Instantaneously he would have won an immeasurable moral victory, for if she picked up, say, a pair of her panties, she might just as well lift his shorts lying alongside -- the expenditure of energy was almost the same.

Whenever possible, a pair will adopt an ideal attacking formation with one player hitting down from the rearcourt, and his partner in the midcourt intercepting all smash returns except the lift.

If a pair is forced to lift or clear the shuttlecock, then they must defend: they will adopt a side-by-side position in the rear midcourt, to cover the full width of their court against the opponents ' smashes.

A one arm overhead lift in pair skating

Lifts can be pair lifts ( such as in a dance lift ) or a group lift with two or more skaters lifting another skater.

A tiltrotor is an aircraft which uses a pair or more of powered rotors ( sometimes called proprotors ) mounted on rotating shafts or nacelles at the end of a fixed wing for lift and propulsion, and combines the vertical lift capability of a helicopter with the speed and range of a conventional fixed-wing aircraft.

In return for her kindness to him, Sullivan gives her a lift in his car, without telling his servants ; they report the " theft " and the pair are apprehended by the police.

The first pair of brothers to lift league honours in the same season for the club.

Leader Williams considered various ideas and finally settled on a design involving a pair of water-filled caissons, which would counterbalance one another, and so require relatively little power to lift boats up and down.

The news did not go down well with the fans as the pair had stuck with Crawley when others decided to leave and they had managed to lift the club off the bottom despite a 10 point deduction.

* Hook and chain ( also known as a " sling " or " belt lift ") – chains are looped around the vehicle frame or axle, which is drawn aloft by a boom winch to rest against a pair of heavy rubberized mats so the customer's vehicle can be towed on its other axle.

Each track also features a pair of red eyes that glow in the dark shortly after the lift hill while its roar is heard.

The pair designed more than two dozen more vertical lift bridges over the next five years before dissolving their partnership in 1914.

The CNJ constructed a two-track bridge over lower Newark Bay in 1864, and upgraded it to a dual pair of four-track lift bridges known collectively as the CRRNJ Newark Bay Bridge in 1926.

* Breguet-Richet Gyroplane No. 2 ( 1908 ) Tandem biplane with a pair of large inclined propellers providing both thrust and lift.

Similar to a half-tracked dune buggy, it has a pair of crunching spiked wheels at the front that lift on a single arm.

Some fast racing scows use bilgeboards, which are mounted between the centerline of the hull and the sides, specifically so that they can use a pair of asymmetric foils for maximum lift and minimum drag.

An axel lift in pair skating is a movement in which the woman is turned over her partner's head one and a half times.

It was intended to be carried into action by its gunners using the rear legs of the gun as carrying poles and lacked wheels entirely, with a pair of removable poles at the front allowing four men to lift the weapon.

In their latest plot to steal rare Pokémon, Team Rocket offers the trio a lift to the island, disguised as a pair of Vikings, but their small wooden boat is destroyed by a wave.

For example for any ( even infinite ) collection of pairs of shoes, one can pick out the left shoe from each pair to obtain an appropriate selection, but for an infinite collection of pairs of socks ( assumed to have no distinguishing features ), such a selection can be obtained only by invoking the axiom of choice.

Two-thirds of these, or 10 percent of all languages, have unpaired voiced fricatives but no voicing contrast between any fricative pair.

The other change has been that a pair of hi-hat cymbals are no longer necessarily similar.

One of the smallest in marsupials with no more than 0. 2 % of its body weight, about 40 % of the cranial cavity is filled with cerebrospinal fluid, while the brain's two cerebral hemispheres are like " a pair of shrivelled walnut halves on top of the brain stem, in contact neither with each other nor the bones of the skull.

In some materials, neighboring electrons want to point in opposite directions, but there is no geometrical arrangement in which each pair of neighbors is anti-aligned.

Separating the two logs by a pair of sticks, called Akas, one actually increases the stability manifold with no increase in weight and with a lot less overall work ( no rocks to haul and no more trees to cut ).

In 5-card stud, the stronger hands are less frequent than the weaker hands ; i. e., no pair is most common, followed by one pair, two pair, three of a kind, etc.

There is generally no qualifier to win high, although one common variant is any pair / no pair, where a hand of at least a pair is required to win high and any hand with no pair is required to win low.

This hand would defeat any hand with no pair, or with a lower-ranking pair, and lose to any higher-ranking hand.

In repetitions of the experiment from couple to couple, the votes of the two persons in a couple probably agree more often than independence would imply, because couples who visit the museum together are more likely to have similar tastes than are a random pair of people drawn from the entire population of visitors.

Still more time was consumed while the pilot, at the radioed suggestion of Continental president Robert Six, tried to persuade the armed pair to swap the Boeing jet for a propeller-driven Douglas Aj.

Fluoride " loses " a pair of valence electrons because the electrons shared in the B — F bond are located in the region of space between the two atomic nuclei and are therefore more distant from the fluoride nucleus than they are in the lone fluoride ion.

Grant then made a few more albums before dropping out of college to pursue a career in music — Never Alone, followed by a pair of live albums in 1981 ( In Concert and In Concert Volume Two ), both backed by an augmented edition of the DeGarmo & Key band.

( Expressed more technically, in each case the pair ( m, n ) decreases in the lexicographic order on pairs, which is a well-ordering, just like the ordering of single non-negative integers ; this means one cannot go down in the ordering infinitely many times in succession.

This also evolved as a method of increasing rate of fire, more in order to force the enemy to take cover than to try to accurately hit them, and was generally practiced by NKVD officers issued a pair of revolvers.

* The case n = 1 can be illustrated by the claim that there always exist a pair of opposite points on the earth's equator with the same temperature, this can be shown to be true much more easily using the intermediate value theorem.

Thus, the energy required to break any single pair is related to the energy required to break all of the pairs ( or more than just two electrons ).

Such a pair of adjoint functors typically arises from a construction defined by a universal property ; this can be seen as a more abstract and powerful view on universal properties.

In the simplest view of a so-called ' covalent ' bond, one or more electrons ( often a pair of electrons ) are drawn into the space between the two atomic nuclei.

* One or more octobans or a pair of mini timbales.

On Dolly's name, Wilmut stated " Dolly is derived from a mammary gland cell and we couldn't think of a more impressive pair of glands than Dolly Parton's ".

A classic application for a pair of class-A devices is the long-tailed pair, which is exceptionally linear, and forms the basis of many more complex circuits, including many audio amplifiers and almost all op-amps.

The set of regions of a map can be represented more abstractly as an undirected graph that has a vertex for each region and an edge for every pair of regions that share a boundary segment.

Smith is most known for his View Askewniverse films, the flagship film being Clerks, which focused on a pair of bored, twenty-something convenience store clerks in New Jersey circa 1994 ; Linklater's Slacker similarly explored young adult characters who were more interested in philosophizing than settling with a long-term career and family ; Solondz ' Welcome to the Dollhouse touched upon themes of school bullying, school violence, teen drug use, peer pressure and broken or dysfunctional families, mostly set in a junior high school environment during the early to mid-1990s.

The notion of greatest common divisor can more generally be defined for elements of an arbitrary commutative ring, although in general there need not exist one for every pair of elements.

In principle, mesons with more than one quark – antiquark pair may exist ; a hypothetical meson with two pairs is called a tetraquark.

In a more general definition, an acid can be any chemical species capable of binding to electron pairs is called a Lewis acid ; conversely any molecule that tends to donate an electron pair is referred to as a Lewis base.

Kidney development, also called nephrogenesis, proceeds through a series of three successive phases, each marked by the development of a more advanced pair of kidneys: the pronephros, mesonephros, and metanephros.

The earliest depictions show the pair love-making with some explicitness — more so than in any depictions of a human pair made by artists of high quality in the same period.