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  2. Learning the Ropes - Wikipedia

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    Learning the Ropes follows a single father who works as a private school teacher and vice principal, and also moonlights as a professional wrestler.Robert Randall, played by retired National Football League defensive lineman Lyle Alzado, would balance day to day problems with his students and with his kids Ellen, played by Nicole Stoffman and Mark, portrayed by Yannick Bisson. [1]

  3. Wikipedia:Learning the ropes - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia can be considered to be two levels deep. The top level is the encyclopedia itself (the collection of articles about every subject under the sun, and beyond), and it is therefore the easiest to access - simply enter the name of the article you wish to view in Wikipedia's searchbox.

  4. Kató Lomb - Wikipedia

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    The other six languages I know only through translating literature and technical material." In the fourth edition of How I Learn Languages (1995), she wrote: [ 5 ] "I would simply like to tell how I, over 25 years, got to the point of being able to speak 10 languages, translate technical documents and enjoy fiction in six more, and understand ...

  5. Seizing - Wikipedia

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    Seizings are a class of stopping knots used to semi-permanently bind together two ropes, two parts of the same rope, or rope and another object. [1] Akin to lashings, they use string or small-stuff to produce friction and leverage to immobilize larger ropes. Seizings are not recommended for heavy loads for critical use as strain reduces the ...

  6. Simple view of reading - Wikipedia

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    (D) Decoding: Converting written words into spoken language [3] (LC) Language (listening) comprehension: understanding the meaning of the words in context (as if they had been spoken out loud). (RC) Reading comprehension: understanding the meaning of the written words in context. To be clear, all of this can be done while doing silent reading.

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  8. Idiom - Wikipedia

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    A word-by-word translation of an opaque idiom will most likely not convey the same meaning in other languages. The English idiom kick the bucket has a variety of equivalents in other languages, such as kopnąć w kalendarz ("kick the calendar") in Polish, casser sa pipe ("to break one’s pipe") in French [ 13 ] and tirare le cuoia ("pulling ...

  9. Rudens - Wikipedia

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    Rudens is a play by Roman author Plautus.Its name translates from Latin as "The Rope;" in English translation it has been called The Shipwreck or The Fisherman's Rope. [1] [2] It is a Roman comedy, which describes how a girl, Palaestra, stolen from her parents by pirates, is reunited with her father, Daemones, ironically, by means of her pimp, Labrax.