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  2. Gag - Wikipedia

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    A woman gagged by duct tape A gag is usually an item or device designed to prevent speech , often as a restraint device to stop the subject from calling for help and keep its wearer silent. This is usually done by blocking the mouth , partially or completely, or attempting to prevent the tongue , lips , or jaw from moving in the normal patterns ...

  3. Vietnamese units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Originally, many thước of varying lengths were in use in Vietnam, each used for different purposes. According to Hoàng Phê (1988), [1] the traditional system of units had at least two thước of different lengths before 1890, [2] the thước ta (lit. "our ruler") or thước mộc ("wooden ruler"), equal to 0.425 metres (1 ft 4.7 in), and the thước đo vải ("ruler for measuring ...

  4. Vietnamese Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The Vietnamese Wikipedia initially went online in November 2002, with a front page and an article about the Internet Society.The project received little attention and did not begin to receive significant contributions until it was "restarted" in October 2003 [3] and the newer, Unicode-capable MediaWiki software was installed soon after.

  5. Vietnamese language - Wikipedia

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    Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the official language. It belongs to the Vietic subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family. [5] Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 85 million people, [1] several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. [6]

  6. Tape - Wikipedia

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    Masking tape, also known as painter's tape or sticky tape, a type of pressure-sensitive tape made of a thin and easy-to-tear paper, and an easily released pressure-sensitive adhesive Pressure-sensitive tape , adhesive tape that will stick with application pressure, without the need for solvent, heat, or water

  7. Sáo - Wikipedia

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    Sáo is the literal Vietnamese word for "flute". The most common variety is played with the flutist holding the sáo transversely to the right side with their mouth placed at the blowing hole. Other varieties include the Sáo Dọc , a kind of recorder similar to the Thai Khlui , the Sáo Bầu , and the Sáo Ôi , a recorder played by the ...

  8. Vietnamese alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Vietnamese uses 22 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet.The four remaining letters are not considered part of the Vietnamese alphabet although they are used to write loanwords, languages of other ethnic groups in the country based on Vietnamese phonetics to differentiate the meanings or even Vietnamese dialects, for example: dz or z for southerner pronunciation of v in standard Vietnamese.

  9. Talk:Gag - Wikipedia

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    I heard such cloth filters being called "gags", in Catalyst, which is a chemical industry museum in Runcorn in Cheshire in England. And in my street I once saw a man OTM-gagged spray-painting his car: it indeed acted as a gag when he tried to talk to me while wearing it, as well as filtering out the paint spray.