One, the ABCDE order later used in Phoenician, has continued with minor changes in Hebrew, Greek, Armenian, Gothic, Cyrillic, and Latin ; the other, HMĦLQ, was used in southern Arabia and is preserved today in Ethiopic.

* Aspirin, a salicylate drug, often used as an analgesic to relieve minor aches and pains, as an antipyretic to reduce fever, and as an anti-inflammatory medication

Over the past 400 years the form of the language used in the Americas — especially in the United States — and that used in the United Kingdom have diverged in a few minor ways, leading to the dialects now occasionally referred to as American English and British English.

Lidocaine is also used for painful mouth sores and to numb areas for dental work and minor medical procedures.

The same basic format ( with minor differences mainly related to timing and the encoding of color ) is used for PAL, NTSC and SECAM television systems.

Abacá fiber was once used primarily for rope, but this application is now of minor significance.

In the use of the terms " tranquilizer " and " ataractic ", medical practitioners distinguished between the " major tranquilizers " or " major ataractics ", which referred to drugs used to treat psychoses, and the " minor tranquilizers " or " minor ataractics ", which referred to drugs used to treat neuroses.

In Austria, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Serbian nationalist insurgents ( The Black Hand ) is blamed for igniting World War I after a succession of minor conflicts, while belligerents on both sides in World War II used operatives specifically trained for assassination.

In the past aviation compared with road and railroad transport used to be a minor mode of freight movement, and only 860, 000 passengers used Bulgarian airlines in 2001.

Different magazines were published featuring programs for specific computers, though some BASIC programs were considered universal and could be used in machines running any variant of BASIC ( sometimes with minor adaptations ).

The versicles are short responsories used after the little chapters in the minor hours.

The Copper Age features the use of copper, excluding bronze ; moreover, stone continued to be used in a minor industry throughout both the Bronze Age and the Iron Age.

One of the first was an Oregon man with a minor police record named D. B. Cooper, contacted by Portland police on the off-chance that the hijacker had used his real name, or the same alias in a previous crime.

Like many other alphabetic orthographies, English spelling does not represent non-contrastive phonetic sounds ( that is, minor differences in pronunciation which are not used to distinguish between different words ).

The Freikorps were regarded as unreliable by regular armies, so they were mainly used as sentries and for minor duties.

Flamenco uses the modern Phrygian mode ( modo frigio ), or a harmonic version of that scale with a major 3rd degree, in addition to the major and minor scales commonly used in modern western music.

The later Greek alphabet is derived from the Phoenician alphabet ( abjad ); with minor modifications, it is still used today.

George Frideric Handel used the tune as the theme in the variation piece ' Sarabande ' of his Suite No. 4 in E minor, HWV 429, composed prior to 1720.

The tonal novelties consist in the introduction of a few chords used in classical music for centuries.

Played in an ensemble / orchestra, such notes are frequently used to provide a counterpoint or counter-melody, in a harmonic context either to outline or juxtapose the progression of the chords, or with percussion to underline the rhythm.

An important part of balalaika technique is the use of the left thumb to fret notes on the lower string, particularly on the prima, where it is used to form chords.

The code is optimized for speed and low wear: chords were chosen so that the most common characters used the simplest chords.

Researchers at IBM investigated chord keyboards for both typewriters and computer data entry as early as 1959, with the idea that it might be faster than touch-typing if some chords were used to enter whole words or parts of words.

In some applications, the spacebar is used to produce additional chords which enable the user to issue editing commands, such as moving the cursor, or deleting words.

Some tracks were composed using Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies cards: " Boys Keep Swinging " entailed band members swapping instruments, " Move On " used the chords from Bowie's early composition " All the Young Dudes " played backwards, and " Red Money " took backing tracks from " Sister Midnight ", a piece previously composed with Iggy Pop.

The Mellertion ( 1933 ) used a non-standard scale, Bertrand's Dynaphone could produce octaves and perfect fifths, while the Emicon was an American, keyboard-controlled instrument constructed in 1930 and the German Hellertion combined four instruments to produce chords.

In more modern music, the fifth finger is used very rarely, for example in simultaneous cluster chords, such as in Daniel Kessner's Sonatina.

Perhaps the most notable innovations used by Impressionist composers were the first uses of major 7th chords and the extension of chord structures in 3rds to five and six part harmonies.

By the 1930s, the guitar began to displace the banjo as the primary chordal rhythm instrument in jazz music, because the guitar could be used to voice chords of greater harmonic complexity, and it had a somewhat more muted tone that blended well with the upright bass, which, by this time, had almost completely replaced the tuba as the dominant bass instrument in jazz music.

Jazz guitarists learn to perform these chords over the range of different chord progressions used in jazz, such as the II-V-I progression, the jazz-style blues progression, the minor jazz-style blues form, the " rhythm changes " progression, and the variety of chord progressions used in jazz ballads, and jazz standards.

The first browser that used advanced mouse gestures ( in 2002 ) was Maxthon, in which a highly customizable interface allowed the assignment of almost every action to one of 52 mouse gestures and few mouse chords.

Though, " traditional functions do not apply ," such as the, " brief forays into another key ," implied by secondary dominants, the, " traditional ," ' five-of ' ( V / x ) names are often used by musicians without formal training and are useful to, " distinguish them from the ... chords of the chromatic-minor system.

Alternate tunings ( called scordatura ) were often employed, particularly in the solo lyra viol style of playing, which also made use of many techniques such as chords and pizzicato, not generally used in consort playing.

While most electric bass players rarely play chords ( two or more notes all sounded at the same time ), chords are used in some styles, especially jazz, progressive rock or Heavy Metal.

Breaking with their usual pattern, neither Harpo's harp nor Chico's piano is used in the film, although Harpo briefly pretends to play harp on the strings of a piano, strumming chords in accompaniment to a music box that is playing the unlikely chime tune, " Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

Non-free jazz forms used harmonic structures ( usually cycles of diatonic chords ).

All the chords are major chords or seventh chords, and all the musical letters of the alphabet ( A, B, C, D, E, F and G ) are used.

But what a super-Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud-beplastered arguments used so freely, particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes, in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy.

The two Governments agree that the rupees accruing to the Government of the United States of America as a consequence of sales made pursuant to this Agreement will be used by the Government of the United States of America, in such manner and order of priority as the Government of the United States of America shall determine, for the following purposes in the amounts shown: ( A )

The deposit of rupees to the account of the Government of the United States of America in payment for the commodities and for ocean transportation costs financed by the Government of the United States of America ( except excess costs resulting from the requirement that United States flag vessels be used ) shall be made at the rate of exchange for United States dollars generally applicable to import transactions ( excluding imports granted a preferential rate ) in effect on the dates of dollar disbursement by United States banks, or by the Government of the United States of America, as provided in the purchase authorizations.

The rupee equivalent of $63.8 million, but not more than 5 percent of the currencies received under the Agreement will be used for loans to be made by the Export-Import Bank of Washington under Section 104 ( E ) of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act, as amended ( hereinafter referred to as the Act ), and for administrative expenses of the Export-Import Bank of Washington in India incident thereto.

Photos of Conference Rooms and the General Assembly Hall can be made when these rooms are not being used for meetings.

Besides flathead bronze screws, silicon bronze Stronghold nails ( made by Independent Nail & Packing Co., Bridgewater, Mass. ) are used extensively in assembly and Weldwood resorcinol glue is used in all the joints.

I used a Homemaster Routo-Jig made by Porter Cable for this job.

As everybody is curious to see the battery of glass tubes I have invented, I have had quite a small one made here of four glass tubes ( in Copenhagen I used 30 ) and intend to carry it with me ''.

Not all the observers have used the same procedures or made the same assumptions about the lunar brightness distribution when reducing the data, and this, together with differences in the methods of calibrating the antennae and receivers, must account for much of the disagreement in the measured radio brightness temperatures.

A system had to be used which did not depend upon the feeding of the fluid into the manometer if measurements of the normal pressure were to be made in a reasonable time.

Hard-surface cleaning in household application is represented by two classes of alkaline products: ( 1 ) the formulations made expressly for machine dishwashers, and ( 2 ) the general-purpose cleaners used for walls and woodwork.

The soiled fabrics used for rapid testing of detergent formulations are made in such a way that only part of the soil is removed by even the best detergent formulation in a single wash.

For example, one hebephrenic man used to annoy me, month after month, by saying, whenever I got up to leave and made my fairly steoreotyped comment that I would be seeing him on the following day, or whenever, `` You're welcome '', in a notably condescending fashion -- as though it were his due for me to thank him for the privilege of spending the hour with him, and he were thus pointing up my failure to utter a humbly grateful, `` thank you '' to him at the end of each session.

Three lists of companies were made and used in the study.

A most useful tool for wetting the surface without running down was made from a greenhouse `` mist spray '' nozzle welded to a hose connection, to be used at low water pressure.

numbers sometimes followed by letters are used so that insertions can be made.

This test method is intended for determining the dimensional changes of woven or knitted fabrics, made of fibers other than wool, to be expected when the cloth is subjected to laundering procedures commonly used in the commercial laundry and the home.

The only available field that could be used near flood-ravaged Montpelier was on the Towne farm off upper Main Street, a narrow hillside where takeoffs and landings could be safely made only under light wind conditions.

Russian tanks and artillery parading through the streets of Havana, Russian intrigue in the Congo, and Russian arms drops in Laos ( using the same Ilyushin transports that were used to carry Communist agents to the Congo ) made it plain once more that the cold war was all of a piece in space and time.

He used one of the cow's intestines and the tortoise shell and made the first lyre.

The term allocutio was used by the ancient Romans for the speech made by a commander to his troops, either before a battle or during it, to animate and encourage them.

Therefore, pure antimony is not used to make hard objects: coins made of antimony were issued in China's Guizhou province in 1931, but because of their rapid wear, their minting was discontinued.

Although hydrogen-like orbitals are still used as pedagogical tools, the advent of computers has made STOs preferable for atoms and diatomic molecules since combinations of STOs can replace the nodes in hydrogen-like atomic orbital.

A later senatorial investigation into the disappearance of the public funds made no action against Octavian, since he subsequently used that money to raise troops against the Senate's arch enemy, Mark Antony.