A tongue-twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly, and can be used as a type of spoken ( or sung ) word game.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

But to the cattlemen who had been facing bankruptcy from rustling losses and to the cowboys who had been faced with lay-offs a few years earlier, he was becoming a vastly different type of legendary figure.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

The doctor agreed, but explained that it would be necessary first to check Fred's blood to ascertain whether or not it was of the same type as Papa's.

Despite the rejection of the traditional accounts on many points of detail, as late as 1948 it was still possible to postulate a massive and comparatively sudden ( beginning in ca. 450 ) influx of Germans as the type of invasions.

He was placed in charge of athletics, and among other things adapted the type of calisthenics known as the daily dozen.

There was no evidence, either of a positive or negative type, of the actions of a Divine Being in this world ; ;

But that scarcely means that he was the aloof, forbidding type of student who shared few if any activities with his fellows, the banter of the surviving prolusions providing enough evidence to deny this.

But during the second half of the century its fortunes reached a low point and when in 1897 Cyrus H. K. Curtis purchased it -- `` paper, type, and all '' -- for $1,000 it was a 16-page weekly filled with unsigned fiction and initialed miscellany, and with only some 2,000 subscribers.

For it was Rameau's type of music that he had been trying to write, and that he couldn't write.

Until 1958 the state was also entitled to a special type of manufacturers' discount through the dealers.

Timothy Palmer, who invented and later patented the arch type of construction for wooden bridges, was the genius who planned and supervised the building of the Essex, or `` Deer Island '' bridge although the actual work was carried out under the direction of William Coombs, who received $300 as recompense.

He said he was the lonely type and working in a cellar you saw funny things coming out of the cracks in the wall if they wasn't nobody with you.

A bridged-T type of bridge was used in the 10 - 16 Mc/sec range.

There appeared to be no difference in the distribution of anti-A and anti-B activity in group O serum, though in two group O donors ( J. F. and E. M. ) only one type of agglutinin was found in the regions of low anionic binding capacity ( Figs. 1 and 2 ).

In all cases the activity against Af cells was spread over a wider area than that with Af cells, regardless of the type of test ( saline, albumin, indirect Coombs ) used for comparison.

Final ratings were made on the basis of a point system which was developed after studying the distributions of actual behaviors recorded and assigning weight values to each type of behavior that was deviant from the discovered norms.

Since this type of item was not in the statute when section 381 was enacted in 1954, one cannot say with certainty what effect the enactment of that section should have.

Therefore, his only recourse was to learn the shape all over again for each new visual experience of the same individual object or type of object ; ;

The ship was a Waco biplane, one of the first two of its type to be fitted with the air cooled, 225/hp Wright radial engine known as the Whirlwind.

These carts were of a type devised in Pembina in the days of Alexander Henry the Younger about a decade before the Selkirk colony was begun.

Into this book he incorporated his view of " the violent male type ", which he described as a " man who had to be right ", a man who " instantly attracts women " and who he said were the men who " run the world ".

* New Jersey, as a type of independent incorporated municipality-see Borough ( New Jersey )

In the United Kingdom, the eleven plus exam which incorporated an intelligence test has been used from 1945 to decide, at eleven years old, which type of school a child should go to.

The Ring modulator is a type of heterodyne incorporated into some synthesizers or used as a stand-alone audio effect.

A type bar line printer was incorporated in the IBM 402 and 403 accounting machines.

Various type of clams are incorporated into the cuisine of New England.

Earlier cameras of this type had separate viewfinder and rangefinder windows ; later the rangefinder was incorporated into the viewfinder.

This finding of endothelial progenitor cells incorporated in tumor vasculature proves the importance of this cell type in blood vessel development in a tumor setting and metastasis.

Later decks incorporated coded holes in the shell to autodetect the tape type.

Jones incorporated the giant scrolls from Vignola and della Porta ’ s Church of the Gesù with a giant Corinthian portico, the largest of its type north of the Alps.

This small type is incorporated in consumer products, and even implanted in pets, for identification.

Northeastern Brazil is known for a distinctive form of literature called literatura de cordel, which are a type of ballads that include elements incorporated into music as " repentismo ", an improvised lyrical contest on themes suggested by the audience.

This shift in supply and demand is not incorporated into the above example, for simplicity and because these effects are different for every type of good.

For the first time, italic type features are incorporated in the italic fonts.

The boundary, style and even name of an incorporated area therefore do not necessarily correspond to the boundary, type or name of any settlement.

Nearly all of the land in New England ( and all of the land in New Jersey ) is part of an incorporated area of some type.

The Green Paper of 1987 was incorporated into the Belgian law of 21 March 1991, which created a new type of public-sector company with greater management autonomy.

EA Games ' ( formerly Westwood Studios ') Command & Conquer franchise has incorporated a similar fog of war through the series, as has Activision's Dark Reign ; the same type of effect is present in EA Games ' Genie Engine which powers games including Age of Empires and Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds.

The type of government may range from inoperative, to weak governmental authority, to incorporated municipalities.

Pearson began his career drawing purely on English medieval prototypes, but increasingly incorporated ideas from abroad: Charles Locke Eastlake described Pearson's Christchurch at Appleton-le-Moors as " modelled on the earliest and severest type of French Gothic, with an admixture of details almost Byzantine in character.

Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with eight settlements of urban type and six rural localities, incorporated as the City of Makhachkala — an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.

The term " okrug " is also used to describe a type of a municipal formation, the " municipal urban okrug "— a municipal urban settlement not incorporated into a municipal district.

From the 270s onwards however, much like the rest of Greece, the emergence of the Celtic shield known as the thureos was incorporated into Greek warfare and a new type of troop was developed.

They varied the " hot " amino acid in each round of the experiment, seeking to determine which amino acid would be incorporated into a protein following the addition of a particular type of synthetic RNA.