Curt twisted to one side, and the tines of the fork bit into the floor.

If one dancer slaps another, the victim may do a pirouette, sit down, or offer his assailant a fork and spoon.

As of March 2009, there are three forks, one of which is dbndns, the fork of the Debian Project, and more than a dozen patches to address shortcomings exist.

In Mac OS, OpenType is one of several formats referred to as data-fork fonts, as they lack the classic Mac resource fork.

If a sound absorbing sheet is slid in between the prongs of a vibrating fork, reducing the waves reaching the ear from one prong, the volume heard will actually increase, due to a reduction of this cancellation.

A decrease in frequency of one vibration in 21, 000 for each ° F change is typical for a steel tuning fork.

( Bad even if just one fork is on the table )

The Rhodes piano's tone-generating principles are derived from the concept of an asymmetrical tuning fork, with a stiff wire ( called a " tine "), struck by a felt-tipped ( neoprene rubber-tipped after 1970 ) hammer, acting as one side of the tuning fork, and a counterbalancing resonating tone bar above the tine acting as the other side.

The queen is also often used to fork, but since the queen is usually more valuable than the pieces it attacks, this typically gains material only when the pieces attacked are undefended or if one is undefended and the opposing king is checked.

Pawns other than rook pawns ( those on the a-and h-files ) can also be used to fork by attacking two enemy pieces diagonally — one to the left, the other to the right.

Those traveling south of the Platte crossed the South Platte fork at one of about three ferries ( in dry years it could be forded without a ferry ) before continuing up the North Platte River valley into present-day Wyoming heading to Fort Laramie.

As a piece of cutlery or kitchenware, a fork is a tool consisting of a handle with several narrow tines on one end.

271: 12767-12774 ( 1996 )) prior to passage of the replication fork, which would fix the cytosine to thymine point mutation in one of the two daughter strands.

The river, known as the Atax in ancient times, had always had two main courses which split close to Salelles ; one fork going south through Narbonne and then to the sea close to the Clappe Massif, the other heading east to the etang at Vendres close to the current mouth of the river well to the east of the city.

The current of one fork going under the eart was very strong and caught the flat, over it went.

It has an adze along with a 4-inch spike on one end and the other end has a pry fork.

This bar is a multipurpose pry-bar with a fork on one end and an adze on the other with a spike that sticks out next to it.

In his journals of " My Journeys Across the Mountain ," Washington said that he stayed all night on March 28, 1748, with Abram Johnson on Patterson Creek, and on the following day, marched fifteen miles ( 24 km ) to one Solomon Hedges, and when he came to supper, on the table was neither cloth, nor knife, nor fork.

By placing the PostScript in the data fork and a standard Mac PICT resource in the resource fork, both images could be moved about together invisibly as if they were one file.

When trying to load a resource, it will look in the top of the stack first, ( perhaps the current document's resource fork ), then the next one down ( the application's resource fork ), then the next one ( system resource forks ).

The road, a comparatively new one, is very good, winding along inlets, coves, and bays of deep and brilliant blue.

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.

Twice a week he drove his tallyho over the Santa Cruz road, upland and through the redwood forest, with orchards below him at one hand, and glimpses of the Pacific at the other.

For one thing, the driver usually sees less and has less fun than his passengers since it becomes pretty necessary for him to keep at least one eye on the road.

`` Where there was no road, they lived without one.

Across the road there was one no more than a hundred yards away.

Walking back down Main Street, I said, `` I saw the Harbor's one squad car at the road block, we'll ride out in my car ''.

Out of the church and into his big car, it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college, his expansiveness, the quaint little pine board tourist courts, cabins really, with a cute naked light bulb in the ceiling ( unfrosted and naked as a streetlight, like the one on the corner where you used to play when you were a kid, where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs, watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ), a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls, an insect Highway Patrol with feelers waving.

Other archaeologists think instead that the main purpose of the road system was a religious one, providing pathways for periodic pilgrimages and facilitating regional gatherings for seasonal ceremonies.

As one of the waterways and ancient highways, for centuries the road led from Europe to Asia and back, and from northern Africa to the Baltic Sea.

Two different routes to Apulia diverged at this point, one ( Via Aurelia Aeclanensis ) leading through the modern Ariano to Herdoniae, the other ( the Via Appia of the Empire ) passing the Lacus Ampsanctus and going on to Aquilonia and Venusia ; while the road from Aeclanum to Abellinum ( mod.

Best eaten at the famous Ikbal restaurants ( either the old one in the town centre or the big place on the main road ).

The latter fell after a violent fight, leaving the road open to the major city and provincial capital of Málaga, which he captured after one day.

" They're the kind of twisted, instantly memorable characters one meets in John Ford's westerns, Jack Kerouac's road novels, but, most of all, in the blues and country songs of the 1920s, ' 30s and ' 40s.

The next day, a supervisor passing through the yard realized that the fixture was not road debris but was in fact one of the fixtures used to light the tunnel itself.

The Red Sox are consistently one of the top MLB teams in average road attendance, while the small capacity of Fenway Park prevents them from leading in overall attendance.

Some, but not all of the roads in the capital N ' Djamena are paved, outside of N ' Djamena there is one paved road which runs from Massakory in the north, through N ' Djamena and then south, through the cities of Guelendeng, Bongor, Kelo and Moundou, with a short spur leading in the direction of Kousseri, Cameroon, near N ' Djamena.

Polu-autocesta or semi-highway refers to a two-lane, undivided road running on one roadway of a motorway while the other is in construction.

With the league rules permitting teams to wear their third jersey twice in the regular season and once in the preseason, the Panthers reserve the use of their alternate light blue jersey for a home game when there are one or two games that they don't wear them on the road.

There are two forces ; one is the force of gravity vertically downward through the center of mass of the ball mg where m is the mass of the ball and g is the gravitational acceleration ; the second is the upward normal force exerted by the road perpendicular to the road surface ma < sub > n </ sub >.

Hadrian's temple had actually been located there because it was the junction of the main north-south road with one of the two main east-west roads and directly adjacent to the forum ( which is now the location of the ( smaller ) Muristan ); the forum itself had been placed, as is traditional in Roman towns, at the junction of the main north-south road with the ( other ) main east-west road ( which is now El-Bazar / David Street ).