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breeze and air
The very dry air brought by this shamal permits intensive sun heating of the land surface, but the breeze has some cooling effect.
The holes also possibly provide ventilation as the air enters through the dome crater and leaves through the rim crater, causing a breeze though the burrow.
Svalbard is the meeting place for cold polar air from the north and mild, wet sea air from the south, creating low pressure and changing weather and fast winds, particularly in winter ; in January, a strong breeze is registered 17 % of the time at Isfjord Radio, but only 1 % of the time in July.
This effect is noticeable ; it is what brings the sea breeze, air cooled by the water, ashore in the day, and carries the land breeze, air cooled by contact with the ground, out to sea during the night.
Students at the University of Guelph demonstrated, using scale models, that as air passes over the top of the new hotels it causes a breeze to roll down the south sides of the buildings and spill into the gorge below the falls, where it feeds into a whirlpool of moisture and air.
If air is moved away from one's body with a natural breeze or a fan, sweat will evaporate faster, making perspiration more effective at cooling the body.
Such venting makes the Trombe wall act as a solar chimney pumping fresh air through the house during the day, even if there is no breeze.
Clear residents believed they were escaping to what was deemed as " good air " because of the daily breeze off of Mobile Bay.
Spitsbergen is the meeting place for cold polar air from the north and mild, wet sea air from the south, creating low pressure and changing weather and fast winds, particularly in winter ; in January, a strong breeze is registered 17 % of the time at Isfjord Radio, but only 1 % of the time in July.
Sneezing is possibly linked to sudden exposure to bright light, sudden change ( fall ) in temperature, breeze of cold air, a particularly full stomach, or viral infection, and can lead to the spread of disease.
Similarly, a study by Jared Guttmann at Worcester Polytechnic Institute found that when a subject wearing earplugs yawned, a breeze is heard caused by the flux of the air moving between the subject's ear and the environment.
Although the wind speed is zero ( people sitting still feel no breeze ), you will feel a breeze on the bicycle due to the fact that you are moving through the air.
It is influenced both by the colder air coming from the north and by the warmer breeze from the Mediterranean.
Although she is apparently one of the leading opera singers of her generation, the only thing that Castafiore is ever heard to sing are a few lines of her " signature aria ", the Jewel Song, l ' air des bijoux, from Faust, always at ear-splitting volume ( and violent force-certainly enough to part the Captain's hair, and a breeze enough to blow back a curtain in an opera box-' She's in fine voice tonight.
Mountain breeze descends from Rila along the river Bistritsa bringing cool air during hot summer days.
Even at mesoscales ( a horizontal range of 5 to several hundred kilometres ), this effect is noticeable ; it is what brings the sea breeze, air cooled by the water, ashore in the day, and carries the land breeze, air cooled by contact with the ground, out to sea during the night.

breeze and with
Mrs. Podger had obligingly pushed things around on the porch to make room for it, and there it was, slung in a vine-shaded corner, the night breeze rippling its fringe with a slow, caressing movement.
Crossing the 4,000-foot width of the Mekong at Champassak, on a raft with an outboard motor, we took off our dusty shirts and enjoyed a veritable ocean breeze.
he went to the window and choked there with the fresh breeze on his face.
The day was brilliant around her -- flower-scented, crisp with breeze -- yet her inner turmoil darkened it.
There were new yellow curtains, bright as a child's life ought to be, a new bedspread, lively with hopping rabbits, and hanging from the ceiling was an airy Mother Goose Mobile, spinning slowly in the breeze.
These special resting places, usually located on ridges with a cool sea breeze, are marked with droppings and are cleared of vegetation.
* The symbol of Hornsby Girls High School, Australia, is the " Torch of Knowledge " and words of the school song include " Minerva by our southern seas her sacred groves replanted, with whispering gums to woo the breeze that flows o ' er lands enchanted ; with ageless hills she rimmed her bower, her sunlit shrine of learning, and here we keep through shine and shower the Torch of Knowledge burning ..." ( NOTE on Australianisms: gums here means " gum trees " ( eucalyptus ), not a part of the mouth ).
Reducing or reefing the total sail area will have the same effect and many boats will sail faster with less sail in a stiff breeze due to the reduction in underwater drag.
The Romans invented the seaside villa: a vignette in a frescoed wall at the house of Lucretius Fronto in Pompeii still shows a row of seafront pleasure houses, all with porticos along the front, some rising up in porticoed tiers to an altana at the top that would catch a breeze on the most stifling evenings ( Veyne 1987 ill. p 152 )
However, flames may be maintained with any type of forced convection ( breeze ); or ( in high oxygen environments in " still " gas environments ) entirely from the minimal forced convection that occurs as heat-induced expansion ( not buoyancy ) of gases allows for ventilation of the flame, as waste gases move outward and cool, and fresh high-oxygen gas moves in to take up the low pressure zones created when flame-exhaust water condenses.
Time critic Richard Corliss called it a " noir with a touch so light, the film seems to float on the breeze like the Frisbee of a fedora sailing through the forest.
Idealized circulation pattern associated with a sea breeze
Later that afternoon, on an errand with her sister Marie and school friend Jeanne ( Mary Anderson ) to collect firewood outside the town of Lourdes, Bernadette is left behind when her companions warn her not to wade through the cold river by the Massabielle caves for fear of taking ill. About to cross anyway, Bernadette is distracted by a strange breeze and a change in the light.
The tale resumes with a similar ending to that of Pherecydes, as Procris is informed of her husband's calling out to " Aura ", the Latin word for breeze.
and Sylvan Street, to give a sense that the vacant lots sold, with little more than stakes and ribbons flapping in the breeze, would bloom into a city.
The leaves are spirally arranged, and vary in shape from triangular to circular or ( rarely ) lobed, and with a long petiole ; in species in the sections Populus and Aigeiros, the petioles are laterally flattened, so that breezes easily cause the leaves to wobble back and forth, giving the whole tree a " twinkling " appearance in a breeze.
Summers are long and hot, often with higher humidity, though a good breeze often moderates the heat.
Slag wool was first made in 1840 in Wales by Edward Parry " but no effort appears to have been made to confine the wool after production ; consequently it floated about the works with the slightest breeze, and became so injurious to the men that the process had to be abandoned ".
Visibility was at its maximum, the sea was placid with a gentle breeze from the north west, a bright, sunny, clear day.

breeze and upon
" With one foot upon the neck of priestcraft and the other upon the rock of truth ," he declared, " we have thrown our banner to the breeze and challenge the world to produce a better cause for the devotion of man than that of a grand, noble and perfect humanity.
Sister Bertrille could be relied upon to solve any problem that came her way by her ability to catch a passing breeze and fly.
At some point, the friction of the air upon the silk thread ( s ) is great enough to get the spider lifted into the air and carried off by the breeze.

breeze and deep
Practitioners of the Sahaja Yoga meditation technique feel a cool breeze on their hands and on top of their head while meditating, other effects include a dilation of the pupils and deep physical and mental relaxation.
Of the summer homes that were built, a number were designed by Edmund Burke in the English Arts and Crafts style as two-stories with deep verandas and sleeping balconies to catch the breeze of Lake Ontario.

breeze and grove
It usually refers to the sound of leaves whispering in the breeze as the wind passes through a bamboo grove.

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