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Lineman's handset A lineman's handset, also called a test set or butt set (or a "goat" or a buttinski), is typically a very durable one-piece telephone that integrates an earpiece, a mouthpiece, and a dialing interface (originally a rotary dial, but now more commonly, a 12-button DTMF keypad). It is commonly used by technicians for testing local loop telephone lines in telephone exchanges and outside plant.
Lineman's pliers Lineman's pliers (US English), also called combination pliers are a type of pliers used by electricians and other tradesmen for gripping small objects, to cut and bend wire and cable, and to hammer other small tools, such as a chisel or screwdriver, and to hammer various types of hardware, especially staples and small nails. Lineman's pliers have a gripping joint at their snub nose, and cutting edge in their craw, and insulating handle grips that reduce (but do not eliminate) the risk of electric shock from contact with live wires (versions with properly tested and guaranteed insulation in two colors to make faults visible are also available).
Linemar Linemar was the Japanese toymaker employed by the American toy company, Louis Marx & Co. Linemar toys are extremely desirable to toy collectors, and there is a bevy of information concerning the Marx Toy Company as well as its subsidiaries such as Linemar in several books on collecting toys and the history of the Marx Co.
Lineography Lineography is the art of drawing without lifting the pen, pencil, or paintbrush that is being used. The practice originated in France in the seventeenth century and had fallen into disuse by the early nineteenth century.
Lines in my Face Lines in my Face is the third commercially released album from Chronic Future. It features the single "Time and Time Again" and has a range of themes involving the Golden Era of the radio, New York City, and friendship.
Lines of Torres Vedras The Lines of Torres Vedras were lines of forts built in secrecy to defend Lisbon during the Peninsular War. The Lines were ordered by the Duke of Wellington and constructed by Portuguese workers, under the supervision of British and Portuguese Army Engineers between November 1809 and September 1810.
Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes, also known simply as Fleas, is a couplet commonly cited as the shortest poem ever written. Variously attributed to Shel Silverstein, Ogden Nash, or simply an unknown or anonymous author, it was most likely written by American poet Strickland Gillilan in the early 20th century.
Linesearch In (unconstrained) optimization, the linesearch strategy is one of two basic iterative approaches to finding a local minimum mathbf{x}^* of an objective function f:mathbb R^ntomathbb R. The other method is that of trust regions.
Linestanding Linestanding or seatholding refers to a service provided in Washington DC to lobbyists, corporate legislative offices, non-profit organizations, lawyers, and other persons having an interest in matters being debated or bills being marked up by the U.S.
Lineus longissimus The bootlace worm (Lineus longissimus) is in the phylum Nemertea or ribbon worms. It is one of the longest animals known, with specimens up to 30 m long being reported and some speculation that they may grow as long as 60 m, which would make it the longest animal in the world.
Linezolid Linezolid (INN) (IPA: ) is a synthetic antibiotic, the first of the oxazolidinone class, used for the treatment of infections caused by multi-resistant bacteria including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). It is marketed under the trade name Zyvox (or Zyvoxid in Europe) (Pfizer).
Linfield College Linfield College is a private, four-year liberal arts college located in McMinnville, Oregon, United States, with a campus in Portland, Oregon, and an adult degree program located in eight communities throughout the state. It is one of the oldest colleges in the western United States.
Linford Christie Linford Christie, OBE (born April 2, 1960) is a former athlete, and the only English man to win Olympic, World, Commonwealth and European 100 m gold medals. Whilst in semi-retirement, Christie received a two year ban for taking a performance-enhancing substance, although he has continually denied any wrongdoing.
Ling Mengchu Ling Mengchu or Ling Meng-ch'u (1580-1644) was a Chinese writer of the Ming Dynasty, best known for his vernacular short fiction collections Astonished Slaps Upon the Desktop, I and II). Ling Mengchu was born into the Ling clan of Wucheng in northern Zhejiang.
Ling shu Lingshu 靈樞 ("Spiritual Pivot") is an ancient Chinese classical text of medicine. It is one of the remaining pieces of a greater medical work known as the Huangdi Neijing or "Medical Canon of the Yellow Emperor".
Ling Woo Ling Woo was a fictional character on the popular US sitcom Ally McBeal, from Season 2 until Season 4 and recurring in Season 5. The character was played by Asian-American actress Lucy Liu, and is widely considered to be her breakthrough role.
Ling Zhong Ling Zhong (born October 30, 1983 in Guangxi Province, China) is one of China's most successful individual rhythmic gymnasts. She started rhythmic gymnastics in 1991 and her first international event was in 1995.
Linga Holm Linga Holm is a tiny uninhabited island (roughly extending to 57ha or 141 acres) situated 700m west of the island of Stronsay, in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. Although so small, it is thought to be the third largest breeding ground for the Atlantic Grey Seal in the world, and an important nesting site for Greylag geese.
Linga Purana Ling Purana, one of the major eighteen Puranas, a Hindu religious text, is divided into two parts. These parts contain the description regarding the origin of universe, origin of the linga, and emergence of Brahma and Vishnu, and all the Vedas from the Linga.
Linga sarira Lińga is the Sanskrit term in the Samkhya system for the characteristic "mark" of the individual reincarnating entity. The Lińga Śarīra is the subtle body or vehicle of consciousness in later Samkhya, Vedanta, and Yoga.
Lingada Birana Kunitha Lingada Birana Kunitha is a folk dance performed mainly people belonging to the Kuruba Community. This dance is wide spread in the southern parts of karnataka state and where the dancers perform splendidly, holding a sword in one hand and a shield bearing their religious emblem in the other to the tune of the devotional narration.
Lingala language Lingala is a Bantu language spoken throughout the northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa) and a large part of the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), as well as to some degree in Angola and the Central African Republic. It has over 10 million speakers.
Lingam The Lingam (also, Linga, Shiva linga Sanskrit लिङ्गं , meaning "mark," or "sign,") is a symbol for the worship of the Hindu god Shiva. While its origins are debated, the use of this symbol for worship is a timeless tradition in India.
Lingayen Gulf The Lingayen Gulf is an extension of the South China Sea on Luzon in the Philippines. It is framed by the provinces of Pangasinan and La Union and sits between the Zambales Mountains and the Cordillera Central.
Lingen transmitter Lingen transmitter is a facility of NDR for FM-, mediumwave and TV broadcasting. It uses as antenna tower a 227 metre tall grounded guyed mast of tubular steel, at which a cage antenna for mediumwave broadcasting is mounted.
Linger (song) "Linger" is a song composed by Irish musicians Dolores O'Riordan and Noel Hogan of the rock band The Cranberries. The song, which has an acoustic arrangement featuring a string section, became the band's first major hit.
Lingerie tape Lingerie tape, also known as tit tape is a double-sided adhesive tape, used to secure the edges of a strapless dress or top to the cleavage or side of the breasts, in order to keep the item of clothing in place and to avoid a wardrobe malfunction.
Lingfield Derby Trial The Lingfield Derby Trial is a Group 3 flat horse race in the United Kingdom for three-year-old thoroughbred colts and geldings run over a distance of 1 mile 3 furlongs and 106 yards (2,310 metres) at Lingfield Park Racecourse in May.
Linggadjati Agreement The Linggadjati Agreement was a political accord concluded on November 15, 1946 by the Dutch administration and the unilaterally declared Republic of Indonesia. The agreement is named after Linggadjati, the mountain village in Central Java where it was signed after negotiations that took place on November 11 and 12.
Lingonberry War The Lingonberry War (Norwegian: Tyttebærkrigen, Swedish: Teaterkriget, literally: "the Theatrical War") was a military campaign launched against Sweden by Denmark-Norway on 24 September 1788, formally lasting until the 9 July 1789. Although the decision to launch the attack was taken in Denmark, the majority of the attacking soldiers were probably Norwegians.
Lingones Lingones were a Celtic tribe that originally lived in Gaul in the area of the headwaters of the Seine and Marne rivers. Some of the Lingones migrated across the Alps and settled near the mouth of the Po River in Cisalpine Gaul of northern Italy around 400 BCE.
Lingotto Lingotto is a district of Turin, Italy, but the name is most associated with the Lingotto building on the Via Nizza, which once was a huge car factory, constructed by Fiat. Built from 1916 and opened in 1923, the design was unusual in that it had five floors, with raw materials going in at the ground floor, and cars built on a line that went up through the building.
Lingua franca A lingua franca is any language widely used beyond the population of its native speakers. The de facto status of lingua franca is usually "awarded" by the masses to the language of the most influential nation(s) of the time.
Lingua Franca Lingua Franca was a magazine about intellectual and literary life in academia. It was where the Sokal Affair was first revealed and its editors later published a book (The Sokal Hoax) of selected papers on the subject.
Lingua Ignota Lingua Ignota (Latin for unknown language) was a language described by the 12th century abbess of Rupertsberg, Hildegard of Bingen. A recognized saint of the Roman Catholic Church, she apparently used it for mystical purposes.
Lingua sistemfrater Frater (lingua sistemfrater), an a posteriori international auxiliary language, published in Frater (Lingua sistemfrater). The simplest International Language Ever Constructed, in 1957 by the Vietnamese linguist Pham Xuan Thai.
Linguacode In the Star Trek television series, linguacode is a universal language code that is sometimes used by the United Federation of Planets in first contact situations. Unlike forms of cryptography, which are designed to secure communications and make them impossible to decode by anyone other than the intended recipient, Linguacode is freely broadcast without encryption of any kind, and is designed to be easily understandable to any technologically sophisticated intelligence in any form of language.
Linguasphere language code The Linguasphere language code is a reference system for world languages used by the Linguasphere Observatory and published in its Linguasphere Register. It is an expansive, flexible system that relates each language or dialect with another.
LinguaStream LinguaStream is a generic platform for Natural Language Processing (NLP), based on incremental enrichment of electronic documents. It allows complex processing streams to be designed and evaluated, assembling analysis components of various types and levels: part-of-speech, syntax, semantics, discourse or statistical.
Lingui County Lingui County () is a county administered by Guilin, Guangxi, China, and located midway between Guilin and Yangshuo. The county is mostly rural and hilly, marked by the same dramatic karst topography for which Guilin is famous.
Linguicide Linguicide is a rarely used term describing the intentional causing of the death of a language. It is also used as a derogatory term to describe unintentional death of languages through competition and other mechanisms.
Linguicism Linguicism is a form of prejudice, an "-ism" along the lines of racism, ageism or sexism. The word is attributed to the linguist Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, who may have coined the word in her writings in the mid-1980s about prejudice in education.
Linguistic anthropology Linguistic anthropology is that branch of anthropology that brings linguistic methods to bear on anthropological problems, linking the analysis of semiotic and particularly linguistic forms and processes (on both small and large scales) to the interpretation of sociocultural processes (again on small and large scales).
Linguistic competence Linguistic competence refers to the knowledge of a language system. The term first emerged in the work of Noam Chomsky, where it referred specifically to syntactic competence, and was specifically opposed to linguistic performance.
Linguistic Criticism Linguistic Criticism is probably the oldest form of biblical criticism or textual criticism to develop.Queens University of Charlotte, History Department It relies heavily upon the study and knowledge of the Biblical languages - not just Κοινη Greek and Hebrew, but also Aramaic (the language Jesus Himself most likely spoke) and Egyptian (Moses' mother tongue).
Linguistic determinism Linguistic determinism is the idea that language shapes thought. Determinism itself refers to the viewpoint that all events are caused by previous events, and linguistic determinism can be used broadly to refer to a number of specific views.
Linguistic detoxification Linguistic detoxification is a political term used by some environmentalists to describe when, through legislation or other government action, the definitions of toxicity for certain substances are changed, or the name of the substance is changed, so that fewer things fall under a particular classification as toxic. An example is the classification of some low-level radioactive waste as "beyond regulatory concern", which permits it to be buried in conventional landfills.
Linguistic Data Consortium The Linguistic Data Consortium is an open consortium of universities, companies and government research laboratories. It creates, collects and distributes speech and text databases, lexicons, and other resources for linguistics research and development purposes.
Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time (Chicago, 1992) is linguist Johanna Nichols's best known work, considered a pioneering work in the use of linguistic typology as a tool for understanding human migrations in prehistory.
Linguistic history of India Originating over 5,000 years ago, the linguistic history of India describes the evolution and transformation of early human communications techniques - from pictures, pictorial scripts and engravings - to the modern Indian languages that belong to the Indo-Aryan languages and the Dravidian languages.
Linguistic idealism Linguistic idealism is a phrase used by the philosopher Andrew Chrucky to characterize an interpretation of Wilfrid Sellars' "Myth of the Given" -- notably by Richard Rorty and his students -- claiming that we are "trapped" in language.
Linguistic imperialism The theory of Linguistic imperialism has since the early 1990s attracted the attention among scholars in the field of English applied linguistics, particularly since the publication of Robert Phillipson's influential book Linguistic Imperialism, which led to considerable disputes about the merits and shortcomings of the theory. Linguistic imperialism is often seen in the context of cultural imperialism.
Linguistic issues concerning the euro Several linguistic issues have resulted from the inclusion of the new word euro into the vocabularies of the languages of the member states of the European Union. Some countries have also produced local slang words for the euro.
Linguistic modality A modal form is a provision of syntax that indicates the predication of an action, attitude, condition, or state other than that of a simple declaration of fact. The modality of a grammatical form is the quality or state in question.
Linguistic prescription In linguistics, prescription is the laying down or prescribing of normative rules for the use of a language, or the making of recommendations for effective language usage. It includes the mechanisms for establishing and maintaining an interregional language or a standardized spelling system.
Linguistic purism Linguistic purism (or Linguistic protectionism) is the opposition to any changes of a given language, or the desire to undo some changes the language has undergone in the past. The policy is introduced to protect a given language from the expansion of a "stronger" language (usually a language with a much greater number of speakers), or against mixing (or deliberate compatibility) with a different dialect or a closely related language.
Linguistic separatism Linguistic separatism refers to the attempts of linguists or politicians to create an independent language from a dialect by splitting off the written language. In a broader sense, this can also occur as the result of natural processes: Dutch, for example, developed from a Frankish dialect (Low Franconian).
Linguistic turn The linguistic turn refers to a major development in Western philosophy during the 20th century, the most important characteristic of which is the focusing of philosophy, and consequently also the other humanities, on language as constructing reality.
Linguistic typology Linguistic typology is a subfield of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural features. Its aim is to describe and explain the structural diversity of the world's languages.
Linguistics and the Book of Mormon Linguistic analysis is an important part of a critical look at the Book of Mormon to determine its validity as an ancient text. According to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and some other denominations, the Book of Mormon is a 19th century translation of a historical record of the inhabitants of the American continent, part of which was written in reformed Egyptian.
Lingulata Lingulata is a class of brachiopod, among the oldest of all brachiopods having existed since the Cambrian period (550 mya). They are also among the most mophologically conservative of the brachiopods, having lasted from their earliest appearance to the present with very little change in shape.
Linguolabial consonant Linguolabials or apicolabials are consonants articulated by placing the tongue tip or blade against the upper lip, which is drawn downward to meet the tongue. They represent one extreme of a coronal articulatory continuum which extends from linguolabial to sub-apical palatal places of articulation.
Lingwood and Burlingham Lingwood and Burlingham is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, comprising the large village of Lingwood together with the smaller villages of Burlingham Green, North Burlingham and South Burlingham. The villages are all within 4 km of each other, some 15 km equidistant from the town of Great Yarmouth and the city of Norwich.
Lingyen Mountain Buddhist Temple The Lingyen Mountain Buddhist Temple is a large Buddhist temple in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. One of four Buddhist temples in the municipality, it is located on Richmond's "Highway to Heaven", a section of No.
Lingzhi Língzhī (traditional Chinese: [simplified Chinese: 灵芝; Japanese: reishi; Korean: yeongji, hangul: 영지) is the name for one form of the mushroom] Ganoderma lucidum. This fungal species has a worldwide distribution in both tropical and temperate geographical regions, including North and South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia, growing as a [[parasite or saprophyte on a wide variety of trees .
Linienzugbeeinflussung Linienzugbeeinflussung (also linienförmige Zugbeeinflussung, short form LZB, literally German: linear train influencing) is a cab signalling and train control system used on selected German and Austrian railway lines as well as the AVE in Spain. In these countries, the system is mandatory on all lines where trains exceed speeds of 160 km/h, but it is also used on some slower lines to increase capacity.
Liniers Liniers is a barrio (neighborhood) of Buenos Aires on the edge of the city, centered on Rivadavia Avenue. It is also an important train station and bus hub, connecting western Gran Buenos Aires with the Buenos Aires Metro.
Linjesender A Linjesender was a low power longwave transmitter used for broadcasting in Norway. It consisted of a PLC-system, which fed the radio programme on a frequency in the longwave broadcasting range into an overhead electric power transmission line.
Link (film) Link is a 1986 British horror film starring Elizabeth Shue and Terence Stamp. The title character, "Link", is a super-intelligent orangutan who lashes out against his masters when they try to have him put to sleep.
Link (telecommunications) In telecommunications a link is the communications channel that connects two or more communicating devices. This link may be an actual physical link or it may be a logical link link that uses one or more actual physical links.
Link (The Legend of Zelda) is the fictional hero of Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda video game series created by Shigeru Miyamoto. The Legend of Zelda is one of Nintendo's flagship game franchises, a franchise which has sold over 47 million copies worldwide to date (2006).
Link adaptation Link adaptation, or adaptive modulation and coding (AMC), is a term used in wireless communications to denote the matching of the modulation, coding and other signal and protocol parameters to the conditions on the radio link (e.g.
Link aggregation Link aggregation, or IEEE 802.3ad, is a computer networking term which describes using multiple Ethernet network cables/ports in parallel to increase the link speed beyond the limits of any one single cable or port.
Link awareness Link awareness is defined as the ability to discover, view, search and update global hyperlink information about any resource with a URL on the World Wide Web. This global link information is a shared information resource.
Link bait Link bait is any content or feature within a website that somehow baits viewers to place links to it from other websites. Attempts to create link bait are frequently employed in the overall task of search engine optimization.
Link campaign Link campaigns are a form of online marketing and is also a method for search engine optimization. A business seeking to increase the number of visitors to its web site can ask its strategic partners, professional organizations, chambers of commerce, suppliers, and customers to add links from their web sites.
Link contract A link contract is an approach to data control in a distributed data sharing network. Link contracts are fundamental to Dataweb technology and a key feature of the XDI (XRI Data Interchange) specifications under development at OASIS (organization).
Link Control Protocol In computing, the Link Control Protocol (LCP) forms part of the PPP. In setting up PPP communications, both the sending and receiving devices send out LCP packets to determine specific information that the prospective data transmission will require.
Link Crew Link Crew is a program in high school where chosen upper-classmen help freshmen throughout the year by getting them to participate in school activities. These students also help to bridge the gap between freshmen and the rest of the school, when the younger students may feel like they don't belong.
Link doping Link doping refers to the practice and effects of embedding a large number of gratuitous hyperlinks on a website in exchange for return links. Mainly used when describing weblogs (or blogs), link doping usually implies that a person hyperlinks to sites he or she has never visited in return for a place on the website's blogroll for the sole purpose of inflating the apparent popularity of his or her website.
Link farm On the World Wide Web, a link farm is a group of web sites that form a hyperlink network in which all members of the network link to each other for the sole purpose of altering search engine results. Although some link farms can be created by hand, many are created through automated programs and services.
Link grammar Link grammar (LG) is a theory of syntax by Davy Temperley and Daniel Sleator which builds relations between pairs of words, rather than constructing constituents in a tree-like hierarchy. There are two basic parameters: directionality and distance.
Link Hogthrob Link Hogthrob was a fictional character, a pig-like Muppet on The Muppet Show. He was a stereotypical leading man, with wavy blond hair, a manly cleft chin, and a high opinion of himself, but not much between the ears.
Link inventory A link inventory is the list of backlinks a web site has. The more relevant the web sites are to the site being linked to and the higher the search engine prominence of these sites, the better the link inventory is.
Link Layer Discovery Protocol The Link Layer Discovery Protocol or LLDP is a vendor-neutral Layer 2 protocol that allows a network device to advertise its identity and capabilities on the local network. The protocol was formally ratified as IEEE standard 802.
Link popularity Link popularity is a measure of the quantity and quality of other web sites that link to a specific site on the World Wide Web. It is an example of the move by search engines towards off-the-page-criteria to determine quality content.
Link prefetching Link prefetching is a standards compliant mechanism used by some web browsers, which utilizes browser idle time to download or prefetch documents that the user might visit in the near future. A web page provides a set of prefetching hints to the browser, and after the browser is finished loading the page, and after an idle time has passed, it begins silently prefetching specified documents, storing them in its cache.
Link register A link register, in many CPU architectures such as the PowerPC, ARM, and the PA-RISC, is a special purpose register which holds the address to return to when a function call completes. Other architectures (such as SPARC) have a register with the same purpose but another name (in this case, "output register 7").
Link time In computer science, link time refers to either the operations performed by a linker (ie, link time operations) or programming language requirements that must be met by compiled source code for it to be successfully linked (ie, link time requirements).
Link Trainer The Link Trainer or "pilot maker" was created in the mid-1930s out of the need for a safe way to teach new pilots how to fly by Instrument Flight Rules. It was created by former organ builder Edwin Albert Link, who used his knowledge of pumps, valves and bellows to create a flight simulator that responded to the pilot's controls and gave an accurate reading on the included avionics.
Link Up Created in 1975 by Joe Gilmore, the Head Barman of the American Bar at the Savoy Hotel in London, to mark the American and Russians link up in Space, the Apollo-Soyuz project. The Link Up cocktail was sent to the U.
Link Wray Fred Lincoln 'Link' Wray Jr (May 2, 1929 – November 5, 2005) was a rock and roll guitar player most noted for introducing a new sound for electric guitars in his major hit, the 1958 instrumental "Rumble", by Link Wray and his Ray Men. Before Rumble, electric guitars were used to produce clean sounds and jazz chords.
Link: The Faces of Evil Link: The Faces of Evil is a video game developed by Animation Magic and released for the Philips CD-i in 1993, on the same day as Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon. A follow-up to both games, Zelda's Adventure, arrived in 1994.
Linkage (mechanical) Mechanical linkages are a series of rigid links connected with joints to form a closed chain, or a series of closed chains. Each link has two or more joints, and the joints have various degrees of freedom to allow motion between the links.
Linkage (policy) Linkage was a policy pursued by the United States of America, championed by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, during the 1970s period of Cold War DĂ©tente which aimed to persuade the Soviet Union and Communist China to co-operate in restraining revolutions in the Third World in return for concessions in nuclear and economic fields. The policy was however fundamentally undermined due to the amount of revolutions occurring during this time wholly independent of Soviet involvement.
Linkage disequilibrium Linkage disequilibrium is a term used in the study of population genetics for the non-random association of alleles at two or more loci, not necessarily on the same chromosome. It is not the same as linkage, which describes the association of two or more loci on a chromosome with limited recombination between them.
Linköping Institute of Technology The Institute of Technology at Linköping University or Linköpings tekniska högskola (LiTH) is the factuly of engineering of Linköping University, located in Linköping and Norrköping in Sweden. Since its start in 1969 LiTH has had close ties with the Swedish transport and electronics industry in general and with Ericsson and SAAB in particular.
Linköpings FC Linköpings FC is an association football club from Linköping, Sweden. The club was established in 2003 when Kenty DFF women's football club decided to merge with the premier division ice hockey club Linköpings HC under the new name Linköpings FC.
Linked exchange rate A linked exchange rate system is a type of exchange rate regime to link the exchange rate of a currency to another. It is the exchange rate system implemented in Hong Kong to stablise the exchange rate between Hong Kong dollar (HKD) and United States dollar (USD).
Linked genes Linked genes are genes that are located on the same chromosome and tend to be inherited together in genetic cross because the chromosome is passed along as a unit. Linked genes are two traits that have an unusually high frequency of two genes being expressed at the same time.

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