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  2. Warming up - Wikipedia

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    Players of Legends Football League do a warm-up exercise, US 'Warming up' is a part of stretching and preparation for physical exertion or a performance by exercising or practicing gently beforehand, usually undertaken before a performance or practice. Athletes, singers, actors and others warm up before stressing their muscles.

  3. Greenhouse - Wikipedia

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    Cucumbers were planted in wheeled carts which were put in the sun daily, then taken inside to keep them warm at night. The cucumbers were stored under frames or in cucumber houses glazed with either oiled cloth known as specularia or with sheets of selenite (a.k.a. lapis specularis ), according to the description by Pliny the Elder .

  4. Capping inversion - Wikipedia

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    An elevated inversion layer is thus a region of warm air above a region of cold air, but higher in the atmosphere (generally not touching the surface). A capping inversion occurs when there is a boundary layer with a normal temperature profile (warm air rising into cooler air) and the layer above that is an inversion layer (cooler air below ...

  5. Cooling down - Wikipedia

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    Rehydrating after practice. Cooling down (also known as limbering down or warming down) is the transition from intense physical activity to a more typical activity level. . Depending on the intensity of the exercise, cooling down after a workout method, such as intense weightlifting, can involve a slow jog o

  6. Weather front - Wikipedia

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    In a warm occlusion, the cold air mass overtaking the warm front is warmer than the cold air mass receding from the warm front and rides over the colder air while lifting the warm air. [ 2 ] A wide variety of weather can be found along an occluded front, with thunderstorms possible, but usually their passage is also associated with a drying of ...

  7. Warm front - Wikipedia

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    A warm front is a density discontinuity located at the leading edge of a homogeneous warm air mass, and is typically located on the equator-facing edge of an isotherm gradient. Warm fronts lie within broader troughs of low pressure than cold fronts , and move more slowly than the cold fronts which usually follow because cold air is denser and ...

  8. Climate classification - Wikipedia

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    A steppe is a dry grassland with an annual temperature range in the summer of up to 40 °C (104 °F) and during the winter down to −40 °C (−40 °F). [ 20 ] A subarctic climate has little precipitation, [ 21 ] and monthly temperatures which are above 10 °C (50 °F) for one to three months of the year, with permafrost in large parts of the ...

  9. Gesture drawing - Wikipedia

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    Gesture drawing is often performed as a warm-up for a life drawing session, but is a skill that may be cultivated for its own sake. In less typical cases the artist may be observing people or animals going about normal activities with no special effort to pause for the artist.