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rough and figure
In the figure I < sub > 1 </ sub > has been set to unity, a very rough approximation.
Inscriptions in the Archilocheion identify Archilochus as a key figure in the Parian cult of Dionysus There is no evidence to back isolated reports that his mother was a slave, named Enipo, that he left Paros to escape poverty, or that he became a mercenary soldier — the slave background is probably inferred from a misreading of his verses ; archaeology indicates that life on Paros, which he associated with " figs and seafaring ", was quite prosperous ; and though he frequently refers to the rough life of a soldier, warfare was a function of the aristocracy in the archaic period and there is no indication that he fought for pay.
Often surprised in prison, its actors-the singers-are described in the faia figure, a fado singer guy, a bully of a rough and hoarse voice with tattoos and skilled with a flick knife who spoke using slang.
The designer may attach a rough lump of clay on the main figure as a temporary head while the real head is sculpted on a separate armature.
Feynman suspected that the 1 / 100, 000 figure was wildly fantastical, and made a rough estimate that the true likelihood of shuttle disaster was closer to 1 in 100.
Note: Batman: Birth of the Demon provides a rough figure of 500 years for Ra's al Ghul's age.
432, 000 divided by 365 days gives a rough figure of 1, 183½ years before the Flood.
The thirty-second note figure that opens the flute sonata appears with some alteration in the first movement of the oboe sonata, and in rough inversion during the second movement of the one for clarinet ; likewise, a motive consisting of a dotted note filled out by two shorter notes appears in multiple places in all three sonatas.
These materials can reflect diffusely, however, if their surface is microscopically rough, like in a frost glass ( figure 2 ), or, of course, if their homogeneous structure deteriorates, as in the eye lens.
Ogof Draenen ( Welsh for Hawthorn Cave ) is, at 66 km ( official figure ; the true length of passage is still being revised upward, with a rough modern approximation at it being 70 km ), the longest cave system in Wales and the second longest in Great Britain behind the Easegill System, Lost Johns and Notts 2 system in North Yorkshire.
" Crooked " is sung to a rapid figure of four different notes, while " straight " is sung on a single note, and in " the rough places plain ," " the rough places " is sung over short, separate notes whereas the final word " plain " is extended over several measures in a series of long notes.
By trial and error, it is possible to get a rough idea of the algorithms behind the game and figure out how to win consistently.
He was tall and thin, with long black hair and beard, always dressed in a rough blue tunic, a straw hat and leather sandals, carrying a necklace with a wooden cross, Antônio Maciel cut an impressive figure, reminding people of Jesus Christ.
She is renowned for her stunning figure but rough background as a daughter of a fruit shop owner ( hence her name ).

rough and heard
The sounds produced by this dysfunction are usually described as a " click " or a " pop " when a single sound is heard and as " crepitation " or " crepitus " when there are multiple, rough sounds.
When Mr Gladstone appeared on the Tyne he heard cheer no other English minister ever heard ... the people were grateful to him, and rough pitmen who never approached a public man before, pressed round his carriage by thousands ... and thousands of arms were stretched out at once, to shake hands with Mr Gladstone as one of themselves.
Although it was rough, he felt he had seen and heard enough " star potential " to suggest that Hynde form a more permanent band to record for his new label, Real Records.
Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster and the unique mix with the traditional country steel guitar sound, new vocal harmony styles in which the words are minimal, and a rough edge not heard on the more polished Nashville Sound recordings of the same era.
With Savatage stabilized Paul O ' Neill decided it was time to launch Trans-Siberian Orchestra ; however, the William Morris Agency had heard the rough demos and convinced Paul that it was too good to be a rock album.
In spite of the rough start, Reed soon became an accepted member of the group and his work was heard on the majority of tracks on both albums.
Demo recordings are seldom heard by the public, although some artists do eventually release rough demos in rarities compilation albums or box sets.

rough and first
A rough attempt was made to characterize the vertical profile of the cloud by taking samples from outside the windows on the first, ninth, and fifteenth floors of a Government office building.
It might be rough on Edythe at first, but Linda and John between them could make a settlement handsome enough to soothe her, to send her back to Cleveland or anywhere.
In the first section of the Enquiry, Hume provides a rough introduction to philosophy as a whole.
The club's first ground was Siemens Meadow ( 1905 – 1907 ), a patch of rough ground by the River Thames.
Eccentricity, defined as taking characteristics such as dress and appearance to extremes, began to be applied generally to human behavior in the 1770s ; similarly, the word dandy first appears in the late 18th century: In the years immediately preceding the American Revolution, the first verse and chorus of " Yankee Doodle " derided the alleged poverty and rough manners of American-born colonists, suggesting that whereas a fine horse and gold-braided clothing ("
The period from 700, 000 – 300, 000 years ago is also known as the Acheulean, when H. ergaster ( or erectus ) made large stone hand axes out of flint and quartzite, at first quite rough ( Early Acheulian ), later " retouched " by additional, more subtle strikes at the sides of the flakes.
This view was further elaborated by Belidor ( representation of rough surfaces with spherical asperities, 1737 ) and Leonhard Euler ( 1750 ) who derived the angle of repose of a weight on an inclined plane and first distinguished between static and kinetic friction ..
In 1931, after Woman in the Moon, Lang directed what many film scholars consider to be his masterpiece: M, a disturbing story of a child murderer ( Peter Lorre in his first starring role ) who is hunted down and brought to rough justice by Berlin's criminal underworld.
Braid made a rough distinction between different stages of hypnosis, which he termed the first and second conscious stage of hypnotism ; he later replaced this with a distinction between " sub-hypnotic ", " full hypnotic ", and " hypnotic coma " stages.
According to Genesis 25: 25, Isaac and Rebekah named the first son עשו, Esau (` Esav or ` Esaw, meaning " hairy " or " rough ", from, ` asah, " do " or " make "; or " completely developed ", from, ` assui ).
Following shooting between 16 September and 12 November 1978, a two-hour-long rough cut of the film was put together for its first private showing in January 1979.
We dare not seriously affirm it, but all the same it is certain that man came out of the slime of the earth, and his first appearance must have been in the form of a rough sketch.
The artwork has rough pixelated edges, jagged lines, and few colors ( the hallmarks of Microsoft Paint drawings ), and characters are almost always copied and pasted after their first appearance.
William Dampier called into St Helena in 1691 at the end of his first of three circumnavigations of the world and stated Jamestown comprised 20 – 30 small houses built with rough stones furnished with mean furniture.
The islands were first sighted in 1506 by Portuguese explorer Tristão da Cunha, although rough seas prevented a landing.
Within the first decades after Triceratops was described, various skulls were collected, which varied to a lesser or greater degree from the original Triceratops, named T. horridus by Marsh ( from the Latin horridus ; " rough, rugose ", suggesting the roughened texture of those bones belonging to the type specimen, later identified as an aged individual ).
The first of these forms a rough triangle, whose corners are the opening to the east and the Porta Napoli channel linking it to the Great Sea in the west.
Since the first official census by the Belgian authorities in 1924 put the population at about 10 million, that implies a rough estimate of 10 million dead.
The landings initially encountered heavy resistance from the German 716th Division ; the preliminary bombardment proved less effective than had been hoped, and rough weather forced the first wave to be delayed until 07: 35.
The first objective is that of maximum return on investment for the piece of diamond rough.
The colonists built their first rough huts, either of rough timber, or of wattle-and-daub.
The first practical pneumatic tire was made by John Boyd Dunlop while working as a veterinarian in May Street, Belfast, Ireland in 1887 for his son's bicycle, in an effort to prevent the headaches his son had while riding on rough roads ( Dunlop's patent was later declared invalid because of prior art by fellow Scot Robert William Thomson ).

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