< Dictionary. com http :// dictionary. reference. com / browse / humus >.</ ref >) refers to any organic matter that has reached a point of stability, where it will break down no further and might, if conditions do not change, remain as it is for centuries, if not millennia.

The competitor can initiate the jump from any point behind the foul line ; however, the distance measured will always be perpendicular to the foul line to the nearest break in the sand caused by any part of the body or uniform.

The Germans had not arranged for armored personnel carriers ahead of time and only at this point were they called in to break the deadlock.

The authors suggest that as one moves up the application stack, there might come a point where there is a net computational gain to the parasite-perhaps one could break down interesting problems into queries of complex cryptographic protocols using public keys.

The pressure kept building up to the point that Catholic countries were threatening to break away from the Church.

André Masson's automatic drawings of 1923, are often used as the point of the acceptance of visual arts and the break from Dada, since they reflect the influence of the idea of the unconscious mind.

A receiver who has one ( score of 30 – 40 ), two ( score of 15 – 40 ) or three ( score of love-40 ) consecutive chances to win the game has break point, double break point or triple break point, respectively.

If the receiver does, in fact, win their break point, the game is awarded to the receiver, and the receiver is said to have converted their break point.

If the receiver fails to win their break point it is called a failure to convert.

If in the following game the previous server also wins a break point, it is often referred to as breaking back.

At one point, Linnell broke his wrist in a biking accident and Flansburgh's apartment was burgled, forcing them to take a break from performing.

The following seasons saw Gretzky break his own assists record three more times ( 125 in 1982 – 83, 135 in 1984 – 85, and 163 in 1985 – 86 ); he also bettered that mark ( 120 assists ) in 1986 – 87 with 121 and 1990 – 91 with 122, and his point record one more time ( 215, in 1985 – 86 ).

The snapping is best accomplished with a pair of pliers, and the break occurs at the score lines, where the metal is thinnest.

A short break interval of 2 minutes occurs after the end of each quarter ( a longer break of 15 minutes at halftime ), and the two teams then change goals.

During this performance something occurs on stage that does not translate into audio, but causes the audience to break into hysterics upon Cleese's follow-up line " Now that's what I call a dead parrot "; since it occurs after the part of the sketch where Cleese bashes the dead bird on the counter, it's possible a part of the prop broke off.

If there is still a tie for first place, a jump-off occurs to break the tie.

In the Eastern Pyrenees, with the exception of one break at the eastern extremity of the Pyrénées Ariégeoises, the mean elevation is remarkably uniform until a sudden decline occurs in the easternmost portion of the chain known as the Albères.

Here occurs a partial break in the continuity of the chain.

The second major structural break in Victoria is the Baragwanath Transform, which occurs along the eastern side of the Selwyn Block.

Synapsis begins before the synaptonemal complex develops, and is not completed until near the end of prophase I. Crossover usually occurs when matching regions on matching chromosomes break and then reconnect to the other chromosome.

A " break condition " occurs when the receiver input is at the " space " level for longer than some duration of time, typically, for more than a character time.

When this occurs, the cat's forceful attempts to break away can pull large amounts of clumped fur away, leaving bald areas and possible injuries.

* Preventive maintenance, where equipment is maintained before break down occurs.

Corrasion ( abrasion ) occurs when waves break on cliff faces and slowly erode it.

A significant error on the Kingsmen's version occurs just after the lead guitar break ; as the group were going by the Wailers ' version, which has a brief restatement of the riff, two times over, before the lead vocalist comes back in, it would be expected that Ely would do the same.

Recent work has demonstrated the feasibility of enucleated zygotes or early blastomeres chemically arrested during mitosis, such that nuclear envelope break down occurs, to support reprogramming to totipotency in a process called chromosome transfer ( Egli and Eggan, 2010 ).

These sticks are meant to break before serious injury occurs.

Splatter often occurs when a paintball does not break on a person but on a nearby surface and then paint bounces onto the player, but this does not count as a hit unless it forms a solid mark on the player.

# Dissolution occurs when fibrinolytic mechanisms break up the thrombus and blood flow is restored to the vessel.

The bikes are simpler so that when a crash occurs there are fewer components to break or cause the rider injury.

* A one-minute break occurs before the drop-off commences.

Pathological criticism occurs especially in situations of intense conflict or competition, where the normal internal and external controls on people's behaviour begin to break down.

A break occurs after the material has reached the end of the elastic, and then plastic, deformation ranges.

* Uprising in the Death Star-7 months BBY-A prison break occurs in the Death Star ( a mission in Star Wars: Battlefront II )

But what if somebody decides to break it??

Sleepily, as if half-reluctant to break the silence, he lifted his voice: `` Rhu-beb-ni-ice nice fresh rhu-beb today ''!!

Besides its historical significance as a break with the centuries-old tradition of British insularity, Britain's move, if successful, will constitute an historic landmark of the first importance in the movement toward the unification of Europe and the Western world.

I feel that few burglars would be prone to break and enter into someone's apartment if they were met with a good hardy growl that a dog would provide.

In many cases that statement -- `` We break even on our downtown operation and make money on our branches '' -- would be turned around if the cost analysis were recalculated on terms less prejudicial to the old store.

if they should bite before I wake, I pray the Lord their jaws to break ''.

And then he heard a car coming from the east, and he felt as if he would break down and weep.

Thus, if people are accustomed to using a particular machine name to access a particular service, their access will break when the service is moved to a different machine.

May God and my brothers in this organisation be my judges if at any time I should wittingly fail or break this oath.

First would be to film all the shots for a particular scene together, and all shots of consecutive scenes together ( if the scenes take place together, with no break between them in the film's timeline ).

While it may seem like a break time or a dance, the chamada is actually both a trap and a test, as the caller is just watching to see if the opponent will let his guard down so she can perform a takedown or a strike.

In the CFL, if the game is tied at the end of regulation play, then each team is given an equal number of chances to break the tie.

Since the physical behavior of singularities is unknown, if singularities can be observed from the rest of spacetime, causality may break down, and physics may lose its predictive power.

Dislocations can move if the atoms from one of the surrounding planes break their bonds and rebond with the atoms at the terminating edge.

Hexameters also have a primary caesura — a break in sense, much like the function of a comma in prose — at one of several normal positions: After the first syllable in the third foot ( the " masculine " caesura ); after the second syllable in the third foot if the third foot is a dactyl ( the " feminine " caesura ); after the first syllable of the fourth foot ; or after the first syllable of the second foot ( the latter two often occur together in a line, breaking it into three separate units ).

The Æsir said Fenrir would quickly tear apart a thin silken strip, noting that Fenrir earlier broke great iron binds, and added that if Fenrir wasn't able to break slender Gleipnir then Fenrir is nothing for the gods to fear, and as a result would be freed.

Mobilization of the public and private sectors, the involvement of civil society and the pooling of collective and individual resources are all needed if people are to break out of the vicious circle of chronic hunger and undernourishment.

A jump is considered a fail if the bar is dislodged by the action of the jumper whilst jumping or the jumper touches the ground or break the plane of the near edge of the bar before clearance.

He had vowed to friends that if he won, his speech would break the convention of thanking everyone in sight.

Not only do they break easily, but, being attached to a bit in the horse's sensitive mouth, a great deal of pain can be inflicted if a bridled horse sets back against being tied.

Supervised Community Treatment orders means people can be discharged to the community on a conditional basis, remaining liable to recall to hospital if they break the conditions of the community treatment order.

He predicted that if a civil war were to break out, the president could abolish slavery by using his war powers.

Having served as secretary of war under President Franklin Pierce, he also knew that the South lacked the military and naval resources necessary to defend itself if war were to break out.