In countries where a tablespoon is a serving spoon, the nearest equivalent to the US tablespoon is either the dessert spoon or the soup spoon.

Oyster Pay As You Go has a set of daily maximum charges that are the same as buying the nearest equivalent Day Travelcard.

Her nearest Roman equivalent, Vesta, had similar functions as a divine personification of Rome's " public " and domestic hearths, including those of her colonies ; and Vesta's cults bound Romans together in the form of an extended family.

The nearest equivalent in pre-Union Scotland was the royal burgh.

This problem is equivalent to finding the nearest orthogonal matrix to a given matrix.

The nearest equivalent of Shahrestan in English would be sub-province or county.

This is a situation like that of Lowland Scots and Scottish Standard English – where lexical items have been re-allocated to the phoneme classes that are nearest to the equivalent standard classes.

The American-English term " short pants " is probably the nearest equivalent.

The Guardian claimed in 1968 that the organisation was " probably the nearest British equivalent to the American John Birch Society ".

A throne speech is not typical in the devolved legislatures within the United Kingdom, the nearest equivalent being a statement of the legislative agenda of the executive branch usually given by a first minister.

Traditionally ( since the Battle of Trafalgar ) Britain had possessed a navy one-third larger than their nearest naval rival but now the Royal Navy was set to the Two-Power Standard ; that it would be maintained " to a standard of strength equivalent to that of the combined forces of the next two biggest navies in the world ".

While they do have its nearest equivalent: the unvoiced / s /, strangely, it is not used in substitution.

Rounding down is equivalent to using the d ' Hondt method, while rounding to the nearest whole number is equivalent to the Sainte-Laguë method.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches, the nearest equivalent of acolyte is the altar server.

The term is seldom used in Arabic-speaking areas, where its nearest equivalent is shaykh ( implying formal Islamic training ), imam ( prayer leader ; not to be confused with the imams of the Shiite world ), or ʿālim (‘ scholar ’, plural ʿulamāʾ ).

However, Holden's continuation of the Gemini sedan range was the nearest equivalent of this in the range.

The name Malvern is probably derived from the ancient British moel-bryn, meaning " Bare-Hill ", the nearest modern equivalent being the Welsh moelfryn ( bald hill ).

The star nearest to Earth, our Sun, is typically referred to simply as " the Sun " or its equivalent in the language being used ( for instance, if two astronomers were speaking French, they would call it le Soleil ).

In the British Royal Navy and navies of many other Commonwealth counties, the equivalent rank is " able seaman ", although this is considered junior to the nearest equivalent ranks of corporal or bombardier in the other military branches.

" Green grow the rushes, Ho ( or O )" sounds sufficiently out of place that one is inclined to ascribe it to the same origin as " Fine flowers in the valley " in one version of the ballad The Cruel Mother – namely, an attempt to turn a mistaken line of Gaelic into its nearest English phonetic equivalent.

It is the cultural equivalent of common work in a village community, although adapted to the conditions of Finland, where traditionally most families lived in isolated farms, often miles away from the nearest village.

An intravenous preparation has been available in the UK since 1985, but there is no parenteral preparation available in the US ; the nearest equivalent is ampicillin / sulbactam.

Standards stuck with BRT tradition, which placed the train's controller nearest the right hand and the brake nearest the left.

This was in contrast to IRT equipment, which placed the controller nearest the left and the brake nearest the right.

The nearest passenger ferries to Hoek van Holland actually depart from Harwich, across the Orwell south of Felixstowe.

"... Leading his support group in the van of the attack he could see the nearest trench and in it a sentry manning a machine gun.

Three college students passing by in a van came upon Araujo in the street and drove her to the nearest hospital.

These theories were given credence by the fact that when Germany surrendered in November 1918, its armies were still in French and Belgian territory, Berlin remained 450 miles from the nearest front, and the German armies retired from the field of battle in good order.

Garth Brooks still continues to sell well and according to Nielsen Soundscan, his albums sales through October 2011 are at 68, 561, 000, which makes him the best-selling albums artist in the United States in the SoundScan era ( since 1991 ), a title held since 1991, well over 5 million ahead of his nearest rival, The Beatles.

Cézanne ’ s Self portrait with a straw hat seems to him as incredibly pretentious, while Vermeer ’ s human still lives ( also, the Le Nain Brothers and Vuillard ) are the nearest to reflecting this not-self state.

It was not easy to escape because of the size of the island and the nearest land being more than away, but still slaves ran off from their masters and hid in the caves along Bermuda's coast.

Two of these guiding principals were and still are ; " No surcharges should be imposed on payments in cash "; and " Member States should not adopt new rounding rules to the nearest five cent ".

It takes place on the Saturday nearest to Remembrance Day, though in Cape Town a Remembrance Service is still held on 11 November each year.

If there exists no hyperplane that can split the " yes " and " no " examples, the Soft Margin method will choose a hyperplane that splits the examples as cleanly as possible, while still maximizing the distance to the nearest cleanly split examples.

The general election results showed Fianna Fáil still the largest party, with twice as many seats as the nearest party, Fine Gael.

Until 1909 it was without railroad facilities, and the nearest shipping points were Colorado City on the south and still later the railroad towns in Fisher County on the east.

::" Our house is on the eastern slope of Rupert Mountain, just off a country road, still unpaved then, and five miles from the nearest town … Even at the most unpromising times of year – in mudtime, on bleak, snowless winter days – it is in so many unexpected ways beautiful that even after all this time I have never quite gotten used to it.

With the then newest and nearest bridge spanning the Forth ( the Kincardine Bridge, built in 1936 ) still around upstream, the upsurge in demand for a road crossing between Edinburgh and Fife prompted the UK Government to establish the Forth Road Bridge Joint Board ( FRBJB ) by Act of Parliament in 1947 to oversee the implementation of a new bridge to replace the ferry service.

However, even at that time the anomalously low luminosity ( the absolute magnitude would have been 18. 5 ) and high uncertainty in the parallax suggested that it was in fact somewhat farther away, still one of the Sun's nearest neighbors but not nearly as high in the ranking in order of distance.

The fast melt is because the portion of the subducted plate nearest the spreading zone is thin and still warm from its recent creation.

It still carries water from old galleries to the nearest river, a part of it is open for tourists, who go 20m down the steps in one shaft, have a ride in a boat and go up the stairs in another shaft.

It was more than double that of his nearest rival Ó Cuív, however, he was still short of winning the election.

The harbour is still quite busy however as it is the nearest safe harbour for access to NZ's south / west seas.

' In Upper Bavaria sin-eating still survives: a corpse cake is placed on the breast of the dead and then eaten by the nearest relative, while in the Balkan peninsula a small bread image of the deceased is made and eaten by the survivors of the family.

In Drayton, near Abingdon ( Oxfordshire ) a junction used by construction vehicles to gain access onto the A34 during its construction still exists as a " closed road ", a few miles from the nearest alternative accesses.

Despite the fact that it is still the highest ranked Russian university according to the three international rankings mentioned above ( with the nearest Russian competitor being Saint Petersburg State University that scored 300-400th ), the university was consistently placed outside top 5 nationally in 2010-2011 by Forbes and Ria Novosti / HSE., with both ratings based on data set collected by GU VSHE from Russian Unified State Exam scores averaged per all students and faculties of university.

Although the main texture would still be used when the view is sufficient to render it in full detail, the renderer will switch to a suitable mipmap image ( or in fact, interpolate between the two nearest, if trilinear filtering is activated ) when the texture is viewed from a distance or at a small size.

The Isthmian League title was clinched in early April, with seven games still to be played, 18 points clear of nearest rivals, Enfield.

* Underground: Brixton station is the nearest, still being a few miles away ( but a nice walk )

Power was cut at the nearest substation, but since the line was not divided into electrically isolated sections, the shorted motor was still receiving power from other substations.

* Music is the nearest thing that we know to magic: its powers have still to be understood.