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receiver and my
A running gag is that when the caller is someone she considers important, she feels the need to walk backwards with the receiver in her hand, stretching out the extra-long wire, and tell Liz or anyone else in the living-room all about it (" It's my sister Violet!
First, there has to be informational asymmetry between the signaler and receiver ( I know more about my own level of toughness than you do ).
The incident made such an impression on Berger that, years later in 1940, he wrote: “ It was a case of spontaneous telepathy in which at a time of mortal danger, and as I contemplated certain death, I transmitted my thoughts, while my sister, who was particularly close to me, acted as the receiver .”
The term became widespread after Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach ( a Roman Catholic ) said about his game-winning touchdown pass to wide receiver Drew Pearson in a 1975 playoff game against the Minnesota Vikings, " I closed my eyes and said a Hail Mary.
Likewise, the presence of bizarre delusions (" Aliens have planted a receiver in my head ") appears to be less common in PMD than schizophrenia.

receiver and ear
The second component of the wireless system, the receiver, detects the sound and sends the sound to the ear of the person with the hearing loss.
Convolution of an arbitrary source sound with the HRIR converts the sound to that which would have been heard by the listener if it had been played at the source location, with the listener's ear at the receiver location.
Then an incision is made in the skin behind the ear and the surgeon drills into the mastoid bone, creating a pocket for the receiver / stimulator, and then into the inner ear where the electrode array is inserted into the cochlea.
Sounds are transmitted via a receiver attached from the arm of the spectacles which are fitted firmly behind the boney portion of the skull at the back of the ear, ( mastoid process ) by means of pressure, applied on the arm of the spectacles.
The sound is passed from the receiver on the arm of the spectacles to the inner ear ( cochlea ), via the bony portion.

receiver and .
Into the texture of this tapestry of history and human drama Henrietta, as every artist delights to do, wove strands of her own intuitive insights into human nature and -- especially in the remarkable story of the attraction and conflict between two so disparate and fervent characters as this pair -- into the relations of men and women: `` In their relations, she was the giver and he the receiver, nay the demander.
These frequencies are amplified and detected by the FM receiver after each burst of transmitted energy and, after the `` pill '' has been calibrated, precise internal pressure indications can be obtained.
She slapped the receiver into its holder and stepped away.
He scooped up the receiver and said, `` Police chief '', into the mouthpiece, and then, `` Oh yes, Mr. Benson.
Casey heard the click of the distant receiver before he could open his mouth, and it took him no more than three seconds to make his decision.
He had put down the receiver.
When she picked up the receiver, her mother's cheerful voice was there.
Her hand tightened on the receiver.
The goal of clear concise communication is that the receiver ( s ) have no misunderstanding about what was meant to be conveyed.
Improved bandwidth efficiency is achieved at the expense of increased transmitter and receiver complexity by completely suppressing both the carrier and one of the sidebands.
The Falcons made a surprise trade up with the Cleveland Browns in the 2011 NFL Draft to select Alabama wide receiver Julio Jones sixth overall.
A similar disk reconstructed the image at the receiver.
Synchronization of the receiver disc rotation was handled through sync pulses broadcast with the image information.
The analog television signal contains timing and synchronization information so that the receiver can reconstruct a two-dimensional moving image from a one-dimensional time-varying signal.
Should a large letter have to be rewritten, owing to the inexact copy of the abbreviator, the abbreviator and not the receiver of the Bull must pay the extra charge for the extra labour to the apostolic writer.
The first was a radio receiver, such as the Icom PCR-1000, that could tune into the Reverse Channel, which is the frequency that the phones transmit data to the tower on.
Laws were passed in the US which prohibited the FCC type acceptance and sale of any receiver which could tune the frequency ranges occupied by analog AMPS cellular services.
A follow-on Block II upgrade added a new rear receiver allowing the missile to receive mid-course correction from the launching aircraft.
The receiver also senses the guidance radar to enable comparisons that enhance the missile's resistance to passive jamming.
By connecting a small dish & receiver, a constant downstream of thousands of FidoNet and Usenet newsgroups could be received.
The server and receiver must remain within their service courts, without touching the boundary lines, until the server strikes the shuttlecock.
The other two players may stand wherever they wish, so long as they do not block the vision of the server or receiver.
If the receiver is not ready when the service is delivered, a let shall be called ; yet, if the receiver attempts to return the shuttlecock, he shall be judged to have been ready.

clicked and my
" However, Sheppard later explained, " uring Naseem's fight, something clicked in my head.
I had a match in my hand and when I clicked, apparently the match caught in between the hammer and the firing pin.

clicked and .
As he crossed to the side of the stall, Curt drew his gun and clicked back the hammer.
Something clicked in this instance, but I treated her circumspectly and I felt that she knew it, for we both kept our distance.
The secretary sighed with relief and then the telephone clicked in Rector's hand.
A second scene flashed before his mind, the interior of the garage at the new house and the young Bartlett girl turning startled to meet him, the dim dark and the sudden confusion and fear and then the brightness as Mae had clicked on the light.
Despite the 45-degree weather the game was clicked off in 1:48, thanks to only three bases on balls and some good infield play.
It is the business of cosmologists, the scientists who study the nature and structure of the universe, to try to solve the great cosmic mysteries by using keys that have clicked open other doors.
Rachel clicked her tongue behind her teeth.
Traci Lords was among the actresses auditioning for the film, saying in 2001, " I didn't get the part but I clicked with Bruce ," with whom she would later work as a guest star in the TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.
In this case, " over centre " refers to the ratchet being stable and " locked " in a given position until clicked forward again ; it has nothing to do with the ratchet being unable to turn in the reverse direction.
" Rockabilly and bluegrass bassists also prefer gut because it is much easier to perform the " slapping " upright bass style ( in which the strings are percussively slapped and clicked against the fingerboard ) with gut strings than with steel strings.
Trackballs are generally either thumb-operated, with a ball about an inch in diameter or smaller moved by one digit ( almost always the thumb ) and the buttons clicked by others, or finger-operated, with a ball over two inches in diameter operated by the middle fingers and the buttons by the thumb and little finger.
" We clicked on comedy, and we were lucky we found each other, because we both had so much respect for it.
Once Cooney and Jim met, Cooney says they automatically clicked.
However, Asia clicked with fans of popular arena acts such as Journey, Boston and Styx.
A practical application used by some keyloggers with this screen logging ability is to take small screenshots around where a mouse has just clicked ; these defeat web-based keyboards ( for example, the web-based screen keyboards that are often used by banks ) and any web-based on-screen keyboard without screenshot protection.
The connector was locked into position using two clips or hooks on the sides of the connector outside of the D shell ( where screws often are on D subs ) which automatically clicked on when plugged in, and could be removed simply by pulling back on a sliding sheath over the body of the connector, disengaging the hooks.
If a single unit is clicked four or more times in a row, the unit's voice samples become increasingly comical.
About the sixth or seventh time, it clicked in, and I thought it was the greatest album I'd ever heard.
The " clickfest " argument is also often voiced alongside a " button babysitting " criticism, which pointed out that a great deal of game time is spent either waiting and watching for the next time a production button could be clicked, or rapidly alternating between different units and buildings, clicking their respective button.
the message was sent to a button when the user clicked it, and was sent when the user released the mouse inside it to trigger its action.
When clicked, a bookmarklet performs some function, one of a wide variety such as a search query or data extraction.
When the AppleScript Editor is open and the Record button clicked, any user actions on the computer-in any application that supports AppleEvents and AppleScript recording-are converted to their equivalent AppleScript commands and placed in the script editor window.
Newsreel cameras clicked while airplanes circled overhead to record the service for posterity.
In a later interview, the King explained how it just " clicked " when they met.

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