Términos

Punches used to impress decorative designs onto the surface of leather or other materials.

Dispositivos utilizados para macerar fibras, por lo general a partir de trapos, en una pulpa que se utiliza para la fabricación de papel. En concreto: un dispositivo manual que funciona con un mango y un martillo de cabeza fija sobre un soporte, es decir, sube y baja sucesivamente para golpear el material debajo.

Upright bars, props or supports.

Designa una estructura generalmente ligera y con frecuencia temporal, erigida para la exposición o venta de mercancía o en la que se llevan a cabo los asuntos comerciales.

Material viscoso pesado resultante de la polimerización de un aceite, tal como aceite de lino. Utilizado fundamentalmente en pintura y medios de glaseado. A diferencia del aceite bruto, no tiende a volverse amarillento con el tiempo.

Upstanding collars originally derived from Chinese costume that do not roll over. Structurally, these are essentially bare collar stands with no fall. Shapes and method of attachment may vary.

Variety of the Dutch language used in the Netherlands for public and official purposes, including instruction in schools and universities. Standard Dutch is characterized grammatically by the loss of case endings in the noun.

The variety of German, primarily spoken German, used in radio, television, public lectures, the theatre, schools, and universities. It is relatively uniform in pronunciation, although speakers may reveal regional accents.

Área, usada principalmente para censo y asignación de fondos federales, que tiene un centro dominante con una población combinada mínima de 50,000 y que dispone dde una comunidad circundante, la cual se encuentra económica y socialmente ingreada en la ciudad central.

Chinese script that is a simplified stylization of clerical script; the clerical script was transformed into a more fluent and easily written form. Characterized by clear-cut corners and straight strokes of varying thickness, this script emerged by the end of the Han Dynasty, and became popular during the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern periods. It underwent its most vital period of development and was the most important type of script during the Tang dynasty (618-907), when a successful career in the civil service depended in part on skill as a calligrapher. It remains the standard script in use today and the model for public function and printed type.

Fotografías en miniatura, montadas bajo un vidrio de aumento, que puede ser inserto en joyería o usado para propósitos decorativos.

Naturally occuring as tinstone or cassiterite, stannic oxide is the principal ore of tin. It can be artificially obtained as an anhydrous powder when tin is burned in the presence of oxygen, or by igniting stannous hydrate or stannous oxalate. Stannic oxide is used in the manufacture of white glazes and enamels, and as an opacifier. In its pure state is white or light yellow in color.

White crystalline solid used as a mordant in textile dyeing; as a base for lake pigments; in solution for tin-plating of steel.

Oxide appearing as an olive-brown or blue-black anhydrous powder when stannous oxalate is heated out of contact with the air. Uses include manufacturing of other tin compounds, as a reducing agent, and as an ingredient in creating ruby glass.

The right-hand side of a ship or aircraft, as distinguished from the larboard or port side. Traditionally, the side upon which in early types of ships the steering apparatus was worked.

Se refiere al estilo y cultura Neolítico que lleva el nombre del sitio en Starcevo, Serbia y que fue visible en una gran área que incluye Eslovaquia moderno, Ucrania occidental, Rumania, Hungría oriental, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia nordeste, y Croacia. Los estudiosos generalmente están de acuerdo en que se extiende desde el sexto milenio hasta alrededor del 4.200 a.C. Se caracteriza por actividades de pesca y caza, con un poco de agricultura, la creación de cuchillos y hachas pulidas, y cerámica con paredes gruesas, pellizcada en la parte de arriba con los dedos o las uñas y que exhibe distintivos diseños curvilíneos y espirales.

Refers to any water-soluble vegetable adhesive created from cooked starch.

Guns designed to fire blanks, used to signal the starts of races.

Restraining structures incorporating a barrier that is raised or pushed aside at the start of a race, to ensure a simultaneous start for all competitors or to ensure consistent timing of each competitor. Examples are used in horse racing, foot races, downhill skiing, and other sports.