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Depressant
Depressant De*press"ant, n. (Med.)
An agent or remedy which lowers the vital powers.
Expressage
Expressage Ex*press"age ([e^]ks*pr[e^]s"[asl]j; 48), n.
The charge for carrying a parcel by express.
Poa compressaWire Wire, n. [OE. wir, AS. wir; akin to Icel. v[=i]rr, Dan.
vire, LG. wir, wire; cf. OHG. wiara fine gold; perhaps akin
to E. withy. ????.]
1. A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance
formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved
rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel.
Note: Wire is made of any desired form, as round, square,
triangular, etc., by giving this shape to the hole in
the drawplate, or between the rollers.
2. A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph;
as, to send a message by wire. [Colloq.]
Wire bed, Wire mattress, an elastic bed bottom or
mattress made of wires interwoven or looped together in
various ways.
Wire bridge, a bridge suspended from wires, or cables made
of wire.
Wire cartridge, a shot cartridge having the shot inclosed
in a wire cage.
Wire cloth, a coarse cloth made of woven metallic wire, --
used for strainers, and for various other purposes.
Wire edge, the thin, wirelike thread of metal sometimes
formed on the edge of a tool by the stone in sharpening
it.
Wire fence, a fence consisting of posts with strained
horizontal wires, wire netting, or other wirework,
between.
Wire gauge or gage.
(a) A gauge for measuring the diameter of wire, thickness
of sheet metal, etc., often consisting of a metal
plate with a series of notches of various widths in
its edge.
(b) A standard series of sizes arbitrarily indicated, as
by numbers, to which the diameter of wire or the
thickness of sheet metal in usually made, and which is
used in describing the size or thickness. There are
many different standards for wire gauges, as in
different countries, or for different kinds of metal,
the Birmingham wire gauges and the American wire gauge
being often used and designated by the abbreviations
B. W. G. and A. W. G. respectively.
Wire gauze, a texture of finely interwoven wire, resembling
gauze.
Wire grass (Bot.), either of the two common grasses
Eleusine Indica, valuable for hay and pasture, and Poa
compressa, or blue grass. See Blue grass.
Wire grub (Zo["o]l.), a wireworm.
Wire iron, wire rods of iron.
Wire lathing, wire cloth or wire netting applied in the
place of wooden lathing for holding plastering.
Wire mattress. See Wire bed, above.
Wire micrometer, a micrometer having spider lines, or fine
wires, across the field of the instrument.
Wire nail, a nail formed of a piece of wire which is headed
and pointed.
Wire netting, a texture of woven wire coarser than ordinary
wire gauze.
Wire rod, a metal rod from which wire is formed by drawing.
Wire rope, a rope formed wholly, or in great part, of
wires. Poa compressaBlue grass Blue" grass` (Bot.)
A species of grass (Poa compressa) with bluish green stems,
valuable in thin gravelly soils; wire grass.
Kentucky blue grass, a species of grass (Poa pratensis)
which has running rootstocks and spreads rapidly. It is
valuable as a pasture grass, as it endures both winter and
drought better than other kinds, and is very nutritious. Redressal
Redressal Re*dress"al (r?*dr?s"al), n.
Redress.
Ressaldar
Ressaldar Res"sal*dar (r[e^]s"sal*d[aum]r), n. [Hind.
ris[=a]ld[=a]r, fr. ris[=a]l[=a] troop of horse + Per. d[=a]r
holding.] (Mil.)
In the Anglo-Indian army, a native commander of a ressala.
T depressaRiver Riv"er, n. [F. riv[`e]re a river, LL. riparia river,
bank of a river, fr. L. riparius belonging to a bank or
shore, fr. ripa a bank or shore; of uncertain origin. Cf.
Arrive, Riparian.]
1. A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and
emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream;
a stream larger than a rivulet or brook.
Transparent and sparkling rivers, from which it is
delightful to drink as they flow. --Macaulay.
2. Fig.: A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers
of blood; rivers of oil.
River chub (Zo["o]l.), the hornyhead and allied species of
fresh-water fishes.
River crab (Zo["o]l.), any species of fresh-water crabs of
the genus Thelphusa, as T. depressa of Southern
Europe.
River dragon, a crocodile; -- applied by Milton to the king
of Egypt.
River driver, a lumberman who drives or conducts logs down
rivers. --Bartlett.
River duck (Zo["o]l.), any species of duck belonging to
Anas, Spatula, and allied genera, in which the hind
toe is destitute of a membranous lobe, as in the mallard
and pintail; -- opposed to sea duck.
River god, a deity supposed to preside over a river as its
tutelary divinity.
River herring (Zo["o]l.), an alewife.
River hog. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Any species of African wild hogs of the genus
Potamoch[oe]rus. They frequent wet places along the
rivers.
(b) The capybara.
River horse (Zo["o]l.), the hippopotamus.
River jack (Zo["o]l.), an African puff adder (Clotho
nasicornis) having a spine on the nose.
River limpet (Zo["o]l.), a fresh-water, air-breathing
mollusk of the genus Ancylus, having a limpet-shaped
shell.
River pirate (Zo["o]l.), the pike.
River snail (Zo["o]l.), any species of fresh-water
gastropods of Paludina, Melontho, and allied genera.
See Pond snail, under Pond.
River tortoise (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous fresh-water
tortoises inhabiting rivers, especially those of the genus
Trionyx and allied genera. See Trionyx. Vis impressaVis Vis, n.
1. Force; power.
2. (Law)
(a) Physical force.
(b) Moral power.
Principle of vis viva (Mech.), the principle that the
difference between the aggregate work of the accelerating
forces of a system and that of the retarding forces is
equal to one half the vis viva accumulated or lost in the
system while the work is being done.
Vis impressa [L.] (Mech.), force exerted, as in moving a
body, or changing the direction of its motion; impressed
force.
Vis inerti[ae]. [L.]
(a) The resistance of matter, as when a body at rest is
set in motion, or a body in motion is brought to rest,
or has its motion changed, either in direction or in
velocity.
(b) Inertness; inactivity.
Note: Vis interti[ae] and inertia are not strictly
synonymous. The former implies the resistance itself
which is given, while the latter implies merely the
property by which it is given.
Vis mortua [L.] (Mech.), dead force; force doing no active
work, but only producing pressure.
Vis vit[ae], or Vis vitalis [L.] (Physiol.), vital force.
Vis viva [L.] (Mech.), living force; the force of a body
moving against resistance, or doing work, in distinction
from vis mortua, or dead force; the kinetic energy of a
moving body; the capacity of a moving body to do work by
reason of its being in motion. See Kinetic energy, in
the Note under Energy. The term vis viva is not usually
understood to include that part of the kinetic energy of
the body which is due to the vibrations of its molecules.
Meaning of Ressa from wikipedia
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Maria Angelita Ressa (Tagalog pronunciation: [ˈɾesa]; born
Maria Angelita Delfin Aycardo on
October 2, 1963) is a
Filipino and
American journalist. She...
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Ressa may
refer to the
following notable people:
Given name
Ressa Kania Dewi (born 1994),
Indonesian swimmer Surname Maria Ressa (born 1963), Filipino-American...
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People of the
Philippines v. Santos,
Ressa and
Rappler (R-MNL-19-01141-CR), also
known as the
Maria Ressa cyberlibel case, is a high-profile
criminal case...
- the Philippines. It was
founded by 2021
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa along with a
group of
fellow Filipino journalists as well as technopreneurs...
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Djebel Ressas is a high and
rugged outcropping of Jur****ic
limestone situated on the
horizon southeast of Tunis, Tunisia.
Competing in the foreground,...
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Iraqi human rights activist Nadia Murad, Filipino-American
journalist Maria Ressa,
Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova, and Egyptian-Canadian journalist...
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Ressa Kania Dewi (born 15
September 1994) is an
Indonesian swimmer. She
competed in the women's 200
metre freestyle event at the 2017
World Aquatics Championships...
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Rodrigo Duterte.
There have also been
cases linked to the
libel case of
Maria Ressa, as well as the Anti-Terror Law of 2020. FLAG
lawyers Chel
Diokno and Sanidad...
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death penalty and
Rappler founder and
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Maria Ressa Te was born in
Davao City,
Southern Philippines. He
graduated with a degree...
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Gellman and
Lorraine Adams, as well as
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa, are
Princeton alumni.
William P. Ross, Prin****l
Chief of the Cherokee...
