Is there a comprehensive explaination, which prepositions should I use with "directed", and why.
directed at
directed to
directed on
directed onto
directed in
directed into
directed toward
directed towards
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I have found two partial answers, but they look just "partial" in my case.
Here t...
A bed of nails is an oblong piece of wood with the size of a bed with nails pointing upwards out of it. It appears to the spectator that anyone lying on this "bed" would be injured by the nails, but this is not so. Assuming the nails are numerous enough, the weight is distributed between them such that the pressure exerted by each nail is not enough to break the person's skin.
Uses
One use of such a device is for magic tricks or physics demonstrations. A famous example requires a volunteer to lie on a bed of several thousand nails, with a board on top of him. Cinder blocks are placed on ...
A nail is a horn-like envelope covering the dorsal aspect of the terminal phalanges of fingers and toes in humans, most non-human primates, and a few other mammals. Nails are similar to claws in other animals.
Fingernails and toenails are made of a tough protein called keratin, as are animals' hooves and horns. The mammalian nail, claw, and hoof are all examples of unguis [plural ungues].
Human anatomy
The nail consists of the nail plate, the nail matrix and the nail bed below it, and the grooves surrounding it.
Parts of the nail
The matrix (sometimes called the matrix unguis, ker...
Ein Nagel ist ein am unteren Ende zugespitzter, am oberen Ende abgeplatteter Stift aus Metall oder Holz. Er dient zum Fixieren oder Verbinden von Bauelementen, vor allem aus Holz. Dabei sind die gängigsten Metalle Stahl, Kupfer und Messing.
Nägel werden entweder mit dem Hammer eingeschlagen oder mit dem Magazinnagler eingeschossen.
Nägel sind die ältesten bekannten Verbindungselemente. Die ältesten Holznägel der Welt wurden 5101 v. Chr. zum Vernageln eines Holzbrunnens in Sachsen gebraucht. Diese konnten anhand der Jahresringe im Holz genau datiert werden.
Herstellung
Nägel werde...
Nagle's algorithm, named after John Nagle, is a means of improving the efficiency of TCP/IP networks by reducing the number of packets that need to be sent over the network.
Nagle's document, Congestion Control in IP/TCP Internetworks (RFC 896) describes what he called the "small packet problem", where an application repeatedly emits data in small chunks, frequently only 1 byte in size. Since TCP packets have a 40 byte header (20 bytes for TCP, 20 bytes for IPv4), this results in a 41 byte packet for 1 byte of useful information, a huge overhead. This situation often occurs in Telnet sessi...
Cab-over, also known as Cab Over Engine (COE), cab forward, or forward control, is a body style of truck or van that has a vertical front or "flat face", with the cab of the truck sitting above the front axle.
This truck configuration is currently common among European and Japanese truck manufacturers, because the laws governing overall vehicle lengths are strict and the body style allows longer trailers (in the case of a tractor-trailer truck) or a longer cargo area (in the case of a "staight" truck, a truck with a single rigid frame supporting all components and the load) for the sam...
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