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  2. Glossary of automotive terms - Wikipedia

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    Also gas pedal. A throttle in the form of a foot-operated pedal, or sometimes a hand-operated lever or paddle, by which the flow of fuel to the engine (and thereby the engine speed) is controlled, with depression of the pedal causing the vehicle to accelerate. admission stroke See induction stroke. aftermarket air brake 1. A type of brake in which the force that actuates the brake mechanism is ...

  3. English nouns - Wikipedia

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    External modifiers can also be realized by prepositional phrases (e.g., by far the greatest ally) and noun phrases (e.g., every bit a philosopher). External modifiers can only attach to the beginnings or ends of noun phrases. When positioned at the beginning, they occur before any predeterminative, determinative, or internal modifier. [44]

  4. Interlingue - Wikipedia

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    i: the general adjectival ending, similar to -e in usage. a: nouns that end in e formed from an -ar verb are often written with the -a ending if one wishes to emphasize the verbal (active) aspect. The a ending also makes nouns feminine: anglese (English person), angleso (Englishman), anglesa (English woman). This does not apply to nouns that on ...

  5. Sedan (automobile) - Wikipedia

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    A sedan (/ s ɪ ˈ d æ n /) is a car with a closed body (i.e., a fixed metal roof) with the engine, passengers, and cargo in separate compartments. [5] This broad definition does not differentiate sedans from various other car body styles. Still, in practice, the typical characteristics of sedans are:

  6. Suffix - Wikipedia

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    -less (usually changes nouns into adjectives)-like (usually changes nouns into adjectives)-logy/-ology (usually class-maintaining, with the word class remaining a noun)-ly (usually changes adjectives into adverbs, but also some nouns into adjectives)-ment (usually changes verbs into nouns)-ness (usually changes adjectives into nouns)

  7. List of mnemonics - Wikipedia

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    Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle; Father Christmas Gave Dad An Electric Blanket. [47] Fat Cats Go Down Alleys Eating Birds. Fidel Castro Gets Drunk And Eats Babies. Fat Cats Greedy Dogs All Eat Bananas. The order of flats is B♭, E♭, A♭, D♭, G♭, C♭, and F♭ (reverse order of sharps), which can be remembered using the phrase ...

  8. Syntactic category - Wikipedia

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    A syntactic category is a syntactic unit that theories of syntax assume. [1] Word classes, largely corresponding to traditional parts of speech (e.g. noun, verb, preposition, etc.), are syntactic categories.

  9. Latin declension - Wikipedia

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    Latin declension is the set of patterns according to which Latin words are declined—that is, have their endings altered to show grammatical case, number and gender.Nouns, pronouns, and adjectives are declined (verbs are conjugated), and a given pattern is called a declension.