An unusual rhetorical device, hendiadys, appears in several places in the play.

The bug was unusual in that it had no power source or transmitter, making it much harder to detect – it was a new type of device, called a passive resonant cavity bug.

It was created by Tom Duff, who is better known for an unusual C programming language construct called Duff's device.

Data on several of the poll tapes found in the garbage did not match data on the tapes provided in public records ; many key audit items were missing, and unusual errors ( such as a date-stamps 16, 000 years in the future on one tape ) indicated the alterations appeared to be due to alterations in programming the device that produces the poll tapes.

The Interocitor is an alien communications device with unusual and strange properties.

The Hansen ball was a combination of unusual design and ergonomic innovations, but like most of the early 19th century typewriters, it did not allow the paper to be seen as it passed through the device.

They can be wired with a listening device that picks up unusual sounds, or observed with a camera.

This pharaoh's tomb, however, includes some unusual features, including four rectangular, rather than square, pillars in its burial chamber and an extremely deep central burial shaft – at over 30 feet or 10 metres long – which was perhaps designed as an additional security device to prevent tomb robbery.

One unusual feature of the device was its support of the HID Bluetooth profile, under the name of " Remote Control ".

A very unusual blowback rifle was created by fitting the M1903 Springfield rifle with a mechanism called the Pedersen device in an attempt to turn a bolt-action rifle into a semi-automatic repeater with essentially a pistol cartridge.

Torr soon moved to the University of South Carolina and commenced work on a most unusual device.

Tamper-evident physical devices are common in sensitive computer installations, for example network cabling is often run down transparent conduit in plain view and switches located in glass-fronted cabinets, where any unusual device attached to the network can easily be seen.

In an unusual ( at the time ) plot device he is frequently seen discussing his feelings with a therapist ( Gillian McCutcheon ) who is heard and only rarely seen by the viewer.

In addition, the plot and narrative device are unusual and unconventional.

That the Bill was " ping-ponged " between both houses was evidence of an unusual constitutional crisis, notable because the urgency of the legislation — the previous powers to detain the individuals in HMP Belmarsh and elsewhere were due to expire on 14 March 2005 — meant that the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, the usual device to handle situations where the Commons and Lords cannot agree on a measure, could not be invoked in order to acquire Royal Assent without the consent of the upper house.

An unusual method of making fire is with a device called a fire piston.

Other unusual devices include a miniature black hole, a gas grenade that turns enemies against each other and a device that temporarily reverses gravity, causing enemies to ' fall ' into the sky and Literally turns the World Upside Down, before the device shuts down, returning gravity to normal and returning affected enemies to earth, the fall killing them.

Featuring an unusual narrative device, the film is told by the Unborn Child.

Fish consistently creates devices with unusual functions, including foodstuff that grants enhanced intelligence, a device that gives people the ability to recreate famous works of art, an animatronic theme park, and a device capable of generating giant mushrooms.

It would not be unusual to have to visit several areas of the factory in order to effectively isolate a device for service ( e. g. device itself for power, upstream material feeders, downstream feeders and control room ).

I want the room in the attic prepared for him He is a most unusual lad, quite precocious in many ways.

Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.

The most unusual of them is the Ithaca 49 ( about $20, $5 for a saddle scabbard ) -- a lever-action single-shot patterned after the famous Winchester lever-action and featuring the Western look.

the former figure is based on a somewhat unusual birth of four by a Central American female ( see chapter on Laying, Brooding, Hatching, and Birth ), the latter on a `` normal '' newly born individual.

The most unusual feature of Boris, however, is the use of the greatest character of all, the chorus.

After a while there come initials and names, and he is interested to hear some rather unusual family nicknames.

On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.

There is clear evidence that Lucy from childhood had an unusual mind.

One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book -- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashed.

Doc Doolittle's scheduled appearance at captain's mast was a very unusual thing, because the discipline dispensed there is ordinarily for the young and immature, and a chief is naturally expected to stay off the report.

An adventure is defined as an exciting or unusual experience ; it may also be a bold, usually risky undertaking, with an uncertain outcome.

In American jurisprudence, under the rules for hearsay, admission of an unsupported affidavit as evidence is unusual ( especially if the affiant is not available for cross-examination ) with regard to material facts which may be dispositive of the matter at bar.

The game is unusual in that no dice are used in resolving conflicts or player actions ; instead a simple diceless system of comparative ability, and narrative description of the action by the players and gamemaster, is used to determine how situations are resolved.

Cysteine is unusual since it has a sulfur atom at the second position in its side-chain, which has a larger atomic mass than the groups attached to the first carbon, which is attached to the α-carbon in the other standard amino acids, thus the ( R ) instead of ( S ).

It is somewhat unusual for directors to be credited co-editors, although the Coen Brothers and Robert Rodriguez have both directed and edited nearly all of their films.

However, there is also evidence that silent reading did occur in antiquity and that it was not generally regarded as unusual.

Perhaps the most unusual thing about the privately operated buses is the fact that they are all highly decorated and personalized, with decaling and home made interior designs that range from comic book scenes, to erotic themes, and even to " Hello Kitty " themes.

The river, named Hamza after the discoverer, an Indian-born scientist Valiya Mannathal Hamza who is working with the National Observatory at Rio, makes it the first and geologically unusual instance of a twin-river system flowing at different levels of the earth's crust in Brazil.

Due to a name which is unusual in Denmark, it is speculated that he was christened on the Danish " Absalon " name day, October 30.

There exist pairs of long and short vowels with overlapping vowel quality giving Australian English phonemic length distinction, which is unusual amongst the various dialects of English, though not unknown elsewhere, such as in regional south-eastern dialects of the UK and eastern seaboard dialects in the US .< ref >

He acquired a knowledge of Hebrew by studying with a Jew who converted to Christianity, and took the unusual position ( for that time ) that the Hebrew, and not the Septuagint, was the inspired text of the Old Testament.

Those who hold a more liberal view of the Bible as a human witness to the glory of God, the work of fallible humans who wrote from a limited experience unusual only for the insight they have gained through their inspired struggle to know God in the midst of a troubled world.

Hippies often chose brightly-colored clothing and wore unusual styles, such as bell-bottom pants, vests, tie-dyed garments, dashikis, peasant blouses, and long, full skirts ; non-Western inspired clothing with Native American, Asian, Indian, African and Latin American motifs were also popular.

" This unusual remit may have been inspired by the fact that William Beveridge, having just become director of LSE, upon asking a taxi driver to take him to the University of London was met with the response " Oh, you mean the place near the Royal School of Needlework ".

This unusual gesture inspired many, and 50, 000 people descended upon Aaronsburg to commemorate it.

His glass is distinguished by the finesse of its drawing, unusual in the medium, his use of rich colours ( inspired by an early visit to see the stained glass of the Cathedral of Chartres, he was especially fond of deep blues ), and an innovative integration of the window leading as part of the overall design ( his use of heavy lines in his black and white book illustrations is probably derived from his glass techniques ).

In fact, the artistic legacy of his reign is slight, especially when compared to that of his successors, James IV and James V. Such evidence as there is consists of portrait coins produced during his reign that display the king in three-quarter profile wearing an imperial crown, the Trinity Altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes, which was probably not commissioned by the king, and an unusual hexagonal chapel at Restalrig near Edinburgh, perhaps inspired by the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

The farcical nature of " the Burger King " centered advertisements inspired an internet meme where the King is edited into unusual situations that are either comical or menacing, many times followed with the phrase " Where is your God now?

Actor-director Jerry Paris was inspired to create the character of Mork after directing an unusual and memorable episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show in which van Dyke's Rob Petrie believed the Earth had been surreptitiously invaded by walnut-eating aliens who stole humans ' thumbs and imaginations.

The unusual graphics that feature on the sleeve were partially inspired by Andy and Paul's original musical notation style.

The band's unusual name has inspired references in modern popular culture.

Extreme Ironing has inspired other forms of unusual extreme activity, such as Extreme Cello Playing.

Abstract Expressionism can be characterized by two major elements: the large size of the canvases used ( partially inspired by Mexican frescoes and the works they made for the WPA in the 1930s ), and the strong and unusual use of brushstrokes and experimental paint application with a new understanding of process.

The unusual design of the caves was much inspired by Sir Francis Dashwood's visits to Italy, Greece, Turkey, Syria and other areas of the Ottoman Empire during his Grand Tour.

Although lacking formal education, he was well read and a lifelong admirer of author Charles Dickens, whose characters ' unusual names inspired Fields to do likewise for his various characters.

The BFG, because he refuses to do likewise, subsists on a foul-tasting vegetable known as a snozzcumber ( inspired by English cucumbers ), and on a drink called frobscottle, which is unusual in that the bubbles in the drink travel downwards and therefore cause the drinker to break wind instead of burp ; this causes noisy flatulence known as Whizzpoppers.

The experimental Horten Ho 229 flying wing series had an unusual upward-firing armament proposed for testing on the V4 night fighter prototype, photoelectric fired vertically mounted rockets or recoilless guns instead of cannon armament inspired by the Jagdfaust system's design.

The shape of the Faisal Mosque is an eight-sided concrete shell inspired by a desert Beduoin's tent and the cubic Kaaba in Mecca, flanked by four unusual minarets inspired by Turkish architecture.

The unusual exterior of a Hylocereus fruit, with its protruding growths, inspired the reference to dragons.

The unusual logo design was reportedly inspired by maritime images ( the sun / moon face is a recurring feature on compasses, sextants and other nautical artefacts used in the navigation of ships ), appropriately reflecting the south's long seafaring history.

The Fairmont Futura featured an unusual two-piece vinyl roof with an upswept central roof band, borrowed from the larger Ford Thunderbird of the same time period, originally inspired by the 1955 Ford Crown Victoria.

The Japanese treasure ship model is probably derived from the Chinese junk model which uses an unusual fold that may have been inspired by the folded sychee, however in general the models of the two countries are quite different.

These efforts have inspired unusual international cooperation – bringing together both North and South Koreans, for example – while helping improve livelihoods for people around the world and leading to the protection of millions of acres of wetlands and grasslands on the five continents where cranes live.