The practice of dropping the letter u in such words was also considered a labour-saving technique during the early days of printing in which movable type was set manually.

On its most fundamental level, film editing is the art, technique, and practice of assembling shots into a coherent sequence.

This technique saved the brakes, but the resulting increase in the car's recorded lap times during practice led to speculation within the Ford team that Gurney and Foyt, in an effort to compromise on chassis settings, had hopelessly " dialed out " their car.

: Waza or technique practice in which the student learns and refines that techniques of Kendo with a receiving partner.

Kendoka who wish to use such techniques during practice or competitions, often practice each technique with a motodachi.

In March 1938, Sennett was presented with an honorary Academy Award: " for his lasting contribution to the comedy technique of the screen, the basic principles of which are as important today as when they were first put into practice, the Academy presents a Special Award to that master of fun, discoverer of stars, sympathetic, kindly, understanding comedy genius-Mack Sennett.

Malagasy farmers embrace and perpetuate the practice not only for its practical benefits as an agricultural technique, but for its cultural associations with prosperity, health and venerated ancestral custom ( fomba malagasy ).

In general ritual practice, vibration can also refer to a technique of saying a god-name or a magical formula in a long, drawn-out fashion ( i. e. with a full, deep breath ) that employs the nasal passages, such that the sound feels and sounds " vibrated '.

The technique is named after U. S. Olympian Dave Volz, who made an art form of the practice and surprised many by making the U. S. Olympic team in 1992.

A new technique of placing one's finger on the ricasso to improve the grip ( a practice that would continue in the rapier ) led to the production of hilts with a guard for the finger.

Armstrong was able to rapidly put his ideas into practice, and the technique was rapidly adopted by the military.

The new facility included an elementary school where teachers-in-training could practice their teaching technique on children.

), music warm-up ( generally consisting of breathing exercises, scales, technical exercises, chorales, and tuning ), basics ( simple marching in a block to practice proper technique ), and sectionals ( in which either staff or band members designated section leaders rehearse individual sections ).

Practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation technique ( TM ) claim that in its practice and results, the technique is distinguished from other types of meditation or self-development " by its naturalness, effortlessness and profound effectiveness ".

The practice was enthusiastically taken up in America by the neuropsychiatrist Walter Freeman and the neurosurgeon James W. Watts who devised what became the standard prefrontal procedure and named their operative technique lobotomy.

A further technique that emphasises this sense of democracy and freedom among the musicians is improvisation that is borrowed from jazz in concept, but in practice involves a different vocabulary of scales and rhythms that stay within the parameters of the established tango sound-world.

Although absorption spectroscopy and emission spectroscopy are different in principle, they are closely related in practice ; any technique for emission spectroscopy can also be used for absorption spectroscopy.

Prior to this, training in Kenjutsu had consisted mainly of basic technique practice and paired kata, using solid wooden practice swords ( bokutō ), or live blades.

With practice, taping down the metallic foil to the receiving surface, he was able to spin the drill and thus create the heat necessary to apply the coloured foil by a hand and machine-driven engraving technique.

This committee aims to harmonise practice and technique around the world.

An older technique is pushing the snorkel between the mask-strap and the head, but this practice increases the chances the mask will leak.

* Commissioned: Publishers made publication arrangements, and authors covered all expenses ( today the practice of authors paying for their publications is often called vanity publishing, and is looked down upon by many publishers, even though it may have been a common and accepted practice in the past ).

Among some Protestant bodies, who do not consider it a sacrament, but instead as a practice suggested rather than commanded by Scripture, it is called anointing with oil.

In modern firearms terminology this is often called a " New York reload " after the practice of New York Police Department officers carrying second ( and even third ) guns as backup.

In this case, is the smallest σ-algebra that contains the open intervals of R. While there are many Borel measures μ, the choice of Borel measure which assigns for every interval is sometimes called " the " Borel measure on R. In practice, even " the " Borel measure is not the most useful measure defined on the σ-algebra of Borel sets ; indeed, the Lebesgue measure is an extension of " the " Borel measure which possesses the crucial property that it is a complete measure ( unlike the Borel measure ).

Some cross-dressers have periodically disposed of all their clothing, a practice called " purging ", only to start another collection later.

In the case of persons that common usage has called saints from " time immemorial " ( in practice, since before 1500 or so ), the Church may carry out a " confirmation of cultus ", which is much simpler.

The game of mall was a fashionable amusement in the reign of Charles the Second, and the walk in Saint James's Park, now called the Mall, received its name from having been appropriated to the purpose of playing at mall, where Charles himself and his courtiers frequently exercised themselves in the practice of this pastime.

In the past few years, a practice called yarn bombing, or the use of knitted or crocheted cloth to modify and beautify one's ( usually outdoor ) surroundings, emerged in the US and spread worldwide.

The relative uniformity of organisation and practice is undoubtedly due to the influence of a booklet, written early in Christadelphian history, called A Guide to the Formation and Conduct of Christadelphian Ecclesias.

This practice is an application of the belief that not all who claim to be Christians are part of the Catholic Church, as Ignatius of Antioch, the earliest known writer to use the term " Catholic Church ", considered that certain heretics who called themselves Christians only seemed to be such.

In South Louisiana this practice is called Pocking Eggs and is slightly different.

This practice is called fractional-reserve banking.

Galienus called fellatio " lesbiari " since women of the island of Lesbos were supposed to have introduced the practice of using one's lips to give sexual pleasure.

This path is called the Noble Eightfold Path, and it is considered to be the essence of Buddhist practice.

Augustine did, however, recognise a phenomenon he called jubilation-sounds of exaltation without words ; commentators such as Richard Hogue speculate that the practice of singing in the spirit persisted in Augustine's era, although xenoglossia was no longer extant among Christian:

In practice, however, only the simulation of diffuse inter-reflection or caustics is called global illumination.

The Premier then directs the Governor to appoint other members of parliament to the Executive Council of New South Wales known as the Cabinet, and it is in practice only from this group of ministers of the Crown that the Queen and governor will take direction on the use of executive power, an arrangement called the Queen-in-Council or, more specifically, the Governor-in-Council.

A writer of hymns is known as a hymnist or hymnodist, and the practice of singing hymns is called hymnody ; the same word is used for the collectivity of hymns belonging to a particular denomination or period ( e. g. " nineteenth century Methodist hymnody " would mean the body of hymns written and / or used by Methodists in the 19th century ).

In the early stages of the book when Peig was young they often went to sessions at peoples houses in a practice called ' bothántiocht '.

" In 2000, biographer Carter Wiseman called Pei " the most distinguished member of his Late-Modernist generation still in practice ".

All states have provisions in their rate regulation laws or in their fair trade practice acts that prohibit unfair discrimination, often called redlining, in setting rates and making insurance available.

Reynolds often adapted the poses of his subjects from the works of earlier artists, a practice mocked by Nathaniel Hone in a painting called The Conjuror submitted to the Royal Academy exhibition of 1775, and now in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland.

Although the new treaty called for ten more years of trade between the U. S. and the British Empire, and gave American merchants certain guarantees that would have been good for business, Jefferson refused to give up the potential weapon of commercial warfare against Britain and was unhappy that it did not end the hated British practice of impressment of American sailors.