It was an awkward hour, but I didn't have to punch any time clock, and it only meant that sometimes I had to stay a couple of hours later at the drawing board to finish up a job.

The Latin word came from Greek ἄβαξ abax " board strewn with sand or dust used for drawing geometric figures or calculating "( the exact shape of the Latin perhaps reflects the genitive form of the Greek word, ἄβακoς abakos ).

was also on the drawing board.

The most common support for drawing is paper, although other materials, such as cardboard, plastic, leather, canvas, and board, may be used.

Bristol board and even heavier acid-free boards, frequently with smooth finishes, are used for drawing fine detail and do not distort when wet media ( ink, washes ) are applied.

The basic tools are a drawing board or table, pencil sharpener and eraser, and for ink drawing, blotting paper.

Efforts to redevelop the docks began almost as soon as they were closed, although it took a decade for most plans to move beyond the drawing board and another decade for redevelopment to take full effect.

Always the crowd-pleaser, Polgár roused the hall in her fourth round game against Azerbaijan's Shakhriyar Mamedyarov with a brilliant 12. Nxf7 drawing his king into the center of the board.

Unfortunately the worldwide Great Depression of the time, triggered by the Wall Street Crash of 1929, meant that most of the plans remained on the drawing board.

A 19th century architect at the drawing board

More recently engineers and draftsmen use the drawing board for making and modifying drawings on paper with ink or pencil.

However, with the gradual introduction of computer aided drafting and design ( CADD or CAD ) in the last decades of the 20th century and the first of the 21st century, the drawing board is becoming less common.

The expression " back to the drawing board " is used when a plan or course of action needs to be changed, often drastically ; usually due a very unsucccessful result ; e. g., " The battle plan, the result of months of conferences, failed because the enemy retreated too far back.

It was back to the drawing board for the army captains.

A drawing board with drafting machine, eliminating the need for a T-square

In one round of the board game Derivation, players describe or fabricate a word's etymology ; players who provide a correct etymology receive one point for doing so, but their entries are then removed from play, and they lose their chance to receive multiple points by drawing multiple votes from other players.

The basic drafting procedure is to place a piece of paper ( or other material ) on a smooth surface with right-angle corners and straight sides — typically a drawing board.

A 2D CAD system is merely an electronic drawing board.

After drawing the name, the contestant took one spin on a modified board that showed only cash values and directional squares ( no whammies, prizes, or squares that offered additional spins ), with the value landed on multiplied by the total number of spins earned by the three contestants in the second question round.

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In 1961, the NWA board decided instead to put the belt on bleach blonde showman " Nature Boy " Buddy Rogers, a much more effective drawing card in the region.

Just as it is possible to exaggerate the drawing power of the new tenure practices, it is also possible to exaggerate the significance of the now relatively adequate salaries paid by major Catholic institutions.

In some extreme cases, even a picture or a realistic drawing of a spider can also trigger fear.

* A very High resolution monochrome video card with blitter and hardware text line and arc drawing capability, was designed for CAD applications, based on the NEC µPD7220 chip designed for graphic terminals, but was also used by some personal computers like the DEC Rainbow, and notably also for the Tulip System I.

The Lynx was also the first gaming console with hardware support for zooming / distortion of sprites, allowing fast pseudo-3D games with unrivaled quality at the time and a capacity for drawing filled polygons with limited CPU intervention.

Later identified as a member of the Official IRA, this man was also photographed in the act of drawing his weapon, but was apparently not seen or targeted by the soldiers.

Monet also undertook his first drawing lessons from Jacques-François Ochard, a former student of Jacques-Louis David.

He was a member of the Arista-National Honor Society and also studied drawing and anatomy at the Saturday school of the National Academy of Art.

Likewise, tracing — drawing on a thin piece of paper, sometimes designed for that purpose ( tracing paper ), around the outline of preexisting shapes that show through the paper — is also not considered fine art, although it may be part of the draftsman's preparation.

Drafting tape is used to secure paper to drawing surface, and also to mask an area to keep it free of accidental marks sprayed or spattered materials and washes.

Shading techniques that also introduce texture to the drawing include hatching and stippling.

The artist is also familiar with how the proportions vary depending on the age of the subject, particularly when drawing a portrait.

Just as in an alphanumeric system, the DDC is hierarchical ; it also uses some aspects of a faceted classification scheme, combining elements from different parts of the structure, to construct a number representing the subject content ( often combining two subject elements with linking numbers and geographical and temporal elements ) and the form of an item, rather than drawing upon a list containing each class and its meaning.

The challenge of drawing a sword from a stone also appears in the Arthurian legends of Galahad, whose achievement of the task indicates that he is destined to find the Holy Grail.

Mechanisms are also taught in traditional therapy to compensate for lost language function such as drawing and using phrases that are easier to pronounce.

Moore is also remembered for drawing attention to the peculiar inconsistency involved in uttering a sentence such as " It is raining but I do not believe it is raining "-- a puzzle which is now commonly called " Moore's paradox.

There also exist a host of games where the term " graffiti " is used as a synonym for " drawing " ( such as Yahoo!

Graph drawing also can be said to encompass problems that deal with the crossing number and its various generalizations.

Routines for drawing a number of geometric primitives ( both in solid and wireframe mode ) are also provided, including cubes, spheres, and the Utah teapot.

It also allows the farrier to make more modifications to the shoe, such as drawing toe-and quarter-clips.

Writing about 80 years later, in 140-150 AD, Ptolemy, drawing on the earlier naval expeditions of Agricola, also distinguished between the Ebudes, of which he writes there were only five ( and thus possibly meaning the Inner Hebrides ) and Dumna.

Murray also used an inaccurate drawing of a mesolithic rock-painting at Cogul in northeast Spain as evidence of group religious ceremony of the cult, although the central male figure is not horned.

ISO 4217 includes codes not only for currencies, but also for precious metals ( gold, silver, palladium and platinum ; by definition expressed per one troy ounce, as compared to " 1 USD ") and certain other entities used in international finance, e. g. special drawing rights.

He also began drawing and painting birds, and recording their behavior.