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.

Tunisian crochet and slip stitch crochet can in some cases use less yarn than knitting for comparable pieces.

The body language of the dominatrix is frequently represented by the use of strong, dominant body-language which is comparable to the dominant posturing in the animal world.

This was the first optimizing compiler, because customers were reluctant to use a high-level programming language unless its compiler could generate code whose performance was comparable to that of hand-coded assembly language.

It was not, in the words of naval historian John Pryor, a " ship-killer " comparable to the naval ram, which by then had fallen out of use.

The use of multiple starting dates for a year is comparable to different starting dates for civil " calendar years ", " tax or fiscal years ", " academic years ", " religious cycles ", etc.

Although Rule 611 ( c ) of the Federal Rules of Evidence ( and comparable rules of many states ) do not prohibit leading questions on re-direct, some states have expressly limited the use of leading questions on re-direct.

On larger arrays, it only makes sense to use other, faster search methods if the data is large enough, because the initial time to prepare ( sort ) the data is comparable to many linear searches

As Henry Kissinger has noted, " The man of ' blood and iron ' wrote prose of extraordinary directness and lucidity, comparable in distinctiveness to Churchill's use of the English language.

Process VMs are implemented using an interpreter ; performance comparable to compiled programming languages is achieved by the use of just-in-time compilation.

This use is comparable to that concerning Agni in the Rig Veda: Agni is invoked first or last or at both places.

Its original use as a vulgarism, documented to the fourteenth century, suggested high sexual desire in a woman, comparable to a dog in heat.

Mazhara and mahogany have also been cited as comparable to rosewood in quality for use as marimba bars.

As Marcus and Fischer point out, however, this use of relativism can be sustained only if there is ethnographic research in the United States comparable to the research conducted in Samoa.

He remains sui generis, although his architectural work is comparable to Antoni Gaudí ( 1852 – 1926 ) in its use of biomorphic forms and the use of tile.

The device became famous for its use of a differential gear, previously believed to have been invented in the 16th century, and the miniaturization and complexity of its parts, comparable to a clock made in the 18th century.

In Germany, the use of the title ' Diplom-Psychologe ' is restricted by law, and a practitioner is legally required to hold the corresponding academic title, which is comparable to a higher MSc degree and requires up to five years of training.

The use of budget-cutting animation measures in animation dates at least to the 1920s ; a handful of the Bosko cartoons in the early years of the Looney Tunes series used several visible tricks ( such as mirror images and repeated scenes ) to give the shorts the comparable appearance of the Disney shorts of the same era, even though they were produced on a budget of just over half of their Disney counterparts ( Disney himself was known to recycle animation in his early years as well ); meanwhile, Max Fleischer took the obvious shortcut of recording the entire soundtrack in one session after the animation was completed in his 1930's cartoons ; he also made frequent use of " mumbling " to avoid the need to synchronize animating mouths to voices.

Most modern metronomes are electronic and use a quartz crystal to maintain accuracy, comparable to those used in wristwatches.

Like the Lee-Enfield bolt system, the Mosin-Nagant system can be suitable for use with modern " Magnum " calibre centrefire rifle cartridges ( the BOHICA Arms. 50 BMG being one ), although it is worth noting that its standard Russian 180-grain 7. 62x54R ammunition is comparable to some loadings of the 7 mm Remington Magnum.

The comparable triangle on the opposite side of the tracks was unlabeled and its intended use is unclear.

Some of Thurber's curative methods involve strong potions of mixed metaphor, malapropism, and gobbledygook and are recommended for use only in extreme cases.

Bootstrap as a metaphor, meaning to better oneself by one's own unaided efforts, was in use in 1922.

For example in comparing Jer 11. 4 and Deut 4. 20, both use the metaphor of an iron furnace.

Hosea is believed to be the first prophet to use marriage as a metaphor of the covenant between God and Israel, and he influenced latter prophets such as Jeremiah.

The use of cyberspace as a metaphor has had its limits, however, especially in areas where the metaphor becomes confused with physical infrastructure.

When the cause of a disease is poorly understood, societies tend to mythologize the disease or use it as a metaphor or symbol of whatever that culture considers to be evil.

After this incident, when David attempted to make a political statement in his paintings, he returned to the less politically charged use of metaphor to convey his message.

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Richard M. Steers and Luciara Nardon in their book about global economy use the " two cows " metaphor to illustrate the concept of cultural differences.

The imagination, as it appears in many of Coleridge's and Wordsworth's works, including Kubla Khan, is discussed through the metaphor of water, and the use of the river in Kubla Khan is connected to the use of the stream in Wordsworth's The Prelude.

The term ' family ' comes from the tree model of language origination in historical linguistics, which makes use of a metaphor comparing languages to people in a biological family tree or in a subsequent modification to species in a phylogenetic tree of evolutionary taxonomy.

But some time later, the metaphor of the morning star that Isaiah 14: 12 applied to a king of Babylon gave rise to the general use of the Latin word for " morning star ", capitalized, as the original name of the Devil before his fall from grace, linking Isaiah 14: 12 with (" I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven ") and interpreting the passage in Isaiah as an allegory of Satan's fall from heaven.

Examples: " to grasp a concept " and " to gather what you've understood " use physical action as a metaphor for understanding.

Others use " dead metaphor " to denote both.

Professional divers use such a calculation only as a rough guide to give new divers a metaphor, comparing a situation they may be more familiar with.

The metaphor of a pearl appears in the longer Hymn of the Pearl, a poem respected for its high literary quality, and use of layered theological metaphor, found within one of the texts of Gnosticism.

Literary scholar Heidi Scott argued that Gould's use of analogy and metaphor constitutes a non-scientific discourse attempting to validate a scientific theory.

The new linguistic turn, through the rise of semiotics as well as of structural linguistics, brought to the fore a new interest in figures of speech as signs, the metaphor in particular ( in the works of Roman Jakobson, Michel Charles, Gérard Genette ) while famed Structuralist Roland Barthes, a classicist by training, perceived how some basic elements of rhetoric could be of use in the study of narratives, fashion and ideology.

Huxley had used Blake's metaphor in The Doors of Perception while discussing the paintings of Vermeer and the Nain brothers, and previously in The Perennial Philosophy, once in relation to the use of mortification as a means to remove persistent spiritual myopia and secondly to refer to the absence of separation in spiritual vision.

For example, if one dreams of being attacked by friends, this may be a manifestation of fear of friendship ; a more complicated example, which requires a cultural metaphor, is that a cat within a dream symbolizes a need to use one's intuition.

While PageMaker's pasteboard metaphor closely simulated the process of creating layouts manually, Ventura Publisher automated the layout process through its use of tags / style sheets and automatically generated indices and other body matter.

Actually, “ Jewish problem ” was the name the Germans gave to their persecution of the Jews ; “ drug-abuse problem ” is the name we give to the persecution of people who use certain drugs. Szasz cites Rep. James M. Hanley referring to drug users as " vermin ," using " the same metaphor for condemning persons who use or sell illegal drugs that the Nazis used to justify murdering Jews by poison gas -- namely, that the persecuted persons are not human beings, but ' vermin.