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References A ace Slang for the drug acepromazine or acetyl promazine (trade names Atravet or Acezine), which is a sedative : 3 commonly used on horses during veterinary treatment, but also illegal in the show ring. Also abbreviated ACP. action The way a horse elevates its legs, knees, hock, and feet. : 3 Also includes how the horse uses its shoulder, humerus, elbow, and stifle; most often used ...
"Klaatu barada nikto" is a phrase that originated in the 1951 science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still. The humanoid alien protagonist of the film, Klaatu ( Michael Rennie ), instructs Helen Benson ( Patricia Neal ) that if any harm befalls him, she must say the phrase to the robot Gort ( Lockard Martin ).
Beowulf is an epic poem in Old English, telling the story of its eponymous pagan hero.He becomes King of the Geats after ridding Heorot, the hall of the Danish king Hrothgar, of the monster Grendel, [a] who was ravaging the land; he dies saving his people from a dragon.
Horses going past the eighth pole at Santa Anita Park Eased When a jockey deliberately slows down a horse during a race, often to prevent injury or harm to the horse. [5] Eighth pole A pole to signal that the finish line is one-eighth of a mile away. [5] Eighth poles are green and white striped [9] Entry See Coupling, above.
lit. "grey eminence": a publicity-shy person with little formal power but great influence over those in authority. en banc court hearing of the entire group of judges instead of a subset panel. en bloc as a group. en garde "[be] on [your] guard". "On guard" is of course perfectly good English: the French spelling is used for the fencing term ...
DIN 66036 defines one metric horsepower as the power to raise a mass of 75 kilograms against the Earth's gravitational force over a distance of one metre in one second: [18] 75 kg × 9.80665 m/s 2 × 1 m / 1 s = 75 kgf⋅m/s = 1 PS. This is equivalent to 735.49875 W, or 98.6% of an imperial horsepower.
Satellite image of the Tibetan Plateau between the Himalayan mountains to the south and the Taklamakan Desert to the north. In geology and physical geography, a plateau (/ p l ə ˈ t oʊ, p l æ ˈ t oʊ, ˈ p l æ t oʊ /; French:; pl.: plateaus or plateaux), [1] [2] also called a high plain or a tableland, is an area of a highland consisting of flat terrain that is raised sharply above the ...
An argumentum ab inconvenienti is one based on the difficulties involved in pursuing a line of reasoning, and is thus a form of appeal to consequences. The phrase refers to the legal principle that an argument from inconvenience has great weight. ab incunabulis: from the cradle: i.e., "from the beginning" or "from infancy".