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The word team had specific meanings in agriculture and in sport before becoming a ubiquitous synonym for a group spanning one or more levels in a corporate organisation. [ 10 ] The phrases going forward or moving forward make a confident gesture towards the future, but are generally vague on timing, which usually means they can be removed from ...
Moving the goalposts (or shifting the goalposts) is a metaphor, derived from goal-based sports such as football and hockey, that means to change the rule or criterion ("goal") of a process or competition while it is still in progress, in such a way that the new goal offers one side an advantage or disadvantage.
A pawn captures by moving diagonally forward one square to the left or right, either replacing an enemy piece on its square (first diagram) or capturing en passant (second diagram). An en passant capture can occur after a pawn makes a move of two squares and the square it passes over is attacked by an enemy pawn. The enemy pawn is entitled to ...
Suppose a simple robot has two wheels, both capable of moving forward or in reverse, positioned parallel to each other and equidistant from the robot's center. Additionally, each motor has a rotary encoder, allowing determination of whether either wheel has traveled one "unit" forward or reverse along the floor.
move to sidebar hide (Top) 1 People. 2 Sports. 3 Politics. ... Forward, a sculpture by Raymond Mason (sculptor), located in Birmingham before being destroyed by arson;
A pawn can move forward to the unoccupied square immediately in front of it on the same file, or on its first move it can optionally advance two squares along the same file, provided both squares are unoccupied (diagram dots). A pawn can capture an opponent's piece on a square diagonally in front of it by moving to that square (diagram crosses).
A flashforward (also spelled flash-forward, and more formally known as prolepsis) is a scene that temporarily takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story in literature, film, television and other media. [1] Flashforwards are often used to represent events expected, projected, or imagined to occur in the future. They ...
Pay it forward is an expression for describing the beneficiary of a good deed repaying the kindness to others rather than paying it back to the original benefactor. It is also called serial reciprocity .