Also, in this region, " box cutter " usually evokes only a specific subset of these knives ( the simpler type whose body consists only of a flat sleeve stamped from sheet steel ), and " pen knife " usually evokes only a folding pocket knife.

The axle box suspension usually consists of a spring between the bogie frame and axle bearings to permit up-and-down movement, and sliders to prevent lateral movement.

This usually consists of three new comic strips being run for a number of weeks and the readers can vote on which strips they prefer and the one that receives the most votes stays in the Beano.

Outside of Mexican-American communities, the term has been considered pejorative and takes on subjective view but usually consists of one or more of the following elements.

A carbohydrate is an organic compound that consists only of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, usually with a hydrogen: oxygen atom ratio of 2: 1 ( as in water ); in other words, with the empirical formula.

The Lesson, as it is informally called, is compiled by a committee at The Mother Church, and is usually made up of six sections, each of which consists of passages from the Bible ( read by the Second Reader ) and passages from Science and Health ( read by the First Reader ).

An anchor rode ( or anchor line ) usually consists of chain or cable or both.

The settlement may also include – and usually primarily consists of – monetary compensation of damages.

In chemistry, a coordination complex or metal complex, consists of an atom or ion ( usually metallic ), and a surrounding array of bound molecules or anions, that are in turn known as ligands or complexing agents.

One loop of wire is usually referred to as a turn, and a coil consists of one or more turns.

A symbol input device usually consists of a number of switches that are polled at regular intervals to see which switches are pressed.

Ethiopian cuisine characteristically consists of spicy vegetable and meat dishes, usually in the form of wat ( or wot ), a thick stew, served atop injera, a large sourdough flatbread, which is about 50 centimeters ( 20 inches ) in diameter and made out of fermented teff flour.

In American and Canadian football, a forward pass — usually referred to simply as a pass — consists of one offensive player throwing the football towards another downfield in the direction of the opponent's goal line.

Counties are usually sub-divided into municipalities, but Gotland County only consists of one municipality: Gotland Municipality.

Given both Einstein's equations and suitable equations for the properties of matter, such a solution consists of a specific semi-Riemannian manifold ( usually defined by giving the metric in specific coordinates ), and specific matter fields defined on that manifold.

Each codon consists of three nucleotide s, usually representing a single amino acid.

A perfect hash function for n keys is said to be minimal if its range consists of n consecutive integers, usually from 0 to n − 1.

In an organization, the hierarchy usually consists of a singular / group of power at the top with subsequent levels of power beneath them.

The substance of an indictment or other charging instrument is usually the same, regardless of the jurisdiction: it consists of a short and plain statement of where, when, and how the defendant allegedly committed the offense.

A team usually consists of four lines of three forwards, three pairs of defencemen and two goalies.

Shortform improv consists of short scenes usually constructed from a predetermined game, structure, or idea and driven by an audience suggestion.

This kiln usually consists of one long firing chamber, pierced with smaller stacking ports on one side, with a firebox at one end and a flue at the other.

They are usually bisexual and verticillastrate ( a flower cluster that looks like a whorl of flowers but actually consists of two crowded clusters ).

They may even enroll a colored student or two for show, though he usually turns out to be from Thailand, or any place other than the American South.

So all-important are ideas, we are told, that persons successful in business and happy in social life usually fall into two classes: those who invent new ideas of their own, and those who borrow, beg, or steal from others.

On Sundays, with the permission of Captain Heard, who usually attended with two of his officers, services were held in the double cabin.

So the Commission's announcements of the new Soviet shots have been confined to one or two bleak sentences, with the fission yield usually left vague.

About a quarter of Hardy's poems carry an appended date line, usually the year of completion, but sometimes inclusive years ( `` 1908 - 1910 '' ) or two separate dates when Hardy worked on the poem ( `` 1905 and 1926 '' ) or an approximate date ( `` During the War '' ).

`` After your child's baby teeth are all in -- usually at the age of two and one half to three -- it's time for that first dental appointment '', Dr. Brodie advises.

If you are not well acquainted with the area in which you wish to locate, or if you are not sure that you and your family will like and make a success of farming, usually you would do better to rent a place for a year or two before you buy.

Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

The education bill appears to be temporarily stalled in the Rules Committee, where two Northern Democratic members who usually vote with the Administration are balking because of the religious controversy.

But when Gloriana rides with them they also have to take the two girls who usually ride with her, so the little car isn't big enough.

The liver is usually large with two lobes.

Holders of territories have a " home advantage " and usually come off better in an encounter between two similar sized frogs.

The wires are usually bowed to bulge upward in the center, to keep the beads pinned to either of the two sides.

Adobe walls usually never rise above two stories because they are load bearing and have low structural strength.

The three petals ( or inner tepals ), also showy, are located alternately between the sepals, two at the side and one usually at the bottom of the flower.

The two large families are cosmopolitan, with many of their species found in the northern hemisphere, and the smaller families are usually confined to Australia and the adjacent areas, or sometimes South America.

The experience requirement for degreed candidates is usually satisfied by a practicum or internship ( usually two to three years, depending on jurisdiction ).

During each winter there is usually one fall of snow in the south and two in the north ; but the snow quickly disappears, and sometimes, during an entire winter, the ground is not covered with snow.

Arminian theology usually falls into one of two groups — Classical Arminianism, drawn from the teaching of Jacobus Arminius — and Wesleyan Arminian, drawing primarily from Wesley.

The two terms may not have originally been distinguished ; though in Homer's poems nectar is usually the drink and ambrosia the food of the gods ; it was with ambrosia Hera " cleansed all defilement from her lovely flesh ", and with ambrosia Athena prepared Penelope in her sleep, so that when she appeared for the final time before her suitors, the effects of years had been stripped away and they were inflamed with passion at the sight of her.

" Identical vertices " are usually taken to mean that for any two vertices, there must be an isometry of the entire solid that takes one vertex to the other.

In addition to over, Porter and Duff defined the compositing operators in, held out by ( usually abbreviated out ), atop, and xor ( and the reverse operators rover, rin, rout, and ratop ) from a consideration of choices in blending the colors of two pixels when their coverage is, conceptually, overlaid orthogonally:

In three dimensions, a single equation usually gives a surface, and a curve must be specified as the intersection of two surfaces ( see below ), or as a system of parametric equations.

The same types of conditions are usually considered stressful for these two types of organisms.