You can use heat-absorbing glass to stop the sun, double glass and insulated glass to combat condensation.

Another brand of indefinite reference arises out of the use of the double verb.

It is planned to double the number of teams and to make use of improved equipment in a second demographic inquiry in 1960, so that the inquiry can be carried through in one year and the results published more expeditiously.

Anthemius assumes a property of an ellipse not found in Apollonius's work, that the equality of the angles subtended at a focus by two tangents drawn from a point, and having given the focus and a double ordinate he goes on to use the focus and directrix to obtain any number of points on a parabola — the first instance on record of the practical use of the directrix.

* Quoting: Americans begin their quotations with double quotation marks (") and use single quotation marks (') for quotations within quotations.

In journals and newspapers, quotation mark double / single use depends on the individual publication's house style.

These spectrometers use a compact double monochromator with a prism pre-monochromator and an echelle grating monochromator for high resolution.

Another notable measure is the use of a body double, a person who looks like the leader and who pretends to be the leader to draw attention away from the intended target.

Players may also use double motion, where they make an initial racquet movement in one direction before withdrawing the racquet to hit in another direction.

An alternative to double motion is to use a racquet head fake, where the initial motion is continued but the racquet is turned during the hit.

These instruments have three double courses similar to the stringing of the mandolin and often use a " guitar " tuning.

The double copula is the use of two successive copulas when only one is necessary, as in My point is, is that .... Use of the double copula is one of the disputes in English grammar.

The DCA excluded the wording " double-dapple " from the standard in 2007 and now strictly use the wording " dapple " as the double dapple gene is commonly responsible for blindness and deafness.

The names contrabass and double bass refer to the instrument's range and use in the contra octave below the cello, also called the 16 ' octave relative to the church organ.

While the violin, viola, and cello all use friction pegs for gross tuning adjustments, the double bass has metal machine heads.

Major European orchestras generally use basses with a fifth string, tuned to B three octaves and a semitone below middle C. Players with standard double basses ( E-A-D-G ) typically play the notes below " E " an octave higher.

In the United States, Canada and United Kingdom, most professional orchestral players use four-string double basses with a C extension, which extends the lowest string down as far as low C, an octave below the lowest note on the cello ( more rarely, this string may be tuned to a low B ).

Karr was given Koussevitzky's famous solo double bass by Olga Koussevitsky and played it in concerts around the world for 40 years before, in turn, giving the instrument to the International Society of Bassists for talented soloists to use in concert.

Since there is no established instrumental ensemble that includes the double bass, its use in chamber music has not been as exhaustive as the literature for ensembles such as the string quartet or piano trio.

Other examples of chamber works that use the double bass in mixed ensembles include Serge Prokofiev's Quintet in G minor, Op. 39 for oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, and double bass ; Erwin Schulhoff's Concertino for flute / piccolo, viola, and double bass ; Fred Lerdahl's Waltzes for violin, viola, cello, and double bass ; Mohammed Fairouz's Litany for double bass and wind quartet ; Mario Davidovsky's Festino for guitar, viola, cello, and double bass ; and Iannis Xenakis's Morsima-Amorsima for piano, violin, cello, and double bass.

Most languages have exclusively pulmonic egressive consonants, which use the lungs and diaphragm, but ejectives, clicks, and implosives use different mechanisms.

The most populous languages with clicks, Zulu and Xhosa, use the letters c, q, x, by themselves and in digraphs, to write click consonants.

* The Japanese hiragana and katakana syllabaries use the dakuten (◌゛) and handakuten (◌゜) ( in Japanese: 濁点 and 半濁点 ) symbols, also known as nigori ( 濁 ) or ten-ten ( 点々 ) and maru ( 丸 ), to indicate voiced consonants or other phonetic changes.

many of them extensively use diacritics, e. g., some methods use a dot for rendering emphatic consonants ().

Romanization systems use one of two arbitrary ways to represent the Chinese phonemic opposition between aspirated and unaspirated consonants.

This system was originally created for use with the Middle Indic languages, which have a very limited number of clusters ( the only clusters allowed are geminate consonants and clusters involving homorganic nasal stops ).

Although the rules seem simple, it is hard to use classical hexameter in English, because English is a stress-timed language that condenses vowels and consonants between stressed syllables, while hexameter relies on the regular timing of the phonetic sounds.

The effect is mainly achieved by the use of a number of retroflex and uvular consonants in the language's inventory.

Khoisan languages are best known for their use of click consonants as phonemes.

In the spelling of Hebrew and some other Semitic languages, matres lectionis ( Latin " mothers of reading ", singular form: mater lectionis, Hebrew: א ֵ ם ק ְ ר ִ יא ָ ה mother of reading ), refers to the use of certain consonants to indicate a vowel.

In addition, they use " plosive " for a pulmonic stop ; " stops " in their usage include ejective and implosive consonants.

Some scholars reserve the term epenthesis for " intrusive " vowels and use excrescence for intrusive consonants.

However, the use of apostrophes preserves b, d, g, and j for the romanization of Chinese languages containing voiced consonants, such as Shanghainese ( which has a full set of voiced consonants ) and Min Nan ( Hō-ló-oē ) whose century-old Pe ̍ h-ōe-jī ( POJ, often called Missionary Romanization ) is similar to Wade – Giles.

All verbal languages use pitch to express emotional and other paralinguistic information, and to convey emphasis, contrast, and other such features in what is called intonation, but not all languages use tones to distinguish words or their inflections, analogously to consonants and vowels.

The poems that follow use only the 4 vowels " A ", " E ", " I ", and " O ", and 11 consonants " C ", " D ", " F ", " H ", " L ", " M ", " N ", " R ", " S ", " T ", and " W " of this utterance.

Alliteration may also include the use of different consonants with similar properties ( labials, dentals, etc.

Though the consonants differ little from the text generally accepted in the early 2nd century ( and also differ little from some Qumran texts that are even older ), it has numerous differences of both greater and lesser significance when compared to ( extant 4th century ) manuscripts of the Septuagint, a Greek translation ( made in the 3rd to 2nd centuries BCE ) of the Hebrew Scriptures that was in popular use in Egypt and Israel and that is believed by scholars to be the source often quoted in the New Testament.

Click consonants use the velaric airstream mechanism.

In its physical aspect, singing has a well-defined technique that depends on the use of the lungs, which act as an air supply, or bellows ; on the larynx, which acts as a reed or vibrator ; on the chest and head cavities, which have the function of an amplifier, as the tube in a wind instrument ; and on the tongue, which together with the palate, teeth, and lips articulate and impose consonants and vowels on the amplified sound.

Correct reading depends on the inclusion of superscript numbers and the use of apostrophes to distinguish between different consonants, but in practice both of these are commonly omitted.

Certain African languages such as the Khoisan languages use the uvula to produce click consonants as well, though other than that, uvular consonants are fairly uncommon in Sub-Saharan Africa.