If the lever is pulled to clear a signal or move a switch, the tappet moves a short distance lengthwise at the same time.

If you draw the short straw I'll lend you some bread, like fifty bucks, before I take off to visit my sister in Frisco.

If it does, ocean levels would rise by a few metres in a very short period of time.

If the delay is too short, it will destructively interfere with the un-delayed signal and create a flanging effect.

If the sick person wishes to receive the sacrament of penance, it is preferable that the priest make himself available for this during a previous visit ; but if the sick person must confess during the celebration of the sacrament of anointing, this confession replaces the penitential rite A passage of Scripture is read, and the priest may give a brief explanation of the reading, a short litany is said, and the priest lays his hands on the head of the sick person and then says a prayer of thanksgiving over the already blessed oil or, if necessary, blesses the oil himself.

Despite Edmund's respected intelligence and abilities, he has no personal fortune to speak of, apart from his frequently fluctuating wage packet from the Prince, as he says: " If I'm running short of cash, all I have to do is go upstairs and ask Prince Fat-head for a rise.

If the sets are short to medium length the caller will often try to run the dance until each couple has danced with every other couple both as a 1 and a 2 and returned to where they started.

If the fibers are first aligned by combing them and then the spinner uses a worsted type drafting method such as the short forward draw, the yarn is smoother and called a worsted ; by contrast, if the fibers are carded but not combed and the spinner uses a woolen drafting method such as the long backward draw, the yarn is fuzzier and called woolen-spun.

If the frame contains areas where nothing has moved, the system simply issues a short command that copies that part of the previous frame, bit-for-bit, into the next one.

He is still seeking greater autonomy from China, although Dolma Gyari, deputy speaker of the parliament-in-exile has stated " If the middle path fails in the short term, we will be forced to opt for complete independence or selfdetermination as per the UN charter ".

According to Bruce Campbell's autobiography, If Chins Could Kill, Richard acquired his stage name by combining his short name with his roommates ' names, Hal and Del.

In short: " If Christ was sacrificed for your sake, be like him and be in submission to one another.

If the rate of spontaneous emission, or any of the other rates are fast, the lifetime is short.

If water is evaporated too quickly, the membrane dries, resistance across it increases, and eventually it will crack, creating a gas " short circuit " where hydrogen and oxygen combine directly, generating heat that will damage the fuel cell.

If the blood sugar level falls too low the liver converts a storage of glycogen into glucose and releases it into the bloodstream, to prevent the person going into a diabetic coma, for a short period of time.

If the target is a hard and heavy object, or if it is resting on some sort of anvil, the head can travel only a very short distance d before stopping.

If the stud attempts to mate with her and she lies down for him within a fairly short period of time, she is not pregnant.

If the net excitation received by a neuron over a short period of time is large enough, the neuron generates a brief pulse called an action potential, which originates at the soma and propagates rapidly along the axon, activating synapses onto other neurons as it goes.

If the exposure to antibiotics is short, these individuals will survive the treatment.

* Nehemiah Scudder, the fictional antagonist in Robert A. Heinlein's short novel If This Goes On —

If you think Terayama's poem uses a child's game to express in hyperbolic metaphor how, in retrospect, life is short, and nothing more, then this would indeed work as a senryū.

French-Canadian band Harmonium had a short career in the mid ' 70s during which their most notable release was Si on avait besoin d ' une cinquième saison ( If We Needed A Fifth Season ) ( 1975 ).

If M is a module which has a non-zero proper submodule N, then there is a short exact sequence

If immediate treatment is successful, the patient may improve ( although this may be temporary ) and this improvement may allow the patient to be categorized to a lower priority in the short term.

If each mode received an equal partition of energy, the short wavelength modes would consume all the energy.

If the nasal was absorbed by a stressed vowel, it would also lengthen the vowel.

If the nasal consonant is lost but the vowel retains its nasalized pronunciation, nasalization becomes phonemic, that is, distinctive.

If a short vowel precedes the sound, the former spelling is used, as in pick, judge, and match.

If the upper triangle is used without the lower one, it designates a " half-long " vowel.

If an oral vowel is stressed, and it is not the final syllable, it is marked with an acute accent: á, é, í, ó, ú, ý.

If the following vowel is / a /, no vowel sign is needed.

If the last syllable is stressed, the accent mark is used if the word ends in the letters n, s, or a vowel, as in está.

If the root ends in the vowel a or o, and the consonant n or r, the y switches position with the consonant and is written i:

If the name of a consonant begins with a vowel ( usually ä ), it can be pronounced and spelled either as a monosyllabic or bisyllabic word.

If the adjective begins with a vowel or an f followed by a vowel, the word bu is reduced to b. For example:

If a hard consonant follows ⟨ я ⟩, or none, then the result is an open vowel, usually

If the diphthong is followed by a neutral vowel, a little flick is added.

If the vowel is anything other than ' e ' then it must be represented inside the circle.

* If a close vowel precedes, a schwa may be inserted.

If the noun or adjective has two vowel stems, the strong vowel stem comes from the essive singular.

If precision is desired, the symbol for the close-mid central unrounded vowel may be used with a lowering diacritic,.

If precision is desired, the symbol for the open-mid central unrounded vowel may be used with a lowering diacritic, for the unrounded near-open central vowel,, and the symbol for the open-mid central rounded vowel with a lowering diacritic may be used for the rounded near-open central vowel,.