Sentences with phrase «meant by length»

You can not know exactly what is meant by length or time.

Not exact matches

The double - tracking has helped raise the average length of Union Pacific's intermodal trains — which are now less limited by the need to fit on sidings — from 158 cars in 2007 to 170 today, meaning that UP is handling far bigger volumes.

Jason C. Buckel (R - Allegany), noting that the Ways and Means Committee often argues at length over whether to raise a tax credit by as little as $ 2 million.

Basically, it has a lot what it needs to do because the impulsive move is actually characterized by the one wave whose length is bigger than the length of the other two and it means that it is the extended wave.

Romans 1:10 Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.

Gone in a few days from dry sticks and frizz to rampant, virid vine, it fans out an advance guard of tentacle - tendrils itching with intent to get a purchase somewhere, anywhere, by means of those unshowy but efficient grappling hooks that stud their wiry length like blunt, vestigial thorns.

He characterizes this in terms of straight lines, by which he means geodesics relative to a differential notion of length.

So, in a roundabout way, the military assigned meaning to hair length, the guards continued this meaning, and you carried the association further by acting in reaction to it.

Therefore God must take this maul in hand (the law, I mean) to beat in pieces and bring to nothing this beast with her vain confidence, that she may so learn at length by her own misery that she is utterly forlorn and damned.

«The body,» he continues, «would thus be, not the cause of our thinking, but merely a condition restrictive thereof, and, although essential to our sensuous and animal consciousness, it may be regarded as an impeder of our pure spiritual life.8 And in a recent book of great suggestiveness and power, less well - known as yet than it deserves, — I mean» Riddles of the Sphinx,» by Mr. F. C. S. Schiller of Oxford, late of Cornell University, — the transmission - theory is defended at some length.9

In this book, basing himself, upon the direct meaning of Biblical texts as construed by him in a literal fashion, he denied the existence of the antipodes, and asserted that the world is a flat parallelogram whose length is double its breadth.

By «re-structuring» I mean such changes as altering the length of school year, the time allocated for class periods, or the number of required science or «literacy» courses.

Impress your friends by telling them the «Magic Mile» is actually 1.058 miles in length, which means today's race is 317.4 miles — not 300.

Members of the group keep strangers and well - wishers and other mere mortals at arm's length, except at the soccer stadiums, protecting Pelé by means that often are devious and rude.

It just means that your body has adjusted according to the messages your baby has been sending it by the frequency and length of his feedings and you no longer have more than enough milk.

While that doesn't mean you can leave an infant alone for any length of time, it does give mom some much needed down time uninterrupted by a need to check on a new baby every five minutes.

We never committed to one single particular book on sleep habits either — like you, I was somewhat overwhelmed by all the choices (and the LENGTH, I mean, if my kid isn't sleeping, I probably don't have the time, energy or focus to devote to a 700 - page tome ABOUT SLEEPING), and found that too many authors turned sleep into a moral high ground.

Women who had midwife - led continuity models of care were more likely to experience no intrapartum analgesia / anaesthesia (average RR 1.21, 95 % CI 1.06 to 1.37; participants = 10,499; studies = seven), have a longer mean length of labour (hours)(mean difference (MD) 0.50, 95 % CI 0.27 to 0.74; participants = 3328; studies = three) and more likely to be attended at birth by a known midwife (average RR 7.04, 95 % CI 4.48 to 11.08; participants = 6917; studies = seven).

So everyone is on the same wave length, let's explain what I mean by «natural» and also «epidural.»

This degenerative buildup means that the length of our lives is regulated by the balance between how fast new damage strikes our cells and how efficiently this damage is corrected.

For all these animals» fins, the team found that the length of one undulation during swimming divided by the mean amplitude of the sideways movement is always a ratio of around 20.

However, researchers from the universities discovered that — although dosages were usually acceptable — prescribing levels did not reduce over the four years, and length of treatment was «excessive» in over 77 % of cases by 2012, up from 69.7 % in 2009 (meaning it exceeded not only the recommended six week course, but also the maximum advised treatment length of 12 weeks).

Inter-annual variations in mean US fire weather season length were significantly correlated with variation in annual burned area reported by the US National Interagency Fire Center44 over the full time series from 1979 to 2013 and also from 1992 to 2013, when fire occurrence data quality was highest45 (ρ = 0.679 and 0.683, respectively, P < 0.001).

This metric was examined to identify global and regional patterns in fire weather season length changes as well as changes in the frequency of, and the area affected by, long fire weather seasons (defined as > 1.0 σ above historical mean) over the last 35 years.

Nanotechnology refers to manipulating the structure of matter on a length scale of some small number of nanometers, interpreted by different people at different times as meaning anything from 0.1 nm (controlling the arrangement of individual atoms) to 100 nm or more (anything smaller than microtechnology).

We illustrate the meaning of this by considering a length scale of 126 µm in the zebrafish embryo.

Dry weights were estimated for each arthropod family in each transect and substrate type by means of linear regressions of body weight on body length.

Haldanes were calculated as h =[ (ln (x2) / sln x2) − (ln (x1) / sln x2)-RSB- / g, where ln (x1) and ln (x2) are the ln - transformed sample means of head length at the beginning and the end of the study period, respectively, sln x1 and sln x2 are the pooled standard deviations of ln (x1) and ln (x2), respectively, and g is the number of generations between the beginning and the end of the study period (years divided by generation length).

(2) More importantly, reduced chain length also means that MCTs are more rapidly absorbed by the body and more quickly metabolized (burned) as fuel (Fig. 1).

For some people, it will mean to work on internal rotation by stretching and also activating adductors (stretching not for length, but for RELEASE, can be helptul for activating tight and weak muscles.)

The length of the intervention was only one week, but nonetheless nitrogen losses occurred only in the lower protein group and LBM decreased by a mean of 2.7 kg in the 0.8 g / kg protein group and by a mean of 1.4 kg in the 1.6 g / kg protein group.

Even so, the fascicle lengths are considered by some researchers to be quite short in comparison with those of other, similarly large muscles (Fung et al. 2009), which may mean that when the muscle is stretched in a bench press or similar movement, it could be prone to strain damage (Wolfe et al. 1992; Fung et al. 2009).

Not quite sure what you mean by regular length.

I think there are definitely some longer styles by them, but most wouldn't be midi length on me either so I know what you mean.

By no means are you limited in hem length choices!

If your office environment is more liberal, then by all means choose plus size maxi dresses such as the belted, high - low cut maxi which will show some leg (but still remain an appropriate length).

The floaty and shiny fabric, the feminine lines, and the length made me go all the way «mixing uber - feminine with not - at - all - elegant - shoes» (you designer - addicts know exactly what I mean by that), and so this look was born.

Its cover declared it «A Brand - New Full - Length Adventure», which was true if you consider 64 minutes «full - length» (hey, Dumbo does) and if by «Brand - New», you meant «Partly New.&Length Adventure», which was true if you consider 64 minutes «full - length» (hey, Dumbo does) and if by «Brand - New», you meant «Partly New.&length» (hey, Dumbo does) and if by «Brand - New», you meant «Partly New.»

But the ensuing suspense and the enveloping paranoia and spookiness - stretched out by the exhaustive length of the film here - mean that this film really sucks you in.

It's the actor's natural means of locomotion — he may approach an object or adversary or inamorata head - on at first, but by the time he's within arm's length, his gaze has tilted to squint at his target with one coyote eye dominant.

They go to great lengths to conceal information about the means by which they wield power.

Always remember that the length of the straight that follows means there is more to be lost by unbalancing the car and being late on the power.

Smartly, Porsche didn't extend the 991's body as much as it did the wheelbase (length is up by only an inch), meaning shorter overhangs.

With short front and rear overhangs, the A-Class L Sedan displays a sporty image that is by no means altered by its new length.

That growth comes by extending the bodyshell in front of the rear wheels, but some subtle styling tricks mean that at first glance you don't see the extra bulk the extra length brings.

The Navigator handles much better than you would guess by looking at it, and its shorter length means that when you go shopping it doesn't stick out into the aisle.

This crew cab pickup offers room for five and a cargo bed that measures 5.3 feet long by 5.0 feet across, meaning it's the largest of the «standard length» cargo beds in the mid-size truck class.

By which I mean length, mostly, although I'll add whatever you suggest to this section.

By made aware, I mean the author goes to the trouble of pointing out the length.

Building a book - length argument around his contention that «the seventeenth century is the moment when one world - view was displaced by another because the scientific displaced that of faith,» Grayling paints a picture of astronomers, mathematicians, medical doctors, and even alchemists often reaching conclusions that even they dearly hoped weren't true — because the answers meant opposing Christian doctrine, unwise if you wanted to keep your job, freedom or head... To my ear, though, the tone of the Grayling's prose is rather flat — think «textbook» and you've pretty much got it — so many of these unexpected sidelights are not presented as compellingly or dramatically as one might hope.