) Like the central processing unit ( CPU ) in a modern computer, the mill would rely upon its own internal procedures, to be stored in the form of pegs inserted into rotating drums called " barrels ", to carry out some of the more complex instructions the user's program might specify.

Like the trumpet and all other modern brass wind instruments, the cornet makes a sound when the player vibrates (" buzzes ") the lips in the mouthpiece, creating a vibrating column of air in the tubing.

Like the rest of the world, social mobility in modern England-and Europe-has increased because of industrialization, economic growth, access to knowledge, and cultural transformations.

Like the term " tyrant " ( which was originally a respectable Ancient Greek title ), and to a lesser degree " autocrat ", " dictator " came to be used almost exclusively as a non-titular term for oppressive, even abusive rule, yet had rare modern titular uses.

Like Baroque harps, but unlike modern Western harps, they do not stand upright when unattended.

* Like quicksort, merge sort on arrays has considerably better data cache performance, often outperforming heapsort on modern desktop computers because merge sort frequently accesses contiguous memory locations ( good locality of reference ); heapsort references are spread throughout the heap.

Like the Christian libraries, they mostly contained books which were made of paper, and took a codex or modern form instead of scrolls ; they could be found in mosques, private homes, and universities, from Timbuktu to Afghanistan and modern day Pakistan.

Like their modern relatives, mammoths were quite large.

" Monkey Gone to Heaven " was a Top 10 modern rock radio hit in the U. S., and reached the Top 100 in the U. K. Like Surfer Rosa, Doolittle was acclaimed by fans and music critics alike.

Like most modern programming languages and unlike earlier Lisps such as Maclisp or Emacs Lisp, Scheme is lexically scoped: all possible variable bindings in a program unit can be analyzed by reading the text of the program unit without consideration of the contexts in which it may be called.

Like the latter, Prosalirus did not have greatly enlarged legs but had the typical three-pronged pelvic structure of modern frogs.

Like modern corals, these ancestors built reefs, some of which ended as great structures in sedimentary rocks.

Like many other patronymics in other languages, with the formalization of naming conventions by laws in the late modern contemporary age many turned into surnames.

Like most modern sets, this wooden tangram is stored in the square configuration.

Like Simonides, he followed the lyric tradition of coining compound adjectives – a tradition in which the poet was expected to be both innovative and tasteful – but the results are thought by some modern scholars to be uneven.

Like most modern diesel engines used in tanks, gas turbines are usually multi-fuel engines.

Like all modern sirenians, the dugong has a fusiform body with no dorsal fin or hind limbs, instead possessing paddle-like forelimbs used to manoeuvre.

Like modern analog VGA connectors, the DVI connector includes pins for the display data channel ( DDC ).

Like some other crops of long domestication, the relationship of the modern soybean to wild-growing species can no longer be traced with any degree of certainty.

Like modern joint-stock companies, the publicani were legal bodies independent of their members whose ownership was divided into shares, or partes.

Like modern open-circuit scuba with single-hose regulators, they consisted of one or more high pressure diving cylinders and a diving regulator ( the Aqua-Lung ) that supplied the diver with breathing gas at ambient pressure via a demand valve.

Like much of modern and contemporary art, noise music takes characteristics of the perceived negative traits of noise mentioned below and uses them in aesthetic and imaginative ways.

Like the Lee-Enfield bolt system, the Mosin-Nagant system can be suitable for use with modern " Magnum " calibre centrefire rifle cartridges ( the BOHICA Arms. 50 BMG being one ), although it is worth noting that its standard Russian 180-grain 7. 62x54R ammunition is comparable to some loadings of the 7 mm Remington Magnum.

Like many of its neighbors, modern Duarte is a bedroom community.

Like most game birds, the northern bobwhite is shy and elusive.

Like most birds of prey, Common Kestrels have keen eyesight enabling them to spot small prey from a distance.

Like all birds of prey, eagles have very large hooked beaks for tearing flesh from their prey, strong muscular legs, and powerful talons.

Like other amniotes ( reptiles, dinosaurs, birds, and mammals ), they breathe air and do not lay eggs underwater, although many species live in or around water.

Like Gesner, Ulisse Aldrovandi, an encyclopedic naturalist began a 14-volume natural history with three volumes on birds, entitled ornithologiae hoc est de avibus historiae libri XII which was published from 1599 to 1603.

Like other birds of prey many owl species exhibit reverse sexual dimorphism in size, where females are larger than males ( as opposed to the more typical situation in birds where males are larger ).

Like some other birds, Columbidae have no gall bladders.

Like most families of aquatic birds, storks seem to have arisen in the Palaeogene, maybe 40-50 million years ago ( mya ).

These birds come to Cuba every year from North America in the north hemisphere winter season. Arctic Terns breed in the arctic and subarctic and winter in Antarctica. Like many birds, seabirds often migrate after the breeding season.

Like many ground birds, most lark species have long hind claws, which are thought to provide stability while standing.

Like the black stork, the pygmy owl had long since disappeared from the Harz, but returned in the 1980s of its own volition, as its ancestral homeland once again became more natural, so that there was sufficient food to support it ( insects, small mammals and small birds ) as well as standing dead wood ( spruce trees with woodpecker holes ).

Like other perching birds ( passerines ), it is affected by external and internal parasites and is vulnerable to predation by cats and birds of prey.

Like mammals and birds and unlike other reptiles, crocodilians have a four-chambered heart.

Like many Australian birds, it was named for its apparent similarity to the northern hemisphere birds familiar to European settlers.

Like all birds, the bills of sandpipers are capable of cranial kinesis, literally being able to move the bones of the skull ( other than the obvious movement of the lower jaw ) and specifically bending the upper jaw without opening the entire jaw, an act known as rhynchokinesis.

Like some other birds, the Sunbittern has powder down.

Like all members of the family they are slender, short necked birds with long tails, long slender legs with elongated ( in some cases very elongated ) hind claws.

" Like the cuckoo, they sometimes lay their eggs in the nests of other species such as seagulls, abandoning them to be raised by those birds.

Like other frigatebirds, this species does not walk or swim, but is a very aerial bird which obtains its food by picking up live prey items from beaches or the water surface, and the aerial piracy of other birds.

Like other passerine birds, the Common Chiffchaff can also acquire intestinal nematode parasites and external ticks.

Like most other birds they regurgitate the hard parts of their prey as pellets.