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41Lapel pin — Lapel pins from North Korea A lapel pin is a small pin often worn on the lapel of a dress jacket. Lapel pins can be purely ornamental or can indicate the wearer s affiliation with an organization or cause; for example, American Flag lapel pins… …
42Handgun — A handgun is a firearm designed to be held in the hand when used. This characteristic differentiates handguns as a general class of firearms from their larger counterparts: long guns such as rifles and shotguns, mounted weapons such as machine… …
43Large-screen television technology — developed rapidly in the late 1990s and 2000s. Various flat screen technologies are being developed, but only the liquid crystal display (LCD), plasma display (PDP) and Digital Light Processing (DLP) were released on the public market. These… …
44Proto 2 — is the name of the $55 million initiative of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, to create a thought controlled prosthetic arm. Its predecessor was called Proto 1 and was capable of reasonably complicated movements like… …
45Strengthening mechanisms of materials — Methods have been devised to modify the yield strength, ductility, and toughness of both crystalline and amorphous materials. These strengthening mechanisms give engineers the ability to tailor the mechanical properties of materials to suit a… …
46bulky — bulkily, adv. bulkiness, n. /bul kee/, adj., bulkier, bulkiest. 1. of relatively large and cumbersome bulk or size. 2. (of a fabric or yarn) thick; lofty. 3. (of a garment) made of thick, resilient fabric or yarn: a bulky sweater. [1665 75; BULK1 …
47corpulence — /kawr pyeuh leuhns/, n. bulkiness or largeness of body; fatness; portliness. Also, corpulency. [1350 1400; ME < L corpulentia. See CORPULENT, ENCE] * * * …
48huge — hugely, adv. hugeness, n. /hyoohj/ or, often, /yoohj/, adj., huger, hugest. 1. extraordinarily large in bulk, quantity, or extent: a huge ship; a huge portion of ice cream. 2. of unbounded extent, scope, or character; limitless: the huge genius… …
49layering — /lay euhr ing/, n. 1. the wearing of lightweight or unconstructed garments one upon the other, as to create a fashionable ensemble or to provide warmth without undue bulkiness or heaviness. 2. Tailoring. the trimming of multiple layers of fabric… …
50Titian — Titianesque, adj. /tish euhn/, n. 1. (Tiziano Vecellio) c1477 1576, Italian painter. 2. (l.c.) a reddish brown or golden brown color: hair of titian. adj. 3. (l.c.) having titian color: titian hair. * * * orig. Tiziano Vecellio born 1488/90,… …
