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  2. Volleyball jargon - Wikipedia

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    An overhand dig A joust. Ace: A serve which lands in the opponent's court without being touched, or is touched but unable to be kept in play by one or more receiving team players [1] Assist: Usually the second of a team's three contacts, an assist is awarded for any set ball that results in a kill on the ensuing attack

  3. List of medical mnemonics - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of mnemonics used in medicine and medical science, categorized and alphabetized. A mnemonic is any technique that assists the human memory with information retention or retrieval by making abstract or impersonal information more accessible and meaningful, and therefore easier to remember; many of them are acronyms or initialisms which reduce a lengthy set of terms to a single ...

  4. Dig (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Volleyball dig, often shortened to "dig" Dig (woreda), a district of Somali Region, Ethiopia; DIG: an archaeological adventure, an educational resource in York, England; Digoxigenin or dig, a plant-produced steroid used for biochemical "tagging" Dig (restaurant), an American fast-casual restaurant chain

  5. WordReference.com - Wikipedia

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    WordReference is an online translation dictionary for, among others, the language pairs English–French, English–Italian, English–Spanish, French–Spanish, Spanish–Portuguese and English–Portuguese. WordReference formerly had Oxford Unabridged and Concise dictionaries available for a subscription.

  6. Fastest animals - Wikipedia

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    List of animals by speed Rank Animal Maximum speed Class Notes 1 Peregrine falcon: 389 km/h (242 mph) 108 m/s (354 ft/s) [1] [7]Flight-diving The peregrine falcon is the fastest aerial animal, fastest animal in flight, fastest bird, and the overall fastest member of the animal kingdom.

  7. Fossorial - Wikipedia

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    Short and stout limbs, since swiftness or speed of movement is less important than the strength to dig. Broad and stout forelimbs , including long claws, designed to loosen the burrowing material for the hind feet to disperse in the back. This trait is disputed by Jorge Cubo, who states that the skull is the main tool during excavation, but ...

  8. Glossary of tennis terms - Wikipedia

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    Dig: A shot where the player hits the ball just before the second bounce. So named because the racket is positioned in a downward position, similar to a shovel digging a hole. Dink : Onomatopoetic term for a shot with little pace , usually hit close to the net.

  9. Dismissed as improvidently granted - Wikipedia

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    A grant of appellate review is dismissed as improvidently granted (DIG) when a court with discretionary appellate jurisdiction later decides that it should not review the case. [1] Notably, the Supreme Court of the United States occasionally grants a petition of the writ of certiorari , only to later DIG the case.