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The palatal or palato-alveolar clicks are a family of click consonants found, as components of words, only in southern Africa. The tongue is nearly flat, and is pulled back rather than down as in the postalveolar clicks, making a sharper sound than those consonants.
Black Leg : Joints of pipe racked back in the derrick. Blowout: A sudden, uncontrolled release of underground pressure from the well. BOP (Blowout preventer): Pronounced "B-O-P", not "bop", is a mechanical device connected to the wellhead to control and prevent blowouts. Catwalk: Elevated platform used for sliding pipe up to the rig floor.
Pull-back (finance), a term in financial trading; Pullback motor, a clockwork motor often used in toy cars; Euscirrhopterus poeyi, known as the pullback moth; Iijima Bishop Pullback, an opening in the game of shogi; The opposite of a pushback (migration)
Crab mentality, also known as crab theory, [1] [2] crabs in a bucket [a] mentality, or the crab-bucket effect, is a mentality of which people will try to prevent others from gaining a favourable position in something, even if it has no effect on those trying to stop them.
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After horses were introduced to North America, many Plains Indian tribes began to make larger horse-drawn travois. Instead of making specially constructed travois sleds, they would simply cross a pair of tepee poles across the horse's back and attach a burden platform between the poles behind the horse. This served two purposes at once, as the ...
In the Seth Gordon-directed movie, which premiered on Netflix on Jan. 17, Foxx and Diaz's characters are pulled out of hiding when a terrorist they stole a dangerous device from discovers their ...
A pullback motor (also pull back, pull back and go or pull-back) is a simple clockwork motor used in toy cars. A patent for them was granted to Bertrand 'Fred' Francis in 1952 as a keyless clockwork motor. [1] [2] Pulling the car backward (hence the name) winds up an internal spiral spring; a flat spiral rather than a helical coil spring. When ...