The crossbow prod is very short compared to ordinary bows, resulting in a short draw length.

The recurve bow's bent limbs have a longer draw length than an equivalent straight-limbed bow, giving more acceleration to the projectile and less hand shock.

Therefore, compound crossbows generally use only pulleys that are both round and concentrically mounted, in order to capture the maximum available energy from the relatively short draw length.

Crossbows have a much smaller draw length than bows.

If we draw an ellipse twice as long as it is wide, and draw the circle centered at the ellipse's center with diameter equal to the ellipse's longer axis, then on any line parallel to the shorter axis the length within the circle is twice the length within the ellipse.

A longbow must be long enough to allow its user to draw the string to a point on the face or body, and the length therefore varies with the user.

The original draw forces of examples from the Mary Rose are estimated by Hardy at at a draw length ; the full range of draw weights was between.

Draw lengths of the arrows varied between 61 and 81 centimetres ( 24 to 32 inches ) with the majority having a draw length of 76 centimetres ( 30 inches )).

The Mendlesham Bow is broken but has an estimated length of 1. 73 to 1. 75 m ( 68 to 69 inches ) and draw force of 350 N ( 80 lbf ).

For example, in order to draw a vertical line of 4 cm length, it is sufficient to type:

The 1986 regulations state that " certain vehicles " may be permitted to draw more than one trailer and can be up to 25. 9 m ( 85 ft ) in length.

In 1995, after Sweden and Finland's entry to the union, the rules changed again, this time to allow trucks carrying a standard CEN unit of 7. 82 metres to draw a 13. 6 metres standard semi-trailer on a dolly, a total overall length of 25. 25 metres ( 82. 8 ft ).

In combination with bows of restricted draw weight and draw length, these heads may reduce to acceptable levels the risks of shooting arrows at suitably armoured people.

On the other hand, there are quite a few youth-oriented compound bows with low draw weights that feature no let-off with the maximum draw length deliberately set farther than the majority of young shooters would reach.

This effectively makes the bow function very similar to a recurve, with the draw length determined by the shooter's preferred anchor point, but it also removes the necessity to adjust the draw length or purchase a new bow as the shooter grows up.

That ought to draw a laugh, Nicolas reasoned, as he stored the line away on the wax tape that was his mind.

This young slave was therefore quite unprepared when Delphine Lalaurie signaled that she wanted him to draw near.

between the north shore of Deer Island and the Salisbury side there was an arch of 113 feet and a series of piers with a draw forty feet long.

This second chain bridge was 570 feet long, had two thirty-foot towers and a draw, and a double roadway.

Poems Of The Past And The Present and Time's Laughing Stocks, both published while Hardy was at work on The Dynasts, draw heavily on poems written before 1900.

A sympathetic friend made poultices of raw potato parings, which she said was the best and quickest way to draw out the `` heat ''.

Slowly he pulled out the hand throttle until the boat was moving at little more than a crawl, and watched Elaine rapidly spin from one station to another, tune in the null, then draw in a line on the chart.

On Monday, the Hughes concern was formally declared bankrupt after its directors indicated they could not draw up a plan for reorganization.

On the final round at Pensacola, the luck of the draw paired Palmer and Player in the same threesome and, although it was far from obvious at the time, the gallery was treated to the first chapter of what promises to be one of the most exciting duels in sport for a long time to come.

At Yokosuka he was restricted to the confines of the Base because Walt Perry, being thoughtful, knew that Doc might have to draw some medical supplies from the hospital or the Supply Base.

Her hair was the color of those blooms which in seed catalogues are referred to as `` black '', but since no flower is actually without color contain always a hint of grape or purple or blue -- he wanted to draw the broad patina of hair through his fingers, searching it slowly for a trace of veining which might reveal its true shade beneath the darkness.

After a rain-affected draw at Edgbaston, the fourth match at Headingley was convincingly won by Australia by an innings and 80 runs to level the series.

It was also agreed that some reorganization of the cabinet would be helpful to draw more Democratic support ; though changes were made, Seward and Stanton, who had the most tenuous relationship with the party, were not affected.

But in this Council, and later, in that of Florence, Ambrose, by his efforts and charity toward some poor Greek bishops, greatly helped to bring about a union of the two Churches, the decree for which, 6 July 1439, he was called on to draw up.

Having been informed that Solon was employed to draw up a code of laws for the Athenians, Anacharsis described his occupation, saying:

He was largely self-educated, and began to draw at age ten.

Nimzowitsch never developed a knack for match play, though ; his best match success was a draw with Alekhine, but the match consisted of only two games and took place in 1914, thirteen years before Alekhine became world champion.

He returned to playing in an FA cup tie against West Bromwich Albion on 1 March ; the game was a draw and United won the replay 1 – 0.

As early as 1930, the city's Planning Board was recommending a raised express highway running north-south through the downtown district in order to draw traffic off the city streets.

His 153 not out in Bridgetown, Barbados, during West Indies ' 2 – 2 home series draw against Australia in * 1998 – 1999 was deemed the second greatest Test innings ever played, behind Bradman's 270 against England in the Third Test of the 1936 – 1937 series at Melbourne.

There is no evidence to support claims that any of these creatures were mistreated, or that the motive for their study was anything more sinister than natural curiosity and a desire to draw from life.

The neoclassical architect, Sir Robert Smirke, was asked to draw up plans for an eastern extension to the Museum "... for the reception of the Royal Library, and a Picture Gallery over it ..." and put forward plans for today's quadrangular building, much of which can be seen today.

Since it was important that the children see consistent pictures, OCCC had a draftsman named Jim Grice draw the symbols.

The campaign was designed by John, who was the fulcrum of the alliances ; his plan being to draw the French away from Paris southward against himself and keep him occupied, while the main army, under Emperor Otto IV, marched on Paris from the north.

The main recent sense of the word “ art ” is roughly as an abbreviation for creative art or “ fine art .” Here we mean that skill is being used to express the artist ’ s creativity, or to engage the audience ’ s aesthetic sensibilities, or to draw the audience towards consideration of the “ finer ” things.

Although a longbow achieves comparable accuracy and faster shooting rate than an average crossbow, crossbows release more kinetic energy and can be used effectively after a week of training, while a comparable single-shot skill with a longbow takes years of strength training to overcome the draw strength of the longbow, as well as years of practice needed to use it with skill.

Dia has special objects to help draw entity-relationship models ( tedia2sql can be used to create the SQL DDL ), Unified Modeling Language ( UML ) diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and simple electrical circuits.

Multiple Bezier splines may also be used to draw an ellipse to sufficient accuracy, since any ellipse may be construed as an affine transformation of a circle.

The spline methods used to draw a circle may be used to draw an ellipse, since the constituent Bezier curves will behave appropriately under such transformations.

Some of Pope Gregory the Great ’ s letters survive that relate to the mission of St. Augustine to Kent in 597 ; these letters provide information about the mission specifically, but also can be used to draw conclusions about the state of Kent and its relationships with its neighbours.

A second " after the draw " betting round occurs beginning with the player to the dealer's left or else beginning with the player who opened the first round ( the latter is common when antes are used instead of blinds ).

However, a rule used by many casinos is that a player is not allowed to draw five consecutive cards from the deck.

The flag has become a powerful symbol of Americanism, and is proudly flown on many occasions, with giant outdoor flags used by retail outlets to draw customers.

Whilst a few social scientists who draw inspiration from ' organic ' views of society have embraced Gaia philosophy as a way to explain the human-nature interconnections, most professional social scientists are more involved in reflecting upon the way Gaia philosophy is used and engaged with within sub-sections of society.

A common alternative for teachers is to draw an apple tree with ten apples, erasing or crossing out the apples as the guesses are used up.

Battery power is used by many garden railway and larger scale systems because of the difficulty in obtaining reliable power supply through the rails outdoors and because the high power consumption and thus current draw of large scale garden models is more easily and safely met with rechargeable batteries.

By late 1997, however, search engine providers realized that information stored in elements, especially the attribute, was often unreliable and misleading, and at worst, used to draw users into spam sites.

The term numerologist is also used derogatorily for those perceived to place excess faith in numerical patterns ( and draw scientifically unsound inferences from them ), even if those people do not practice traditional numerology.

Some writers on English grammar employ the term subjective case instead of nominative to draw attention to the differences between the " standard " generic nominative and the way it is used in English.

: this is used to draw attention to something or someone, often by pointing.

The term is sometimes used loosely to describe any arguments that claim to draw ethical conclusions from natural facts.

The line mode can also be used to draw rotated bobs: each line of bob data is used as line pattern while the line mode draws the tilted bob line by line.

A random draw is used to place the teams into groups.

The concept has been given an axiomatic mathematical derivation in probability theory, which is used widely in such areas of study as mathematics, statistics, finance, gambling, science, artificial intelligence / machine learning and philosophy to, for example, draw inferences about the expected frequency of events.