In the early 1960s, English county cricket teams began playing a shortened version of cricket which only lasted for one day.

The same basic engine block can be used with different crankshafts, however, to alter the firing order ; for instance, the 90 ° V6 engine configuration, in older days sometimes derived by using six cylinders of a V8 engine with what is basically a shortened version of the V8 crankshaft, produces an engine with an inherent pulsation in the power flow due to the " missing " two cylinders.

Rangers are known as the " Teddy Bears ", which comes from the rhyming slang for " the Gers " ( shortened version of Ran-gers ).

* A shortened version of the 7-inch B-side interview ( without music )

This stage version, the first to use the shortened title " The Wizard of Oz ", opened in Chicago in 1902, then ran on Broadway for 293 stage nights from January to October 1903.

Miquel ( or Quelo in its shortened version ) is the Catalan form for Michael.

At the same time, a bypass shortened the Nordschleife to, and with an additional small pit lane, this version was used for races in 1983, e. g. the 1000km Nürburgring endurance race, while construction work was going on nearby.

More directly, it is a shortened version of the term letters patent, which was a royal decree granting exclusive rights to a person, predating the modern patent system.

Although the Panamera will be a 4-door model, Road and Track magazine published a speculative piece in their April 2006 issue regarding the possibility of a new, 928-esque coupe that may debut on a shortened version of the Panamera's platform sometime around 2011 or 2012 model year.

The title page of the shortened version of the Principia Mathematica to * 56.

Its last flowering was the half-pike or spontoon, a shortened version of the pike carried by officers and NCOs.

Teams that do not have Test status can only officially play a shortened version of cricket, except in events such as the ICC Intercontinental Cup, which was specifically designed to allow non-Test teams to play under conditions similar to Tests.

Due to the film being shortened from the original four hours to 2½, several planned special-effects scenes were scrapped, although storyboards were made in anticipation of a possible " expanded " version.

Use of the Dutch name, " Wim ", a shortened version of the baptismal name " Wilhelm / Willem ", reflected his mother's Dutch provenance, but the Dutch version was rejected by the civil registration authorities in 1945 as " unGerman ".

" prefix has likewise given rise to a shortened version of the original, three-syllable pronunciation.

:* A shortened version of " XXXL ", a plus size clothing size

During the Manhattan Project enriched uranium was given the codename oralloy, a shortened version of Oak Ridge alloy, after the location of the plants where the uranium was enriched.

Mozart also made a shortened version of the operatic score.

Of this version, about three minutes were cut for performance by Toscanini, and it is this shortened version that is usually performed.

Although ISBN numbers are not supposed to be reused for different editions, the publisher used ISBN 0-345-33014-5 for both a 1986 mass market paperback edition of the shortened version and the mass market paperback edition of the long version, which is the one presently in print.

Q1 of Henry V is a " bad quarto ", a shortened version of the play that might be a pirated copy or reported text.

During World War II, a number of Army riffraff are assembled into a unit that is highly expendable, and therefore nicknamed the Suicide Squadron ( shortened to Suicide Squad ).

At the onset of winter, the growth tip starts producing highly reduced non-carnivorous leaves on a severely shortened stem.

While most enantiornithines retained claws on at least some of the fingers, many species had shortened hands, a highly mobile shoulder anatomy, and other proportional changes in the wing bones similar to modern birds.

Attempts were made to bring more advanced steam cars on the market, the most remarkable being the Doble Steam Car which shortened start-up time very noticeably by incorporating a highly efficient monotube steam generator to heat a much smaller quantity of water along with effective automation of burner and water feed control.

After playing with the Toronto club during the 1994 – 95 lockout shortened season, he was traded midway through the 1995 – 96 season to the New York Islanders in a player exchange which brought highly popular former captain Wendel Clark back to Toronto.

Skaro is also the setting for the Peter Cushing feature film Dr. Who and the Daleks ( 1965 ) which is generally regarded as non-canonical, although the story in the film is a copy ( with some changes ) of the serial The Daleks ( naturally shortened since a feature film does not have the same running time as a 7-episode serial ).

The Roux-en-Y laparoscopic gastric bypass, first performed in 1993, is regarded as one of the most difficult procedures to perform by limited access techniques, but use of this method has greatly popularized the operation due to associated benefits such as a shortened hospital stay, reduced discomfort, shorter recovery time, less scarring, and minimal risk of incisional hernia.

For example, a 223 Remington can be shortened to become a 222 Remington, which can further be shortened to become a 221 Fireball.

Essentially a shortened. 222 Remington, the compact. 221 Fireball delivered accuracy exceeding many rifles, out to ranges unheard of for other handguns.

Remington Rand was acquired by Sperry Corporation in 1955 to form a company then known as Sperry Rand ( later shortened to Sperry ).

The original idea was based on the Knight's Armament Masterkey ( KAC Masterkey ) system, which dates back to the 1980s and originally comprised a shortened Remington 870 shotgun mounted under an M16 rifle or M4 carbine.

The decision was made by Remington to base their new cartridge on a shortened version of the. 222, optimized for their new XP-100 gun.

However, avid reloaders have found the. 223 Remington or 5. 56 × 45 mm NATO works well when shortened and resized to. 30 caliber.

Ctesias related that Artaxerxes II was also called Arsicas which is understood as a similar shortening with the Persian suffix-ke that is applied to shortened names.

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic paper or comic magazine ( often shortened to simply comic or comics ) is a magazine made up of " comics "— narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog ( usually in word balloons, emblematic of the comic book art form ) as well as including brief descriptive prose.

This also eliminated the need for engraving, which further shortened the time it takes to make and reproduce maps.

Code pleading also drastically shortened the pleading process.

Along with a shortened translation of Aristotle's Rhetoric, Hobbes also produced a number of other works on the subject.

The Hive Queen has also managed to make contact with the pequeninos philotically, and has told them a number of things — including the fact that " Andrew Wiggin " is not only the original Speaker for the Dead, but the original Xenocide as well, which romantically involved Zenadors ( a shortened form of the word xenologists ) Miro and Ouanda do not believe.

The resulting dispersion decreased the penetration depth for a given cone diameter and also shortened the optimum standoff distance.

Such a name is called a binomial name ( which may be shortened to just " binomial "), a binomen or a scientific name ; more informally it is also called a Latin name.

Bullshit ( also bullcrap ) is a common English expletive which may be shortened to the euphemism bull or the initialism BS.

The World's Columbian Exposition ( the official shortened name for the World's Fair: Columbian Exposition, also known as The Chicago World's Fair ) was a World's Fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.

However, each leg can also be shortened and bent by internal muscles ; due to the lack of joints, this bending can take place at any point along the sides of the leg.

Some of the anglicised words are truncated, for example " pony " from ponimát ’, " to understand ", or otherwise shortened, for example " veck " from čelovék, " person ", " man " ( though the anglicized word ' chelloveck ' is also used in the book ).

The dialogue between Robin and the ghosts afterwards was also shortened.

Pain is also associated with tight and / or shortened muscle, abnormal posture, stiff joints, unsuitable orthosis etc.

Two shortened variations, " Bucs " and " Buccos ", are also commonly used for both the American football team and MLB's Pittsburgh Pirates, and the Reading Buccaneers Drum and Bugle Corps.

He created a new Department of Economic Affairs to generate ambitious targets that were in themselves supposed to help stimulate investment and growth ( the government also created a Ministry of Technology ( shortened to Mintech ) to support the modernisation of industry ).

The vibraphone also has a sustain pedal similar to that used on a piano ; when the pedal is up, the bars are all damped and the sound of each bar is shortened ; with the pedal down, they will sound for several seconds.

Similarly, the longer wheelbase of the FG Falcon ( over the BF ) requires a comparable custom-fabricated shorter body, and the FG is also shortened in the rear door and lowered in the roof line compared to the road going model.

However, shortened telomeres impair immune function that might also increase cancer susceptibility.

The electronic computer created a demand for mathematicians as programmers and it also shortened the lead time between the development of a new mathematical theory and its practical application, thereby making their work more valuable.

A shortened version consisting of the first and last lines ( and taking about 20 seconds to play ) is also staged occasionally.

Volkswagen based dune buggies also appeared in relatively large numbers in the 1960s and 1970s based usually on a shortened floor pan.

The Greek historians Ctesias and Deinon noted that Artaxerxes II was also called Arsicas or Oarses respectively similarly understood to be derived from Khshayarsha, the former as the shortened form together with the Persian suffix-ke applied to such shortened names.