Fingers, hands, and the washboard supply the pressure, a process called fulling, and the warm soapy water shrinks the fibers into a compact form. |
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I end up finding out things about people that they probably wouldn't tell their shrinks. |
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A bevy of Welsh shrinks have modified an existing psychological test to identify people with psychopathic tendencies. |
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The pupil shrinks with age, allowing smaller amounts of light to filter into the eye to assist with vision. |
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Seems to me he avoided direct questions the way a small boy shrinks from soap and water. |
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Brain shift occurs when the dura is opened, cerebrospinal fluid leaks out, and the brain either shrinks or swells. |
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We've been told, by countless shrinks and well-meaning friends, that marriage is no everlasting bed of roses. |
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About twenty minutes in, I dare say this thought had even penetrated Robert's skull, and he started asking the shrinks what they all made of it. |
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If global warming shrinks the ranges of species until they go extinct, then shouldn't massive die-offs have happened 11, 500 years ago? |
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The cancer patients made one thing clear, no shrinks, we want to support each other, we can relate, we understand our own needs. |
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Another shrinks the open windows and tiles them in a non-overlapping arrangement so you can see all of them at once. |
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The role of the school district bureaucracy shrinks to handing out money and administering the accountability program. |
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Current treatment commonly centres on tamoxifen, another drug which shrinks tumours. |
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Most experts don't recommend keyed joints because they don't transfer load very well once the concrete shrinks and the joint opens. |
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The uterus contracts and the caruncular stock shrinks, further enhancing the separation of cotyledons from caruncles. |
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As cellulose nitrate rots, it shrinks and becomes brittle, leaking toxic fumes corrosive enough to turn a reel of film into smelly gelatin ooze. |
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Manhattan, and especially the Upper East Side, is a hotbed of analysts and shrinks who will massage the angst of those who can afford their fees. |
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The facelessness and ease allow us to say things to each other that we might, before email, have said only to our shrinks. |
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As the lumbar spinal canal shrinks, the nerves that go through it are squeezed. |
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In retail establishments, traffic shrinks away when your store is overly hot of clammily cold. |
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Bringing farmers back onto the dole shrinks the constituency for limited government and tax cuts. |
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There's always a raft of psychological explanations for such antics but, as with most things, it's actually a lot easier than the shrinks think. |
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Instead of dying in old age, the human being lapses into a coma and gradually shrinks to the size and condition of a fetus. |
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At last we reach the summit, where Alex shrinks back from the yawning chasm. |
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As the population shrinks, there are more opportunities for older people to prove their business acumen. |
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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is a high-concept comedy about a wacky scientist who accidentally, well, shrinks his kids. |
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The Government often shrinks from confrontation and instead engages in short-term deal-making that often undermines long-term policy objectives. |
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After a rug is finished it is washed in the bath and mothproofed, so that it shrinks and is made tougher. |
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As the enamel shrinks on melting and cools with a concave surface, more has to be poured in and the process repeated. |
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The 59-year-old, with the courtly manner of the southern black gentry, shrinks from criticizing others. |
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The cells, nerves and transmitters in the brain are attacked during the course of the disease, the brain shrinks and gaps develop. |
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And then you put them in a fmri machine and the size of amygdalae actually shrinks, and there is tons of research like that. |
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The problem, according to Martin, is that while the body size of a large species shrinks considerably in cases of island dwarfism, brain size shrinks moderately. |
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The layman, unless accustomed, shrinks from the risk of making mistakes and being conspicuous. |
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It must make longer and more hazardous journeys as its grazing area shrinks because of new highways and housing developments. |
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When shares fall, therefore, their capital shrinks and they grow weaker, which makes their shares fall further. |
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Two schoolgirls reminiscing on a park bench get increasingly more surreal as the time window for nostalgia shrinks and shrinks. |
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You've really hit the nail on the head on the legacy costs problem with your question about what happens as the amount of production shrinks. |
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I've never thought myself to be someone who shrinks from confrontation. |
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During a periodontitis, the gum surrounding the tooth moves back and shrinks, exposing most of the tooth that get loose. |
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Sweet corn harvested too late, is gluey and floury, shrinks and loses sweetness and taste. |
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Holding off feed from the night before is helpful as it shrinks the rumen allowing better visualization of the uterus. |
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The Arghandab shrinks almost to vanishing point in summer, but in winter and spring it floods the table-flat plain. |
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As an animal grows older, its thymus shrinks and the organ's internal structure changes. |
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The tough integument tightly pressed to the seed when fresh but from which the seed shrinks during drying. |
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The new process not only shrinks the die size thereby reducing manufacturing costs but will also improve speeds by more than 30 per cent, says the company. |
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But little by little, the Faustian fantasy shrinks away and the illusion of anticipating the future becomes an unceasing effort to foresee its perils. |
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Ball minimizer: When hitting this, the ball shrinks into a miniball and can fit through places it normally would not be able to. |
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This results in a film base that shrinks, becomes embrittled, cockles and ultimately leads to emulsion loss. |
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As the cloud shrinks, it breaks up into smaller fragments known as protostars. |
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That space could be more valuably used for luggage because the boot, not unexpectedly, shrinks from 410 litres to just 175 when the roof goes into its hideaway. |
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Without the opportunity to live up to his fullest possibilities a worker shrinks and dwindles. |
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In addition, the town shrinks the digital divide by providing ICT training to its inhabitants. |
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When used to treat endometriosis, CYCLOMEN changes the endometrium so that it becomes inactive and shrinks in size. |
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But during the dry Amazon summer, when the Xingu shrinks, Belo Monte's assured output will plunge to an average of 3,500-4,500 megawatts. |
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The state shrinks as cuts accelerate leaving more long-term young unemployed than ever. |
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In some locations, such as the former test site at Novaya Zemlya, this shrinks to 10 tonnes or less. |
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If it merely promises money, but is not prepared to give it, its credibility as a global player shrinks. |
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Engage the group in discussing the evolving needs and objectives, as new members join, the grown grows or shrinks and the needs change. |
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As growth in other sectors accelerates, the share of agriculture in the economy and in total employment shrinks, a sign of success. |
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The most common form of under active thyroid occurs because the thyroid gland shrinks and gradually reduces or stops production of the thyroid hormones. |
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A further measure to avoid violent movement in the final carved sculpture is to remove the heartwood from the log, since it shrinks at a different rate from the outer sapwood. |
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As he gets older, his defensive range shrinks because of balky knees. |
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When Monty is on the tee, some guy in a black jump suit and mask tiptoes out and narrows the fairways, shrinks the cups and puts rattlesnakes in the bunkers. |
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My neighbour has a two-year old who spent 6 months in hospital as a baby, and still shrinks from the noise of other babies' distress, needing comfort and reassurance from mum. |
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One of the unfortunate effects of the process is that the person's clothing rarely shrinks with them, thus leaving them to brave a changed world unclad. |
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The third point I would like to make is that, when the world so shrinks that nations and peoples rub shoulders with each other, a unilateral way of deciding things would not work at all. |
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Monetarists believe the most significant factor influencing inflation or deflation is how fast the money supply grows or shrinks. |
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Conversely, as the ice shrinks, new areas are opening up for exploration and for the exploitation of natural resources, and greater use is being made of shipping lanes through the polar region. |
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That makes it hard to ship gas across state lines, and shrinks the number of refiners that provide a particular blend of gas, giving each refiner more power. |
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The volume of the balloon in the video shrinks when the trapped gas particles slow down with the addition of extremely cold nitrogen. |
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During this time the nutmeg shrinks away from its hard seed coat until the kernels rattle in their shells when shaken. |
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Concrete has a very low coefficient of thermal expansion and shrinks as it matures. |
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This shrinks OEMs' spare parts market shares. |
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Printing money worldwide to promote a reflation that shrinks the real value of the global debt mountain may ultimately be the only road to salvation. |
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It will seem like a lot of meat but it shrinks considerably when it cooks. |
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They become isolated as their income shrinks and they lose their access to broadband, to a telephone, to transport – in other words, the means to go job-hunting. |
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I stepped into my first counselling session at 18, and I've spent years talking about my problems, to shrinks and to groups, in rooms decorated with clip-framed photos of sunflowers. |
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It creates ambiance, draws attention to or diverts attention from an object, it accentuates a style, enlarges a room or shrinks it, plays with lighting and even influences our behaviour. |
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Entropion, where the lower eyelid shrinks and pulls the eyelashes upwards into the eye scratching the cornea. |
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As the dimension of the Si crystallite shrinks to nm size, the band gap increases. |
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When the Moon is closest, at perigee, the range increases, and when it is at apogee, the range shrinks. |
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When this occurs, the heart atrophies, shrinks, and becomes less strong. |
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When a glacier's size shrinks below a critical point, its flow stops and it becomes stationary. |
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Clinically, pseudoephedrine shrinks swollen mucous membranes, reduces tissue hyperemia, edema and nasal congestion, and increases nasal airway patency. |
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When her favourite stuntwoman, Stella Lightfoot, comes to town, Violet shrinks trying to meet her. |
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Reverse mortgages were intended to be nonrecourse, which means that even if the value of the property shrinks, the most the borrower can lose is the house itself. |
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The brain itself is insensitive to pain, but researchers are forming the opinion that the dura mater, i.e., the tough fibrous membrane enveloping the brain, shrinks. |
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As the heated rivet cools, it shrinks against the gripped material. |
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This process, which first begins in the part of the brain that deals with thinking and memory, is progressive, eventually affecting all parts of the brain which consequently shrinks. |
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As the overall sea ice available to polar bears shrinks, polar bears are forced to spend longer periods of time on land, leading to more interactions with humans and potentially increased exposure to hunters and poachers. |
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Losing customers shrinks revenues, drives up new customer acquisition costs, and often spells the difference between bottom-line profitability and loss. |
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But even Gorbachev shrinks from contemplating a dismemberment of his Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics, despite the fact that Russia shorn of its dependent vassal-states would still be a world power. |
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This adjustment is of increasing importance as household size shrinks. |
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However, PEN film is rarely used in standard sailcloth styles because it shrinks more rapidly than PET, is less resistant to abuse, and reduces the working life of the sail. |
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A subset of the population is then confined to the available hospitable area, and survives there while the broader population either shrinks or evolves divergently. |
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The drupes dry in the sun or by machine for several days, during which the pepper around the seed shrinks and darkens into a thin, wrinkled black layer. |
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Their studies showed the hard core of a proton, a fundamental particle of the atomic nucleus and a building block for all matter, shrinks at high energies. |
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