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The épée () is the modern derivative of the dueling sword, the smallsword (itself descended from the rapier, used in sport fencing). Épée is French for "sword".
As a thrusting weapon the épée is similar to a foil (compared to a sabre), but has a stiffer blade that is V-shaped in cross-section, has a larger bell guard, and is heavier. The technique however, is somewhat different, as there are no rules regarding priority and right of way. In addition, the entire body is a valid target area.
Background
While modern sport fencing has three weapons (foil, épée, and sabre), each a separate...
A rapier is a slender, sharply pointed sword, ideally used for thrusting attacks, used mainly in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Description
The word "rapier" generally refers to a relatively long-bladed sword characterized by a complex hilt which is constructed to provide protection for the hand wielding it. While the blade might be broad enough to cut to some degree (but nowhere near that of the wider, slightly heavier swords in use around the Middle Ages), the long thin blade lends itself to thrusting. The blade might be sharpened along its entire length, sharpened only from...
A facebuster, also known as a faceplant, is generally a takedown move in professional wrestling in which an attacking wrestler forces his/her opponent down to the mat face-first without involving a headlock or facelock. If these are used then the move is either a DDT or bulldog variation. Inverted mat slams are commonly referred to and considered to be facebusters. A standard facebuster, also known as a jumping facebuster, involves the wrestler grabbing hold of the opponent's head / hair and jumping down to their knees, forcing the opponent's face into the mat.
Variations
Argentine facebus...
Historically informed performance (also referred to as period performance, authentic performance, or (HIP)) is an approach, or movement, in the performance of classical music and theater. Members of this movement usually play on period instruments, deploy older types of acting and scenery, and consult historical treatises, as well as additional historical evidence, to gain insight into the performance practice (the stylistic and technical aspects of performance) of a historic era. Historically informed performance might have originated in the performance of Medieval, Renaissance, and Baro...
In musical tuning, when the twelve notes within the octave are tuned using meantone temperament, one of the fifths will be much wider than the rest. If the meantone fifths are tuned from E to G, the anomalous interval will be between G and E. This interval is known as a diminished sixth, which is meant to be the enharmonic equivalent to a fifth; however, the interval does not sound the same as the other fifths: it is severely wide and dissonant, and it seems to howl like a wolf (because of the beating). This anomalous interval thus has come to be called the wolf fifth. By extension,...
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Can you please help me on constructing metaphors of the following:
my muscles are aching that I cannot move anymore
my sweat are like tears fell down freely
my senses are gone
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In a formal email of the kind where you begin with "Dear Mr. Surname" and finish with "Best regards", for example, should we use the following contractions? Or are the non contracted forms more appropriate?
We have -> We've
We would -> We'd
There is -> There's
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I don't think I was ever taught a clear-cut rule, and as a non-native speaker, I am probably spoiled to some extent by the usage of dashes in other languages. That being said, following nothing but my intuition I would use:
a semicolon when the sentences express related, yet independent (especi...
I'm not sure if such a figure of speech exists in English, and "unidirectional gaga" is certainly not correct.
But which wording expresses that a person becomes dumber from having exercised/performed something too frequently or in only one particular fashion.
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