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  2. Cold hands are common in winter. When are they a sign of a ...

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    The hands typically get cold when the body or the hand specifically is exposed to cold.” Most of the time cold hands aren’t a cause for concern — they’re simply the result of less blood ...

  3. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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    AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward.On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...

  4. Strategic lateral offset procedure - Wikipedia

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    The aim is to not achieve an overall even distribution of one-third of all flights on each of the three possible tracks, as one might assume. When the procedure was originally developed, 4.9 percent of aircraft in most oceans could not offset automatically, so the centerline had to remain as an option.

  5. Slop - Wikipedia

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    Slop or SLOP may refer to: Slop (clothing) AI slop, a derogatory term describing low-quality artificial intelligence-generated content or media; Slop is the common name for household food scraps; Strategic Lateral Offset Procedure, in aviation, a procedure for avoiding collisions; a popular term for Backlash (engineering)

  6. Glossary of nautical terms (M–Z) - Wikipedia

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    1. The tallest mast on a ship [1] with more than one mast, especially the tallest mast on a full-rigged ship. 2. On a ship with more than one mast, the second mast from the bow. mainmast head The top of a sailing vessel's mainmast. mainmastman A sailor assigned to the mainmast. mains The main brails on the mainsail. [2] mainsheet

  7. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    One half of the world does not know how the other half lives; One hand washes the other; One kind word can warm three winter months; One man's meat is another man's poison; One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter; One man's trash is another man's treasure; One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb

  8. Will this cold spell knock out power in North Texas? Here’s ...

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    The strong cold front arriving Thursday will send temperatures plunging to single digits. Wind chills below zero behind 30 to 40 mph winds and gusts of up to 45 mph are possible.

  9. Cold-air pool - Wikipedia

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    A cold-air pool is an accumulation of cold air in a topographic depression, such as a valley or basin. The cold air is produced by radiative cooling at night along the slopes and sinks down, as it is denser than the surrounding air, settling at the bottom of the depression.