undershift — Dizionario inglese

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1. An unfitted undergarment that covers the torso.

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   The statement of Abeng and Tucdaden that when they buried the cadaver, this only had on an undershift and drawers (camiseta-calsoncillo), without uniform, nor boots, nor cap, nor other pieces of adornment, which is duly confirmed by the testimonies of the other witnesses and by the reports of the war correspondents who where present in the battle.

   She took the candle from him and placed it upon the desk, moving with measured grace, as a young girl might before her lover, a flowing, dancing motional set, allowing the undershift to swirl about her, and standing afterward so that the light from the candle would shine through the undershift, suggesting much and revealing nothing.

   She would make a tiny pocket in an undershift. Even boys wore undershifts, though theirs were shorter than the knee-length ones girls wore.

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   There was Sister Marie, who had cried for her lord father, and Sister Custance, who had forgotten to wear an undershift and was sent back to the dormitory to dress properly.

2. The strategy or act of positioning defensive players extra far toward the offense's weak side.

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   Do they employ an undershift? Overshift? If they do undershift or overshift the line, is it a half-man or full-man over- shift or undershift?

   "Everyone who plays four linemen ends up in an overshift or undershift," says Phillips, "and that makes the same alignment we're playing to start with.

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   In an overshift or undershift the spacing of the linemen should be over one "full man" from the normal.

3. The amount of displacement in the layers in a crystal lattice that places the layers too close together.

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   The protruding basal oxygens are themselves displaced slightly in the x-direction so that the shift required is either 0.4 + δÅ (overshift) or 0.4 -δ Å (undershift).

   In the structure of chrysotile 2M_(c1) illustrated in Figure 7.6 is approximately 0.1 Å, and so overshift is 0.5 Å and the undershift is 0.3 Å, occurring in successive layers to produce a two-layer unit cell with B = 93.3°.

4. A misalignment resulting from failure to shift gears far enough.

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   Briefly, in the invention, the shift mechanism is incorporated into the handlebar stem, a positive push-pull type cam mechanism is provided for actuating the rear derailleur, undershift and overshift is prevented to eliminate chain "jump off", and the device can be shifted with the bicycle standing still.

5. A change that results in something being not being moved far enough or too few things being moved.

6. An underhang caused by seismic shift.

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   The forming of shifts and undershifts is activated by frequent quakes.

Verbo

1. To position defensive players too far in a particular direction.

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   If they are in doubt just where they should go, they should always overshift rather than undershift.

   Do they employ an undershift? Overshift? If they do undershift or overshift the line, is it a half-man or full-man over- shift or undershift?

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   In addition, overshifting to one side and undershifting to the other may be used as a defensive plan to meet personnel or field problems.

2. To undershoot when changing gears.

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   Since it is easy to undershift or overshift, each lever must be adjusted manually to its optimal position on the cog or chainring.

3. To move too small an amount or not to move something far enough.

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   The use of the incorrect factor resulted in an undershift to ERAF.

4. To raise the price to consumers by less than an underlying cost increase that results from rising taxes.

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   Concavity of demand leads to undershifting and sufficient convexity to overshifting.

   However, according to Kay and Keen (1991), neither undershifting of both taxes, nor overshifting of both, is a plausible scenario under the quality model.

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   Whether this indirect effect causes an overshifting or undershifting of price depends upon the level of spillovers.

   With a linear demand curve, 0 η =, the monopolist always undershifts the tax, as shown in the first part of Figure 3.2.