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He was able to fight off the shark before paddling back to shore, where he used his surfboard's leg rope as a compress to stop the bleeding.
Using a set of digital scales, I made a very rough measure and found that it required about 6.5kg of force to compress the spring.
Sometimes you can use a very long lens to compress several repeating details into a pattern.
A boil should be treated by applying a warm-water compress to the affected area for 20 minutes, three times a day, until it bursts.
Shock absorption allows the spine to compress and rebound when the spine is axially loaded during such activities as jumping and running.
The biggest problem was how to compress those factory mainsprings that defy attempts at compression.
Any outline of this work must compress the author's variegated analysis into a thin catalogue of schematic impressions.
Why Rhode Island furniture makers chose to compress the baluster shape to a round shape is still unclear.
Without a second thought, you'd probably compress the file and send it off.
Water doesn't compress and the piston in effect hits a wall, bending or breaking a con rod and possibly shattering the engine block.
At the same time, compress the area with an elastic bandage without binding it too tightly.
This module allows you to compress all attachments in a message, folder or sorting rule with a single mouse click.
It is possible to compress the software by developing slimmer middleware and writing more compact applications.
For example, engines vary in how hard they compress the fuel mixture of gasoline vapor and air.
Rather than using a rotating compressor like a turbojet engine, the forward velocity and vehicle aerodynamic design compress air into the engine.
The network dominates the airwaves through its use of blipverts, which compress thirty seconds of commercial information into three seconds.
Most cancers arise in the head, neck, or uncinate process of the pancreas and may compress the common bile duct.
These compress like a wetsuit, although modern crushed neoprene and compressed neoprene is claimed not to.
As a result of these changes, the spinal canal may narrow and compress the spinal cord and nerves to the arms.
Kneel on the plywood to compress the foam as you cut it with a sharp utility knife.
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Examples from Classical Literature
When version has been done haste may compress the head in the tight cervix and asphyxiate the child.
An ice bag or cold compress may relieve headache, and hot applications or a cold compress on the throat are often soothing.
I do not know how people manage to compress themselves into stones like that.
The assistant is to follow the knife with his finger and compress the vessels.
Cold should be applied to his head by a compress or ice bag, and hot water bag should be placed near his feet.
The cells accumulate in clusters without any intercellular substance, and compress the lymph-sinuses and blood-vessels.
The gta, even if outgrown, can never cramp the toes nor compress the ankles.
By single-acting is meant that the air cylinders compress their respective volumes of air once every revolution.
At the same time it may so compress the main tube as to occlude its calibre and prevent access of food to the stomach.
Very rarely, organized exudations of the peritoneum may be so situated as to compress the portal vein.
Engines must be run in order to compress the air which is to be liquefied.
The Colonel would compress his lips, cussing every Yankee on earth.
A waistcoat made so tight as slightly to compress the bowels and stomach.
They can but compress it within moderate and tolerable limits.
Without laboratories, without coaching, sitting in my bedroom, I proceeded to compress that two years' work into three months and to keep reviewed on the previous year's work.
I only know that I found myself, with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause, making the most strenuous exertions to compress it within those limits.
Compress the carotid, and you obtain the clouding-over of the intellect.
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