An epiphyte is a plant that grows upon another plant ( such as a tree ) non-parasitically or sometimes upon some other object ( such as a building or a telegraph wire ), derives its moisture and nutrients from the air and rain and sometimes from debris accumulating around it, and is found in the temperate zone ( e. g., many mosses, liverworts, lichens and algae ) or in the tropics ( e. g., many ferns, cacti, orchids, and bromeliads ).

The mild shock that you receive when touching a grounded object after walking on carpet is an example of excess electrical charge accumulating in your body from frictional charging between your shoes and the carpet.

The object of the game is to shoot and destroy asteroids and saucers while not colliding with either, or being hit by the saucers ' counter-fire.

The object of the game is to earn the most money by developing and merging hotel chains.

They are proficient at cheating at ventiuna ( Spanish for twenty-one ), and state that the object of the game is to reach 21 points without going over and that the ace values 1 or 11.

Pieces are used to attack and capture the opponent's pieces, with the object of the game being to ' checkmate ' the opponent's king by placing it under an inescapable threat of capture.

The object of the game is to checkmate the opponent ; this occurs when the opponent's king is in check, and there is no legal way to remove it from attack.

The object of a trick-taking game is based on the play of multiple rounds, or tricks, in each of which each player plays a single card from their hand, and based on the values of played cards one player wins or " takes " the trick.

The specific object varies with each game and can include taking as many tricks as possible, taking as many scoring cards ( or as few penalty cards ) within the tricks won as possible, taking as few tricks as possible, or taking an exact number of tricks.

In a shedding game, players start with a hand of cards, and the object of the game is to be the first player to discard all cards from one's hand.

Drinking card games are, true to their name, a subset of drinking games using cards, in which the object in playing the game is either to drink or to force others to drink.

In some cases, the game uses the standard 52-card deck, but the object is unique.

According to the Professional Disc Golf Association, " The object of the game is to traverse a course from beginning to end in the fewest number of throws of the disc.

There is a depiction of a hockey-like game from 200 BC in Ancient Greece when the game may have been called " Κερητίζειν " (" kerētízein ") because it was played with a horn (" κέρας " in Greek ) and a ball-like object.

Basically the game consists of scoring points by rolling a ball to get it as near as possible to an object called a mingue or boliche.

A guessing game is a game in which the object is to guess some kind of information, such as a word, a phrase, a title, or the location of an object.

The object of the game is to move a hockey puck from the center of the box out through a hole placed at the end of the box ( known as the goal ).

The game was played with a wooden curved bat ( called Colf or Kolf ) and a ball made of wood or leather between two poles or simply convenient nearby landmarks, with the object hitting the chosen point with the least number of strokes.

The object of this sort of game is to slay monsters, explore a fantasy world, complete quests, go on adventures, create a story by roleplaying, and advance the created character.

* In the roleplaying game Splicers by Palladium Books, humanity has succumbed to a " nanobot plague " that causes any object made of a non-precious metal to twist and change shape ( sometimes into a type of robot ) moments after being touched by a human.

The object of the game is to land the ball on the opposing team's goal ( either a single post or net ) to score and to prevent the opposing team from scoring on your goal.

The supreme object of their lives is now fulfilled, says the wife, her husband has achieved immortality.

But by comparison with the railroad, the motor car is a relatively new object of popular worship, so it is too much to hope that it may be brought within the bounds of civilized usage quickly and easily.

One consequence is the occurrence of occasional conflicts because private owners of some inholdings object to public programs of use on neighboring National Forest or other Federal land, or because such ownerships are developed for uses that are not compatible with use for the public of neighboring National Forest land.

Just because a tree or other object appears in a certain spot is absolutely no reason to place it in the same position in the painting, unless the position serves the design of the whole composition.

My object, rather, is to alert you to an aspect or two of the affair that could have the gravest implications for you, far beyond the legal sanctions society might inflict.

In the Steiners have busy lives without visiting relatives only context can indicate whether visiting relatives is equivalent in meaning to paying visits to relatives or to relatives who are visiting them, and in I looked up the number and I looked up the chimney only the meanings of number and chimney make it clear that up is syntactically a second complement in the first sentence and a preposition followed by its object in the second.

If a litigant chooses to enforce a Federal right in a State court, he cannot be heard to object if he is treated exactly as are plaintiffs who press like claims arising under State law with regard to the form in which the claim must be stated -- the particularity, for instance, with which a cause of action must be described.

Therefore, if the sense of touch is functioning normally and there is a complete absence of spatial awareness in a psychically-blind person when the eyes are closed and an object is handled, the conclusion seems unavoidable that touch by itself cannot focus and take possession of the third-dimensionality of things and that actual sight or visual representations are necessary.

A Pollock is an object of art -- bijouterie -- disguised only by its great size.

the language, however, is a proper object of scrutiny, and the effects of the language are palpable even if sometimes inevitable.

The DC statement is used to name and enter constants into the object program.

Hereby, the external object viewed by the eyes remains the thing that is seen, not the retinal image, the purpose of which would be to achieve perceptive cooperation by stirring sympathetic impulses in the other sensory centers, motor tensions, associated word symbols, and consciousness.

By using instruments of gradually increasing size, the vagina is gently, and with minimum pain at each stage, taught to yield to an object of the appropriate shape.

the cinematic element of time is merely used to increase the realism of an object which would still be reasonably realistic in a still photo.

and again, that `` the object of non-violent resistance is partly analogous to this object of war -- namely, to demoralize the opponent, to break his will, to destroy his confidence, enthusiasm, and hope.

These voters view the political process as a secret conspiracy, the object of which is to plunder them ''.

Science is fully competent to deal with any element of experience which arises from an object in space and time.

That community of all creation is, then, the ultimate object of our loyalty and the concrete norm of all moral judgment.

Cultural anthropology also covers economic and political organization, law and conflict resolution, patterns of consumption and exchange, material culture, technology, infrastructure, gender relations, ethnicity, childrearing and socialization, religion, myth, symbols, values, etiquette, worldview, sports, music, nutrition, recreation, games, food, festivals, and language ( which is also the object of study in linguistic anthropology ).

The name " Alaska " ( Аляска ) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning " the mainland " or, more literally, " the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ".