Even at this short distance they were only vague shapes, setting up the machine gun on a small knoll so that it could fire above the heads of the rest of the patrol.

The major training need of a new industrial plant is a short period of pre-employment training for a large number of semi-skilled machine operators.

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.

* Contrarian investors distinguish " in the short run, the market is a voting machine, not a weighing machine ".

The whimsical Svetz series consists of a collection of short stories, The Flight of the Horse, and a novel, Rainbow Mars, which involve a nominal time machine sent back to retrieve long-extinct animals, but which travels, in fact, into alternate realities and brings back mythical creatures such as a Roc and a Unicorn.

As an offensive weapon, the machine pistol has limited uses, because it fires pistol ammunition and has a short barrel, which means that it is both inaccurate and lacks power in open-country fighting at a several-hundred meter range.

While training doctrines for machine pistols vary between armies, in general, soldiers are instructed to use the weapon for short bursts, rather than for an uninterrupted period of automatic fire, because the weapon easily gets out of control in sustained firing, which means that many of the rounds may be off target.

This is also the case for a cash machine, except that the ' user name ' is typically the account number stored on the bank customer's card, and the PIN is usually quite short ( 4 to 6 digits ).

alt = A short skirted women stands assertively behind a sitting man in front of a large machine

The photoresist is exposed by a stepper, a machine that focuses, aligns, and moves the mask, exposing select portions of the wafer to short wavelength light.

It is important that the machine contains a high-quality RNG implementation, because all PRNGs must eventually repeat their number sequence ( see Art of Computer Programming Volume 2 Chapter 3, Random numbers ), and if the period is short, or the PRNG is otherwise flawed, an advanced player may be able to ' predict ' the next result.

For a machine not in constant use, energy can be conserved by putting the machine into low-power RAM standby after a short timeout period.

This suggests that a wormhole time machine with an exceedingly short time jump is a theoretical bridge between contemporaneous parallel universes.

A cotton gin ( short for cotton engine ) is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, a job that otherwise must be performed painstakingly by hand.

In the case of short proofs ( of length bounded by a polynomial in the size of the input ) which can be efficiently verified ( V is a polynomial-time deterministic Turing machine ), the string w is called a witness.

* Zaharoff's adventures in the arms trade ( particularly the machine gun sales ) resemble those of the main character, Hector Sarek, in Gerald Kersh's short story " Comrade Death ".

The bridge at Son was blown up as they approached it, after being delayed by a short engagement with a German and a machine gun.

The CPU could hand off short programs written in the channel controller's own machine language, which would then process the data, move it to or from the memory, and raise an interrupt when they completed.

The short pamphlet noted the importance of dedicated hand grenade, rifle grenade and machine gun sections in suppressing enemy strong points with an appropriate level of fire to permit other military units to advance.

Animation artist Max Fleischer introduced a series of sing-along short cartoons called Screen Songs, which invited audiences to sing along to popular songs by " following the bouncing ball ", which is similar to a modern karaoke machine.

On May 13, 2008, the building of the Faculty of Architecture was destroyed by fire, presumably caused by a short circuit in a coffee machine due to a ruptured water pipe.

The short answer to those questions is `` yes ''.

It is the gait of the human who must run to live: arms dangling, legs barely swinging over the ground, head hung down and only occasionally swinging up to see the target, a loose motion that is just short of stumbling and yet is wonderfully graceful.

And yet amid all the gay hedonism in Pilgrimage And Wander-Years is a cycle of short poems, `` Thoughts In Loneliness '', filled with brooding, melancholy, and sombre longing ''.

The short poems grouped at the end of the volume as `` Thoughts in Loneliness '' is, as Professor Book indicated, in sharp contrast with the others.

In short, the fictional private eye is a specialized version of Adam Smith's ideal entrepreneur, the man whose private ambitions must always and everywhere promote the public welfare.

In short, he is constantly concerned with the ethical effects.

In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.

Krim says, in short, that he is a suffering Jew.

It is a short course in Communese.

A requirement of reasonably honest administration may be politically uncomfortable in the short run, but it is politically essential in the long run.

Sacrifice will have to be made in some cases, but it is to the municipality's advantage to finance the change-over for a short period of time rather than pay interest on tax anticipation notes indefinitely.

This agreement is considered very good for such short time intervals.

The need here is most clearly felt and our capacity to recruit and train qualified volunteers in a short period of time is greatest.

Interim financing of construction costs is provided by a short term loan from The Chase Manhattan Bank.

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

Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

As shown in Fig. 4, an external antenna is placed over or around the patient and excited 3000 times a second with short 400-kc. bursts.

The central storage is near a main artery quite easy to reach with large transports on a short crescent swing, with fewer trucks in the residential streets.

It is convenient to classify a child's onset ages and completion ages as `` advanced '', `` moderate '' ( modal ), or `` delayed '' according to whether the child's age equivalent `` dots '' appeared to the left of, upon, or to the right of the appropriate short transverse line.

The growth center depicted here, in the distal phalanx of the second finger, is listed as the fifth of those in the seven short bones.

In some programs, treatment is concentrated over a short period of time, while in others, after the initial contact is established, flexible spacing of interviews has been experimentally used with apparent success.