He must construct transitions so that a dancer who is told to lie prone one second and to leap wildly the next will have some physical preparation for the leap.

he is prone to semi-catatonic trances induced by the playing of the vioiln ; ;

And a minister of all men is most conscious that he is mere man -- prone to the stresses that earthly humanity is heir to.

She is even prone to regard the college girl as immature.

This algorithm is much less prone to loss of precision due to massive cancellation, but might not be as efficient because of the division operation inside the loop.

Academic elitism is the criticism that academia or academicians are prone to elitism, or that certain experts or intellectuals propose ideas based more on support from academic colleagues than on real world experience.

Proponents of the adversarial system often argue that the system is more fair and less prone to abuse than the inquisitional approach, because it allows less room for the state to be biased against the defendant.

He is the more excitable of the two ; despite his obliviousness to what should be obvious, he is prone to moments of insight.

Long-term use is controversial due to concerns about adverse psychological and physical effects, increased questioning of effectiveness and because benzodiazepines are prone to cause tolerance, physical dependence, and, upon cessation of use after long term use, a withdrawal syndrome.

Vitamin C is especially prone to oxidation during cooking and may be completely destroyed by protracted cooking.

The remainder of the country is prone to flooding from nearby rivers.

Casuistry is prone to abuses wherever the analogies between cases are false.

One of the stars is a flare star, which are prone to sudden, random outbursts that last several minutes ; these increase the pair's apparent brightness significantly-as high as magnitude 7.

Practically, such a matrix is almost singular, and the computation of its inverse, or solution of a linear system of equations is prone to large numerical errors.

Bronze has several characteristics that made it preferable as a construction material: although it is relatively expensive, does not always alloy well, and can result in a final product that is " spongy about the bore ", bronze is more flexible than iron and therefore less prone to bursting when exposed to high pressure ; cast iron cannon are less expensive and more durable generally than bronze and withstand being fired more times without deteriorating.

It is quite prone to considerable reduction and assimilation of both consonants and vowels even in very formal standard language.

As with every software system, a DBMS that operates in a faulty computing environment is prone to failures of many kinds.

As with every software system, a DBMS that operates in a faulty computing environment is prone to failures of many kinds.

Since dachshunds are prone to back issues, the goal is to expand this treatment to dogs in a normal population.

Specimens are allowed to reach moisture equilibrium with a standard atmosphere of Af and Af and then laid out without tension on a flat, polished surface, care being taken that the fabric is free from wrinkles or creases.

In humans for example, the skin located under the eyes and around the eyelids is the thinnest skin in the body at 0. 5 mm thick, and is one of the first areas to show signs of aging such as " crows feet " and wrinkles.

Some clothing is permanent press, having been treated with a coating ( such as polytetrafluoroethylene ) that suppresses wrinkles and creates a smooth appearance without ironing.

Milk fibre fabric is not very durable and wrinkles easily, but has a pH similar to human skin and possesses anti-bacterial properties.

Another option is the custom-made silicone cover, which can be made to match a person's skin tone but not details such as freckles or wrinkles.

A warm iron is applied over a piece of wet cotton to flatten the wrinkles.

It is also purported to result in increased synthesis of collagen, keratin, involucrin and flaggrin, and may also, according to a cosmetic company, be useful for reducing skin hyperpigmentation ( dark acne marks ), increasing skin moisture and reducing fine wrinkles.

In 1932 Schuyler C. Hulett patented an improved design, which used cardboard tubes mounted on the upper and lower parts of the wire to prevent wrinkles, and in 1935 Elmer D. Rogers added a tube on the lower bar, which is still used.

The antiquary was satirised in John Earle's Micro-cosmographie of 1628 (" Hee is one that hath that unnaturall disease to bee enamour'd of old age, and wrinkles, and loves all things ( as Dutchmen doe Cheese ) the better for being mouldy and worme-eaten "), in Jean-Siméon Chardin's painting " Le Singe Antiquaire " ( c. 1726 ), in Sir Walter Scott's novel The Antiquary ( 1816 ), in the caricatures of Thomas Rowlandson, and in many other places.

Bump mapping is a technique in computer graphics for simulating bumps and wrinkles on the surface of an object.

This yeast extract is believed by Pfizer to remove wrinkles from skin and heal dry, cracked, and irritated skin.

Distinguishing factors are color ( the true chanterelle is uniform egg-yellow, while the false one is more orange in hue and graded, with darker center ) and attachment of gills to the stem ( the true chanterelle has ridges or wrinkles, which can be quite deep, but not true gills ).

* Non-flexible collodion is used in theatrical makeup for various effects, such as simulating old-age wrinkles or scars.

When applied to the skin, it shrinks as the solvent ( usually ether or alcohol ) evaporates, causing wrinkles and is used to simulate old age, or scars.

This piece has been described as showing " a greater variety of wrinkles than any other depiction of an elite woman from ancient Egypt " It is thought to represent the image of a wise, older woman.

Theoretically digital information can be stored indefinitely with zero deterioration on a digital storage device ( such as a hard drive ), however since some digital formats ( like MiniDV ) often squeeze tracks only ~ 10 micrometers apart ( versus 19 to 58 μm for VHS ), a digital recording is more vulnerable to wrinkles or stretches in the tape that could permanently erase several scenes worth of digital data, but the additions tracking and error correction code on the tape will generally compensate for most defects.

A proper garment is shaped from the neck to the chest and shoulders to drape without wrinkles from tension.

Ready made and altered " sizes " or pre cut shapes ; a convenience that often is expressed over time with wrinkles from poor shaping, leading to distortion ; The made to measure that uses measurements, not shaping, to achieve things like style, lengths and horizontal measurements ; The custom, bespoke or tailoring-designed suit that has interim half-made fittings and is cut from an actual personal pattern.

June is thrilled when her sons are invited to cotillions and birthday parties but wrinkles her nose with disgust when they bring home wriggling earthworms or rain-soaked clothing.

The neocortex is smooth in rodents and other small mammals, whereas in primates and other larger mammals it has deep grooves ( sulci ) and wrinkles ( gyri ).

Like gray hair and wrinkles, presbyopia is a symptom caused by the natural course of aging.

Here in these little rooms -- or stages arched open to the sky and river -- they choose a few lines out of the hundreds they may know and sing them according to one of the modes into which Persian music is divided.

With troops dispersed on fields of battle rather than on the parade ground, it may seem that a certain amount of monitoring is automatically enforced by the lines of communication.

We feel that The Detroit News is to be complimented upon arranging for articles on these subjects and we hope that it will continue to provide material along wholesome lines.

All I want is a picture -- with a few lines.

These problems frequently arise where a firm is making items for the Government not directly along the lines of its normal civilian business or where the Government specifications require operations that the firm did not understand when it undertook the contract.

He is already beginning to box the compass of alternative lines of action, including doing nothing.

This is true because of savings in utility lines and the fact that your buildings have a useful radius equal in all directions.

Another factor that may hold hope is for parallel recognition is, as one man says it: `` that the fad for educating top people along managerial lines is yielding to the technically trained approach ''.

The idea of a central tank with lines to each house is not in itself a novelty.

Ritter, the builder, is convinced that the total cost of all the heating systems plus the oil distribution system is no greater than would be gas heating systems in the houses plus their lines and meters.

Although the standard deviation values on which spread of the lines is based are relatively larger for those centers which begin to ossify early ( Table 1 ), there are considerable differences in this value between centers having the closely timed Onsets.

Then in 2 we show that any line involution with the properties that ( A ) It has no complex of invariant lines, and ( B ) Its singular lines form a complex consisting exclusively of the lines which meet a twisted curve, is necessarily of the type discussed in 1.

Hence the totality of singular lines is the T order complex of lines which meet Aj.

Since the complex of singular lines is of order K and since there is no complex of invariant lines, it follows from the formula Af that the order of the involution is Af.