The one way to get around them -- short of knowing exactly what one wants and sticking to it -- is to frequent a single establishment until its wine waiter is persuaded that one is at least as interested in wine as in spending money.

In a perfect anagram, every letter must be used, with exactly the same number of occurrences as in the anagrammed word or phrase ; any result that falls short is called an imperfect anagram.

A meeting chaired by Charles A. Phillips was held at the Pentagon on May 28 and 29 of 1959 ( exactly one year after the Zürich ALGOL 58 meeting ); there it was decided to set up three committees: short, intermediate and long range ( the last one was never actually formed ).

* Reverse understatements or litotes, such as " not so big " for " short ", " not exactly a supermodel " for " ugly ", or " not true " for " a lie "

Determining what exactly separates a short story from longer fictional formats is problematic.

Travellers can also negotiate with car taxi drivers to go off-route for short distances for an additional charge if one's destination is not exactly on the car taxi's route.

Following the 2011 election, Welsh Labour held exactly half of the seats in the Assembly, falling just short of an overall majority.

In Edipo Re ( a short one act work ) the composer uses exactly the same melody for the final scene " Miei poveri fior, per voi non più sole ..." ( with the blinded Edipo ) as he had for the act 4 soprano aria from Der Roland von Berlin.

However, speakers at the enquiry drew attention to the ' co-incidence ' that a collector road proposed in the AAP happened to meet the main road ( Bittacy Hill ) exactly opposite the short section of Sanders Lane still open to traffic.

He relates to Shapiro that he never knows exactly how to entertain an audience “ short of faking my own death or setting the theater on fire ”.

The abdomen is short and rounded at the rear, rather than extending into a segmented tail and stinger like true scorpions ( the fact that they look exactly like scorpions, aside from not having a stinger tail, is the source of the name " Pseudoscorpion ").

* January 18 – exactly four years after Australia's Susie O ' Neill set her world record ( 2: 04. 16 ) in the women's 200m butterfly ( short course ), Yang Yu from PR China betters that time at Berlin, clocking 2: 04. 04

Somerset Maugham, in his short story " The Round Dozen " ( 1924, also known as " The Ardent Bigamist ") observes: " I remember Miss Broughton telling me once that when she was young people said her books were fast and when she was old they said they were slow, and it was very hard since she had written exactly the same sort of book for forty years ".

However, in the meantime, Shepherd's team discovers he is exactly three votes short, with no other apparent options to acquire them except by shelving the environmental bill, thus solidifying the support of the three Congressmen from Michigan – which he agrees to do.

The head with its short muzzle, staring malignant eyes, and gaping, cruelly armed jaws, is the embodiment of evil ferocity ; and the actions of the fish exactly match its looks.

It was there, under those circumstances, myself sitting near an open window, the rain occasionally blowing in and wetting my bare back, that I did my first writing ... I wrote it, as I wrote them all, complete in the one sitting ... The rest of the stories in the book came out of me on succeeding evenings, and sometimes during the day while I worked in the advertising office ..." Study of his manuscripts show that, though it is probably true that most of the stories were written within a relatively short span of time in late 1915, like a number of facts in Anderson's retelling of his writing process ( for instance, his claim that he had written the Winesburg, Ohio stories after his earlier books were already published ), it is inaccurate to say that the final versions of the stories published in 1919 were exactly the same as the ones written whole four years earlier.

It sound very “ metallic ” and it is a very short and not exactly a song at all.

Their concern was well-founded: subsequent history has shown not only that NSA actively intervened with IBM and NBS to shorten the key size, but also that the short key size enabled exactly the kind of massively parallel key crackers that Hellman and Diffie sketched out, which when ultimately built outside the classified world, made it clear that DES was insecure and obsolete.

Experiments using the peak procedure and other methods have shown that animals can time short intervals quite exactly, can time more than one event at once, and can integrate time with spatial and other cues.

Their concern was well-founded: subsequent history has shown not only that NSA actively intervened with IBM and NBS to shorten the key size, but also that the short key size enabled exactly the kind of massively parallel key crackers that Hellman and Diffie sketched out.

Correction tape is sold in short spools for hand use, or as long rolls to be used in typewriters, which apply sudden pressure when a key is struck, and can therefore apply the masking material in exactly the same shape and position as the erroneous character.

The short lived show maintained almost exactly the same format as Bullard's previous successful show, Open Mike with Mike Bullard, which had ended its six-year run only five months earlier.

It is a very short poetic form, exactly in 2 lines, the first line consisting of 4 words and the second line consisting of 3.

The long diagonal of each face is exactly √ 2 times the length of the short diagonal, so that the acute angles on each face measure arccos ( 1 / 3 ), or approximately 70. 53 °.

the days seemed short, perhaps because his routine was, each day, almost the same.

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

In most salamanders, the limbs are short and more or less the same length and project at right angles from the body.

For example, in the first editions of the collection The Mysterious Mr Quin ( 1930 ), in the short story " The Soul of the Croupier ," she described " Hebraic men with hook-noses wearing rather flamboyant jewellery "; in later editions the passage was edited to describe " sallow men " wearing same.

Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels, one play, and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era.

For galaxies ( which are of course themselves much larger than 10 parsecs, and whose overall brightness cannot be directly observed from relatively short distances ) the absolute magnitude is defined by reference to the apparent brightness of a point-like or star-like source of the same total luminosity as the galaxy, as it would appear if observed at the standard 10 parsecs distance.

In addition, the company has faced criticism from the gaming community for re-releasing the same game within a short period with minor changes or additions.

Since computers can make arithmetic calculations much faster and more accurately than humans, it was thought to be only a short matter of time before the technical details could be taken care of that would allow them the same remarkable capacity to process language.

Firearms with shoulder stocks and barrels less than 406 mm ( 16 in ) in length are classified as " short barreled rifles " ( under the US National Firearms Act or NFA ), and are sometimes restricted in the same way that short barrel shotguns and machine guns are.

Carmilla was first published in the magazine The Dark Blue in 1872, and then in the author's collection of short stories, In a Glass Darkly the same year.

But within a short time, Joe Shuster and his ghost artists began depicting Clark Kent ripping open his shirt to reveal the " S " insignia on his chest — an image which became so iconic that other superheroes, during the Golden Age and later periods, would copy the same type of change during transformations.

Both long and short forms of the vowels are listed separately in the Hungarian alphabet but members of the pairs a / á, e / é, i / í, o / ó, ö / ő, u / ú and ü / ű are collated in dictionaries as the same letter.

The first, known as Meyer's Bridge, is in the second foot: if the second foot is a dactyl, the two short syllables must be part of the same word-unit.

The second, known as Hermann's Bridge, is the same rule in the fourth foot: if the fourth foot is a dactyl, the two short syllables must also be part of the same word-unit.

One of Wollheim's short stories, " Mimic ," was made into the feature film of the same name, released in 1997.

" The film Little Miss Marker ( and its remake, Sorrowful Jones ) grew from his short story of the same name.

Another argument that challenges reliabilism, like the Gettier cases ( although it was not presented in the same short article as the Gettier cases ), is the case of Henry and the barn façades.

Some examples of rhyming slang may serve the same purpose — to call a person a berk sounds less offensive than to call a person a cunt, though berk is short for Berkeley Hunt, which rhymes with cunt.

That same year, a New York composer named Nico Muhly premiered a short opera based on the book.

The 1973 Canadian animated short, The Family That Dwelt Apart, is based on his short story of the same name and is narrated by White.

These original epigrams did the same job as a short prose text might have done, but in verse.