intentions and usage patterns. It analyzes users in terms of the...

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Idiot
Senin, 2026-06-01 03:20:03

used to highlight or indicate something else (allegory). Examples of such usage are William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca...

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Far-right usage of the internet
Minggu, 2026-05-03 03:20:43

opinions and encouraging political involvement. Additionally, social media usage in political campaigns has become increasingly significant due to its communal...

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Linguistic prescription
Senin, 2026-04-06 12:18:21

prescription is the establishment of rules defining publicly preferred usage of language, including rules of spelling, pronunciation, vocabulary, and...

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Gasoline and diesel usage and pricing
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 16:43:15

The usage and pricing of gasoline (or petrol) results from factors such as crude oil prices, processing and distribution costs, local demand, the strength...

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JavaScript
Minggu, 2026-06-07 00:37:47

and a variety of apps. The most popular runtime system for non-browser usage is Node.js. JavaScript is a high-level, often just-in-time–compiled language...

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Mobile phones on aircraft
Jumat, 2026-05-15 07:37:41

discussion of safety versus hazard. A regulation, SR-446, prohibiting the usage of FM radios onboard aircraft at certain times was issued by the Federal...

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Mobile operating system
Minggu, 2026-06-07 16:29:05

Usage Share". statcounter.com. Retrieved March 22, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) "Mobile and tablet Internet usage...

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ATM usage fees
Selasa, 2026-06-02 11:42:43

ATM usage fees are what many banks and interbank networks charge for the use of their automated teller machines (ATMs). In some cases, these fees are...

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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage
Rabu, 2026-03-25 03:56:55

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage (MWDEU) is a usage dictionary published by Merriam-Webster, Inc., of Springfield, Massachusetts. It is currently...

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Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage
Senin, 2026-05-11 03:13:16

The Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage (DCEU) is a dictionary of Caribbean English, compiled by the University of the West Indies lecturer, Richard...

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Usage share of BitTorrent clients
Kamis, 2025-12-25 21:25:30

The usage share of BitTorrent clients is the percentage of users that use a particular BitTorrent client, regardless of version. Lifehacker, a software...

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Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and Browser Usage
Selasa, 2026-02-03 10:57:08

"Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and Browser Usage" was a hoax study allegedly released by a Canadian company called AptiQuant Psychometric Consulting Co....

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Ampersand
Kamis, 2026-06-04 18:14:10

routinely slurred to "ampersand", and the term had entered common English usage by 1837. It has been falsely claimed that André-Marie Ampère used the symbol...

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Data cap
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 05:16:31

to policies imposed by an internet service provider to limit customers' usage of their services; typically, exceeding a data cap would require the subscriber...

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Twitter usage
Minggu, 2026-04-12 19:50:26

needs to be updated. The reason given is: Little to no content on post-2014 usage. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available...

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Google Chrome
Selasa, 2026-06-02 07:39:19

the Terms of Service. Chrome quickly gained about 1% usage share. After the initial surge, usage share dropped until it hit a low of 0.69% in October...

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Cannabis in Austria
Jumat, 2026-02-27 00:34:03

in Austria is legal for scientific and limited medical usage, but illegal for recreational usage. Possession of small amounts for personal use was decriminalized...

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RDFa
Rabu, 2026-06-03 02:50:17

to assistive technology. There is a growing number of tools for better usage of RDFa vocabularies and RDFa annotation. Simplified approaches to semantically...

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Names of large numbers
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 07:23:34

trillion are rarely used in practice; such large numbers have practical usage primarily in the scientific domain, where powers of ten are expressed as...

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Green Power Usage Effectiveness
Jumat, 2024-06-21 02:33:36

Green Power Usage Effectiveness (GPUE) is a proposed measurement of both how much sustainable energy a computer data center uses, its carbon footprint...

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Mongolian script
Rabu, 2026-06-03 04:29:52

several letters, and others to contrast between them. As their forms and usage may differ between writing styles, however, examples of these can be found...

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Gay
Senin, 2026-05-25 09:43:56

originally meant "carefree", "cheerful', or "bright and showy". While scant usage referring to male homosexuality dates to the late 19th century, that meaning...

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Follett's Modern American Usage
Kamis, 2026-01-29 12:57:24

Follett's Modern American Usage is the book published with the title Modern American Usage which was left in draft form and unfinished by Wilson Follett...

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Software as a service
Minggu, 2026-06-07 19:59:21

sometimes operating systems and middleware, to accommodate rapid increases in usage while providing instant and continuous availability to customers. SaaS customers...

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Bevel
Rabu, 2026-01-14 00:33:53

words bevel and chamfer overlap in usage; in general usage, they are often interchanged, while in technical usage, they may be differentiated as shown...

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Hacker
Jumat, 2026-06-05 14:15:56

a person with an enthusiastic interest in computer systems, In common usage, the term most often refers to someone who gains unauthorised access to...

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Error (linguistics)
Jumat, 2026-06-05 03:20:45

"mistake" are also used to describe usages that are considered non-standard or otherwise discouraged normatively. Such usages, however, would not be considered...

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Du (Unix)
Selasa, 2026-02-03 11:29:48

link file is reported, not what it links to. Although du is short for disk usage, the command is not limited to disk storage. It was developed during the...

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Gambling
Kamis, 2026-06-04 01:50:46

involve wagering, especially online gaming, with the new usage still not having displaced the old usage as the primary definition in common dictionaries. Gambling...

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Nota bene
Jumat, 2026-05-08 07:48:13

editorial usages of nota bene and notate bene first appeared in English around the year 1711. In Modern English, since the 14th century, the editorial usage of...

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CPU time
Jumat, 2026-02-20 00:54:10

convert CPU time into a percentage of the CPU capacity, giving the CPU usage. Measuring CPU time for two functionally identical programs that process...

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Instant messaging
Kamis, 2026-05-07 04:15:47

Supervision of Electronic Communications, December 2007 "Messaging App Usage Statistics Around the World". MessengerPeople. 2020-02-12. Archived from...

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Energy consumption
Jumat, 2026-02-06 12:54:28

2009-10-15. Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: How to reduce energy usage Media related to Energy consumption at Wikimedia Commons World energy consumption...

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Chibi (style)
Senin, 2026-06-01 17:07:41

The style has found its way into the anime and manga fandom through its usage in manga works and merchandising. The English term chibi derives from the...

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Language-for-specific-purposes dictionary
Kamis, 2026-01-22 14:12:28

two major ones are Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage and Garner's Modern English Usage. Language for specific purposes Nielsen (1994). Nielsen...

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The
Selasa, 2026-04-21 13:51:18

Modern American and New Zealand English have an increasing tendency to limit usage of /ðiː/ pronunciation and use /ðə/, even before a vowel. Sometimes the...

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Firefox
Selasa, 2026-06-02 23:11:32

whole; its usage then declined in competition with Google Chrome. As of April 2026[update], according to StatCounter, it had a 4.21% usage share on traditional...

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HTTP
Selasa, 2026-06-02 19:11:07

Standard. Obsoletes RFC 8740, 7540. "Usage Statistics of HTTP/2 for websites". w3techs.com. Retrieved 2026-01-21. "Usage Statistics of HTTP/3 for Websites...

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Economics of car use
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 02:17:27

in poor countries, to inelastic in rich nations. The advantages of car usage include on-demand and door-to-door travel, and are not easily substituted...

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English usage controversies
Jumat, 2026-05-29 05:10:43

use unquestioningly yet certain writers call incorrect. Differences of usage or opinion may stem from differences between formal and informal speech...

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Depository bank
Rabu, 2026-01-07 18:17:16

A depository bank (U.S. usage) or depositary bank (predominantly EU usage) is a specialist financial entity which, depending on jurisdiction, facilitates...

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Australian English
Jumat, 2026-06-05 07:35:29

Morris's Austral English: A Dictionary Of Australasian Words, Phrases And Usages in 1898, which extensively catalogued Australian English vocabulary, started...

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Ukrainian Ye
Senin, 2026-04-13 14:21:40

represents the sound /je/ or /jɛ/ like the pronunciation of ⟨ye⟩ in "yes". (See usage for more detail.) Ukrainian Ye is romanized as ⟨je⟩, ⟨ê⟩, or even ⟨e⟩. See...

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Brand loyalty
Rabu, 2026-05-20 19:23:40

of view of many marketers, loyalty to the brand — in terms of consumer usage[when defined as?] — is a key factor. However, companies often ensure that...

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Internet access
Minggu, 2026-05-31 17:27:08

Warner began experimenting with usage-based pricing in Beaumont, Texas. In 2009 an effort by Time Warner to expand usage-based pricing into the Rochester...

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Hammer's German Grammar and Usage
Kamis, 2026-02-05 14:28:54

Hammer's German Grammar and Usage (ISBN 9781444120165) is an English reference book on German grammar. The 1st edition was published in 1971. The 5th...

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ß
Jumat, 2026-05-22 21:39:26

in blackletter typefaces, yielding ⟨ſʒ⟩. This developed from an earlier usage of ⟨z⟩ in Old and Middle High German to represent a sibilant that did not...

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Consider the Lobster
Senin, 2026-01-26 22:49:22

Magazine. "Authority and American Usage" A 62-page review of Bryan A. Garner's A Dictionary of Modern American Usage. Wallace applies George Orwell's "Politics...

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Ensemble average (disambiguation)
Selasa, 2025-07-15 06:16:01

ensemble average, usage in econometrics and signal processing Ensemble (fluid mechanics), usage in fluid mechanics Ensemble forecasting, usage in weather forecasting...

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American and British English spelling differences
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 03:12:31

Australian and Canadian usages generally follow British usage. The spelling connexion is now rare in everyday British usage, its use lessening as knowledge...

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Zone Usage Measurement
Senin, 2025-08-11 15:41:42

Zone Usage Measurement (ZUM) is the method by which phone companies in California distinguished "local" service from "long distance" service within the...

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Economics terminology that differs from common usage
Jumat, 2026-03-20 06:23:56

technical terms used in economics and the corresponding terms in everyday usage. Economists commonly use the term recession to mean either a period of two...

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Sea change (idiom)
Rabu, 2025-12-03 15:36:04

affects a group or society at large, on a particular issue. It is similar in usage and meaning to a paradigm shift, and may be viewed as a change to a society...

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Feast of the Ascension
Senin, 2026-06-01 21:13:22

neglecting to keep Pentecost on the fiftieth day, implies that the proper usage of the time was to commemorate the Ascension along with Pentecost.[citation...

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Saint-Usage, Côte-d'Or
Kamis, 2025-04-24 23:33:59

Saint-Usage (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃.t‿yzaʒ]) is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France. ‹ The template below (Historical populations)...

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Doctor (title)
Selasa, 2026-06-02 05:57:12

University of Paris. Having become established in European universities, this usage spread around the world. Contracted "Dr" or "Dr.", it is used as a designation...

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Ñ
Selasa, 2026-05-19 07:49:27

⟨m⟩) that had been omitted, as in tãtus for tantus or quã for quam. This usage was passed on to other languages using the Latin alphabet although it was...

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E
Kamis, 2026-05-21 23:23:51

various forms of the Old Italic script and the Latin alphabet followed this usage. Although Middle English spelling used ⟨e⟩ to represent long and short /e/...

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Prisoner of war
Jumat, 2026-05-29 13:21:51

power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610. Belligerents hold prisoners...

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Tobacco
Selasa, 2026-05-26 22:58:52

Americans consider tobacco to be a medicine and advocate for its respectful usage, rather than a commercial one. Following the arrival of the Europeans to...

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Hentai
Senin, 2026-04-06 12:23:26

(エロアニメ), ero manga (エロ漫画), and the English initialism AV (for "adult video"). Usage of the term hentai does not define a genre in Japan. Hentai is defined differently...

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Tobacco usage in sport
Selasa, 2026-05-26 03:59:58

Tobacco usage in sport is a well documented and publicised occurrence. Tobacco advertising has connected itself to sports both for the connotations of...

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List of English words with disputed usage
Jumat, 2026-04-24 01:19:46

in ways that are contentious among writers on usage and prescriptive commentators. The contentious usages are especially common in spoken English, and...

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Use of nigger in the arts
Rabu, 2026-06-03 20:48:12

This article treats the usage of the word nigger (now widely a racial slur) in reference to African Americans and others of African or mixed African and...

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Cannabis in the Vietnam War
Kamis, 2026-05-21 00:28:38

prevalent during the late 1960s and 1970s. This is primarily due to the usage of marijuana in the United States increasing along with soldiers using it...

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Data mining
Kamis, 2026-04-30 07:15:34

Bing (2007, 2011); Web Data Mining: Exploring Hyperlinks, Contents and Usage Data, Springer, ISBN 3-540-37881-2 Murphy, Chris (16 May 2011). "Is Data...

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Electric energy consumption
Minggu, 2026-05-31 19:52:49

surveyed believing that people and businesses should do more to cut their own usage (compared to 20% in the UK, 19% in the EU, and 17% in China). Nearly half...

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Revival of the Hebrew language
Kamis, 2026-06-04 19:49:54

the 19th century and into the 20th century, through which the language's usage changed from the purely sacred language of Judaism to a spoken and written...

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Internet in Yemen
Minggu, 2026-06-07 16:41:30

800 in 1991 to 110,000 in 2006, reaching 4,072,264 by 2010. Mobile phone usage has also expanded. In 2006, there were 2.75 million mobile cellular subscribers...

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Ø
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 10:17:12

[œ] . The name of this letter is the same as the sound it represents (see usage). Among English-speaking typographers the symbol may be called a "slashed...

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List of busiest railway stations in Great Britain
Kamis, 2026-06-04 04:49:57

collected by the Office of Rail and Road, and are estimates based on ticket usage data use of an Origin Destination Matrix, a comprehensive matrix of rail...

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Long and short scales
Kamis, 2026-05-14 18:11:50

usage of the short scale, in 1974 the government of the UK adopted it, and it is used for all official purposes. The British usage and American usage...

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Y
Kamis, 2026-05-21 18:56:57

⟨y⟩ normally represents a palatal approximant, /j/ (year, yore). In this usage, the letter Y has replaced the Middle English letter yogh (Ȝȝ), which developed...

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X usage by public figures
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 14:24:23

The usage of X, previously called Twitter, by public figures includes the posting and content-sharing by celebrity and politician users on the X platform...

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Fruit
Kamis, 2026-05-14 07:40:05

extensive cultural and symbolic meanings. In common language and culinary usage, fruit normally means the seed-associated fleshy structures (or produce)...

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Queer
Minggu, 2026-05-17 03:42:44

community members who associate the term more with its colloquial, derogatory usage; those who wish to dissociate themselves from queer radicalism; and those...

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Oxford English Dictionary
Kamis, 2026-06-04 23:36:39

academic researchers, and provides ongoing descriptions of English language usage in its variations around the world. Work began on the dictionary in 1857...

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Scandinavia
Kamis, 2026-06-04 09:23:15

(which excludes Denmark but includes part of northern Finland). In English usage, the term is also used as a synonym for the Nordic countries. Iceland and...

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Roman Rite
Senin, 2026-05-11 04:59:34

The Roman Rite (Latin: Rītus Rōmānus) is the most common ritual family for performing the ecclesiastical services of the Latin Church, the largest of the...

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Singular they
Rabu, 2026-05-27 21:01:42

you borrow his book. — Choy, Basic Grammar and Usage In 2015, Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage calls this "the now outmoded use of he to mean...

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Rigger (industry)
Minggu, 2026-03-15 17:44:02

riggers. In time, rigging became a trade in itself, giving rise to modern usages with some original terminology remaining, with its roots all but forgotten...

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UPC and NPC
Senin, 2024-07-08 22:11:25

Usage Parameter Control (UPC) and Network Parameter Control (NPC) are functions that may be performed in a computer network. UPC may be performed at the...

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Mobile phone
Minggu, 2026-05-17 07:05:44

distinguish one usage from another in drivers using their devices. This is more apparent in countries which ban both handheld and hands-free usage, rather than...

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Phencyclidine
Jumat, 2026-05-15 14:16:34

seizures and coma in cases of overdose. Flashbacks may occur despite stopping usage. Chemically, PCP is a member of the arylcyclohexylamine class. PCP works...

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Tor (network)
Jumat, 2026-05-15 09:53:44

ultimately going to at the same time. This conceals a user's location and usage from anyone performing network surveillance or traffic analysis from any...

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The Elements of Style
Jumat, 2026-05-15 23:42:07

style guide for American English, comprising eight "elementary rules of usage," ten "elementary principles of composition", "a few matters of form", a...

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Space–time tradeoff
Jumat, 2026-05-29 03:08:43

computer science is a trade-off where an algorithm or program increased space usage with decreased time. Here, space refers to the data storage consumed in...

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Meaning (philosophy)
Senin, 2026-06-01 19:25:56

content, information, or communication; truth conditions; usage, and the instructions for usage; measurement, computation, or operation. The question of...

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Free content
Minggu, 2026-05-31 10:17:48

for which there are very minimal copyright and other legal limitations on usage, modification and distribution. These are works or expressions which can...

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Direct material usage variance
Kamis, 2025-01-30 11:50:25

In variance analysis, direct material usage (efficiency, quantity) variance is the difference between the standard quantity of materials that should have...

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Megabyte
Senin, 2026-03-30 20:26:23

have been used that arose for historical reasons of convenience. A common usage has been to designate one megabyte as 1048576bytes (220 B), a quantity that...

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List of countries by mobile banking usage
Sabtu, 2026-02-07 22:22:03

This is a list of countries by mobile banking usage as measured by the percentage of the population. Mobile banking is generally defined as a service...

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WinDirStat
Minggu, 2026-05-31 14:58:08

open-source graphical disk usage analyzer for Microsoft Windows. It presents a sub-tree view with disk-use percentage alongside a usage-sorted list of file extensions...

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Affirmative Insurance
Rabu, 2026-05-27 06:31:53

initial public offering. In 2007, the company completed the acquisition of USAgencies, a provider of non-standard automobile insurance. In 2013, Confie Seguros...

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Station usage in North Yorkshire
Minggu, 2026-03-22 19:10:09

This is a list of railway stations in North Yorkshire, with estimated usage figures gathered from data collected by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR)...

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Amazon Web Services
Kamis, 2026-05-21 04:45:43

that allows a client to use more computing in times of high application usage, and then scale down to reduce costs when there is less traffic). These...

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Dilemma
Sabtu, 2026-02-14 22:29:00

horns of the dilemma, a clichéd usage, but distinguishing the dilemma from other kinds of predicament as a matter of usage. The term dilemma is attributed...

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Download
Minggu, 2026-05-31 09:56:51

recording labels. Downloading and streaming relates to the more general usage of the Internet to facilitate copyright infringement, also known as "software...

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Trade (gay slang)
Senin, 2026-05-18 12:11:12

heterosexual, engaging in sex work with a wealthier gay man. More modern usage has centered on any casual sexual encounter between men, and as an adjective...

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Hypothesis
Senin, 2026-04-27 20:06:01

by experiment to be true, it becomes a scientific theory. In colloquial usage, the words hypothesis and theory are often used interchangeably, but this...

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While
Senin, 2025-09-15 23:59:29

covering the usage of while. Linguistic prescription List of English words with disputed usage A While vs Awhile "while": Fowler's Modern English Usage, Second...

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Supercharger
Selasa, 2026-05-26 16:04:55

first supercharged engine was built in 1878, with usage in aircraft engines beginning in the 1910s and usage in car engines beginning in the 1920s. In piston...

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Go (The Chemical Brothers song)
Jumat, 2026-06-05 23:27:59

release, "Go" reached number 46 on the UK Singles Chart. Following its usage in the film Apex (2026), the song experienced a resurgence in popularity...

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Greek language
Minggu, 2026-06-07 08:13:04

(also known as Neo-Hellenic) Stemming from Medieval Greek, Modern Greek usages can be traced in the Byzantine period, as early as the 11th century. It...

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Taxation in Germany
Minggu, 2026-05-24 19:19:32

Taxes in Germany are levied by the federal government, the 16 states (Länder), and municipalities (Städte/Gemeinden). The system combines direct and indirect...

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Historical kana orthography
Selasa, 2026-02-10 23:24:35

no longer in accord with Japanese pronunciation. It differs from modern usage (現代仮名遣い, gendai kanazukai) in the number of characters and the way those...

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Geographical usage of television
Selasa, 2026-04-28 04:50:40

The geographical usage of television varies around the world with a number of different transmission standards in use and differing approaches by government...

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Obake
Rabu, 2026-02-18 21:58:11

bakemono are distinct from the spirits of the dead. However, as a secondary usage, the term obake can be a synonym for yūrei, the ghost of a deceased human...

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Dharmachakra
Selasa, 2026-03-24 21:36:34

places that underwent religious transformation. The symbol also finds its usage in modern India. Historically, the dharmachakra was often used as a decoration...

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Hominidae
Kamis, 2026-05-14 04:22:31

current meaning of "hominid" includes all the great apes including humans. Usage still varies, however, and some scientists and laypersons still use "hominid"...

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Full stop
Senin, 2026-02-16 08:51:54

full stop is frequently used at the end of word abbreviations—in British usage, primarily truncations such as Rev., but not after contractions which retain...

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Frot
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 20:20:31

disparaged or disliked the practice of anal sex, but has since spread in usage to others who may not share those attitudes. It can also be used as a type...

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Prima donna
Minggu, 2026-05-24 04:15:40

colleagues. Because of this, the term has spread in contemporary usage, from its original usage in opera to referring to anyone behaving in a demanding or temperamental...

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Electricity meter
Jumat, 2026-05-01 23:18:33

easily predictable usage; billing was based on the number of lamps or motors installed in a building.[citation needed] However, as usage spread, and especially...

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Project COUNTER
Jumat, 2025-10-03 08:45:40

Project COUNTER, or simply COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources), is an international non-profit membership organization of...

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Flag of India
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 13:43:19

the code to allow flag usage by private citizens. Subsequently, the Union Cabinet of India amended the code to allow limited usage. The code was amended...

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ZIM (file format)
Rabu, 2025-12-17 09:40:06

file format is an open file format that stores website content for offline usage. The format is defined by the openZIM project, which also supports an open-source...

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Hypercorrection
Senin, 2026-05-04 23:36:36

language that results from the overapplication of a perceived rule of language-usage prescription. A speaker or writer who produces a hypercorrection generally...

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OK
Rabu, 2026-05-13 01:48:25

possibly in common colloquial use at the time. Various claims of earlier usage have been made. For example, it was claimed that the phrase appeared in...

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Cassandra
Kamis, 2026-06-04 00:16:11

Aegisthus when Agamemnon brought her to Mycenae as a pallake. In contemporary usage, her name is employed as a rhetorical device to indicate a person whose...

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List of human hormones
Selasa, 2026-04-07 17:17:17

example, current North American and international usage favors estrogen and gonadotropin, whereas British usage retains the Greek digraph in oestrogen and prefers...

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Browser wars
Kamis, 2026-05-21 18:32:15

A browser war is a competition for dominance in the usage share of web browsers. The "first browser war" (1995–2001) occurred between Internet Explorer...

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Bob's your uncle
Minggu, 2026-05-10 10:25:15

one. A suggested weakness in this hypothesis is that the first documented usage of "Bob's Your Uncle" is in the title of a new song in an advertisement...

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Use of saffron
Rabu, 2026-05-06 10:36:58

Saffron is a key seasoning, fragrance, dye, and medicine in use for over three millennia. One of the world's most expensive spices by weight, saffron consists...

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Bracket
Rabu, 2026-06-03 03:39:12

"parenthesis)(parentheses". Examples of this usage can be seen in editions of Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage. Parentheses may be nested (generally...

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Juggernaut
Selasa, 2026-05-12 07:24:16

A juggernaut (/ˈdʒʌɡənɔːt/ ), in current English usage, is a literal or metaphorical force regarded as merciless, destructive, and unstoppable. The term...

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Slang
Jumat, 2026-05-08 17:53:45

Slang is a vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usage) of an informal register, common in everyday conversation but avoided in formal writing and...

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Edda
Selasa, 2025-03-18 03:25:22

Poetic Edda. The term historically referred only to the Prose Edda, but this usage has fallen out of favour because of confusion with the other work. Both...

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Middle East
Jumat, 2026-05-29 06:31:08

British Armed Forces. After that time, the term "Middle East" gained broader usage across both Europe and the United States. The Middle East Institute, for...

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Diamond jubilee
Minggu, 2026-03-22 09:09:34

also used for 75th anniversaries, although the human lifespan makes this usage more common for institutions. George III of the United Kingdom died nine...

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Tan (color)
Jumat, 2025-10-24 19:55:21

tannum (oak bark) used in the tanning of leather. The first documented usage of tan as a color name in English was in the year 1590. Colors which are...

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List of tallest buildings and structures in the United Kingdom by usage
Rabu, 2025-12-31 09:20:17

a list of the tallest buildings and structures in the United Kingdom by usage. *Estimated height The tallest partly residential building - containing...

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Birth name
Selasa, 2026-03-31 03:11:04

omitted. According to Oxford University's Dictionary of Modern English Usage, the terms are typically placed after the current surname; for example,...

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Protective gear in sports
Selasa, 2026-02-10 22:59:11

role in maintaining the safety of an athlete participating in a sport. The usage and development of protective gear in sports has evolved through time, and...

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Kip (unit)
Sabtu, 2025-09-06 03:52:03

the name of a unit of mass equal to approximately 9.19 kilograms. This usage is obsolete, and was used in Malaysia. Short ton-force Van Valkenburg, Mac...

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Sic
Selasa, 2026-04-14 23:12:29

otherwise be interpreted as an error of transcription. The typical editorial usage of sic is to inform the reader that any errors in a quotation did not arise...

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À
Minggu, 2026-05-31 03:46:02

à abbreviates "at a rate of": "5 apples à $1" (one dollar each). That usage is based upon the French preposition à and has evolved into the at sign...

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Billet
Jumat, 2026-01-02 21:57:54

a living-quarters to which a soldier is assigned to sleep. In American usage, it refers to a specific personnel position, assignment, or duty station...

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AI washing
Rabu, 2026-05-27 12:35:58

the usage of AI in their products or services. Consumers can mitigate the same by requesting for hard evidence from the companies regarding the usage of...

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Phenomenon
Rabu, 2026-05-27 04:47:42

phaenomenon, is an observable event. The term came into its modern philosophical usage through Immanuel Kant, who contrasted it with the noumenon, which cannot...

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Nano-
Senin, 2025-10-20 02:03:29

General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) officially endorsed the usage of nano as a standard prefix in 1960. When used as a prefix for something...

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Modern display of the Confederate battle flag
Jumat, 2026-06-05 23:12:57

symbol of white supremacy in the United States[citation needed]. This modern usage can be traced to the 1948 United States presidential election, when it was...

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Kangaroo meat
Minggu, 2026-05-31 12:08:56

García-Galbis, Manuel; Martínez-Espinosa, Rosa (3 March 2018). "Effects of the Usage of l-Cysteine (l-Cys) on Human Health". Molecules. 23 (3): 575. doi:10...

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J
Senin, 2026-06-01 03:41:32

the initial sound in the English language word "yet"). Such a distinctive usage emerged in Middle High German. Gian Giorgio Trissino (1478–1550) was the...

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Orgy
Rabu, 2026-05-06 22:31:06

connote group sex and is closer to the classical roots and this metaphorical usage. In ancient Greek religion, orgia (ὄργια, sing. ὄργιον, orgion) were ecstatic...

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Lauzon (surname)
Senin, 2023-08-14 18:51:58

Lauzon is a French surname with significant usage in Canada. Craig Lauzon (born 1971), Canadian actor Dan Lauzon (born 1988), American MMA fighter Edythe...

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Prison slang
Senin, 2026-05-25 17:32:43

"thieves' cant". Words from prison slang often eventually migrate into common usage, such as "snitch", "ducking", and "narc". Terms can also lose meaning or...

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RTFM
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 09:20:08

man page, online help, internet forum, software documentation or FAQ. Usage is variously viewed as a pointed reminder of etiquette to try to find a...

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Saint-Usage, Aube
Senin, 2025-10-20 18:01:45

Saint-Usage (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃.t‿yzaʒ]) is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France. ‹ The template below (Historical populations)...

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Longest word in English
Jumat, 2026-05-29 18:54:59

antidisestablishmentarianism (28 letters), as the editors found no widespread, sustained usage of the word in its original meaning. The longest word in that dictionary...

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Usages of Barcelona
Jumat, 2024-11-01 00:16:00

The Usages of Barcelona (Catalan: Usatges de Barcelona, IPA: [uˈzadʒəz ðə βəɾsəˈlonə]; Latin: Usatici Barchinonae) were the customs that form the basis...

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Scare quotes
Kamis, 2026-06-04 11:10:00

University of Sussex Siegal, Allan M. The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage. Three Rivers Press (1999). ISBN 9780812963892. p. 280. Trask, Larry. "Scare...

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The Chicago Manual of Style
Selasa, 2026-03-31 19:25:13

English and deals with aspects of editorial practice, including grammar and usage, as well as document preparation and formatting. It is available in print...

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Internet censorship in China
Kamis, 2026-06-04 07:31:27

VPNs are heavily restricted and unauthorized usage can be subject to fines and legal prosecution. VPN usage among the Chinese population is low; as of 2022...

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Produce
Jumat, 2026-05-01 02:47:01

such as dairy products or nuts are sometimes included. In other English usage, the term "greens" is often used. In supermarkets, the term is also used...

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Internet Explorer
Kamis, 2026-05-28 01:25:50

Explorer was once the most widely used web browser, attaining a peak of 95% usage share by 2003. It has since fallen out of general use after retirement....

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Bya
Rabu, 2026-02-18 19:20:16

short scale of the US, not the long-scale 1012 "billion" of some European usage. Billion by this convention (109) is often called a "thousand million" in...

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Nut (fruit)
Kamis, 2026-06-04 07:20:20

tough nutshell protecting a kernel which is usually edible. In general usage and in a culinary sense, many dry seeds are called nuts, but in a botanical...

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List of animal names
Selasa, 2026-05-19 08:36:05

by species or taxon A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Usage of collective nouns Notes Further reading External links The terms in this...

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World energy supply and consumption
Jumat, 2026-05-08 09:12:27

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a significant decline in energy usage worldwide in 2020, but total energy demand worldwide had recovered by 2021...

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RAS syndrome
Minggu, 2026-06-07 14:36:03

impress, or avoid criticism, many usage guides advise writers to avoid pleonasm as much as possible, not because such usage is always wrong, but rather because...

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Executive summary
Rabu, 2025-01-22 01:22:46

academic research where the concept of the executive summary is not in common usage. "An abstract is a brief summarizing statement... read by parties who are...

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Toubon Law
Selasa, 2025-12-23 05:57:37

The Toubon Law (full name: law 94-665 of 4 August 1994 relating to usage of the French language) is a French law mandating the use of the French language...

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Pigtail
Kamis, 2026-02-26 11:52:43

head. Sometimes unbraided pigtails are called doggie ears or bunches, and usage of the term "pigtails" varies. The term pigtail appears in English in the...

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Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
Minggu, 2026-06-07 17:05:17

U+1D400–U+1D7FF). The rationale behind this is that it enables design and usage of special mathematical characters (fonts) that include all necessary properties...

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The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage
Selasa, 2026-05-19 06:50:46

The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage is a style guide to American English grammar and journalistic writing, developed by editors and journalists...

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Grand marshal
Selasa, 2025-06-17 09:29:04

with the first usage of the term "grand marshal" as a ceremonial title for certain religious orders. The following are some additional usages of the term...

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British English
Jumat, 2026-06-05 16:07:06

the Collins Dictionary record actual usage rather than attempting to prescribe it. In addition, vocabulary and usage change with time: words are freely...

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.50 Action Express
Minggu, 2025-09-07 01:04:39

(12.7×33mmRB) is a large-caliber handgun cartridge, best known for its usage in the Desert Eagle. Developed in 1988 by American Evan Whildin of Action...

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Literal and figurative language
Jumat, 2026-06-05 05:03:24

particular stylistics, rhetoric, and semantics. Literal language is the usage of words exactly according to their direct, straightforward, or conventionally...

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Chair (officer)
Rabu, 2025-11-05 22:40:59

advocate using chair or chairperson. The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style (2000) suggested that the gender-neutral forms were gaining ground;...

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Newton-metre
Jumat, 2026-05-15 01:26:23

equivalent to the more common and standard SI unit of energy, the joule. In this usage the metre term represents the distance travelled or displacement in the...

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Endonym and exonym
Selasa, 2026-05-26 07:03:52

are highly unfamiliar to speakers of other languages, making appropriate usage difficult if not impossible for an outsider. Over the years, the endonym...

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Data center
Jumat, 2026-06-05 09:57:42

500 households. Water usage can be divided into three categories: on-site (direct usage from data centers), off-site (indirect usage from electricity), and...

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Lightweight software
Senin, 2026-03-09 05:53:40

that is designed to have a small memory footprint (RAM usage) and low CPU usage, overall a low usage of system resources. To achieve this, the software should...

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Down Under
Rabu, 2026-04-22 17:47:37

persistence of the media use of the term has led to its wide acceptance and usage, especially in reference to Australia. According to American film critic...

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Internet addiction disorder
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 10:25:15

problematic internet usage and depressive symptoms may produce a positive feedback loop. This cycle involves problematic internet usage worsening depressive...

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List of rifles
Kamis, 2026-05-21 10:32:40

called "lands," which make contact with the projectile (for small arms usage, called a bullet), imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the orientation...

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Exempli gratia
Selasa, 2026-04-21 23:21:08

versus American usage, such as those by Bryan A. Garner in Garner's Modern English Usage, are not borne out by major style guides and usage dictionaries...

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Belial
Kamis, 2026-03-26 01:42:38

Baalial, Balial, Belhor, Beliall, Beliar, Berial, Bylyl and Beliya'al. Early usage of Belial referred to "wickedness" or "worthlessness", occurring several...

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List of indoor arenas in the United Kingdom
Minggu, 2026-05-03 15:19:58

Kingdom with an indoor seating capacity of at least 5,000, regardless of usage. List of indoor arenas in Europe List of indoor arenas by capacity List...

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Güey
Rabu, 2025-05-21 04:35:38

always offensive nor an insult between friends, its usage is generally considered uneducated. Thus its usage is limited mostly to friends and trusted acquaintances...

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Division sign
Selasa, 2026-05-12 21:01:33

used in Anglophone countries to indicate the operation of division. This usage is not universal and the symbol has different meanings in other countries...

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Parental controls
Rabu, 2026-06-03 21:36:19

usage controls, which constrain the usage of these devices such as placing time-limits on usage or forbidding certain types of usage; computer usage management...

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Idiolect
Rabu, 2026-05-06 02:08:28

is an individual's unique use of language, including speech. This unique usage encompasses a person's active vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation. This...

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Exclamation mark
Jumat, 2026-06-05 07:45:37

example, !A means "the logical negation of A", also called "not A". This usage has spread to ordinary language (e.g., "!clue" means no-clue or clueless)...

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Toponymy
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 02:03:58

place names and geographical names), including their origins, meanings, usage, and types. Toponym is the general term for the name of any geographical...

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Curriculum vitae
Rabu, 2026-05-27 02:37:14

person's career, qualifications, and education. This is the most common usage in British English. In North America, the term résumé (also spelled resume)...

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GIF
Rabu, 2026-06-03 06:03:57

widespread usage on the World Wide Web because of its wide implementation and portability between applications and operating systems, usage of the format...

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Swale (landform)
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 21:58:29

A swale is a shady spot, or a sunken or marshy place. In US usage in particular, it is a shallow channel with gently sloping sides. Such a swale may be...

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Suburbs and localities (Australia)
Senin, 2026-02-09 14:07:19

Australian usage of the term "suburb" differs from common American and British usage of suburb (municipality outside of a big city). The Australian usage is closer...

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English subjunctive
Jumat, 2026-02-20 20:50:16

Grammar of the English Language narrows the definition further so that the usage of were, as in "I wish she were here", traditionally known as the "past...

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Pail (container)
Minggu, 2025-10-26 19:06:19

In technical usage in the shipping industry, a pail is a type of cylindrical shipping container with a capacity of about 3 to 50 litres (1 to 13 US gal)...

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Cartridge (firearms)
Rabu, 2026-05-27 20:31:12

shooting. Although in popular usage the term "bullet" is often used to refer to a complete cartridge, the correct usage only refers to the projectile...

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Ć
Sabtu, 2025-07-19 00:35:12

for ć. The symbol originated in the Polish alphabet (where, in its modern usage, it appears most often at the ends of words) and was adopted by Croatian...

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Oakham railway station
Selasa, 2026-05-12 02:00:09

EMR". East Midlands Railway. Retrieved 7 April 2026. "Estimates of station usage | ORR Data Portal". dataportal.orr.gov.uk. Retrieved 24 December 2023. Table...

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To the nines
Jumat, 2024-11-08 07:47:24

idiom meaning "to perfection" or "to the highest degree". In modern English usage, the phrase most commonly appears as "dressed to the nines" or "dressed...

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Possessory
Jumat, 2026-03-13 01:25:50

In legal usage, Possessory forms several compounds. Possessory means, ordinarily: (1) of or pertaining to a possessor; (2) arising from possession (e...

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Manse
Minggu, 2026-06-07 01:31:40

or in Presbyterian usage. It is used in Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, and other Nonconformist traditions, and differs in usage from terms such as...

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Creampie (sexual act)
Senin, 2026-06-01 00:21:08

scenes originated in U.S. pornography in the early 2000s and is found in usage as early as the beginning of 1999. The term stems from a comparison to a...

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Pistol
Minggu, 2026-03-22 02:15:27

language c. 1570 when early handguns were produced in Europe. In colloquial usage, the word "pistol" is often used as a generic term to describe any type...

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Carnal knowledge
Minggu, 2026-03-22 20:10:04

"of the flesh", and the Biblical usage of the verb know/knew, a euphemism for sexual conduct. One example of this usage is in the first part of the Bible...

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Behind-the-scenes
Jumat, 2026-05-29 22:30:59

often referred to as the EPK (electronic press kit) video, due to its main usage as a promotional tool, either concurrent with theatrical release or as a...

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API
Kamis, 2026-05-28 03:20:25

Search and trends data. The design of an API has significant impact on its usage. The principle of information hiding describes the role of programming interfaces...

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Number sign
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 06:20:23

avoirdupois – having been derived from the now-rare ℔. Since 2007, widespread usage of the symbol to introduce metadata tags on social media platforms has led...

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Fewer versus less
Jumat, 2026-04-24 03:04:52

and least. Linguistic descriptivists note that idiomatic past and current usage consists of the word less being used with both countable nouns and uncountable...

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Anal retentiveness
Kamis, 2026-05-28 20:45:49

its psychoanalytic roots and the literal meaning of the words, in common usage the term generally refers merely to certain kinds of obsessive behaviour...

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Kapu Kuialua
Minggu, 2025-08-10 08:50:34

pressure point manipulation, strikes, usage of various weapons, battlefield strategy, open ocean warfare as well as the usage of introduced firearms from the...

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Brownie points
Minggu, 2025-06-29 04:25:02

Brownie points in modern usage are an imaginary social currency, which can be acquired by doing good deeds or earning favor in the eyes of another. A...

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Boulevard
Senin, 2026-04-20 13:32:27

circumferential roads following the line of former city walls. In North American usage, boulevards may be wide, multi-lane thoroughfares divided with only a central...

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Gender neutrality in languages with gendered third-person pronouns
Rabu, 2026-05-27 23:39:57

of grammatical gender. In languages with pronominal gender, problems of usage may arise in contexts where a person of unspecified or unknown social gender...

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False title
Senin, 2026-05-25 14:03:21

Timothy McVeigh", rather than "the convicted bomber Timothy McVeigh". Some usage writers condemn false titles, and others defend it. Its use was originally...

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Retard (pejorative)
Minggu, 2026-06-07 06:41:09

-tard, r-word, or r-slur in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In typical usage, retard (pronounced /ˈɹiː.tɑːɹd/, REE-tard) is an offensive term used for...

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Misnomer
Kamis, 2026-05-21 02:17:04

number of misnomers remain in common usage — which is to say that a word being a misnomer does not necessarily make usage of the word incorrect. An older name...

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Begging the question
Rabu, 2026-04-22 16:28:58

premise that has not been demonstrated to be true. In modern philosophical usage, it has come to refer to an argument in which the premises assume the conclusion...

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Bamboo torture
Jumat, 2026-05-15 07:27:32

countries such as China, India, and especially Japan, but claims of its usage lack reliable evidence. A "Madras civilian", in his travel description from...

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Coin edge
Rabu, 2025-12-31 02:15:12

Reeded edges are often referred to as "ridged" or "grooved" (US usage), or "milled" (UK usage). Some coins, such as United States quarters and dimes, have...

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Percentage
Jumat, 2026-05-08 21:29:44

but percent is nonetheless a unit of measurement in its orthography and usage. For example, 45% (read as "forty-five percent") is equal to the fraction...

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Achievement (heraldry)
Kamis, 2026-04-09 09:34:29

grant) Supporters (if the bearer is entitled to them, generally in modern usage not baronets), which may stand on a compartment Motto, if possessed Order...

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Plus and minus signs
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 04:34:30

subtraction in the treatise, but were used to indicate surplus and deficit; usage in the modern sense is attested in a 1518 book by Henricus Grammateus. Robert...

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Kiki (social gathering)
Senin, 2026-04-20 11:38:07

the Scissor Sisters. Since the 2010s, the term has returned to popular usage within the LGBT community, being loosely defined as a gathering of friends...

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Duck typing
Kamis, 2026-02-05 23:00:43

methods and properties required by that type. Duck typing may be viewed as a usage-based structural equivalence between a given object and the requirements...

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Unpaired word
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 10:43:09

Unpaired words can be the result of one of the words falling out of popular usage, or can be created when only one word of a pair is borrowed from another...

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Late Jurassic
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 04:13:28

past, Malm was also used to indicate the unit of geological time, but this usage is now discouraged to make a clear distinction between lithostratigraphic...

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Roman numerals
Senin, 2026-06-01 11:58:47

never been an official or universally accepted standard for Roman numerals. Usage varied greatly in ancient Rome and became thoroughly chaotic in medieval...

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Wastewater
Rabu, 2026-04-22 16:39:47

/ storm water, and any sewer infiltration or sewer inflow". In everyday usage, wastewater is commonly a synonym for sewage (also called domestic wastewater...

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Ganja
Rabu, 2026-05-06 13:20:35

used synonyms for cannabis flower, specifically marijuana or hashish. Its usage in English dates to before 1689. Ganja is borrowed from Hindi gāñjā (Hindi:...

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Old English Latin alphabet
Jumat, 2026-04-17 04:23:11

use. The letter K was used by some writers but not by others. W gained usage in late Old English under Norman influence, as seen towards the end of the...

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Social media use in the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests
Minggu, 2025-09-07 14:55:26

continue even without a centralised organisation. It is suggested that the usage of social media has been intensified by the several factors, such as disinformation...

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Bitch (slang)
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 23:43:48

comparable to a dog in heat. The range of meanings has expanded in modern usage (such as when applied to a man). In a feminist context, it can indicate...

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Alma mater
Minggu, 2026-04-26 19:30:20

meaning 'nursling', which describes a school graduate. In its earliest usage, alma mater was an honorific title for various mother goddesses, especially...

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Bunghole
Minggu, 2026-05-31 09:08:48

hole is capped with a cork or cork-like stopper called a bung. Acceptable usage includes other access points that may be capped with alternate materials...

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Android Donut
Minggu, 2026-05-10 03:18:54

added support for CDMA smartphones, additional screen sizes, a battery usage indicator, and a text-to-speech engine. After the public release, on September...

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Russian alphabet
Minggu, 2026-06-07 06:06:09

being a dominical letter in the Paschal tables. The seventeenth-century usage of ⟨ѫ⟩ and ⟨ѧ⟩ survives in contemporary Church Slavonic, and the sounds...

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Present perfect
Rabu, 2026-02-11 04:57:11

and the Italian passato prossimo. They may also have different ranges of usage: in all three of the languages just mentioned, the forms in question serve...

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Bassinet
Kamis, 2026-03-26 22:34:40

four months, babies are often transferred to a crib (American usage) or cot (UK usage). In the United States, however, the bedside sleeper is the prevalent...

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Lederhosen
Selasa, 2026-05-19 14:55:06

(/ˈleɪdərˌhoʊzən/ ; German pronunciation: [ˈleːdɐˌhoːzn̩], singular in German usage: Lederhose, German: [ˈleːdɐˌhoːzə] ; lit. "Leather Pants") is used in English...

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List of busiest London Underground stations (2024)
Kamis, 2026-06-04 13:02:41

shared usage statistics. Includes DLR usage. Bank and Monument stations operate as a combined station with shared usage statistics. Includes DLR usage. "Station...

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Vexillology
Senin, 2026-06-01 06:40:18

(/ˌvɛksɪˈlɒlədʒi/ VEK-sih-LOL-ə-jee) is the study of the history, symbolism and usage of flags or, by extension, any interest in flags in general. A person who...

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Bella
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 16:20:31

Belle is a name and word meaning beautiful. This name has increased in usage following the publication of the Twilight book series by American novelist...

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Century
Jumat, 2026-04-17 03:24:01

to 2000, and the 21st century comprises the years 2001 to 2100 in strict usage. In common perception and practice, centuries are structured by grouping...

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Celsius
Jumat, 2026-04-17 17:00:57

English-speaking countries, especially in informal contexts. The frequency of the usage of "centigrade" has declined over time. Due to metrication in Australia...

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Dictator
Selasa, 2026-05-19 02:33:41

almost exclusively as a non-titular term for oppressive rule. In modern usage, the term dictator is generally used to describe a leader who holds or abuses...

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Cuff
Senin, 2025-12-22 06:51:21

trimming. In US usage, the word trouser cuffs refers to the folded, finished bottoms of the legs of a pair of trousers. In the UK, while this usage is now sometimes...

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White elephant
Rabu, 2026-05-27 09:52:58

that of maintenance, is out of proportion to its usefulness. In modern usage, it is a metaphor used to describe an object, construction project, scheme...

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La petite mort
Jumat, 2026-03-27 12:28:08

that refers to a brief loss or weakening of consciousness, and in modern usage refers specifically to a post-orgasm sensation as likened to death. The...

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Q
Rabu, 2026-06-03 22:27:45

The Etruscans used Q in conjunction with V to represent /kʷ/, and this usage was copied by the Romans with the rest of their alphabet. In the earliest...

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Working title
Minggu, 2026-04-19 01:25:53

A working title is a preliminary name for a product or project. The usage is especially common in film and TV, gaming, music and publishing. It is often...

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Bombshell (slang)
Senin, 2025-11-03 07:46:23

attractive. The Online Etymology Dictionary by Douglas Harper attests the usage of the term in this meaning since 1942. Bombshell has a longer history in...

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Anno Domini
Minggu, 2026-06-07 06:00:53

the astronomical year 0 is 1 BC). Traditionally, English follows Latin usage by placing the "AD" abbreviation before the year number, though it is also...

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Thesaurus
Kamis, 2026-01-29 12:36:13

meaning and usage. Usage manuals such as Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage or Garner's Modern English Usage often prescribe the usage of synonyms...

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Aqua vitae
Rabu, 2026-04-29 04:27:37

These terms could also be applied to weak ethanol without rectification. Usage was widespread during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, although its...

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Intertitle
Selasa, 2025-11-18 16:43:20

descriptive/narrative material are referred to as "expository intertitles". In modern usage, the terms refer to similar text and logo material inserted at or near the...

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Middle name
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 01:13:33

surname. Together, the fore- and middle names form a person's given names. Usage of middle names varies between different cultural and linguistic groups...

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Software metering
Sabtu, 2024-06-08 04:07:18

allocate software usage to computers according to the policies a company specifies and to maintain a record of usage and attempted usage. A company can check...

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Arsenal
Kamis, 2026-05-21 22:57:58

English) are mostly regarded as synonyms, although subtle differences in usage exist. A sub-armory is a place of temporary storage or carrying of weapons...

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Baetyl
Sabtu, 2026-03-14 04:34:38

use in modern writing. It has been debated both how ancient and modern usage of this word compare with one another. And, among modern historians, concerns...

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Clinch fighting
Senin, 2025-06-30 03:06:35

Clinching the opponent can be used to eliminate the opponent's effective usage of some kicks, punches, and melee weapons. The clinch can also be used as...

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Curate's egg
Jumat, 2025-12-05 02:59:24

egg" is something described as partly bad and partly good. In its original usage, it referred to something that is obviously and entirely bad, but is described...

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Manumatic
Minggu, 2026-05-03 07:09:30

The modern usage of the automotive term manumatic denotes an automatic transmission that allows the driver to select a specific gear, typically using...

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Shtick
Minggu, 2026-05-24 02:10:11

(though not necessarily exclusively) across the performer's career. In this usage, the recurring personalities adopted by Laurel and Hardy through all of...

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Filelight
Rabu, 2026-03-11 08:47:36

Filelight is a free graphical disk usage analyzer part of the KDE Gear set of applications. It shows directories that take up lots of space on the user's...

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Šu
Senin, 2025-02-17 19:23:03

šu, š, and u; it has a subsidiary usage for syllabic qat; it also has a majuscule-(capital letter) Sumerogram usage for ŠU, for Akkadian language "qātu"...

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Glossary of names for the British
Kamis, 2026-04-30 10:23:49

depending on a complex combination of tone, facial expression, context, usage, speaker and shared past history. Brit is a commonly used term in the United...

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Chief revenue officer
Rabu, 2026-02-11 13:48:41

Officer” as a C-suite role, with documented public usage by 2002 and credible practitioner usage dating back to at least 1999. In this role, a CRO is...

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Ye (Cyrillic)
Rabu, 2026-05-20 03:04:15

represents the phoneme /je/~/jɛ/. This is done in imitation of the Russian usage, as many of these languages received Cyrillic orthographies as part of Russification...

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Goy
Selasa, 2026-06-02 14:59:27

to describe non-Jews, it is a term for the ethnic out-group. In modern usage in English, the extent to which goy is derogatory is a point of discussion...

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Witching hour
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 15:23:21

calculated as 3:00 pm. The term now has a widespread colloquial and idiomatic usage that is associated with human physiology and behaviour, as well as superstitious...

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Gender-neutral language
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 22:16:47

Charles Bimbenet, stated it was added as researchers noted "an increasing usage" of the neutral pronoun in "a large body of texts drawn from various sources...

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Encephalopathy
Kamis, 2026-05-14 02:39:25

disease of the brain, especially chronic degenerative conditions. In modern usage, encephalopathy does not refer to a single disease, but rather to a syndrome...

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Banaadir
Kamis, 2026-05-28 23:21:39

Benaadir has varied in definition throughout its history, with medieval usage extending Benaadir to huge swaths of coast adjacent to Mogadishu stretching...

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African-American hair
Rabu, 2026-06-03 16:39:47

Artist India Arie's song "I Am Not My Hair" speaks specifically to the usage of the term "good hair" in the African-American community and in broader...

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Data
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 20:56:25

information or knowledge is represented or coded in some form suitable for better usage or processing. Advances in computing technologies have led to the advent...

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Chinese honorifics
Rabu, 2026-04-01 17:09:15

contemporary speakers to convey formality, humility, politeness or respect. Usage of classical Chinese honorifics is also found frequently in contemporary...

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Indian subcontinent
Jumat, 2026-05-29 08:58:13

Afghanistan, which is not considered part of the subcontinent even in extended usage. The region surrounding and southeast of the Indus River was often simply...

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X macro
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:45:30

X macros are an idiomatic usage of programming language macros for generating list-like structures of data or code. They are most useful when at least...

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Df (Unix)
Selasa, 2026-02-03 11:29:29

complete historical consistency on System V (versus the mixed 512/1024-byte usage on BSD systems), and that a -k option to switch to 1024-byte units was a...

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List of operating systems
Minggu, 2026-05-31 17:10:43

can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings...

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Etymological fallacy
Selasa, 2025-10-21 03:55:27

arguing that a word is defined by its etymology, and that its customary usage is therefore incorrect. Ancient Greeks believed that there was a "true meaning"...

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BBC News Pidgin
Senin, 2025-09-15 10:59:00

speakers which has certain traits not found in other forms, such as increased usage of inflections. "BBC starts Pidgin digital service for West Africa audiences"...

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Chickenhawk (gay slang)
Kamis, 2026-02-05 23:06:34

also indicates a man who uses underage boys for his sexual pleasure. The usage was publicized by members of the controversial group NAMBLA in the 1994...

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Jubilee
Jumat, 2026-04-03 09:28:04

used in Roman Catholicism for special years. The term came into English usage from translation of the Bible, together with customary celebration of a...

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List of GE reciprocating engines
Rabu, 2026-04-29 21:47:33

Systems and GE Jenbacher (GE Energy). Where possible, recent examples of usage are shown. FDL series GE 7FDL-8, 8-cylinder engine used in locomotives,...

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PepsiCo
Jumat, 2026-06-05 01:07:26

PepsiCo's usage of water was the subject of controversy in India in the early and mid-2000s, in part because of the company's alleged impact on water usage in...

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Presbyter
Sabtu, 2026-03-28 16:58:23

Orthodox and Anglican usage, presbyter is distinct from bishop: in the Catholic Church it means Catholic priest. In other Protestant usage, for example, Methodism...

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Inch of water
Minggu, 2026-05-10 17:45:30

approximately 249.082 pascals (0.0361263 psi). Alternative standard in uncommon usage are 60 °F (15,6 °C), or 68 °F (20 °C), and depends on industry standards...

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Ia (cuneiform)
Minggu, 2022-06-12 02:26:11

meaning "mine", "(to) me", and "me", and one usage for the word "battering ram", iašubů. Besides the usage of Akkadian language words beginning with ia...

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WhatPulse
Kamis, 2026-04-09 04:03:12

WhatPulse is a key-counting program that monitors computer uptime, bandwidth usage and the number of keystrokes and mouse clicks made by a user over a period...

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Web content
Sabtu, 2026-03-28 09:10:36

that is made available online and user encountered as part of the online usage and experience on websites. It may include text, images, sounds and audio...

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Toll road
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 16:19:54

Middle Ages, and the toll was one of many feudal fees paid for rights of usage in everyday life. Some major European "highways", such as the Via Regia...

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Basque (clothing)
Rabu, 2026-01-14 04:36:15

originally referred to types of bodice or jacket with long tails, and in later usage a long corset, characterized by a close, contoured fit and extending past...

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Abe Cunningham
Jumat, 2026-04-10 22:16:34

Deftones. Cunningham is known for his frantic, pounding rhythms and clever usage of tempo. A BBC reviewer has praised his style for displaying "the assured...

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Khuda
Minggu, 2026-05-03 22:36:49

used in the non-Arab Islamic world[citation needed] for Allah. It has wide usage from its native country Iran, along with Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan...

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History and use of the single transferable vote
Jumat, 2026-05-15 07:32:16

(STV) electoral system has seen a series of relatively modest periods of usage and disusage at various locations around the world. Today it is increasingly...

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Less-than sign
Selasa, 2026-05-12 06:03:48

that the first number is less than the second number. Examples of typical usage include 1 < 4 and −2 < 0. Since the development of computer programming...

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Itinerant preacher
Jumat, 2026-05-01 05:45:19

different groups of people within a relatively short period of time. The usage of these travelling evangelists is known as itineracy or itinerancy. Early...

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The whole nine yards
Minggu, 2026-04-12 21:37:12

the whole lot" or, when used as an adjective, "all the way". Its first usage was the punch line of an 1855 Indiana comedic short story titled "The Judge's...

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Stoa
Senin, 2026-02-09 16:48:20

an "open-fronted shelter with a lean-to roof", is the meaning in modern usage, but in fact the ancient Greeks "made no clear distinction in their speech"...

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Dexamyl
Minggu, 2026-01-04 09:47:05

dependence potential and abuse liability which characterized long-term Dexamyl usage.[citation needed] British prime minister Anthony Eden was prescribed Dexamyl;...

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Fornication
Minggu, 2026-04-12 17:50:13

is applied varies between religions, societies, and cultures. In modern usage, the term is often replaced with more judgment-neutral terms such as premarital...

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Development and Educational Communication Unit
Senin, 2026-04-20 12:29:07

for usage of satellite based communication systems for societal needs. The main objective of the organisation is to plan and envisage satellite usage for...

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Greaser (derogatory)
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 21:28:10

where Mexicans loaded them onto clipper ships (a greaser). It was in common usage among U.S. troops during the Mexican–American War.[citation needed] The...

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Xmas
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 19:32:15

Christmas, by taking the 'Christ' out of "Christmas". Nevertheless, the term's usage dates back to the 16th century, and corresponds to Roman Catholic, Eastern...

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Pentagram
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 07:22:41

pentacle refers to the star within a circle, although there is some overlap in usage. The word pentalpha is a 17th-century revival of a post-classical Greek...

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Numbered bank account
Minggu, 2025-10-05 07:18:22

stringent vetting and provide the identity of the beneficial owner. The usage of fake names to open these accounts is prohibited in Switzerland, the European...

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Physical optics
Selasa, 2024-04-30 17:50:29

for which the ray approximation of geometric optics is not valid. This usage tends not to include effects such as quantum noise in optical communication...

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Grammar
Minggu, 2026-06-07 23:23:59

theory Grammars evolve through usage. Historically, with the advent of written representations, formal rules about language usage tend to appear also, although...

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Loft
Rabu, 2026-01-07 17:31:01

the roof (American usage), or just an attic: a storage space under the roof usually accessed by a ladder (primarily British usage). A loft apartment refers...

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Taqlid
Kamis, 2026-05-28 03:20:43

depending on context and age. Classical usage of the term differs between Sunni Islam and Shia Islam. Sunni Islamic usage designates the unjustified conformity...

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Christian Flag
Senin, 2026-05-11 11:49:14

the United States Federal Council of Churches in 1942, it has had varied usage by congregations of many Christian traditions, including Anglican, Baptist...

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Liminality
Minggu, 2026-05-31 20:25:23

folklorist Arnold van Gennep and later taken up by Victor Turner. More recently, usage of the term has broadened to describe political and cultural change as well...

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Kadın (title)
Kamis, 2026-02-12 12:15:36

seventeenth century. The title came into official usage at the end of the century, and remained in usage until the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A...

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Finca
Kamis, 2024-08-15 16:54:53

Finca ([ˈfiŋka]) is a Spanish term for estate. In English usage, it refers to a piece of rural or agricultural land, typically with a cottage, farmhouse...

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Filipino middle names
Kamis, 2026-04-16 00:22:10

This is some background on the history, popularity, and usage of middle names in the Philippines. Christians (as well as certain Muslims, Chinese Filipinos...

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Indigenous peoples of Panama
Kamis, 2026-05-28 20:39:01

corregimiento (municipality). They still face challenges, including land usage rights, eviction, poverty, and lack access to things like employment, education...

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Kike
Sabtu, 2026-03-14 09:04:29

then proceeded to be co-opted by non-Jews as it gained prominence in its usage in society, and was later used as a general derogatory slur." The Encyclopedia...

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List of horror anime
Selasa, 2026-05-12 19:58:44

representative of the genre. For accuracy of the list, the most common English usage is followed by Japanese name and romaji version. The column for year represents...

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Tamil numerals
Senin, 2026-02-09 01:37:07

Tamil script. They have mostly been supplanted by Arabic numerals in common usage. Old Tamil possesses a special numerical character for zero (see Old Tamil...

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Pop icon
Sabtu, 2026-01-17 00:49:05

as constituting a defining characteristic of a given society or era. The usage of the term is largely subjective since there are no definitively objective...

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List of style guides
Minggu, 2026-06-07 15:08:47

Services Other style guides that cover international usage: The Cambridge Guide to English Usage, by Cambridge University Press The Global English Style...

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List of romance anime
Minggu, 2025-04-20 04:44:59

representative of the genre. For accuracy of the list, the most common English usage is followed by Japanese name and romaji version. The column for year represents...

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Boulder
Minggu, 2026-06-07 23:06:23

enough to move or roll manually, others are extremely massive. In common usage, a boulder is too large for a person to move. Smaller boulders are usually...

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List of railway stations in County Durham
Kamis, 2023-09-28 04:08:22

exits in this period. Station usage in County Durham List of United Kingdom railway stations "Estimates of station usage". Office of Rail and Road. Retrieved...

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.su
Jumat, 2026-05-22 17:48:38

(RIPN, or RosNIIROS in Russian transcription). The .su ccTLD is known for usage by cybercriminals, hackers, and scammers. After 1989 a set of new internet...

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Oikophobia
Selasa, 2026-03-03 03:21:47

ideologies that are held to repudiate one's own culture. A prominent such usage was by Roger Scruton in his 2004 book England and the Need for Nations....

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Academic staff
Senin, 2026-05-25 20:54:43

also known as faculty (in North American usage) or academics (in British, Australian, and New Zealand usage), are vague terms that describe teachers or...

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Idem
Kamis, 2026-03-19 09:58:18

always takes a period (or full stop) in both British and American usage (see usage of the full stop in abbreviations). Its first known use dates back...

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Starston railway station
Minggu, 2026-04-19 00:04:21

in Norfolk, England. It was open for just ten years before low traffic usage caused its closure in 1866 nearly a century before the rest of the line...

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Cgroups
Jumat, 2026-02-27 23:08:07

Linux kernel feature that limits, accounts for, and isolates the resource usage (CPU, memory, disk I/O, etc.) of a collection of processes. Engineers at...

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Flen flyys
Minggu, 2024-12-08 07:07:58

earlier, famous for containing an early written usage in English of the vulgar verb "fuck". In fact the usage was "fuccant", a hybrid of an English root with...

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Ù (cuneiform)
Minggu, 2022-06-12 02:28:11

..."; also "...But, for....", etc. This usage with a preposition is also a better example of the segue usage. Of the three u's, by graphemic analysis...

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Chloral hydrate
Selasa, 2026-05-26 09:52:41

in use in the United States until at least the 1970s. It sometimes finds usage as a laboratory chemical reagent and precursor. It is derived from chloral...

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Low-life
Kamis, 2026-02-12 00:45:14

behaviors, usually bearing a connotation of contempt and derision. This usage of the word dates to 1911. The long-term origins of the ideas behind this...

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Hubris
Senin, 2026-04-20 04:19:07

depending on the context. In legal usage, it meant assault or sexual crimes and theft of public property, and in religious usage it meant emulation of divinity...

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What the fuck
Selasa, 2026-03-17 15:18:35

may refer to: an expression (also abbreviated as WTF), see Fuck § Modern usage What the Fuck, a 2005 album by Acumen Nation "What the Fuck...", a 1994...

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List of Subaru transmissions
Jumat, 2026-06-05 04:47:14

2nd 1.505 3rd 1.000 Rev 4.100 Usage: 1975–1979 Subaru Leone Gear Ratios: 1st 2.600 2nd 1.505 3rd 1.000 Rev 2.166 Usage: 1980–1982 Subaru Leone The 3AT...

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All-night vigil
Senin, 2025-06-23 23:11:50

consisting of an aggregation of the canonical hours of Compline (in Greek usage only), Vespers (or, on a few occasions, Great Compline), Matins, and the...

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No worries
Kamis, 2026-02-05 04:54:22

Tok Pisin language in Papua New Guinea. Its usage became more common in British English after increased usage in Australian soap operas that aired on television...

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Mirto (liqueur)
Senin, 2025-07-07 04:36:32

legend has it that, long ago, Sardinian bandits introduced this particular usage of the plant to the nearby island of Corsica, where the liqueur has also...

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Vinculum (symbol)
Kamis, 2026-03-19 10:10:09

the common usage of a vinculum to indicate the repetend of a repeating decimal is a significant exception and reflects the original usage. The vinculum...

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Crew
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 20:11:24

ship's crew, often organised with a chain of command. Traditional nautical usage strongly distinguishes officers from crew, though the two groups combined...

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Comrade
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 16:02:00

or civil meetings, the usage of the term has been retained. Officials often address each other as Tongzhi, and thus the usage here is not limited to Communist...

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Punjabi language
Senin, 2026-05-18 00:49:07

Indo-Aryan languages and the broader Indo-European language family in its usage of lexical tone. The word Punjabi (sometimes spelled Panjabi) has been derived...

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StatCounter
Rabu, 2025-11-12 05:14:22

Dublin, Ireland. The statistics from StatCounter are used to compute web usage share for example. As of May 2019[update], StatCounter is used on 0.9% of...

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Linux
Minggu, 2026-06-07 13:15:04

Windows usage statistics, November 2021". W3Techs. Retrieved November 14, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) "Usage Statistics...

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Louis Desaix
Minggu, 2026-05-10 13:48:10

military leader during the French Revolutionary Wars. According to the usage of the time, he took the name Louis Charles Antoine Desaix de Veygoux. He...

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Katakana
Kamis, 2026-05-28 01:28:15

covered by kanji and for grammatical inflections, the katakana syllabary usage is comparable to italics in English; specifically, it is used for transcription...

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Bryan A. Garner
Rabu, 2026-05-13 06:07:35

written more than two dozen books about English usage and style, such as Garner's Modern English Usage for a general audience and others for legal professionals...

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Station usage in Northumberland
Rabu, 2023-09-27 20:45:50

stations in the ceremonial county of Northumberland, England, with estimated usage figures gathered from data collected by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR)...

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List of Georgia area codes
Kamis, 2025-09-18 05:40:37

code 943, went into service as another area code for the Atlanta area. Usage projections in 2024 suggested that 229 and 912 will require relief before...

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Prawn
Selasa, 2026-04-07 04:42:27

Over the years, the way they are used has changed, and in contemporary usage, the terms are almost interchangeable. Shrimp and prawn From Raymond Bauer...

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Rolodex
Jumat, 2026-06-05 20:22:07

Rolodex is a rotating card file device used to store a contact list. In this usage, it has generally come to describe an effect or characteristic of the small-world...

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Erskine May: Parliamentary Practice
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 07:27:59

Practice, original title: A Treatise upon the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament) is a parliamentary authority originally written by British...

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Muses
Kamis, 2026-05-28 10:30:19

Terpsichore, Erato, Melpomene, Thalia, and Urania. In modern figurative usage, a muse is a person who serves as someone's source of artistic inspiration...

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Microsoft Windows
Jumat, 2026-06-05 08:38:43

and Linux for personal computers and iPadOS and Android for tablets (cf. Usage share of operating systems § Market share by category). Of note: "Windows"...

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Taupe
Selasa, 2025-04-08 12:27:48

to the average color of the French mole, but beginning in the 1940s, its usage expanded to encompass a wider range of shades. Taupe is a vague color term...

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Touch (rugby)
Selasa, 2026-03-31 20:28:18

kicked out of the playing area into the touch area. In American sports usage, the phrase "out of bounds" signifies the same as "touch." Sports portal...

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Mobile app
Rabu, 2026-04-29 01:42:52

smartphones, people are downloading more applications to their devices. Usage of mobile apps has become increasingly prevalent across mobile phone users...

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Exponential backoff
Selasa, 2026-05-19 07:37:37

process, in order to gradually find an acceptable rate. These algorithms find usage in a wide range of systems and processes, with wireless networks and computer...

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My cup runneth over
Senin, 2026-04-27 11:30:55

means "I have more than enough for my needs", though interpretations and usage vary. This phrase, in Hebrew כּוֹסִי רְוָיָה (kōsî rəwāyāh), is translated...

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Kampfgruppe
Selasa, 2026-03-17 12:03:00

German term Kampfgruppe (pl. Kampfgruppen; abbrev. KG, or KGr in Luftwaffe usage during World War II, literally "fighting group" or "battlegroup") can refer...

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Brigantine
Minggu, 2025-12-21 02:14:29

the mast). The main mast is the second and taller of the two masts. Older usages are looser; in addition to the rigorous definition above (attested from...

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Prince of Piedmont
Jumat, 2025-10-03 14:47:26

apparent. This first came into use by Prince Victor Amadeus of Savoy. The usage was retained when Victor Emmanuel II became King of Italy, "Prince of Piedmont"...

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Muscatel
Jumat, 2026-05-15 21:13:42

internationally and is associated with a range of wine styles. In modern wine usage, “Muscat” is the family name, while related terms such as “Moscato” (Italian)...

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Terminology of homosexuality
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 08:01:02

1973. The Associated Press and The New York Times style guides restrict usage of the terms. Same-gender oriented people seldom apply such terms to themselves...

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32K resolution
Kamis, 2026-04-09 09:17:39

monitor usage 6K resolution – digital video formats with a horizontal resolution of around 6,000 pixels, aimed at non-television computer monitor usage 8K...

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Heirloom
Jumat, 2025-02-21 14:35:15

In popular usage, an heirloom is something that has been passed down for generations through family members. Examples are a family bible, antiques, weapons...

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Kur (cuneiform)
Selasa, 2025-07-22 22:11:40

Gilgamesh: gìn kur lat laț mad mat šad šat GÌN (Sumerogram)s KUR MAD Its usage numbers from the Epic of Gilgamesh are as follows: gìn-(1), kur-(5), lat-(18)...

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Disk storage
Rabu, 2026-02-25 19:55:57

trademarks preclude one usage, e.g., the Compact Disc logo. The choice of a particular form is frequently historical, as in IBM's usage of the disk form beginning...

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Candlepower
Minggu, 2026-02-08 14:49:41

constituents. The historical candlepower is equal to 0.981 candelas. In modern usage, candlepower is sometimes used as a synonym for candela. The term candlepower...

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Dark horse
Kamis, 2026-06-04 00:28:59

horse betting jargon for any new but promising horse. It has since found usage mostly in other sports, sports betting, and sports journalism and to lesser...

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Semantic change
Jumat, 2026-02-13 23:51:56

regarding the evolution of word usage—usually to the point that the modern meaning is radically different from the original usage. In diachronic (or historical)...

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Antalya Stadium
Selasa, 2025-12-16 13:42:41

average 7,200 kWh a day, enough to produce its total monthly electricity usage. Antalya Stadium is one of the main home stadiums of the Turkish national...

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Monastery
Selasa, 2026-05-05 18:40:28

brewery. In English usage, the term 'monastery' is generally used to denote the buildings of a community of monks. In modern usage, convent tends to be...

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List of towns in Quebec
Senin, 2026-02-02 01:56:50

and "town" are both used in the category name because of common English usage, Quebec does not contain any cities under the current law; this list thus...

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Parenthetical phrase
Rabu, 2026-05-20 07:11:36

parentheses), square brackets, dashes, or commas. English-language style and usage guides originating in the news industry of the twentieth century, such as...

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Flat rate
Senin, 2025-03-17 21:55:55

fixed fee for a service, regardless of usage. Less commonly, the term may refer to a rate that does not vary with usage or time of use. A business can develop...

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A (cuneiform)
Sabtu, 2024-12-21 19:58:00

shown by usage in the Epic of Gilgamesh, the usage numbers being (ú (u, no. 2) is more common than u, (no. 1), which has additional usages, numeral "10"...

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Cuckold
Selasa, 2026-04-28 09:56:36

association is common in medieval folklore, literature, and iconography. English usage first appears about 1250 in the medieval debate poem The Owl and the Nightingale...

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Defacement (flag)
Jumat, 2026-02-20 04:21:55

word "deface" carries no negative connotations, in contrast to general usage. It simply indicates a differentiation of the flag from that of another...

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Ars antiqua
Kamis, 2026-04-16 02:12:12

the period being between the 13th–14th centuries. The original Medieval usage of the expression ars antiqua, found in the Speculum Musice of Jacobus and...

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Revenera
Senin, 2026-01-19 06:54:11

software licensing, Dynamic Monetization offers cloud-based services for usage tracking and pay-per-use models. FlexNet Embedded is an SDK for licensing...

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Torch
Rabu, 2026-04-15 19:40:08

countries, notably the United Kingdom and Australia, "torch" in modern usage is also the term for a battery-operated portable light. From the Old French...

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Computer-aided engineering
Selasa, 2026-01-06 00:34:34

Computer-aided engineering (CAE) is the general usage of technology to aid in tasks related to engineering analysis. Computer-aided engineering (CAE)...

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Ammonium sulfate
Rabu, 2026-06-03 17:16:33

Ammonium sulfate (American English and international scientific usage; ammonium sulphate in British English); [NH4]2SO4, is an inorganic salt with a number...

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Townhouse
Jumat, 2026-05-08 21:28:30

is often one with multiple floors on a small footprint. In older British usage, the term originally referred to any type of city residence (normally in...

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Sigil
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 03:16:24

pictorial signature of a spirit (such as an angel, demon, or deity). In modern usage, especially in the context of chaos magic, a sigil refers to a symbolic...

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Aria
Selasa, 2025-12-23 05:40:09

(/ˈɑːriə/ , Italian: [ˈaːrja]; pl.: arie, Italian: [ˈaːrje]; arias in common usage; diminutive form: arietta, Italian: [aˈrjetta]; pl.: ariette; in English...

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Mohammedan
Kamis, 2025-12-25 11:31:25

institutions and practices that he established. The word was formerly common in usage, but the terms Muslim and Islamic are more common today. Though sometimes...

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Web performance
Selasa, 2026-04-21 12:28:20

responsiveness. Web Caching Optimization reduces server load, bandwidth usage and latency. CDNs use dedicated web caching software to store copies of...

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Onyx
Rabu, 2026-03-18 16:12:41

frequently used for level-banded (parallel-banded) agates, but in proper usage it refers to color pattern not band structure. Onyx, as a descriptive term...

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The Gregg Reference Manual
Kamis, 2026-01-29 13:30:03

The Gregg Reference Manual: A Manual of Style, Grammar, Usage, and Formatting is a guide to English grammar and style, written by William A. Sabin and...

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Dayouth
Selasa, 2025-03-25 18:12:09

jurisprudence) or geographically adjacent populations where the term is in usage. The public perception within non-Arab communities that have adopted the...

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Bezoar
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 07:55:17

organic. The term has both modern (medical, scientific) and traditional usage. Food boluses (or boli; singular bolus) have the archaic and positive meaning...

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Byte
Rabu, 2026-05-20 15:26:24

eight or fewer bits and processor designers commonly optimize for this usage. The popularity of major commercial computing architectures has aided in...

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Club (magazine)
Selasa, 2025-10-28 02:12:52

and pictorials that include hardcore pornography, masturbation, dildo usage, and lesbian sex. During the early and mid 1990s the magazine featured softcore...

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Dowager
Minggu, 2025-06-22 11:29:31

appears in association with monarchical and aristocratic titles. In popular usage, the noun dowager may refer to any elderly widow, especially one of wealth...

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Jacaranda mimosifolia
Minggu, 2026-06-07 14:58:11

scientific usage, the name "jacaranda" refers to the genus Jacaranda, which has many other members, but in horticultural and everyday usage, it nearly...

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Slang dictionary
Kamis, 2026-01-29 13:20:30

slang, which is vernacular vocabulary not generally acceptable in formal usage, usually including information given for each word, including meaning, pronunciation...

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Burstable billing
Kamis, 2024-07-11 15:17:47

billing is a method of measuring bandwidth based on peak use. It allows usage to exceed a specified threshold for brief periods of time without the financial...

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Sociolinguistics
Selasa, 2026-04-07 04:04:16

examine how such differences in usage and in beliefs about usage produce and reflect social or socioeconomic classes. As the usage of a language varies from...

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Bespoke
Jumat, 2026-03-06 04:31:46

altered or tailored to the customs, tastes, or usage of an individual purchaser. In contemporary usage, "bespoke" has become a general marketing and branding...

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List of Indian state anthems
Rabu, 2026-05-06 21:42:47

territories. Some of these states and territories have adopted anthems for usage at state functions and ceremonies. In other states, songs have been proposed...

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ISO 18245
Senin, 2024-07-08 10:17:27

category codes (MCC) in retail financial services. These are used to control usage of corporate credit cards. MCCs are assigned by merchant type (e.g. one...

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Ar (cuneiform)
Senin, 2025-02-17 19:24:40

"Ar" is also used in the Epic of Gilgamesh, and other texts. The Ar sign usage in the Epic of Gilgamesh is as follows: ar-(21 times). Parpola, 1971. The...

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Creative Commons NonCommercial license
Senin, 2026-05-11 15:39:06

licenses, the CC BY-NC license is considered non-free, as it restricts the usage of the work to strictly noncommercial activities, violating free content's...

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Shiksa
Selasa, 2026-04-21 23:01:12

The word, which is of Yiddish origin, has moved into English usage and some Hebrew usage (as well as Polish and German), mostly in North American Jewish...

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Pressman
Jumat, 2021-03-12 00:34:43

of a printing press or machine press An employee of a newspaper (British usage) A line of Sony portable tape recorders launched in 1977, from which the...

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Varunastra
Jumat, 2026-03-06 07:17:25

be amorphous like water and thus able to assume any weapon's shape. Upon usage, it conjures torrential volumes of water that can wash away large numbers...

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Colloquialism
Rabu, 2026-05-06 17:33:38

and has a rapidly changing lexicon. It can also be distinguished by its usage of formulations with incomplete logical and syntactic ordering. A specific...

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Point of view (philosophy)
Jumat, 2026-01-09 21:08:50

thinks about something. This figurative usage of the expression dates back to 1730. In this meaning, the usage is synonymous with one of the meanings of...

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Road tax
Minggu, 2026-05-17 10:31:34

for commercial vehicles) also, further there could be toll for specific usage of roads (charge depends on distance, type, etc.). At the time of purchase...

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GRPC
Senin, 2026-05-25 15:54:31

cross-platform client and server bindings for many languages. The most common usage scenarios include connecting services in a microservices style architecture...

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Russian use of mobile crematoriums in Ukraine
Sabtu, 2026-02-28 07:57:13

There have been multiple reports of Russian mobile crematoriums operating with their forces in the Russo-Ukrainian war, to cremate the bodies of both Russian...

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Sail (submarine)
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 04:50:47

In naval parlance, the sail (American usage) or fin (British/Commonwealth usage) (also known as a fairwater) of a submarine is the tower-like structure...

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Station usage in County Durham
Kamis, 2026-04-09 16:41:31

This is a list of railway stations in County Durham, with estimated usage figures gathered from data collected by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR). As...

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Profanity
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 02:19:26

Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, is the usage of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate...

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LTE-WLAN Aggregation
Rabu, 2025-10-08 08:07:09

coordination at lower protocol stack layers. For a user, LWA offers seamless usage of both LTE and Wi-Fi networks and substantially increased performance....

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Motherfucker
Selasa, 2026-03-24 22:43:09

English-language vulgarism. It is a form of the profanity fuck. In common usage, it is rarely used to refer to one person having intercourse with a woman...

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Two-wheeler usage in Japan
Senin, 2026-06-01 20:25:48

Morimoto, Akinori; Itoh, Kaoru (2000). A study on measures to promote bicycle usage in Japan (PDF). Velomondial Conference Proceedings. Martial, Léo; Nakamura...

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Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-23
Senin, 2025-08-04 04:42:39

detonation in 1983, and because of some other problems with gun usage (such as system failures), usage of the GSh-6-23 was stopped by a decision of the Soviet...

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Infantry
Kamis, 2026-05-21 13:33:08

describe foot soldiers, i.e. those who march and fight on foot. In modern usage, the term broadly encompasses a wide variety of subspecialties, including...

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Tap (valve)
Jumat, 2026-05-15 01:36:47

A tap (also spigot or faucet: see usage variations) is a valve controlling the release of a fluid. Tap is used in the United Kingdom and most of the Commonwealth...

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Biblical numerology
Minggu, 2026-05-03 20:37:29

number being used. Numerological values in the Bible often relate to a wider usage in the Ancient Near East. Three and a half. A broken seven or a symbolic...

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Acronym
Minggu, 2026-06-07 12:59:55

acknowledge such a sense. English language usage and style guides which have entries for acronym generally criticize the usage that refers to forms that are not...

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Bagman
Selasa, 2026-02-03 08:24:06

idea of traveling. In British usage, "bagman" is a term for a traveling salesman, first known from 1808. In Australian usage, it can mean a tramp or homeless...

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Ecumene
Selasa, 2025-10-07 03:18:00

as well as the secular and religious imperial administration. In present usage, it is most often used in the context of "ecumenical" and describes the...

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Hillbilly
Kamis, 2026-05-21 11:53:04

Great Depression, the term spread northward and westward with them. The usage of the term "hillbilly" as a descriptor receives mixed perceptions, often...

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Pontiff
Minggu, 2026-04-05 08:36:32

later applied to any high or chief priest and, in Catholic ecclesiastical usage, to bishops, especially the Pope, who is sometimes referred to as the Roman...

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General officer
Jumat, 2026-05-29 11:55:57

some nations' air and space forces, marines or naval infantry. In some usages, the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel. The adjective...

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French name
Selasa, 2026-03-17 20:35:30

their usage name. Some artists change their real name to their stage name, but truly changing one's last name, as opposed to adopting a usage name, is...

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Bully pulpit
Selasa, 2026-02-17 22:25:42

word bully as an adjective meaning "superb" or "wonderful", a more common usage at that time. The phrase was first printed in The New York Times in the...

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List of busiest London Underground stations (2023)
Kamis, 2026-06-04 13:03:01

operate as a combined station with shared usage statistics. Includes DLR usage. "Station Usage Data" (XLSX). Usage Statistics for London Stations, 2023. Transport...

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Commencement speech
Rabu, 2025-02-05 21:08:58

mean "ending" due to its association with the end of one's studies. Its usage originated with students finishing their studies and being awarded a degree...

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Unified theory of acceptance and use of technology
Minggu, 2026-05-31 02:54:13

to explain user intentions to use an information system and subsequent usage behavior. The theory holds that there are four key constructs: performance...

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Social justice warrior
Senin, 2026-05-25 04:40:10

would become the alt-right, and the negative connotations gained increased usage which would eventually overshadow its origins. Dating back to 1824, the...

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Cubic metre
Minggu, 2026-06-07 19:37:16

edges one metre in length. An alternative name, which allowed a different usage with metric prefixes, was the stère, still sometimes used for dry measure...

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Vizier
Senin, 2026-04-27 13:53:15

dapir (official scribe or secretary) of the Sassanian kings. In modern usage, the term has been used for government ministers in much of the Middle East...

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Hapton railway station
Minggu, 2026-05-31 03:38:13

Northern Trains. It is unstaffed. Between 2004–5 and 2005–6, passenger usage fell by 21%, but in the years since, it has risen again by more than 60%...

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West Coast of the United States
Kamis, 2026-05-28 22:35:59

Washington, but it occasionally includes Alaska and Hawaii in bureaucratic usage. For example, the U.S. Census Bureau considers both states to be part of...

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Chaperone (social)
Senin, 2026-05-04 22:03:37

A chaperone (also spelled chaperon) in its original social usage was a person who for propriety's sake accompanied an unmarried girl in public; usually...

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At sign
Rabu, 2026-05-27 08:29:52

strudel, but none of these have achieved wide use. In contemporary English usage, @ is a commercial symbol, meaning at and at the rate of or at the price...

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Ncdu
Rabu, 2026-03-25 03:25:56

ncdu (NCurses Disk Usage) is a disk utility for Unix systems. Its name refers to its similar purpose to the du utility, but ncdu uses a text-based user...

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Elohim
Jumat, 2026-06-05 22:55:38

at the time of writing, and such usage (in the singular), as a proper title for Deity, is distinct from generic usage as elohim, "gods" (plural, simple...

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Periscope (service)
Jumat, 2026-05-15 08:12:18

March 2015. The service was discontinued on 31 March 2021 due to declining usage, product realignment, and high maintenance costs. However, Periscope videos...

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Personal digital assistant
Rabu, 2026-04-22 18:53:07

based on iOS and Android took their place, causing a rapid decline in PDA usage. A PDA had a flat-screen display; many later PDAs also had color displays...

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Idiopathic postprandial syndrome
Jumat, 2026-06-05 03:44:22

except that low glucose is not found at the time of symptoms. The common usage of the term "hypoglycemia" was noted and countered by doctors writing in...

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The Association of Swiss Hemp Friends
Rabu, 2025-09-24 07:25:54

cultivation, consumption, personal, medicinal usage and commercial exchange of hemp unrelated to any narcotic usage. The organization is also known to advocate...

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Hull number
Senin, 2026-03-30 13:29:41

Identification Number (HIN) is used to trace the boat's history. The precise usage varies by country and type. For civilian craft manufactured in the United...

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Factor of safety
Sabtu, 2026-01-24 06:21:26

Many systems are intentionally built much stronger than needed for normal usage to allow for emergency situations, unexpected loads, misuse, or degradation...

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Alex
Minggu, 2026-05-31 19:29:51

as a diminutive for Alexander and Alexandra, Alex has, in contemporary usage, established itself as an independent given name for both males and females...

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Fish bone
Rabu, 2026-06-03 01:06:28

Fish bone is any bony tissue in a fish, although in common usage the term refers specifically to delicate parts of the non-vertebral skeleton of such...

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Technology readiness level
Selasa, 2026-01-06 12:58:48

"concreteness and sophistication of the TRL scale gradually diminished as its usage spread outside its original context (space programs)". A Technology Readiness...

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Pardon my French
Jumat, 2026-01-02 11:28:07

"excuse my French" is an English expression that commonly precedes the usage of profanity in a sentence. It is intended to ascribe profane words as a...

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Ladies and gentlemen (salutation)
Kamis, 2026-06-04 20:46:18

more common, and according to prevalence in 18th-century newspapers and usage in the Oxford English Dictionary, the shift in popularity to the form "ladies...

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