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Through. An abbreviation mostly used in the fast food industry, as in Drive Thru. Also used in traffic signs ("Thru Traffic Keep Left"; i.e., traffic that is continuing through an interchange rather than exiting should keep to the left) and occasionally road names ("New York State Thruway") and sometimes in newspaper headlines.
[57] Used in special senses in American English, in combinations such as dirt farmer, dirt floor, dirt roof, dirt road [58] diversion: circuitous route to avoid roadworks (US: detour) deviation; recreation; tactic used to draw attention away from the action dock: water between or next to a pier or wharf (US: berth, also used in UK, or slip)
one thousand million, or 1,000,000,000 (US: billion or 1,000,000,000) [91] Has for a long time been superseded by the short scale usage of billion (1,000,000,000) and was never as commonly used in the UK as it still is in mainland Europe (where the long scale is still used); when the long scale was used in Britain, "a thousand million" was more ...
Also AM radio or AM. Used interchangeably with kilohertz (kHz) and medium wave. A modulation technique used in electronic communication where the amplitude (signal strength) of the wave is varied in proportion to that of the message signal. Developed in the early 1900s, this technique is most commonly used for transmitting an audio signal via a radio wave measured in kilohertz (kHz). See AM ...
New Pop became an umbrella term used by the music industry to describe young, mostly British, androgynous, and technologically oriented artists such as Culture Club and Eurythmics. [43] Boy George of Culture Club was a leading figure in the new romantic movement which became a major part in the Second British Invasion of the US.
The impact that television's music has had on music culture is that it allowed for aesthetic and personal style to the lead in terms of importance over sound in popular music. [3] Before the age of MTV, the term “pop” was a means to describe popular music at the given time.
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In the UK, most broadcasters provide catch-up TV services which allow viewing of TV for a window after it was broadcast. Online video can be viewed via mobile devices, computers, TVs equipped with a built in Internet connection, or TVs connected to an external set-top-box, streaming stick or games console.