Several species are used in herbalism, and D. leucomelas yields the versatile medical compound betulinic acid.

Though versatile and capable of turning out a ballad lyric with the best of them, Mercer's forte is a highly polished quasi-folk wit.

Hotel Escape's Bonanza room has a real bonanza in its new attraction, the versatile `` Kings 4, Plus Two ''.

Mr. Sansom is English, bearded, formidably cultivated, the versatile author of numerous volumes of short stories, of novels and of pieces that are neither short stories nor travel articles but something midway between.

Amides are also versatile precursors to many other functional groups.

Grenade launchers provide a versatile launch platform for a plethora of munitions including, smoke, phosphorus, tear gas, illumination, anti-personnel, infrared and radar-jamming rounds.

It is among the most versatile and fearsome weapons on the battlefield, valued for its shock action against other troops and high survivability, although it can be still be vulnerable to anti-tank weapons.

A glow-discharge ( GD ) device serves as a versatile source, as it can simultaneously introduce and atomize the sample.

Copper and its alloys have a huge variety of uses that reflect their versatile physical, mechanical, and chemical properties.

Since their invention and subsequent proliferation in the mid-20th Century, ballpoint pens have proven to be a versatile art medium for professional artists as well as amateur doodlers.

Such computers are more versatile in that they do not need to have their hardware reconfigured for each new program, but can simply be reprogrammed with new in-memory instructions ; they also tend to be simpler to design, in that a relatively simple processor may keep state between successive computations to build up complex procedural results.

Capoeira is a fast and versatile martial art which is historically focused on fighting outnumbered or in technological disadvantage.

The concepts of hybridization are so versatile, and the variability in bonding in most organic compounds is so modest, that valence bond theory remains an integral part of the vocabulary of organic chemistry.

Soy and wheat gluten are very versatile materials, because they can be manufactured into various shapes and textures, and they absorb flavourings ( including, but not limited to, meat-like flavourings ), whilst having very little flavour of their own.

For these reasons, rasterization is usually the approach of choice when interactive rendering is required ; however, the pixel-by-pixel approach can often produce higher-quality images and is more versatile because it does not depend on as many assumptions about the image as rasterization.

Coyotes are opportunistic, versatile carnivores with a 90 % mammalian diet, depending on the season.

" Romare Bearden described Alston as "... one of the most versatile artists whose enormous skill led him to a diversity of styles ..." Bearden also describes the professionalism and impact that Alston had on Harlem and the African American community: "' was a consummate artist and a voice in the development of African American art who never doubted the excellence of all people's sensitivity and creative ability.

Matthew, the youngest, is a versatile cellist with an impressive list of composing and performance credits.

The Dragon uses analogue joysticks, unlike most systems of the time which used less versatile but cheaper digital systems.

Another versatile extension becoming increasingly common is the use of some electronic drums in a mainly conventional kit.

Glenn A. Baker, author of Monkeemania: The True Story of the Monkees, commented in 1986 that " for an artist as versatile and confident as Jones, the relative failure of his post-Monkees activities is puzzling.

The battery is a versatile and very common power source which is ideally suited to many applications, but its energy storage is finite, and once discharged it must be disposed of or recharged.

With its eight faculties and 57 departments, the University of Gothenburg is also one of the most wide-ranging and versatile universities in Sweden.

The guitarist controls an extremely versatile instrument.

* German MG 42: the MG 34's immediate successor in Wehrmacht service — and the most versatile and effective machine gun design of the Second World War.

1912 brought more success for Sporting's athletes with the highly versatile António Stromp shining in the 100m ( reaching the fourth round ) and the 200m in the Olympic Games held in Stockholm, which proved fatal to the Portuguese marathon runner Francisco Lázaro.

Though Palestrina represents late Renaissance music well, others such as Orlande de Lassus ( a Franco-Flemish composer who also spent some of his early career in Italy ) and William Byrd were arguably more versatile.

A versatile brawler in the ring, he was nicknamed " Manos de Piedra " (" Stone Fists " although the literal translation is " Hands of Stone ") during his career.

Mainly we wanted to see Ubu incarnate in the versatile talent of M. Gémier, and tonight and tomorrow night are the only two performances that M. Ginisty and his production of Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam have been free to relinquish to us.

The romance of manners is due to the versatile Camillo Castello Branco, a rich impressionist who describes to perfection the life of the early part of the century in Amor de Perdição, Novellas do Minho, and other books.

We shall not go far wrong if we include in the list Hyacinthe Morel ( 1756 – 1829 ), of Avignon, whose collection of poems, Lou Saboulet, has been republished by Frédéric Mistral ; Louis Aubanel ( 178 ~- 1842 ), of Nîmes, the successful translator of Anacreon's Odes ; Auguste Tandon, the troubadour of Montpellier, who wrote Fables, contes et autres pièces en vers ( 1800 ); Fabre d ' Olivet, the versatile littérateur who in 1803 published Le Troubadour: Poésies occitaniques, which, in order to secure their success, he gave out as the work of some medieval poet Diou-loufet ( 1771 – 1840 ), who wrote a didactic poem, in the manner of Virgil, relating to silkworm-breeding ( Leis magnans ); Jacques Azais ( 1778 – 1856 ), author of satires, fables, & c .; d ' Astros ( 1780 – 1863 ), a writer of fables in La Fontaine's manner ; Castil-Blaze, who found time, amidst his musical pursuits, to compose Provençal poems, intended to be set to music ; the Marquis de Fare-Alais ( 1791 – 1846 ), author of some light satirical tales ( Las Castagnados ).

Historically, the House of Chanel is most famous for the stylistically versatile “ little black dress ”, the perfume No. 5 de Chanel and the Chanel Suit.

L. Sprague de Camp recommended the collection highly, praising Heinlein for " his prodigality of invention, his shrewd grasp of human nature and his versatile knowledge of law, politics, business and science.

Charles de Sousy Ricketts ( 2 October 1866-7 October 1931 ) was a versatile English artist, illustrator, author and printer, and is best known for his work as book designer and typographer from 1896 to 1904 with the Vale Press, and his work in the theatre as a set and costume designer.

Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne ( 1589 – November 12, 1662 ), was a versatile Dutch Golden Age painter of allegories, genre subjects and portraits, as well as a miniaturist, book-illustrator and designer of political satires and a versifier.

He was a versatile composer who expanded the range of opéra comique to cover a wide variety of subjects from the Oriental fairy tale Zémire et Azor ( 1772 ) to the musical satire of Le jugement de Midas ( 1778 ) and the domestic farce of L ' amant jaloux ( also 1778 ).

Composers in the style of musica reservata included Nicola Vicentino, who wrote about it in his L ' antica musica ridotta alla moderna prattica ( 1555 ); Philippe de Monte, the prolific composer of madrigals who mainly worked in Vienna ; and above all, Orlande de Lassus, the renowned and versatile composer working in Munich whose Prophetiae Sibyllarum, probably written in the 1560s, may represent the peak of development of the style.

Over the decades several organizations were interested in production of the versatile DHC-6 Twin Otter, the rights to which were acquired, with several other de Havilland type certificates, in 2006 by Viking Air of Victoria, British Columbia.

It was the seat of Portuguese marquesses, one of which was an early patron of the Brazilian-born versatile scientist, naturalist and pioneering inventor-aeronaut Bartholomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.

A prolific and versatile writer, he is probably best known by the English translations of his Précis de Grammaire comparée de l ' anglais et de l ' allemand and Précis de Grammaire comparée du Grec et du Latin.

A versatile artist, he made these tableaux de modes famous, while also painting histories and mythologies in a colourful and fluent manner which owed something to both Veronese and Peter Paul Rubens.