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单词 upstroke
例句 upstroke
It leant backwards; it was printed and joined randomly; there were no real upstrokes or downstrokes. Philip Hensher: Why handwriting matters 2012-10-06T23:05:27Z
Slashing wicked upstrokes on a white electric guitar, the singer’s voice was rich and breathless against the house band’s bluesy echo. All-star tribute to David Lynch lights up the Ace Hotel 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z
He’s a minimalist at heart, but a miscreant, taking the choppy upstrokes of Nile Rodgers and making them sound like a table saw cutting through sheet metal. Gang of Four changed the way punk sounded and what it could say. A new box set reveals the peak of their power. 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z
In our hippogriff, the muscles of the back drive the upstroke, and the muscles of the chest power the downstroke, just as in living bats and long-extinct pterosaurs. How to Make a Hippogriff Fly and Other Flights of Fancy 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z
Then with the recovery upstroke, the wishbones sprung back to their resting shape, which made flying more efficient. Consider the wishbone: What we can learn from a Thanksgiving turkey's bones 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z
They also employed more efficient flight strategies, changing the biomechanics of their upstroke and downstroke to conserve oxygen. These High-Flying Geese Are ‘the Astronauts of the Bird World’ 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z
The upstroke of each wing beat produces a 1.3 kilohertz low note, and the downstroke produces a 2.9 kilohertz high note. When danger is afoot, these pigeons sound a warning call—with their feathers 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z
A hydrodynamic analysis of the humpback's movements in the lab confirmed that both the upstroke and the downstroke of its flippers provide forward thrust. Rare Video Captures Never-Before-Seen Whale Behavior 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z
Not to be confused with funk – a movement involving men in white suits playing 16th-note rhythms with emphasis on the upstrokes – phonk is an obscure hip-hop splinter cell. What the phonk? The genre that's gripping Generation Z 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z
There was no upstroke, so the move was not considered a flapping of the wings. On Eagle’s Wings, a Revelation about Flight 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z
The increasing use of smartphones neatly crosses Microsoft’s downstroke just as the addition of Chrome and Safari’s upstrokes track it linearly. Chrome Is Winning The Browser Wars But IE Has Cratered Thanks To Mobile 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z
The parts are in correct mechanical balance because two pistons are on the upstroke while the other two are descending. Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair 2011-12-04T03:00:04.777Z
The general form of a low tension pulse is a sharp upstroke, a pointed summit, and a secondary wave on the base line, which corresponds to the dicrotic wave. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z
“Yes, I know; the type gets thick and blurred in its fine upstrokes.” The Story of Antony Grace 2011-07-27T02:00:35.717Z
In imitation of the Writing-Masters Baskerville delighted in making his upstrokes very thin and his downstrokes thick, and his serifs—that is, all the little finishing strokes of the letters—sharp and fine. Fine Books 2011-03-08T03:00:40.363Z
Instead, their wings oscillate in a figure eight pattern to produce lift on both the downstroke and upstroke. How Hummingbirds Fight the Wind 2010-11-23T16:24:00Z
The pens were quill pens past mending, or overwhelmed by too heartfelt nibs; or magnum bonums whose upstrokes were morally as wide as Portland Place, or parvum malums that perforated syllables and spluttered. When Ghost Meets Ghost
They laboriously taught their pupils to make "hair" lines for upstrokes and heavily "shaded" ones for down. A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs
During the upstroke the cup collapses inwards and allows air to pass by it. How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use
Whirl.—The whirl is the upstroke in all looped letters. The Detection of Forgery A Practical Handbook for the Use of Bankers, Solicitors, Magistrates' Clerks, and All Handling Suspected Documents
Here on the contrary you see the pen has not been taken off, but the upstroke of the 'J' runs on continuously into the 'a.' A Girl of the Commune
She had made use of the upstroke, Mexican style. Never-Fail Blake
It was written, as were all the letters we received from this Cornish venturer, in a woman's hand, small and delicate, with upstrokes like spider's thread; written in French, too, quite easy and careless. Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts
Her axe shone, on the upstroke, on the downstroke, as she hacked at his hand. The Were-Wolf
It is a continuation of the spur in b, h, f, l, and is always an upstroke. The Detection of Forgery A Practical Handbook for the Use of Bankers, Solicitors, Magistrates' Clerks, and All Handling Suspected Documents
He brought out from his desk a copybook wherein he had set it all down with the utmost attention to upstrokes and downstrokes and punctuation. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
On the next upstroke the charge is compressed into the combustion space of the cylinder, a further charge simultaneously entering the crank case to be compressed after the ignition for the working stroke. A History of Aeronautics
The letters are somewhat rounded, and the upstrokes and downstrokes usually have a slight inclination. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section T, U, V, and W
It was the sort of caligraphy which one comes across every day in shops and offices and banks—there was nothing in any upstroke, downstroke or letter which lifted it from the very ordinary. Scarhaven Keep
It is particularly noticeable in the writing of those who have been instructed in the old-fashioned school, where a distinction between the heavy downstroke and the light upstroke was insisted upon. The Detection of Forgery A Practical Handbook for the Use of Bankers, Solicitors, Magistrates' Clerks, and All Handling Suspected Documents
Some will pin their faith even to the crossing of a T, "the perpendicularity, my lord," of a down-stroke, or the "obliquity" of an upstroke. The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton)
There were words on the paper, written in stiff German characters, orthodox and methodical in every turn and upstroke and formal pothook. Dreams and Dream Stories
The children of the Presidio school smirched their copybooks under the awful supervision, and poor Paquita, the prize pupil, failed utterly in that marvelous upstroke when her patron stood beside her. Selected Stories of Bret Harte
Self-esteem, to which is allied conceit and ostentation, shows itself in proportion to the size of the writing, the taller and more flourished the upstrokes and the longer the downstrokes, the greater the self-assertiveness. The Detection of Forgery A Practical Handbook for the Use of Bankers, Solicitors, Magistrates' Clerks, and All Handling Suspected Documents
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