The rest had been damaged or destroyed by the soldiers, who often used them as floor mats outside in the mud to keep their boots clean.

Ancient Egyptians used this plant as a writing material and for boats, mattresses, mats, rope, sandals, and baskets.

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Commonly found in all-in-one stereos from assorted far-east brands, they used a thin plastic table set in a plastic plinth, no mats, belt drive, weak motors, and often, plastic tonearms with no counterweight.

More modern craft that are used include bodyboards, inflatable mats ( surfmatting ), and foils.

The dried stem peels are slit into fine threads and are used for weaving mats, stringing garlands and packaging wrapper.

Although occasionally used as a synonym for biofilm, the term primarily applies to the simple, clonal, unstructured mats of organisms that typically only form on laboratory growth media.

Sealants include paint, plastic foams, films and aluminum foil, felts or fabric mats sealed with tar, and layers of bentonite clay, sometimes used to seal roadbeds.

In addition to its use as a food source, the leaves and spathe of the sago palm are used for construction materials and for thatching roofs and the fibre can be made into rope and mats.

* Non-stick reusable mats used on baking sheets.

Flax was grown, carded, spun and woven into white fabric and thread which was used to make and decorate traditional Norwegian costume items called bunads ( national costumes ) as well as other items of clothing and household linens such as mats, curtains and bedspreads.

Newborough women once used marram grass in the manufacture of mats, haystack covers and brushes for whitewashing.

* Marston mats perforated steel sheets used during World War II for building airstrips

Stamp seals with copper rings inserted in a perforated button were used to sealing cargo, with impressions of packing materials like mats, twisted cloth and cords, a fact verified only at Lothal.

Fibres of various strengths were used to fashion eel traps ( hinaki ), surprisingly large fishing nets ( kupenga ) and lines, bird snares, cordage for ropes, baskets ( kete ), bags, mats, clothing, sandals ( paraerae ), buckets, food baskets ( rourou ), and cooking utensils etc.

During the early Musket Wars and later New Zealand land wars, Māori used large, thickly woven flax mats to cover entrances and lookout holes in their " gunfighter's pā " fortifications.

The other two training areas, containing 72 and 42 tatami mats respectively, are often used for beginner's classes, children's classes, women's classes, or fixed term and enrollment " academy " ( Gakko ) courses.

It is grown in Kunisaki Peninsula of Ōita Prefecture, and is used in the production of Ryukyu-style tatami mats, as it is dust and moisture absorbent and has a pleasant scent.

Coir is a natural fibre extracted from the husk of coconut and used in products such as floor mats, doormats, brushes, mattresses, etc.

It is typically used in mats, brushes and sacking.

They are generally spun to make yarn used in mats or rope.

Brown coir is used in floor mats and doormats, brushes, mattresses, floor tiles and sacking.

Such surfaces are often cold to the touch, however, and so water-resistant bath mats or even bathroom carpets may be used on the floor to make the room more comfortable.

Closed cell foam is used to produce mats that can be used without requiring any inflation.

A relative newcomer in outdoor signs is Mylar polyester film, now used as a printed overlay for trans-illuminated signs ( see below ).

As used by Industrial Electric Inc., the film panels are printed one at a time, as are 24-sheet posters.

The Byzantine text-type was used for the 16th century Textus Receptus, the first Greek-language version of the New Testament to be printed by the printing press.

It is used as a backbone to connect several printed circuit boards together to make up a complete computer system.

Backplanes commonly use a printed circuit board but wire wrapped backplanes have also been used in minicomputers and high reliability applications.

The Flexowriter printed with a conventional typebar mechanism while the Selectric used IBM's well-known " golf ball " printing mechanism.

Sometimes the term is used for a book-style format, including modern printed books but excluding folded books.

Most people and institutions in China primarily use the Indian ( Arabic ) system for convenience, with traditional Chinese numerals used mainly in some formal or ceremonial occasions such as on printed money.

The term is of recent use but is not commonly used in psychology, and according to one analyst, " has been coined more on the Internet than in printed form because it does not appear in any previously published, psychiatric, unabridged, or abridged dictionary ".

Different formulations are used for printer's ink, so there can be variations in the printed color that is pure cyan ink.

The pair later applied the technique to printed media and audio recordings in an effort to decode the material's implicit content, hypothesizing that such a technique could be used to discover the true meaning of a given text.

Citizen Corps grant funds can be used to print and provide each student with a printed manual.

Printed calico was imported into the United States from Lancashire in the 1780s, and here a linguistic separation occurred, while Europe maintained the word calico for the fabric, in the States it was used to refer to the printed design.

Martin Wiberg improved Scheutz's construction but used his device only for producing and publishing printed logarithmic tables.

An Estonian grammar book to be used by priests was printed in German in 1637.

The 1949 Principles of the International Phonetic Association recommends using 10px for advanced voiced velar plosives ( denoted by Latin small letter script G ) and 10px for regular ones where the two are contrasted, but this suggestion was never accepted by phoneticians in general, and today ⟨ 10px ⟩ is the symbol used in the International Phonetic Alphabet, with ⟨ 10px ⟩ acknowledged as an acceptable variant, and is more often used in printed materials.

Amongst the earliest books to be printed were magical texts ; the nóminas were one example of this, consisting of prayers to the saints used as talismans.

A cursive Hebrew script is used in handwriting: the letters tend to be more circular in form when written in cursive, and sometimes vary markedly from their printed equivalents.

It is the most commonly used system in chemical databases and printed indexes to sort lists of compounds.

The term " post-incunable " is sometimes used to refer to books printed after 1500 up to another arbitrary end date such as 1520 or 1540.

After casting, the sorts are arranged into type-cases, and used to make up pages which are inked and printed, a procedure which can be repeated hundreds, or thousands, of times.

In 2001, the physicist Blaise Agüera y Arcas and Princeton librarian Paul Needham, used digital scans of a Papal bull in the Scheide Library, Princeton, to carefully compare the same letters ( types ) appearing in different parts of the printed text.

In 2004, Italian professor Bruno Fabbiani claimed that examination of the 42-line Bible revealed an overlapping of letters, suggesting that Gutenberg did not in fact use movable type ( individual cast characters ) but rather used whole plates made from a system somewhat like a modern typewriter, whereby the letters were stamped successively into the plate and then printed.

In terms of spelling, Coleridge's printed version differs from Purchas's spelling, which refers to the Tartar ruler as " Cublai Can ", and from the spelling used by Milton, " Cathaian Can ".