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1. Music
He dictated his tunes, so to speak, from the piano. Most of us, of course, require at least some elementary teaching before we can make music.
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2. Pet Raising
Parrots can speak quite distinctly, but there is a peculiarity to the sound that we speak of as parroty for the want of any better word.
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3. Electric Current
While technicians still often speak of cycles per second, modern terminology expresses frequency in hertz (Hz). The 60-cycle household current is 60 Hz.
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4. Pyrometric Cones
Cones are numbered from a high cone 42 (3641°F) down to a low cone 022 (1112°F), and ceramists speak of a "cone 05 clay," or a "cone 06 glaze," meaning the temperature at which a certain material matures during the firing.
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5. Rock Gardens
Although we speak of rock plants as though they are plants that grow on rock, the only plants that can survive on the bare surface of rocks are lichens and mosses.
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6. Step Design
Going a step further, so to speak, risers and treads can be made of brick over a concrete base.
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7. Cleanliness Prevents Problems
For example, some home gardeners have the bad habit of handling the leaves of every plant as they speak about it, or as they pass by.
http://www.fun-home-projects.com/hobbies/​gardening/​garden_pests/​cleanliness_prevents_problems.html

8. Carburation
To balance this lowered pressure the outside air rushes in through the open air intake, and when it reaches the venturi tube, or "throat", it is, so to speak, "crowded in upon itself," the effect of this being to create a "suction" or lowering of pressure over the tip of the jet itself.
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