How To Use Ratchet In A Sentence
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The cooperative transport in a two-dimensional system of hard balls is studied, which is underdamped and under the deterministically flashing ratchet potential.
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It kinks, detaches itself from actin, unkinks, and reattaches, and thereby ratchets along the actin filament in a series of power strokes.
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Just in the name of dignity you will need to ratchet up the effort three more points, minimum.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pratchett is great, no matter what, but this is my least favorite.
Book Report: Wintersmith, by Terry Pratchett
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The purpose of the referendum is to further ratchet down our interests,’ said Phillip.
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He has made some bloomers in his time, from the failed bid for American General to his company's attempts to ratchet up his pay just as policyholders' bonuses were going in the other direction.
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It has a ratchet effect on people working as hard as they can, to lift the whole team up.
Times, Sunday Times
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To unscrew the casing is to throw open such a Pandora's Box of nuts and springs, axles, ratchets and governors as to confound all attempts to recapture them.
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The rod bent double, the reel shrieked and ratcheted.
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In this case, the geography of industrial organization ratchets up a sequence of scales from local to regional to national, and ultimately to global.
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Lantern clocks originally ran on woven ropes, which were threaded over spikes on ratchet wheels.
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Traveling with a nursing child can ratchet up the anxiety to unbearable levels.
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The Explorers program, a coeducational affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America that began 60 years ago, is training thousands of young people in skills used to confront terrorism, illegal immigration and escalating border violence -- an intense ratcheting up of one of the group's longtime missions to prepare youths for more traditional jobs as police officers and firefighters ...
Boing Boing
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I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me. Terry Pratchett
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The demands put on them are ratcheted up at regular intervals and competition and rivalry for internal empires is encouraged.
SHOPPED: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
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Uhh, how am I "dead wrong" because of the proposed brownian ratchet model?
Analogy, How Scientifically Powerful is It?
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Pratchett is amazing and if they've done any justice then the show will be just as great.
TRAILER: Terry Pratchett's 'Going Postal'
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The chair has a ratchet below it to adjust the height.
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Raising the minimum wage would ratchet up real incomes in general.
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Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. Terry Pratchett
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The characters are attractive and capable, the tension and suspense are ratcheted high, and the plotting is satisfying.
Review: Executive Privilege, by Philip Margolin
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Conversely, something that initially seems a small and minor incident you might want to ratchet up the scale.
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We waited for the next Pratchett novel and cooed over the intricacy of the detail in the Kirby cover.
MIND MELD: The Most Memorable SF/F Book Covers
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I could excuse the one, for I love a good horse naturally; but to be plagued with a bratchet whelp.
Kenilworth
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Now that Obama is in full re-election mode, the labor union bosses seem to be ratcheting down the rhetoric of their anti-trade demagoguery, at the behest we assume, of Obama’s advisers.
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The pressure on him was ratcheted up another notch.
Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
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I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me. Terry Pratchett
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The evolutionary process works precisely because of this ratchet effect.
Times, Sunday Times
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The hand keeps pressing against the ratchet as the hammer continues rearward.
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Was this piece of paper reason to stop talking completely and ratchet up the rhetoric?
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Rainman is due home in half an hour and I'm eagerly anticipating the ratcheting sound of the La-Z-Boy as he settles in for an evening of television viewing.
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Microsoft gains muscle from this process, so it can tighten the ratchets, and so on.
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I like the universities in fantasy novels by Diana Wynne Jones and Terry Pratchett and so on, they are basically EXACTLY like real-world universities only their dementedness is revealed.
Archive 2005-07-01
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Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken? Terry Pratchett
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Obviously, the death threat ratchets up the tension, but it's not really all that palpable.
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Kunzru seamlessly switches back and forth between two parallel narratives - the first of Carver's radical past, the second of his increasingly desperate attempts to prevent it catching up with him - ratcheting up the tension in taut, hard-edged prose.
My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru: Book summary
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Public spending is subject to a ratchet effect.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just as a ratchet turns easily one way but can not turn back, so genetic defects inevitably accumulate.
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The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find. Terry Pratchett
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My favorite transformer is still bumblebee, but I also like, Iron hide, Star scream, and so on, But where the hell was ratchet?
New Transformers 2 Robots Revealed: The Twins, Arcee, Jetfire, and More! « FirstShowing.net
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Since last year's general election this has been ratcheted up as the government announced plans to measure university teaching standards.
Times, Sunday Times
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The gears worked smoothly, to the minor accompaniment of the ratchet clicking and the links passing over the drive sprocket.
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The occasional tweak of the regulatory ratchet is as much as we can get these days - precisely because people like you and me have persuaded too few voters to give these issues the overarching significance they deserve.
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In this sense, the murder of Browne ratchets up the deepening shadows around the state/loyalist paramilitary linkage.
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The drive mechanism may comprise a ratchet and pawl.
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There is certainly not much feelgood about Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die, which will be broadcast on BBC2 on 13 June and feature footage of the Discworld author witnessing the assisted death of a man with advanced motor neurone disease in Switzerland's Dignitas clinic.
BBC documentary boss wants programmes that do more than entertain
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His actions ratcheted the thing up another notch again.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's just a maelstrom of shrieking children, crass commercialism, and ratcheting credit card debt.
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A smaller front ratcheting buckle keeps the forefoot centered over the base plate of the binding.
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I could excuse the one, for I love a good horse naturally; but to be plagued with a bratchet whelp. —
Kenilworth
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But as the vice president ratchets up his attacks on John Kerry, questions are raised about Cheney himself and his role in a campaign that is coming more into focus.
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On any given afternoon, unstable breezes and moisture ratchet up cumulonimbus clouds in a whirlwind of updrafts and downdrafts that cause particles of rain, ice, and snow to collide.
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The debate should ratchet up awareness of the problem among members of the general public.
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In some American cars, the handbrake isn't a handbrake at all, it's a second footbrake on the far left side of the footwell, which is basically totally useless because it's a pain to put on and even more of a pain to get off because it's a one-way ratchet system (you have to force the pedal all the way down to get it to release).
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
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His actions ratcheted the thing up another notch again.
Times, Sunday Times
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The tension ratchets as Gayford yearns for the sittings to come to an end and Freud grows jumpier at the prospect.
Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud, by Martin Gayford
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But Royer was a bit restless and was itching to ratchet things up a notch.
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The idea is that you randomly press down one tooth at a time. One of the teeth - and it changes each time - will cause the jaws to close with the crunch of a spring-loaded ratchet.
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Shock and disbelief sent ratchet and hairdryer alike clattering to the forest floor.
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The tension ratchets upwards a notch in each successive movement.
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There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.". Terry Pratchett
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That said, I'm beginning to sense a certain ratcheting of disdain and contempt for current US policies that is morphing more and more into editorialising rather than journalism.
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Five features you may have missed in Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time Spanish judge throws out criminal case against DS flash cart seller LittleBigPlanet Creator's Edition DLC delayed, producer apologizes Nintendo's resident name jotter-downer and kiester-kicker recently divulged to BMO Capital Markets attendees that the Wii is outperforming its rivals when it comes to female gamers.
Joystiq
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But it has ratcheted up its efforts in the past 12 months: Last fall, it launched a pilot project called asap, a news service aimed at younger readers, featuring a variety of multimedia content, including audio and video clips.
An Old Media Revival?
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But as rates rise sharply and home price increases ratchet down, the flow of cash from housing equity is sure to slow in the coming year.
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The international and domestic prestige that can be derived from space achievements can best be understood as a series of ratchets on a downward slope.
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Tie-down straps were run over the cans and the excess strapping was used to put an extra turn in the tie-down ratchet.
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Supplying materials for new driveways and patios has helped the firm ratchet up 13% per annum dividend growth since 1997.
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That means that competition for resources will ratchet up in intensity.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is a sort of upward ratchet effect where each achievement level becomes the baseline for the next change.
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That means that competition for resources will ratchet up in intensity.
Times, Sunday Times
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It means working with governments to encourage greater transparency in financial flows so that investment becomes a ratchet for wider economic development.
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One of them was carrying a ratchet bar and he whacked me over the back of the head.
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Add the rhythmic, ratchety sound of a guiro, along with a singer or two, and you have a basic parranda.
A Quaff Fit for 3 Kings
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Bởi vì ratchet đủ nhỏ để có thể chuyển động brownian chính nó.
Ideonexus.com »2009» Tháng
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Having already been burned on the Rove-is-indicted and the Iranian Jewish-star stories last month, I am certainly willing to read and discuss alternate points of view on this story, ratchet up my healthy skepticism, and I am more than happy to do it in a civil discourse as opposed to some of the more energetic methods at other blogs and sites wherein the writer's parentage is called into question and accusations of indecent conduct with certain barnyard creatures are levelled.
June 2006
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A ratchet is a mechanical device that restricts movement in one direction and allows movement in the opposite direction.
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The Watching Committee would attempt to ratchet up the pressure on the government.
THE GUARDSMEN
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To fill the void, I've been watching Monster Garage and Junkyard Wars, both of which are like Iron Chef with power tools & ratchets.
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Even Terry Pratchett says he writes a sort of sketchy version of his final scene in the early stages of his first draft.
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Just in the name of dignity you will need to ratchet up the effort three more points, minimum.
Times, Sunday Times
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The device was designed and built by chemists at the Universities of Edinburgh and Bologna, and it is the hydrogen bonds that act as locking teeth on a molecular ratchet, controlling the movements of the wheels.
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And another downward ratchet in wages would just about guarantee it will get worse.
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When discreet meetings fail to win management support, hedge funds often wage their campaigns in public, helping to ratchet up pressure on management.
Times, Sunday Times
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The studio couldn't possibly have further ratcheted up the cuteness level of the movie.
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The ratchets on the extractor more perfectly engage the new cylinder hand, which was mated with it.
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Now the last four have reached the semi-finals, and the pressure continues to ratchet up over the next three nights.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you happen to live near London, Terry Pratchett will be conducting an in-store signing at the Forbidden Planet Megastore in Shaftesbury Avenue, London on Monday 3rd November 2008, between 5.30 and 6. 30pm.
Tube Bits for 10/28/2008
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Another sinister plot; another twist of the federal ratchet.
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But if the U.S. ratchets up the pressure with more protectionist moves, Beijing may retaliate with higher tariffs of its own.
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Since last year's general election this has been ratcheted up as the government announced plans to measure university teaching standards.
Times, Sunday Times
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In short, if you're a fan of the series to date, this volume delivers more of the same, advances the overall plot, and ratchets up the tempo a notch.
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In this subdued metabolic state, called torpor, hibernators ratchet down their inner thermostats, precipitously lower their heart and respiratory rates, and tune out nearly all external stimuli.
Many species use hibernation to survive the rigors of winter
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Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained. Terry Pratchett
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(Neil Gaiman reports on his blog that he is going to buy a cap just so he can doff it to Pratchett.) 2 comments | Leave a comment
Sir Pratchett of Discworld
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In the same area is the lever that engages the ratchet to rotate the cylinder.
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But, I think the tension really gets ratcheted up when you take into account that Camille is days removed from a stay in a psychiatric hospital before heading back home.
Wish List Wednesday #35: Sharp Objects
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Pratchett is a genius at writing humorous books that slyly show the state of human emotions and feelings.
REVIEW: Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
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It has been defanged a bit over the years, starting with Referendum C, which got rid of the so-called ratchet effect and allowed a five-year timeout on revenue limits, so the state could keep the money it collected over TABOR limits.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
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Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. Terry Pratchett
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The debate should ratchet up awareness of the problem among members of the general public.
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Terry Pratchett (any/all of the Discworld series), Neil Gaiman (I got introduced to him first through his Sandman graphic novels [which is a complete masterpiece], then got into his writing), Douglas Adams - I like L.E. Modisitt Jnr, but the books seem to be hard to come across in British bookstores.
MIND MELD: What Book Introduced You to Fantasy?
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Quickly repeating these jaw movements, the threadsnake ratchets the squirmy prey farther and farther down the hatch.
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Pratchett's take on the elves is appropriately sinister, as they have no qualms placing a glamour on people and making them do their bidding.
REVIEW: Lords And Ladies by Terry Pratchett
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The debate should ratchet up awareness of the problem among members of the general public.
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The one historic reversal of this ratchet was Ronald Reagan's 1981 tax cut, which increased revenue through economic growth.
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Grantham, always publicly self-deprecating, ratchets up flippancy to reckless levels when commenting on his youngest son.
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Now the last four have reached the semi-finals, and the pressure continues to ratchet up over the next three nights.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unlike using a ratchet, which allows for only a series of preset pitches, to hold the blades in position, the cam can grip anywhere along the guide are, allowing for very fine adjustments.
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The growth of mammoth government interventions tends to be a one-way ratchet.
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'This offering doesn't pretend to subtlety at all, but the premise is so very intriguing, and so well-presented (in characteristically wry Pratchett fashion), that Johnny's cry for the essential humanity of all to be recognized, whether English, Iraqi or ScreeWee, loses none of its poignancy-or timeliness.'
Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett: Book summary
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The drive mechanism may comprise a ratchet and pawl.
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The debate should ratchet up awareness of the problem among members of the general public.
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The debate should ratchet up awareness of the problem among members of the general public.
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In future, oil producers will need to continually ratchet up oil prices to make it viable for new sources of ‘more expensive’ oil to be extracted.
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If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.". Terry Pratchett
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Of course, there are also common features to all trust building--performing well in some services raises trust more than in others (health provision has higher returns than market regulation, for example); expectations are ratcheted up (what you achieved yesterday becomes today's baseline); confidence can be quickly squandered (any suspicion of gaming evaluations is a trustbuster); and a sense of generational betterment gathers support (we appreciate a state that opens opportunities for our children).
Otaviano Canuto: The Day After Tomorrow: Will We Ever Trust the State?
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The home-improvement giant ratchets up growth - by moving past the lumberyard look
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Postponing a scheduled surgical procedure ratchets up stress in an already nerve-racking event.
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Granted the non-HD system was running on an LCD TV which made everything look jaggier than it should've, it still seemed that player details could have been ratcheted up a few notches.
IGN Wii
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All they do is ratchet up a crisis, get more free stuff, sign papers that mean nothing to them, keep on doing the illegal war stuff, and start the cycle all over again.
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Now the last four have reached the semi-finals, and the pressure continues to ratchet up.
Times, Sunday Times
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The free-running ratchet mechanism allow changes of direction to be made with finger and thumb, without releasing the handle.
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I don't think it's really fair to say it's just a matter of Pratchett not liking shopping centres or muzak; I think, in fact, that he's making a far broader and more serious point here than he does in almost all his other novels - the 'gimmick' isn't shopping centres, it's depersonalisation and the advent of the hyperreal.
Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
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It's just a maelstrom of shrieking children, crass commercialism, and ratcheting credit card debt.
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The debate will ratchet up a notch on Wednesday when the Commission publishes its report.
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For instance, if North Korea decides to ratchet up its military armament, then Japan is going to follow suit,’ he said.
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I like this position as it means that, if required, you can easily engage or disengage the ratchet with the hand that is holding the rod while playing a fish.
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If any in the interim chance to come within her reach, twenty to one she scratcheth him by the face; or doe but offer to hold her hands, sheel presently begin to cry out murder.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
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No listings in catalogs or sales literature have been found for the ratchet model.
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Think of yourself as a ratchet: once you gain an inch of territory you refuse to give it back.
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That, of course, is precisely why the violence is being ratcheted up - because the stakes for the corrupt merchants of death are so enormous.
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Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. Terry Pratchett
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(known as a stubby) ratchets like a Swiss clock, fits all standard attachments, and comes with a bunch of bits, as well as extenders to help you get at hard-to-reach screws.
MAKE Magazine
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Don't ratchet up the pressure by attempting to cook spectacular food.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Fed's Open Market Committee expected to once again ratchet up interest rates by a quarter point when it meets on Tuesday.
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CHICAGO—United Airlines pilots, still simmering over what they call "inadequate" training and "compromised safety" stemming from United's 2010 merger with Continental Airlines, have ratcheted up their pressure on the carrier by circulating to members of Congress a highly critical 101-page report by their union.
United Pilots Turn Up Heat
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When this accessory protein interaction is defined so that it acts as a ratchet, backward slippage can be prevented with minimal interference with forward progression.
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Instantaneously, she grabbed the ratchet and started to work, stripping the cover to the engine exhaust.
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If the slug miraculously survives the gamut, it will then strike the appropriate totalizer arm causing a ratchet wheel to rotate once for every
The Official Phreaker's Manual V1.1 by The Jammer and Jack the Ripper Part II
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Evolutionary software has already designed simple circuits, as well as physical mechanisms like the ratchet and cantilever.
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The high inflation reading has ratcheted up expectations that the Reserve Bank of India will have to resort to chunkier rate hikes, building expectations of a 50 basis points move when it next decides on rates Thursday, double the 0.25 percentage points increase that most were earlier anticipating.
India February Inflation Rises
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The debate will ratchet up a notch on Wednesday when the Commission publishes its report.
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An adjustable ratchet, which neither reel has but which the tensioners might help simulate, would of course give you the best of both worlds.
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They calculated that the electric potential inside the pore was asymmetric, shaped like a ratchet's tooth.
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If parents shape the linguistic environment of their offspring, and if we all shape the linguistic environments of our conspecifics (merely by talking to them!) then the possibility of a ˜linguistic ratchet effect™ is clearly open.
Innateness and Language
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Raising the minimum wage would ratchet up real incomes in general.
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The last battle, in particular, really ratchets up the tension.
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Examples of IVA tools are various sizes of wrenches and sockets, hexagonal, Phillips, and torque head drivers, pliers, and ratchets.
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To unscrew the casing is to throw open such a Pandora's Box of nuts and springs, axles, ratchets and governors as to confound all attempts to recapture them.
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Others are new to the golfing arena, and platforming fans will be pleased to know that Jak and Ratchet have taken up the game, with their sidekicks acting as caddies for them.
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We must make sure that the business - custom relationship is a profit ratchet.
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The evolutionary process works precisely because of this ratchet effect.
Times, Sunday Times
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The evolutionary process works precisely because of this ratchet effect.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were thrilled to proceed with merger mania and ratchet up already-humongous profits.
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She took up a sheet and ratcheted it into the typewriter.
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It's only in the down time that we recognize the one-way ratchet of adding to the cost of doing business.
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The Watching Committee would attempt to ratchet up the pressure on the government.
THE GUARDSMEN
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Tank cutters are used in a carpenter's ratchet brace.
Technology Basic Facts
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Once we're into the second hour, Pollack ratchets up the pace a few notches and we notice a quickening of the pulse.
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If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.". Terry Pratchett
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Tank cutters are used in a carpenter's ratchet brace.
Technology Basic Facts
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Netscape Communications will announce new Internet products for businesses today, ratcheting up the pressure on Microsoft.
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Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one. Terry Pratchett
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If the water is real deep, try ratcheting your pedals by doing quarter pedal strokes.
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The rod bent double, the reel shrieked and ratcheted.
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When discreet meetings fail to win management support, hedge funds often wage their campaigns in public, helping to ratchet up pressure on management.
Times, Sunday Times
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a ratcheting lopping tool
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But the problem with special offers is the ratchet effect.
Times, Sunday Times
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First, there is occasionally a sense of wandering in Pratchett's books, especially toward the beginning, when you get a lot of scenes all over the place which eventually narrow down to the main plot and the main characters.
REVIEW: Nation by Terry Pratchett
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Once it has a foothold, they can ratchet up the rosiness gradually.
Will the party of “no” be able to stop the immigration reform and climate change bills?
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He plays the futozao shamisen, a three-stringed instrument from which she extracts a soft array of sounds, from subdued scrapes, to slow, meditative plucking, to ratcheting and vibrating string-bends.
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He fears inflation will ratchet up as the year ends.
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Somewhere a Dumpster is ratcheted open by the claws of a black machine.
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What helps with that lunacy is reciting - many times -- Terry Pratchett's golden words on the subject: The first draft is you telling yourself the story.
MIND MELD: The Most Difficult Part of Being A Writer Is...
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Every mechanic knows that a ratchet is a toothed wheel or bar used to prevent a gizmo from moving backward.
No Uncertain Terms
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But the incoming mayor, formerly governor of Osaka prefecture, has tools to ratchet up the pressure: Osaka, Japan's third-biggest city, is both the largest city in Kansai Electric's service area and the utility's biggest shareholder, with a stake of about 9% as of March 31.
Nuclear Conflict: Utility, Mayor Face Off in Japan
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The ratchet will move further in the direction of control at the expense of liberty.
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To see more clearly how the ratchet works, consider an even simpler modelýan economy pared down to just two participants.
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Into that silence that was fraught with the shuffling of feet, bare and slippered both, the faint hiss of the stove and the sub-aural racket of neurons firing in brains that were no longer in touch with souls, no longer calm and meditative, neurons nudged from the path and straining to find their way back, there came a deep harsh ratcheting cry from the figure on the bed, from Karuna.
The Silence
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Finally, snakes use gnathic (jaw-based) transport mechanisms, in which kinetic elements of the jaw apparatus are used to ratchet prey into and through the mouth.
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But U.S. officials are ratcheting up the rhetoric, going so far as using the term insurgency to describe how Mexican cartels are challenging the government.
U.S. Sees Heightened Threat in Mexico
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The verbal sparring and playful banter with her is really starting to ratchet up some interesting tension.
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Public spending is subject to a ratchet effect.
Times, Sunday Times
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Functional analysis of the gene revealed the presence of an 'enhancer', a stretch of DNA where regulatory proteins can bind to help ratchet up expression levels, surrounding one of the variants identified in this initial screen.
Innovations-report
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This is a very handy pair of pliers because it can be also used as a pipe wrench, adjustable wrench, wire cutter, ratchet, or a clamp.
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This entirely predictable denouement arrives when, as a result of Tony Blair carefully burnishing his credentials for the job of President of the EU, the Danegeld we pay to the EU for the non-existent benefit of being a member is eye-wateringly ratcheted upwards by 68% in two years.
To Nobody's Surprise
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Wintersmith is the most recent in Pratchett's run of Tiffany Aching books, books for younger readers (middle-grade?) which feature as the protagonist a young girl who is good at making cheese, tormenting her brother, and being a witch.
Archive 2010-01-01
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Thirdly, "the Postman", as a David Brin novel, is extraordinary and would I think appeal strongly to lots of people here; if Terry Pratchett wasn't funny but retained all his other gifts and worldview, and was actually a sly bit _more_ subversive, it's something he could write.
Catcher in the Rye, catchers in the cornfields
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He calls it the pawl, a proper engineering term to go with ratchet.
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The debate should ratchet up awareness of the problem among members of the general public.
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If there are master wordsmiths in our time, Pratchett is part of the club; heck, he's probably a senior board member with keys to the clubhouse, access to the hot tub, wine cellar and three weeks each year in the time-share ...
MIND MELD: Memorable Short Stories to Add to Your Reading List (Part 1 of 2)
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Don't ratchet up the pressure by attempting to cook spectacular food.
Times, Sunday Times
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More important, it gives him a chance to quickly ratchet up profits by merging the back office and cutting the workforce.
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Since last year's general election this has been ratcheted up as the government announced plans to measure university teaching standards.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some good stuff there: the first Hugo (which appears to have been constructed with tinsnips and lead solder), Terry Pratchett's badge techotchkes, really happy goth bondage play, Singularity-focused authors, barbarians in mirrorshades, amazingly detailed models of Unseen University and environs, an ironic sneak photo of a t-shirt, Dorks are Hot t-shirt, und zo weiter.
Boing Boing: August 29, 2004 - September 4, 2004 Archives
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His burgeoning running power and growing sangfroid when presented with openings which his fizzing forwards have engineered have allowed him to ratchet up his game several notches over the past six months.
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Ratchett. as manager of the pits, had come to report the firedamp blast.
A Place Called Freedom
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The small sprocket wheel in turn is coupled to the ratchet wheel, which allows only the uni-directional rotation of the ratchet sleeve shaft.
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A ratchet is a mechanical device that restricts movement in one direction and allows movement in the opposite direction.
