This tendency increases with long exposure to sunlight or when it is applied over soft woods like pine.

Moliation can be made permanent and used to fabricate soft goods such as fabrics and woods in the underworld in a process similar to Soulforging.

Fallen cladodes form a dense, soft mat beneath sheoaks, preventing the development of undergrowth and making sheoak woods remarkably quiet.

Before the toothbrush was invented, teeth were cleaned with hard and soft dental woods.

This particular breed of ant can inhabit open wood with both hard and soft woods, dense pine forests, and even moor land.

Even earlier, however, local villagers had experience making tableware from soft woods.

Graining was common in the 19th century, as people were keen on imitating hard, expensive woods by applying a superficial layer of paint onto soft, inexpensive woods.

A razor saw is capable of making clean cuts in very soft woods like Balsa, which most other saws would tend to tear out.

On soft woods, a wood conditioner ( thinned shellac or varnish ) allows for more even coloring of stain.

The ground was covered with soft pine needles and the slope was gentle.

For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.

The countryside looked like a beautiful open park with gentle slopes and soft gray tree-clumps.

Seeking an obscure, dark, relatively quiet corner in the airy room otherwise suffused with afternoon sunshine, he asked if the soft background music could be turned off.

From his playmates in Savannah, Mercer had picked up, along with a soft Southern dialect, traces also of the Gullah dialects of Africa.

In order to write with authority either about musicians, or as a musician, Patchen would have to soft pedal his characteristically outspoken anger, and change ( at least for the purposes of this poetry ) from a revolutionary to a victim.

Turn off at any one of the marked picnic areas ( gasoline companies have touring service bureaus that issue booklets on national parks to tell you where you have barbecue facilities ) and -- with soft drinks cooled from morning loading up, hamburger, buns, an array of relishes, and fresh fruit -- your lunch is 75% cheaper than at a restaurant, and 100% more fun.

Blend 2 cups biscuit mix with 2/3 cup milk to make a soft dough.

Slight tapping on the underside of mold will help release the clay, but too much agitation will cause the clay to become soft and will interfere with removal of clay from mold.

The night we first met, at one of Mrs. Monmouth's giant parties, he was wearing a brown cashmere jacket with silver buttons and a soft pink Viyella shirt ; ;

He snuck up on the ham like Maggie, gumming it with soft, stumpy teeth, then panting with thirst, lapping up the water in the lagoon, swelling up like a balloon, staggering home to be sick, while his mother said, `` That does it.

The alkali metals are a group of chemical elements in the periodic table with very similar properties: they are all shiny, soft, silvery, highly reactive metals at standard temperature and pressure and readily lose their outermost electron to form cations with charge + 1.

The subfamily can be easily recognized by its characteristic smell ( the smell of garlic and onions, singular enough to be called " garlic odour "), by the very soft, fleshy leaves and the umbel-like inflorescence at the end of a stem ( scape ), which has small to medium flowers with a superior ovary.

A soft, silvery-white radioactive metal, actinium reacts rapidly with oxygen and moisture in air forming a white coating of actinium oxide that prevents further oxidation.

Americium is a relatively soft radioactive metal with silvery appearance.

When initially expelled by or removed from the whale, the fatty precursor of ambergris is pale white in color ( sometimes streaked with black ), soft, with a strong fecal smell.

Caustic potash was traditionally used in conjunction with animal fats to produce soft soaps, one of the caustic processes that rendered soaps from fats in the process of saponification, known since antiquity.

Applications with high water temperatures, chlorides present or deviating water qualities ( soft water ) play a role.

Beads can be woven together with specialized thread, strung onto thread or soft, flexible wire, or adhered to a surface ( e. g. fabric, clay ).

Brain tissue in its natural state is too soft to work with, but it can be hardened by immersion in alcohol or other fixatives, and then sliced apart for examination of the interior.

In some words of French origin, the " soft G " is pronounced as a fricative (), as in rouge, beige, and genre.

The creators of the format pronounced GIF with a soft " G " as in " gin ".

* A variant of the Hindi-Urdu word for alcohol, madhu, pronounced with a soft " d " and cognate with the word mead

" Since Benjamin Gaither lived during the 18th century, it's probable that his name was pronounced with a soft TH as in most native English names and words in which it occurs in the middle, and this would have been carried over into the city name.

The letter i in this spelling implies a soft consonant like modern English j ; the second part of the name would be pronounced approximately as-ageul would be in modern French.

However, a fourth model available only as a hardtop, the Grande, ( pronounced ' grund-ai ') met a degree of success starting in 1969 with its soft ride, " luxurious " trim, of extra sound deadening, and simulated wood trim.

The town name is pronounced with a soft ' g ' because of its French roots.

Gennett ( pronounced with a soft G ) was a United States based record label which flourished in the 1920s.

When " n " or " m " follow a vowel, the " n " or " m " becomes silent and causes the preceding vowel to become nasal ( i. e. pronounced with the soft palate extended downward so as to allow part or all of the air to leave through the nostrils ).

Again, as the seven double letters vary, being pronounced either hard or soft, so the seven planets are in continuous movement, approaching or receding from the earth.

After Lord Kaeo had captured the satisfactory quota of elephants and had trained them as instructed, he decided to head back, and so elected the son-in-law of Phakamong, Saenkom ( แสนโกม ), as the kang ( ก ้ าง ) or village chief to oversee the village and it was then that the village was named Ban Mae Rong Son, or Village of the Elephant Training Camp Bayou ( บ ้ านแม ่ ร ่ องสอน ); later, the name Mae Rong Son was corrupted to Mae Hong Son, as pronounced in the brogue of the Lannanese ( initial r's are often pronounced as h's ), and the aforementioned second brook that ran north was named Lamnam Pu ( ลำน ้ ำป ุ๊) on finding water there splashing up from the earth ( lamnam refers to any body of flowing water ; pu is the sound produced when throwing a stone or brick into the mud or against a soft substance ).

The parody news anchor Stephen Colbert made fun of the name change by giving the channel a " Tip of the Hat " for " spelling the name the way it's pronounced " and noting that " the tide is turning in my long fought battle against the insidious ' soft C. The new name took effect on July 7, 2009.

The modern form has a pronounced bulge to help direct the force of strikes away from the soft areas in the middle of the torso.

For example, in Italian, before the front vowels e and i, the letter c ( which otherwise represents, a velar consonant ), has come to be pronounced as the palato-alveolar consonant, like English " ch " ( see hard and soft c ).

Growth was particularly pronounced in the production and assembly of consumer goods, including vehicle assembly, and the manufacture of soap and detergents, soft drinks, pharmaceuticals, beer, paint, and building materials.

In current Kimbundu language, her name should be spelled Njinga, with the second letter being a soft " j " as the letter is pronounced in French and Portuguese.

The Arabic word is pronounced, roughly like the English word guzzle, but with the pronounced without a complete closure between the tongue and the soft palate.

However, the French " ch " and " j "/ soft " g " are pronounced like " s " and " z " respectively in Mauritian, and the French rounded front vowels " u " and " eu " are realized as " i " and " e " respectively.

It is pronounced like, except that the tongue makes contact not on the soft palate but on the uvula.

The valley is pronounced as in was, not with a hard a: the name of the lake similarly but with a soft " s " as in " thou wast ".

I liked the alliteration with ' Goat '", his editor naturally reminded him of the correct pronunciation: the title is to be pronounced with a soft ' G ', " whether we like it or not.

Skoj ( pronounced " skoy ") is a cider-based soft drink, manufactured by the Swedish Skoj Beverage Group.