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similar and amateurish
Haxan decided to follow a similar marketing strategy as Blair Witch and created a website, long before the show was set to air, called " Freakylinks. com " which was cleverly designed to look like an amateurish, home-brew website made by real-life paranormal enthusiasts.

similar and characteristic
In northwestern Europe, chalk deposits from the Upper Cretaceous are characteristic for the Chalk Group, which forms the white cliffs of Dover on the south coast of England and similar cliffs on the French Normandian coast.
The remaining common characteristic is that which is similar to all of the different individuals.
However, according to the Kama Sutra, fellatio is above all a characteristic of eunuchs ( or, according to other translations, of effeminate homosexuals or transwomen similar to the modern Hijra of India ), who use their mouths as a substitute for female genitalia.
In these and similar cases, the sensations experienced are subjective and do not necessarily involve the involuntary contractions characteristic of orgasm.
The defining characteristic of observation is that it involves drawing conclusions, as well as building personal views about how to handle similar situations in the future, rather than simply registering that something has happened.
In the case of modern television receivers, no other technique was able to produce the precise bandpass characteristic needed for vestigial sideband reception, similar to that used in the NTSC system approved by the U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) in 1953, and the PAL system approved by the BBC in 1957.
A sex organ, or primary sexual characteristic, as narrowly defined, is any of the anatomical parts of the body which are involved in sexual reproduction and constitute the reproductive system in a complex organism ; flowers are the reproductive organs of flowering plants, cones are the reproductive organs of coniferous plants, whereas mosses, ferns, and other similar plants have gametangia for reproductive organs.
The double-slit experiments showed that when light is sent through a grid, a characteristic interference pattern is observed, very similar to the pattern resulting from the interference of water waves ; the wavelength of light can be computed from such patterns.
Symptoms include fever, headache, muscle and joint pains, and a characteristic skin rash that is similar to measles.
Dei Verbum has sometimes been compared to the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, which expounds similar teachings, characteristic of many evangelical Protestants.
Thus the claimed similarities between creoles may be mere consequences of similar parentage, rather than characteristic features of all creoles.
Resonators are usually made with holes covered by thin cellophane ( similar to the balafon ) to achieve the characteristic buzzing sound.
The most broadly accepted theory for the role of the tusk is as a secondary sexual characteristic, similar to the mane of a lion or the tail feathers of a peacock.
A Nusselt number close to one, namely convection and conduction of similar magnitude, is characteristic of " slug flow " or laminar flow.
Serifs, for example, are a purely decorative characteristic of typefaces used for European scripts, whereas the glyphs used in Arabic or East Asian scripts have characteristics ( such as stroke width ) that may be similar in some respects but cannot reasonably be called serifs and may not be purely decorative.
As an extensive property, heat capacity is characteristic of an object ; its corresponding intensive property is specific heat capacity, expressed in terms of a measure of the amount of material such as mass or number of moles, which must be multiplied by similar units to give the heat capacity of the entire body of material.
In other types of pastry, such as Danish pastry and croissants, the characteristic flaky texture is achieved by repeatedly rolling out a dough similar to that for yeast bread, spreading it with butter, and folding it to produce many thin layers of folds.
Its grayish-yellow larvae cause similar damage to that of the chestnut weevil, but they spin characteristic webs among the nutchips and larval excrement.
Another characteristic feature of Tangut Buddhism was similar to the Buddhist beliefs in the Khitan kingdom of Liao: a number of texts previously believed to be of native Tangut origin, turned out to be translations of Khitan source texts.
Among the results of this study was the conclusion that the male's teeth are actually a secondary sexual characteristic, similar to the antlers of male deer.
Because of the shallow waters, the development of aquatic life in the Sea of Azov is more characteristic of a lagoon, and the plankton patterns are rather similar in the open sea and near the shores.
Dog breeds are groups of closely related and visibly similar domestic dogs, which are all of the subspecies Canis lupus familiaris, having characteristic traits that are selected and maintained by humans, bred from a known foundation stock.
A method of external foetal monitoring ( EFM ) during childbirth is cardiotocography, using a cardiotocograph that consists of two sensors: The heart ( cardio ) sensor is a ultrasonic sensor, similar to a Doppler fetal monitor, that continuously emits ultrasound and detects motion of the fetal heart by the characteristic of the reflected sound.
The explanation of the pattern of the table is that the elements in a group have similar physical or chemical characteristic of the outermost electron shells of their atoms ( i. e. the same core charge ), as most chemical properties are dominated by the orbital location of the outermost electron.

similar and is
The personal quality of Samuel Beckett is similar to qualities I had found in the plays.
The career of Charles 12, is obviously very similar to that of Napoleon.
But there is, nevertheless, always a subtle difference in the way in which supposedly similar opinions are held.
First of all there is ample area in East Greenwich already zoned in the classification similar to that which petitioner requested.
What was missing in the Governor's argument, as in so many similar arguments, was a premise which would enable one to make the ethical leap from what might be militarily desirable to what is right.
Although a similar situs for tangible property is mentioned in the statute, this is cancelled out by the provision that definite kinds of property `` and all other tangible property '' situated or being in any town is taxable where the property is situated.
The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.
Super-Set No. 2 is made up of similar exercises, but this time done with dumbbells, and using both `` moon '' and flat benches.
Chuck a length of 1/8'' '' dia. drill rod into a drill press or some similar turning device and while it is rotating file the end square and then file a slight taper 1/8'' '' long.
There is the free intra-city `` rent it here, leave it there '' service, as an example, the free delivery and collection at the airport, dockside or your hotel, luggage racks, touring documents and information and other similar services.
There is one exception to the above statement as has been pointed out, and that is that fluids can relax by flowing into fields of lower rates of shear, so the statement should be modified by stating that the mechanics are similar.
) This is, of course, a similar type of behavior to that indicated by birefringence studies.
The life history of the alkali bee is similar to that of Andrena, but the first activity of the adults does not take place until summer, and the individuals hibernate in the prepupal stage.
In litters of eight mice from similar parents, the number of mice with straight instead of wavy hair is an integer from 0 to 8.
This theorem is similar to the theorem of Kakutani that there exists a circumscribing cube around any closed, bounded convex set in Af.
In hunger stimulates man too the situation is very similar.
) These general facts are mentioned to make clear that the total situation in the two families is similar enough to warrant comparison.
It will be seen that where the scope is similar, the Athabascan ratios come out somewhat higher ( as indeed they ought to with a total ratio of 2.8 as against 3.5 or 4: 5 ) except for verbs, where alone the Athabascan ratio is lower.
For example, suppose another excess profits tax similar to prior laws is enacted, providing for carryover of excess profits credits.

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