In India, it is common to see the greeting (" Namaste " or " Sat Sri Akal " for Sikhs ) where the two hands ( palms ) are pressed together and held near the heart with the head gently bowed.

When spoken to another person, it is commonly accompanied by a slight bow made with hands pressed together, palms touching and fingers pointed upwards, in front of the chest.

On one rainy evening, the boy secludes himself in a soundless, dark drawing-room and gives his feelings for her full release: " I pressed the palms of my hands together until they trembled, murmuring: O love!

There are different designs of vehicle clutch but most are based on one or more friction discs pressed tightly together or against a flywheel using springs.

The labial click is different from what many people associate with a kiss: the lips are pressed more-or-less flat together, as they are for a or an, not rounded as they are for a.

When a switch is pressed, it connects the corresponding x and y lines together.

Thus, the attack on the Soviet Union ( which together with Germany had partitioned central Europe in 1939 – 1940 ) was not pressed with sufficient strength.

** Chorded keyboard, on which several keys are pressed together to enter a letter or command

If the arytenoids are pressed together for glottal closure, the vocal cords block the airstream, producing stop sounds such as the glottal stop.

Then the grains are " worked ": pressed and kneaded together.

The cases of Steinway pianos are made of up to 18 layers of entirely hard rock maple, which are glued and pressed together into one piece in one operation and then pressed into shape with the Steinway invented wood bending tools.

The similarity of the spacing of individual threads ( warp and woof ), which is, however, not perfect spacing, creates characteristic patterns when the layers are pressed together ; when dry, the patterns remain.

In practice, when bearing surfaces are pressed together, the fluid outflow is constricted.

( This, however, may be due to the way the boiled bagels are pressed together on the baking sheet before baking.

Among these were the scissors katar with two or three blades that folded together, appearing to be one, until the handle bars were pressed together, when they opened out.

In the case of lovers, but not others, the hips may also be pressed together.

Keeping the tongue in the mouth and the two halves pressed together when speaking can keep the split out of view.

The pistol grip was integrated into the trigger group assembly, a separate housing containing the trigger mechanism and fire control components, and was formed from pressed sheet metal during fabrication from two separate halves and then welded together.

Females have a conspicuous ovipositor consisting of a number of slender blades, pressed together to form a flattened tube.

It can be a very fast process, as a lot of power can be transferred to a localised area, so the faying surfaces melt very quickly and can be pressed together to form a continuous rolling weld.

The feet are pressed together to avoid loss of water-pressure.

While it is ringing, flash / recall is pressed again to connect the three people together.

For instance, Microsoft differentiates keyboard shortcuts from hotkeys ( mnemonics ) whereby the former consists of a specific key combination used to trigger an action, and the latter represents a designated letter in a menu command or toolbar button that when pressed together with the Alt key, activates such command.

Many shortcuts require two or more keys to be pressed together.

In a letter dated the September 13, 1693, addressed to Samuel Pepys, he writes: " Some time after Mr Millington had delivered your message, he pressed me to see you the next time I went to London.

Proa sailboats addressed the fact that a lateen style sail becomes pressed up against the mast upon tacking in a rather unique way.

It can be configured to listen for commands when a hot key is pressed, after being addressed with an activation phrase such as " Computer ", or " Macintosh ", or without prompt.

When the victory cheer went up this officer found himself still mounted, with his horse pressed broadside against Cleburne's log parapet in a tangled group of infantrymen.

Desdichado's side is soon hard pressed and he himself beset by multiple foes, when a knight who had until then taken no part in the battle, thus earning the sobriquet Le Noir Faineant ( or the Black Sluggard ), rides to Desdichado's rescue.

According to the second, Prometheus, goaded by the pain of the tearing beaks, pressed himself deeper and deeper into the rock until he became one with it.

This testimony was extremely dubious: witnesses Richard Southwell and Mr. Palmer both denied having heard the details of the reported conversation, and as More himself pointed out :< Blockquote > " Can it therefore seem likely to your Lordships, that I should in so weighty an Affair as this, act so unadvisedly, as to trust Mr. Rich, a Man I had always so mean an Opinion of, in reference to his Truth and Honesty, ... that I should only impart to Mr. Rich the Secrets of my Conscience in respect to the King's Supremacy, the particular Secrets, and only Point about which I have been so long pressed to explain my self?

Let a beggar, pressed by hunger, steal from a rich man's house a loaf, which perhaps saves him from starving, can it be possible to compare the good which the thief acquires for himself, with the evil which the rich man suffers?

When Gregory was hard pressed by Henry IV, Robert Guiscard left him to his fate, and only intervened when he himself was threatened with German arms.

The theme of the campaign was an all-out attack on Hoover's economic failures, with the incumbent hard pressed to defend himself.

Since 1577 he pressed for an English military expedition, led by himself ( as the Dutch strongly wished ) to succour the rebels.

Offenbach pressed ahead with plans to present his works himself at his own theatre and to abandon further thoughts of acceptance by the Opéra-Comique.

Repairing next to Vishnu, he found the deity asleep, and, indignant at his seeming sloth, Bhrigu stamped upon his breast with his left foot and awoke him ; instead of being offended, Vishnu gently pressed the Brahman ’ s foot and expressed himself honoured and made happy by its contact ; and Bhrigu, highly pleased by his humility, and satisfied of his being impersonated goodness, proclaimed Vishnu as the only being to be worshipped by men or Gods, in which decision the Sages, upon Bhrighu ’ s report, concurred, " Who was he to test the trimurtis?

The Byzantine emperor John VIII Palaeologus, pressed hard by the Ottoman Turks, was keen to ally himself with the Catholics.

Dudley himself, according to a French eyewitness, confessed before his own end that " nothing had pressed so injuriously upon his conscience as the fraudulent scheme against the Duke of Somerset ".

Norton himself pressed forward dangerously, always his best style, using a heavy two-handed attack pounding away to the ribs and then lobbing wicked head shots.

Charles V pressed in vain upon him the archbishopric of Cambrai, but Blosius studiously exerted himself in the reform of his monastery and in the composition of devotional works.

Time pressed: it was necessary to reduce the numbers of the party ; Gorret sacrificed himself, and Meynet stopped with him.

In the 15th century, the eastern emperor John VIII Palaeologus, pressed hard by the Ottoman Turks, was keen to ally himself with the West, and to do so he arranged with Pope Eugene IV for discussions about reunion to be held again, this time at the Council of Ferrara-Florence.

Its control apparatus was designed in such a way that three push-button switches were to be simultaneously pressed by three members of the execution team ; only one of these switches actually completed the circuit, allowing each member of the execution team to reassure himself that perhaps he had not been the one who had actually initiated the death of the condemned.

There he found himself hard pressed by the Despot of Epirus, the Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos and the Lord of Vlachia ( Thessaly ), John II Doukas.

In 215 BCE, Hanno, the lieutenant of Hannibal, after his defeat at Grumentum by Tiberius Gracchus, threw himself into Bruttium, where he was soon after joined by a body of fresh troops from Carthage under Bomilcar: and from this time he made that region his stronghold, from whence he repeatedly issued to oppose the Roman generals in Lucania and Samnium, while he constantly fell back upon it as a place of safety when defeated or hard pressed by the enemy.

Meanwhile Saladin, when hard pressed by the Crusaders, appealed for help to al-Nasir, who contented himself with sending a store of naphtha, with men to use it against the invaders in the field.

He pressed on with the attack however, releasing the bombs himself.

Argetoianu, who was still in charge at the time, became the target of attacks from the opposition group formed by the Romanian National Party and the Peasants ' Party, being pressed by Virgil Madgearu and Grigore Iunian to explain himself ( Iunian proposed a motion of no confidence, but the PNL continued to show its support for the PP ).

Kelsey considers this a personal failing on his own part, blaming himself for moving away from Annabelle to take up the factory job ( the irony being that he took the job in order to save money to marry Annabelle in the first place ), and is so sensitive about the " Situation " that he refuses to discuss it with other people-or, if pressed, claim that he and Annabelle are due to wed in the near future, despite the fact that Annabelle never consents to marry Kelsey.

The victim, Georgio " Gloria " Santorelli, is a 13-year-old boy who prostituted himself by dressing up as a girl ; the boy's wrists are tied behind his back and he is kneeling, with his face pressed on the steel walkway where he was found.