| A sound emanated from the stream, the rough, dry scraping of scales over rock. |
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| Contact insecticide sprays will not reach crawlers that have settled under old scales. |
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| It hissed at him entrancingly, standing and drawing two wickedly curved scimitars from between its scales. |
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| They've come up with all manner of catchy slogans designed to tip the scales in their favour. |
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| The common tegu has black and white stripes or spots with smooth scales and are similar in build to monitor species. |
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| There are three scales of excrement, mammillated areas and larger and smaller ellipsoids. |
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| Elko's Joseph says any wood coming from a burn area to his mill will be visually inspected at the scales while on the truck. |
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| I shear away the scaly skin from the fish, trying to keep as much of it intact as I possibly can, but the membrane under the scales is fragile. |
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| Purple scales began at his waist and covered his lower body, which ended in the scaly tail of a snake. |
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| It has fully scaled cheeks and gill covers, and the top of the head has few or no scales. |
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| Some of them were trying to get their voices ready by singing scales, but otherwise, most of the girls were silent. |
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| Eventually these skills may be polished by practicing scales, arpeggios and the like hands together, with one hand at a higher dynamic level. |
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| When I was a young boy as a school musician, I learned that music was more than scales or keys or how to make sure I was always in tune. |
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| Tape rules with diameter scales could be used to wrap around any round object that would then give the object's diameter. |
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| Most gauging and wantage rods provide wantage measurements with direct reading scales calibrated in gallons. |
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| Preoperatively, patients marked the scales before any medication was given. |
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| Salary scales for computer science graduates can vary widely but can start at about 24,000, rising to about 45,000 in many cases. |
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| They were protesting against the attitude of the Indian Bank Association with regard to revision of pay scales. |
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| His hand scrabbled on the countertop, searching for a stick, a pair of scales, any weapon to fend off this unseen attacker. |
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| There were traces of diamorphine on some scales and a bottle of methadone which had been prescribed to someone else. |
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| Officers also found electronic weighing scales, cling film, food bags and a further block of cocaine hidden under some tea towels. |
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| With the help of a good pair of scales, establish the point at which your weight remains constant. |
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| But I don't have a pair of scales to check and it's been so long since I did check that I wouldn't know what's a loss and what's a gain. |
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| For years it's had the same black bass guitar in the window, surrounded by an array of hash pipes, weighing scales and stolen car radios. |
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| The Lord Christ is placing before us a pair of scales, and on one side of the balances is laid the whole world. |
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| A set of cracked, broken weighing scales and a rusty tray were used for food preparation and storage. |
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| For once the scales fall from your eyes, the whole business just becomes an catalogue of disasters. |
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| I want to tell them it is time to let the scales fall from their eyes and see what is going on there in their names. |
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| The whole thing, the scales fall from their eyes and they suddenly go from super-snooty, to super-grovelling. |
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| For instance, you can smear a homemade mixture into the opened scales of a pinecone, then hang the cone from a tree branch. |
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| If you look at the bumps closely, you might see white scales or flakes on them. |
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| Brushing your baby's scalp with a soft brush, like a toothbrush, can help loosen scales or flakes. |
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| Dust mites are about 0.3 mm long, feed on human skin scales, and are found in places with dust and high levels of humidity. |
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| This has been shown to cause dispersal of skin scales from the face, which can result in possible contamination of surgical wounds. |
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| Using a scalpel blade, the scales are scraped at the active border of the lesion, with particular care not to cause pain or bleeding. |
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| Psoriatic lesions usually have thicker scales that appear silvery after rubbing and bleed on removal. |
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| The fungal spores found in the pillows fed off human skins scales and dust mite faeces. |
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| The roof-tiles are overlapped like the scales of a snake about to shed its skin. |
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| Use your hands to spread the potato slices out so that they overlap like unruly fish scales, but are not more than 1 or 2 layers thick. |
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| Brackish spray flew over his face as fins and scales and gnashing teeth tore at the air. |
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| This protective shaft is made up of tiny cells that overlap each other, much the way fish scales do. |
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| The sheer amount of them created the illusion that the chamber walls were frilly like the skin of a reptile with disjointed scales. |
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| Egg masses consist of 25 to 50 whitish eggs laid overlapping each other like fish scales. |
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| The outside surface of the fiber consists of a series of serrated scales which overlap each other much like the scales of a fish. |
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| The figures cover the beach, their variously colored hair, bikinis and accessories overlapping like hundreds of rainbow fish scales. |
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| My job was to crouch down under these machines with the sweating women working up there, the fish guts and scales raining down on me. |
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| Even fish are transformed from a mass of scales, bones, eyes and heads into a neat, inoffensive and anonymous fillet. |
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| Even very small, fragile bones and fish scales are preserved in the deposits. |
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| It was small in the palm of his hand, and was the spitting image of a fish, with miniature scales and fins. |
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| By contrast, almost all of the melodies here are built on the major, the most boring of scales. |
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| To avoid unnecessary chromaticism, scales other than the major are based on different sol-fa notes. |
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| Every student in the program plays twelve major scales by memory to qualify for one of those three performing bands. |
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| Musical literacy requires knowledge of major and minor scales, key signatures, intervals and triad spelling. |
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| I eat everything I can of the fish, scales, bones, blood, organs, and eyes. |
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| We used bathroom scales and a tape measure to obtain their weight and height. |
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| Scores for these global scales were calculated by averaging item responses. |
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| Effortlessly, magically, the camera scales the building to reveal a ballet class in progress. |
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| On the sternites the maculate pattern is repeated, but with a greater quantity of white scales. |
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| While all the fish in a display case has been gutted, pan-ready fish have the fins and scales removed and have been thoroughly washed. |
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| The tail, like the rest of the body, had no internal skeleton and was reinforced only by lines of scales. |
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| Once the chemical state of the scalp alters, scales buid up and the hair become dry and lustreless. |
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| Other lots include the weighing room scales, urns from the Royal Box and Frankie Dettori's weighing room saddle tree. |
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| Trained in atomic physics, he has long dealt with precision measurements on the tiniest of scales. |
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| Nanotechnology is the study and manipulation of materials on atomic and molecular scales measured in billionths of a meter. |
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| Unlike the dragon so pictured, its sable scales shimmered with an inner light, a fire, a pulse, and seemed almost transparent. |
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| These satellites range in size from small on the asteroidal scales, to nearly as large as Saturn's moon Mimas. |
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| On the other hand, the majority of fossil vertebrate assemblages accumulate over many temporal scales from days to millennia. |
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| The images, presented at different scales on off-white paper, are slightly askew so as not to become confrontational. |
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| I switched to a rather dark song, formulated almost entirely of flats and sharps ascending or descending in scales. |
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| This result is a particular problem for rating scales, which tend to be cross sectional, rather than longitudinal, in character. |
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| 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. |
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| A cat scales a glass sharp wall and drops beside its shadow under an apple tree, stalking anxious sparrows with the first sun. |
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| Exacerbated by warm, humid weather, red blotch infects leaves, flower stalks, blooms and bulb scales. |
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| The archangel Michael, located on the left side in the painting, wears armour and holds the scales of justice and his sword. |
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| Slim metal ribs flare out and up from the spinal arches to support the copper-clad roof, its overlapping scales resembling a giant turtle shell. |
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| The rhythmically spaced silver-brown slabs of gel evoke fish scales, while the surface bubbles reinforce the aqueous appearance. |
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| Abnormal desquamation results in the appearance of visible scales associated with many pathologic skin conditions. |
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| However, such strength means that the car is no lightweight and the 1.4 HDi tips the scales at almost 1200 kg empty. |
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| The text implies that students go directly from five-finger positions to hands-together scales with traditional fingering. |
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| His problem was that the car came up four pounds light at the scales following the run. |
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| The antithesis creates balance but also invites the reader to weigh the scales. |
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| This week, Libran scales may be tipping one way then the other between the way you think things ought to be and the way they actually are. |
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| As with all of the basal families, the scales are rhomboid and covered with cosmine. |
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| Historically, the heavy rhomboid scales of the gar were often used by local Indians for arrow points, ornaments, and other instruments. |
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| The scales are nicely contoured, and the scabbard offers a reversible belt clip for blade-up or blade-down carry in addition to a neck chain. |
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| Arguing that Sunderland Council had illegally taken Thoburn's tools of trade, the pair demanded the return of his scales. |
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| We concentrate on phosphorus as the nutrient that is biolimiting on geological time scales and potentially leaves a complete geological record. |
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| Under the terms of the draft agreement, the growers commit themselves to installing scales to more accurately determine the cutters' share. |
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| The price of tobacco was high, the purchaser getting enough leaf to balance the silver coins placed on the other pan of the scales. |
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| True roach have 9-10 rays in their dorsal fin and 42 to 45 scales along the lateral line. |
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| The female aments of green alder are covered by exterior bud scales, unlike speckled alder in which the aments are lacking the outer scales. |
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| Researchers using Likert scales reword items to identify yeasayers and naysayers. |
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| All of these elements are combined into seemingly aleatory compositions that, like fractals, operate on several scales at once. |
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| On the kitchen table were some electronic scales which were switched on, a wrap of heroin and pieces of silver foil. |
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| Yet while he works within scales commonly associated with other cultures, his sound defies any overt connection to world music. |
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| At each workstation is a computer equipped with a mouse used to mark the attribute scales presented on the computer monitor. |
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| The outside of the nest is camouflaged with moss, bud scales, leaves, and lichen, and often looks like a bump or knot on the branch. |
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| Rachel tells her Alabaman prom date the truth about herself and his reaction makes the scales fall from her eyes. |
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| Normal displacements are pervasive from the millimetric to the kilometric scales. |
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| Uniquely, a butterfly's outer body is covered by tiny sensory hairs and the wings are covered by scales. |
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| Among the tissues preserved in the paper shales are delicate feathers, flower parts, hair, insect wings, and scales. |
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| The neat property of this attack is that the capacity of this storage mechanism scales at exactly the same rate as the data stream's rate does. |
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| There is extensive use of place names without accompanying maps throughout the book, and many of the maps provided lack keys and scales. |
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| Their skin is covered with non-overlapping scales composed of the protein keratin and often studded with bony plates called scutes. |
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| Pangolins are conspicuous and remarkable because their backs are covered with large, overlapping scales made up of agglutinated hairs. |
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| In whosoever's hands the scales of justice is placed, humankind's cry for justice is myopic. |
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| The Whitley Councils pay scales have traditionally been used by many practices to set remuneration levels for their employees. |
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| The narrow bands of speckled scales which adorn the body and tail are also a typical keelback pattern. |
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| Two to three scales bear a pore behind the inversion line until the lateral line ends at a caudal fin ray. |
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| My fingers are still dripping wet, but the handle to the lash is gripped to prevent it from slipping free from my slick, white scales. |
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| To the south the flat expanse of Lake Dokan shone greasily in the low evening light like fish scales. |
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| The novice whistler should resolve to not leave this place until they can hold a tune and maybe perform a few minor key scales. |
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| My eldest daughter is ten, my middle daughter is nearly eight and they both often stand on the scales and see if they have put weight on or not! |
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| In most times and places, the scales have been heavily weighted towards the great men. |
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| The crown took other measures to make the scales of justice less weighted against the peasantry. |
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| People had to carry the scales, accompanying weights, and sometimes even tools to cut the metal, just to be able to transact. |
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| There is a set of scales with weights, a rolling pin, a round spice tin, a wooden potato masher, and a butter cooler. |
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| The new law also applies to petrol pumps, alcohol dispensers, weighbridges, industrial scales, firewood and even rubbish dumped at the tip. |
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| Jockeys weigh out with the clerk of scales in order to earn their mount fees. |
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| I've got my own scales, that read the same as those at the Centre, so I'll be weighing in at the same time each week until then. |
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| Tann weighed in for the bout at 230 pounds while Gavern tipped the scales at 223 pounds. |
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| The jury should infer that the applicant had used the scales in order to weigh the drugs before supplying them. |
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| Many industries developed their own very specific scales designed to weigh particular items. |
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| We weighed our athletes with accurate scales before a training session, and then again on completion of the session. |
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| Stallholders weigh produce on scales strung from a notched rod, balanced on one finger. |
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| The Australian gold rush of the 1850s generated a huge demand for accurate scales to weigh precious metals and guns to protect the gold bullion. |
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| The weighbridge itself was an Avery platform scales with a graduated sliding bar balance which indicated the weight on the platform. |
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| But the amounts had to be cut to the size of the transaction and weighed out with balance scales. |
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| In 1669 he invented the Roberval balance which is now almost universally used for weighing scales of the balance type. |
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| The Asian wart snakes of India, south east Asia, New Guinea and Australia have scales that lie next to each other and each have a sharp ridge. |
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| Drugs, large quantities of cash, weighing scales, clingfilm, mobile phones and several vehicles were seized. |
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| Mature female scales are viviparous and produce 2-3 crawlers per day, totaling 100-150 over the female's lifetime. |
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| I hated playing musical scales and those stupid nursery rhymes set to music that piano students had to play, but I guess Dad marked me down as a loser in music, too. |
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| Consider one bold, green dress with a voluminous skirt that shimmered with what looked like the green scales of an alligator. |
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| Its manifestations will be categorized by two numerical scales of severity that aim to locate each individual on the continuum. |
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| He said he used the scales to weigh drugs before buying them. |
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| And then there are counter-balanced scales, which use a variety of different sized weights to counter balance the weight of the object placed upon them. |
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| Behind a hypersonic shock wave the temperature at the leading edge of a hypersonic craft scales inversely with the square root of its radius of curvature. |
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| Things that looked like scales and claws jutted from its body. |
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| He rappels down near-vertical rock faces hundreds of feet above the Pacific, scales tall palms, and slogs through lush vegetation into deep valleys. |
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| In this case, the geography of industrial organization ratchets up a sequence of scales from local to regional to national, and ultimately to global. |
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| The Agama lizard's head, neck and thighs are covered with spiny scales. |
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| Open fifths, fourths and tritones, modality and whole-tone scales abound. |
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| After he had showered be stepped on the scales, and he had lost six and a half pounds. |
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| The aftershocks tipped the scales decidedly in the favor of the government, the holiday, and the rum. |
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| Kerry is positioned to put an American thumb on the scales discretely, with the president's support. |
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| Let us consider first the simpler explanation of a series of morphological evolutionary changes in the evolution of avian feathers from reptilian scales. |
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| Demanding time scales require logistic units to set up quickly with the minimum deployment footprint yet remain responsive to rapidly changing operational needs. |
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| The glints of orange fish scales and the gleam of a metallic beetle are some of the few flashes of colour in a predominantly monochromatic palette. |
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| On a hard surface, the base of the scales bowed slightly, shortening the distance between the fulcrum of the levers and the point at which they put pressure on the spring. |
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| The pectoral fin is set low on the lateral flank behind the notch of the cleithrum and is supported by a small rounded lobe covered with minute rhombic scales. |
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| Global ratings for parent and child behavior were completed by the observers after viewing the entire interaction sequence, using 7-point Likert scales. |
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| A switchback ramp scales a battered wall of rough granite blocks and you wonder if defenders will appear on the ramparts above and drive you off with rocks. |
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| The answer is that the exceptional preservation displayed in these rocks enables us to recognise the eyes, scales and even the liver of the animals. |
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| The finds include a shoulder-guard of iron scales held together with bronze wire, and examples of the laminated armour used by legionaries to protect their sword arms. |
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| Although the head and thorax were usually armored with dermal bone, the rest of the body was quite vulnerable, covered with small bony scales or lacking even that. |
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| The scales are covered with ganoin, a dense shiny substance like enamel, which gives the fish an archaic armoured appearance and makes it rather clumsy. |
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| A complete description of our method, including graphs on logarithmic scales, will appear later this year in the new statistical journal Biostatistics. |
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| Meet Phoenix, the French lop-eared rabbit, who tips the scales at a colossal 1st after being kept in a hutch all day by her former owners, who found her too aggressive. |
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| The evolution and geology of the planet, then, is intricately linked on the grandest of scales with the evolution of life. |
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| Banded iron formations are so named in part because of their distinctive banded or layered structure, which occurs at various scales from microscopic to macroscopic. |
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| In contrast to thermodynamics, where molecular motions can be averaged out over macroscopic scales, genetic details do influence phenotypic evolution. |
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| But if that exercise doesn't float your boat you could use a set of scales, a tape measure and a calculator instead and calculate your Body Mass Index. |
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| This collection of Italian waltzes, polkas, mazurkas and tarantellas for solo violin is an excellent teaching tool for double stops, scales, arpeggios and style. |
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| No one is quite sure how these cells differentiate to form structures as diverse as the elastic outer layer of skin, the stiff scales of fish, or the softness of feathers. |
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| The ray-finned fishes would seem a little more familiar than the placoderms, having scales instead of armor plates, with a look of the moray eel to them. |
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| It attaches to fish with its mouth, rasps through scales and skin with its tongue, and feeds on the body fluids of the host fish, often killing it. |
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| One wall is taken up with an elaborately tooled wine display, and another is covered in an intricately curving leather design, like reptile scales. |
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| It's discoveries like this that truly make the scales fall from my eyes. |
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| She has refitted the inside of the shop but will be doling out the confectionery in the time-honoured way, with a set of scales and brown paper bags. |
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| Separation goes paradoxically together with dependence because, as is the case with a pair of scales, one character's going up requires the other's going down. |
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| Drugs squad officers have seized imitation guns, a scanner, knives, bars of cannabis, cocaine, weighing scales and smoking pipes in the past twelve months. |
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| Mr Li presides over it like a lean-shaven Confucius, grinding up powders and weighing remedies on a delicate pair of scales before dispatching them to the kitchen. |
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| The building looked very much like a country courthouse, with an intricate wrought iron sign hanging over the door, a pair of scales framed by swirling designs. |
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| It was opposite a splendid portrait of the King holding a pair of scales and sword, presumably showing him as the source of Justice in his Kingdom. |
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| Problems for students caused by differences in grading scales used at post-secondary education institutions around Alberta may finally have a remedy. |
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| The Government announces higher pay scales to encourage recruitment and bolster morale, yet doesn't mention that schools are expected to foot much of the bill. |
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| They are low on the social scale, where scales are all-important. |
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| This is clear from the plots using logarithmic scales, but the curved plots with an arithmetical scale on the vertical axes may falsely suggest a threshold. |
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| My advice to other pianists is to gear such matters to a purpose, but after playing scales endlessly for a week that problematical arpeggio in the score can still sound awful! |
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| Most have small, round, embedded scales, although some are scaleless. |
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| Noiseless and compact, they are supplied with bottles and related manometric tubes, caps, rubber quivers and one set of 5 scales for every bottle. |
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| Consider the ceremony of the weighing of the emperor, with all those flamboyantly robed courtiers arranged in strictly hierarchical order around the man-sized scales. |
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| Concerns about global climate change and predicted changes in terrestrial ecosystems highlight the need for the accurate quantification of productivity at all scales. |
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| Clean the fish scales off the handle with a plastic pot scourer. |
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| Nor will polished Amber although it send forth a gross and corporal exhalement, be found a long time defective upon the exactest scales. |
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| Teachers who would welcome a fresh approach to teaching scales and arpeggios will enjoy this book. |
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| Salter vintage Salter vintage bakelite bakelite mechanical mechanical scales scales, Argos. |
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| Yet at all wage scales and management levels, women earn less than their male peers. |
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| No society will ever be equal, but when the Press show us different wage scales of what is earned it is very unsettling for the have-nots. |
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| Young crawlers were obtained by dissecting female lobate lac scales that infested wax myrtles. |
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| Wels catfish, which have no scales and a broad, flat head, grow up to 13ft long and can live for 30 years. |
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| Currently, a bottleneck exists in terms of the ability to quickly analyze thousands of salmon DNA samples, extracted from scales or adipose fins. |
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| Once the bird was fully cleaned out, it was time to put it on the scales. |
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| For instance in one text the jurist or brithem had three ranks, and the highest was given an honour price only halfway up the other scales. |
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| Medical Scale Co. offers both rigid weighboard and stretcher style scales to weigh your bedridden patients. |
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| The branding campaign will be helpful in trying to attract industries with high wage scales, including high-tech industries, Lawson said. |
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| He tipped the scales at 221 pounds at the weigh-in two days before the fight. |
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| The shocked Aussie fighters started to sweat off the excess pounds, but competition manager Lenni Gama denied any problem with the scales. |
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| This specimen resembles Megalastrum aureisquama but differs by dark appressed scales along the lamina rachises. |
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| Evil, they argued, could only have meaning on smaller scales, in the hurt that one sophont does to another. |
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| Snoek need not be scaled. The scales are very fine and usually slip off during handling. |
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| Rain gutter water and ponding surface water can really tip the scales in the wrong direction. |
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| All lakes are temporary over geologic time scales, as they will slowly fill in with sediments or spill out of the basin containing them. |
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| Two weeks later Dot and her girl, who was finally named Shawn, like most girls born that year, came back to work at the scales. |
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| Even though precision can be carried to an extreme, the scales which now are drawn in will allow derivation of meaningful measurements. |
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| Cyclogenesis can occur at various scales, from the microscale to the synoptic scale. |
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| At scales between entire mountain ranges and ore bodies, Bouguer anomalies may indicate rock types. |
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| Because of the relative unimportance of the fluoride ion, the total and seawater scales differ only very slightly. |
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| Since it omits consideration of sulfate and fluoride ions, the free scale is significantly different from both the total and seawater scales. |
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| As a consequence, for most practical purposes, the difference between the total and seawater scales is very small. |
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| However, pH measurement is complicated by the chemical properties of seawater, and several distinct pH scales exist in chemical oceanography. |
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| The students also faced and experienced earthquakes at various Richter scales. |
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| After years of persistence and attempts at marketing, Evans's designs were finally given a trial on larger scales and adopted elsewhere. |
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| Some of the iron oxide is from the scales that form in the later steps of shingling and rolling. |
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| Their motion is the result of cyclic surges interspersed with longer periods of inactivity, on both hourly and centennial time scales. |
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| At the time, he was the heaviest man in England, tipping the scales at 36 Stones. |
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| Public and private sector accounting differ in goals, time scales and accordingly in accounting. |
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| Every prop was specially designed by the Art Department, taking the different scales into account. |
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| A liquid, such as soapy water, is usually added to lubricate the fibres, and to open up the microscopic scales on strands of wool. |
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| Linear measurements of cones and seed scales unequivocally show that Karelian spruces should be treated as Siberian Picea obovata. |
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| Grammicolepidids have dorsoventrally elongate linear scales rather than the cycloid or ctenoid scales of other zeiform families. |
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| Such and other systems and scales of measurement have been in use for some time. |
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| Because Palsgraf was hurt by the falling scales, she sued the train company who employed the conductor for negligence. |
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| The plaintiff, Palsgraf, was hit by scales that fell on her as she waited on a train platform. |
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| Nicotine scores almost as highly as opioids on drug effect questionnaire liking scales, which are a rough indicator of addictive potential. |
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| It features the crossover from a prequench to a prethermal state, finally evolving towards a thermal state on increasing length and time scales. |
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| On the back of the mater there is often engraved a number of scales that are useful in the astrolabe's various applications. |
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| Full kinematical fields at different scales and different stages of deformation will be used. |
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| Lipsticks with shimmering effects were initially made using a pearlescent substance found in fish scales. |
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| Their scales were raised at an angle far more than usual, giving their hides a pineappley look. |
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| Moreover, the trust scales for each interpersonal associational group are divided into two factor groups. |
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| Temperature is measured with thermometers that may be calibrated to a variety of temperature scales. |
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| Experimental physicists, for example Galileo and Newton, found that there are indefinitely many empirical temperature scales. |
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| Theoretically based temperature scales are used to provide calibrating standards for practical empirically based thermometers. |
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| Empirically based temperature scales rely directly on measurements of simple physical properties of materials. |
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| Empirical temperature scales are historically older, while theoretically based scales arose in the middle of the nineteenth century. |
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| This result support formation of controllable lamella arrangement at nanometer scales by fixed annealing after drawing. |
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| Temperature is measured with a thermometer, historically calibrated in various temperature scales and units of measurement. |
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| It reflects changes in the variability or average state of the atmosphere over time scales ranging from decades to millions of years. |
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| Surface patterns consisting of spirals, ridges, notches and fish scales decorate most carvings. |
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| Crocodilian scales have pores believed to be sensory in function, analogous to the lateral line in fishes. |
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| They are still able to absorb heat through this armour, as a network of small capillaries allows blood through the scales to absorb heat. |
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| Understanding the uses and logic behind the scales is essential to understanding pricing of layered accounts. |
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| Its target pests are American boll-worms, ants, locusts, leaf hoppers, leaf miners, mites, scales, termites, thrips, and white flies. |
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| And Lady L, tipping the scales at 225 tons, is no Mary-Kate Olsen. |
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| Yet at the very end, both misspelled esquamulose, meaning without scales, a smooth skin. |
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| The armoured skin has scales and is thick and rugged, providing some protection. |
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| Scutal scales were golden brown with a reddish tint, while scutal setae were dark reddish brown. |
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| The UK Congress on Obesity in Birmingham heard that those using the bathroom scales kept off half a stone more, on average. |
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| A DEVICE similar to bathroom scales could stem the tide of patients who lose limbs as a result of diabetes, researchers have said. |
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| The remainder of the skin has much smaller scales, similar to the skin of other reptiles. |
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| Scutes are made up of the fibrous protein keratin that also makes up the scales of other reptiles. |
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| The 'Gunter's scale' was a large plane scale, engraved with various scales, or lines. |
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| The regimen is repeated two times daily for loosening scales and debris and to help liquify secretions from eyelid oil glands. |
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| These fish have muscular bodies, ossified bones, scales, well developed gills and central nervous systems, and large hearts and kidneys. |
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| The silvering is achieved with reflective fish scales that function as small mirrors. |
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| Thermometers, both digital and analog, sold in Canada usually employ both the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales. |
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| The geomagnetic field changes on time scales from milliseconds to millions of years. |
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| Unlike other bony fishes, the first scales do not develop immediately after the larval stage but appear much later on. |
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| Some key temperatures relating the Celsius scale to other temperature scales are shown in the table below. |
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| The modification itself originates from the quest of finding a mechanism which is able to degravitate the vacuum energy on cosmological scales. |
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| Traditional heavy metal tends to employ modal scales, in particular the Aeolian and Phrygian modes. |
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| More octaves ensue, followed by chromatic passagework with filigree scales. |
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| The time, space and velocity scales are important in determining the importance of the Coriolis force. |
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| On time scales lasting hundreds of millions of years, the supercontinents have assembled and broken apart. |
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| The leaves of young plants are trifoliate, but in mature plants they are reduced to scales or small spines. |
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| Shoji Aoki, the shakuhachi player, adapted the European music scores to the Japanese scales for himself and for his wife, Maiko, the koto player. |
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| Areas with large amounts of thorium-rich monazite sands tip the scales when it comes to background radiation. |
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| Another spruce with smoothly rounded cone scales and hairy shoots occurs rarely in the Central Alps in eastern Switzerland. |
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| This character measures the relative anterior extent of circumorbital scale penetration between supraocular scales and median head scutes. |
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| The development of individual tones and scales was made by ancient Greeks such as Aristoxenus and Pythagoras. |
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| The scales from the Vesiku outcrop come from a bonebed, therefore fragile scales are absent and all spines are broken. |
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| The spiral growth of branches, needles, and cone scales are arranged in Fibonacci number ratios. |
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| These scales bear two or three fertile flowers, each flower consisting of a naked ovary. |
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| On large scales like that of clusters of galaxies, gravitational lensing indicates that the dark matter is smoothly distributed, on the average. |
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| The results showed that maize roots indeed have fractal properties, such as self-similarity across various scales. |
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| His charger wore a blanket of enameled crimson scales and gilded crinet and chamfron, while Lord Tywin himself sported a thick ermine cloak. |
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| Nietzsche scales staggering mountains, but he turns up ultimately in Tibet. |
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| The scales of the staminate aments when mature are broadly ovate, rounded, yellow or orange color below the middle, dark chestnut brown at apex. |
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| These are strongly keeled scales, except for those bordering the ventral scales. |
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| The latter are large and distinct, each separated from the frontal by one to four small scales. |
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| Look carefully for mites, mealybugs, scales, and aphids, which can resemble plant parts. |
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| Shocking pink accessories including juicer, scales, stove kettle, breadbin are from Typhoon on 020 8974 4755 www. |
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| This space-saver measures and weighs, meaning you no longer need to go hunting for those scales and measuring jugs at the back of the cupboard. |
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| There are also a great change of Salter vintage scales, Pyrex measuring jugs and mixing bowls and Tala pastry and cookie cutter sets. |
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| Also, the pattern of their ventral scales is totally different from that of snakes. |
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| The skin of slowworms is smooth with scales that do not overlap one another. |
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| Britain has been receiving ethnic Chinese migrants more or less uninterruptedly on varying scales since the 19th century. |
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| The major and melodic minor scales are printed as whole notes, eighth and sixteenth notes, tetrachords, modes and in thirds. |
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| The scales may be modified into spines for display or protection, and some species have bone osteoderms underneath the scales. |
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| As in other reptiles, the skin of lizards is covered in overlapping scales made of keratin. |
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| In this mode, the belly scales are lifted and pulled forward before being placed down and the body pulled over them. |
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| The probe is marked at the point where it stops, removed, and compared to the subcaudal depth by laying it alongside the scales. |
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| The shape and number of scales on the head, back, and belly are often characteristic and used for taxonomic purposes. |
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| The chords and scales can also be presented in musical notation as well as chord charts and tablatures. |
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| Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. |
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| D'Emic specializes in bone microanatomy, or the study of the structure of bone on scales that are just a fraction of the width of a human hair. |
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| The grain size of a rock is usually expressed with the Wentworth scale, though alternative scales are sometimes used. |
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| This is done within a variety of landscape scales, development spatial patterns, and organizational levels of research and policy. |
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