The fast-opening of the shutter consists of a piece of aluminum foil ( approximately Af ) placed directly in front of the camera lens so that no light may pass into the camera.

A site may be a rundown slum or a desolate piece of desert in appearance today but have excellent potentials for the future with a little development or water.

A piece of devotional material, such as The Upper Room, may be left in each home.

For example, the same piece of information may be ambiguous in one context and unambiguous in another.

Functionalists like Monroe Beardsley argue that whether or not a piece counts as art depends on what function it plays in a particular context ; the same Greek vase may play a non-artistic function in one context ( carrying wine ), and an artistic function in another context ( helping us to appreciate the beauty of the human figure ).

Dürer's belief in the abilities of a single artist over inspiration prompted him to assert that " one man may sketch something with his pen on half a sheet of paper in one day, or may cut it into a tiny piece of wood with his little iron, and it turns out to be better and more artistic than another's work at which its author labours with the utmost diligence for a whole year.

In systems engineering it may involve black-box testing performed on a system ( for example: a piece of software, lots of manufactured mechanical parts, or batches of chemical products ) prior to its delivery.

Depending on the context, jumping may also involve capturing or conquering an opponent's game piece.

Alternatively, a unique position on the board on which a game piece may be located while in play.

It was thought that if the Conservatives were able to secure this piece of legislation, then the newly enfranchised electorate may return their gratitude to the Tories in the form of a Conservative vote at the next general election.

These may include a tire patch kit ( which, in turn, may contain any combination of a hand pump or CO < sub > 2 </ sub > Pump, tire levers, spare tubes, self-adhesive patches, or tube-patching material, an adhesive, a piece of sandpaper or a metal grater ( for roughing the tube surface to be patched ), and sometimes even a block of French chalk.

A " battle " in this broader sense may occupy a large piece of spacetime, as in the case of the Battle of Britain or the Battle of the Atlantic.

To prevent muscle weakness and incisional hernias, the portion of abdominal wall exposed by reflection of the rectus abdominis muscle may be strengthened by a piece of surgical mesh placed over the defect and sutured in place.

Chapter 3 may be an independent addition, now recognized as a liturgical piece, but was possibly written by the same author as chapters 1 and 2.

* The pawn may move forward to the unoccupied square immediately in front of it on the same file ; or on its first move it may advance two squares along the same file provided both squares are unoccupied ; or it may move to a square occupied by an opponent's piece which is diagonally in front of it on an adjacent file, capturing that piece.

A " gag " is a very short piece of clown comedy which when repeated within a bit or routine may become a " running gag ".

In the fast-paced or Super Chinese Checkers variant, played in Mainland China and popular in France, a piece may hop over a non-adjacent piece.

But it is characteristic of him, we are told, `` his little artifice '', to be able to introduce `` into a fairly vulgar and humorous piece of hackwork a sudden phrase of genuine creative art ''.

During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.

We need not, to be sure, expect to find such ideas in every piece of literature.

The volume is a piece of passionate special pleading, written with the heat -- and often with the wisdom, it must be said -- of a Liberal damning the shortsightedness of politicians from 1782 to 1832.

That is how the real routine of resistance goes on, and its strength is directly proportionate to the number of insignificant people who can let themselves be taken to pieces, piece by piece, without quitting.

Let every policeman and park guard keep his eye on John and Jane Doe, lest one piece of bread be placed undetected and one bird survive.

N.C. has said something important so well that this preacher will many times be tempted to quote the whole piece.

There should be 10'' '' between the two parallel members and each should be 1'' '' from an end of the long piece.

After the frames and transom are set up on the jig and temporarily braced, a piece of three-inch-wide mahogany ( only widths will be given since the 13/16-inch thickness is used throughout ) is butted between frames one and two below the line of the keelson.

If both George and a piece of information George does not have are prominent in the context, but the idea of telling George is new, then dominant stress will probably be on tell in why not tell George??

could piece, as it were, the jumbled mass together into an organized whole and then recognize it as a man or a triangle or whatever it turned out to be.

The area adjacent to one edge of a piece of affixed material -- or simply of a painted-in form -- will be shaded to pry that edge away from the surface, while something will be drawn, painted or even pasted over another part of the same shape to drive it back into depth.

As he went out he told Freddie the dinner was perfect, and when he got his hat and coat from Nancy Parks and put a fifty-cent piece in the slot, he told her to be sure that it went toward her dowry.

Following each instruction period a piece of literature dealing with the topic should be handed each one for further reading during the week.

If I could put your body in an imaginary atomic press and squeeze you down, squeeze these holes out of you in the way we squeeze the holes out of a sponge, you would get smaller and smaller until finally when the last hole was gone, you would be smaller than the smallest speck of dust that you could see on this piece of paper.

A visible piece of astatine would be immediately and completely vaporized due to the heat generated by its intense radioactivity.

The main theme has a distinct 1960s feel to it and is known to be a highly complex piece of music due to the quick playing of the Violin.

Among these gifts was reputed to be a piece of the true cross, a true treasure for the devout Saxon king.

NASA later confirmed the object to be a piece of the first stage of the Saturn V rocket that launched Apollo 16 into space.

Occasionally she deserts the simple and elegant for a fun piece simply because `` It's unlike me ''.

The action is simple, with the keys being levers with a small brass tangent, a small piece of metal similar in shape and size to the head of a flat-bladed screwdriver, at the far end.

Another graffiti artist can go over a piece in a matter of minutes with a simple throw up.

Today, most modern factory-made machetes are of very simple construction, consisting of a blade and full-length tang punched from a single piece of flat steel plate of uniform thickness ( and thus lack a primary grind ), and a simple grip of two plates of wood or plastic bolted or riveted together around the tang.

Beginners seldom produce a passable rendition of even a simple piece due to lack of technique.

Feynman avoids exposing the reader to the mathematics of complex numbers by using a simple but accurate representation of them as arrows on a piece of paper or screen.

The mouth pipe has a simple round piece of leather hinged on to the bag end of the pipe and acts like a non-return valve.

The essence of silversmithing is to take a flat piece of metal and to transform it into a useful object using different hammers, stakes and other simple tools.

Depending on the board's capabilities, signatures may range from a simple line or two of text to an elaborately-constructed HTML piece.

A " gimmick loop " is a very simple kind of capacitive coupling: a piece of wire that is placed in proximity to another one, providing a capacitive coupling between two nodes of a few picofarads in value.

There are two main types of fox whistle: the button type or a simple folded piece of metal known as the Tenterfield whistle, named after the town in Australia where they originated.

This is often primarily a visual deterrent since a well prepared burglar can breach barbed wire and barbed tape barriers in similar amounts of time, using simple techniques such as cutting the wire or throwing a piece of old carpet over its strands.

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Most bungalow aprons were extremely simple garments, often with kimono sleeves ( sleeves cut in one piece with the body of the dress ), little or no trim, and the fewest possible fasteners.

Primary among these are the compasses, used for drawing simple arcs and circles, and the French curve, typically a piece of plastic with complex curves on it.

The performance was conceived as a chamber piece, the small intimate space and proximity to the audience enabled detailed psychological acting, which was performed with simple sets and in modern dress.

This is a simple three-part contrapuntal piece in 2 / 4 time, two voices engage in constant motivic interplay over an incessant bass line.

The heads themselves started out similar to the heads in tape recorders — simple devices made out of a tiny C-shaped piece of highly magnetizable material called ferrite wrapped in a fine wire coil.

" Another review in the same paper also commended the " simple beauty of the story itself " and also praised Beban's performance :" George Beban, who has the difficult role of Pietro Donnetti, gives a piece of character work that is truly marvelous.

If the B section lacks such a return of the opening A material, the piece is said to be in simple binary.

Oscar Wilde said of the Chapel, " As a piece of simple decorative and beautiful art it is perfect, and the windows very artistic.

It also allows a simple single piece construction at low cost but high mechanical reliability.

The result was excellent animation from a simple piece of hardware.

Common methods used to stop shaving-induced bleeding include: ( 1 ) pressing any simple alcohol onto the cut until the bleeding stops ( e. g. with a cotton swab ); ( 2 ) placing a small piece of tissue or toilet paper onto the cut ; ( 3 ) applying styptic pencils and styptic liquids ; 4 ) placing a small amount of petroleum jelly on the cut after most of the bleeding has ended ( which can stop the bleeding without forming a scab ), or 5 ) applying a small amount of aluminum chlorohydrate ( commonly found in roll-on deodorants such as Ban ).