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A A-grade Also aid climbing grade. The technical difficulty grading system for aid climbing (both for "original" and an adapted version for "new wave"), which goes: A0, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5 and up to A6 (for "new wave"). See C-grade. Abalakov thread Abalakov thread Also V-thread. A type of anchor used in abseiling especially in winter and in ice climbing. ABD Also assisted braking device. A term ...
AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward.On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...
Social media reach is a media analytics metric that refers to the number of users who have come across a particular content on a particular social media platform. [1] Social media platforms have their own individual ways of tracking, analyzing and reporting the traffic on each of the individual platforms.
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
Honest with us. Jean Carnahan played an important role as U.S. senator in voting her conscience to oppose the nomination of fellow Missourian John Ashcroft for U.S. attorney general in 2001.
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A reach is a segment of a stream, river, or arm of the sea, [citation needed] usually suggesting a straight, level, uninterrupted stretch. [1] [2] They are traditionally defined by the capabilities of sailing boats, as a stretch of a watercourse which, because it is straightish, can be sailed in one "reach" (that is, without tacking).
Snow day. D.C. is expected to get between 8 to 12 inches of snow through Monday but members are expected to get to the Capitol. House Republican leaders urged members to stay in Washington over ...