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Line crossing
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Ceremonies for passing an important landmark have been performed by seamen since at least the days of classical greece. several still exist today, one of the most significant being the initiation rite to commemorate a first crossing of the equator. the night before the ship is due to cross, she is boarded “via the hawsepipes” by bears claiming to be agents of the watery realm’s secretary of state and demanding to meet to the captain and deliver a proclamation announcing a royal court to be held on the morrow to determine the eligibility of ship and passengers to continue their voyage. the bears then exit by the way they came. next day, the bears re-appear to proclaim the arrival of “his majesty king neptune, by the grace of mythology, lord of the waters and master of the waves, sovereign of the oceans, governor and lord high admiral of the bath” who—assisted by his wife amphritite, his crony davy jones, and sundry pirates, mermaids, and the like—supervises the “trusty shellbacks” (who have crossed before) as they force the “slimy polliwogs” (who have not) to perform increasingly disgusting and degrading tasks as retribution for their lack of respect for him and his realm. in earlier times the ceremony could be vicious and brutal, involving such things as beating the polliwogs with cobbing boards and wet knotted ropes, or dragging them in the disturbed wake behind the stern. deaths were not unknown and hospitalization was common until world war ii, when most of the world’s navies instituted strict regulations limiting abuse and humiliation. even today, without the oversight of military discipline, line-crossing hazing can still get out of hand on merchantmen. after the ceremony the initiates are given elaborate “royal certificates” of their newly-acquired status requiring, among other things, “all sharks, dolphins, whales, mermaids, and other dwellers of the deep” to abstain from maltreating them should they fall overboard. similar maritime fraternities include the “order of the blue nose” for crossing the arctic circle, the “order of the red nose” for crossing the antarctic circle, and the “order of the golden dragon” for crossing the international date line. a seaman who crosses the equator at the date line becomes a “golden shellback.”
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Cross, французский
The passing of two trains travelling in opposite directions at crossing loops on a single track.
Cross, английский
- Комплект оборудования для соединения (кроссировки) портов. в классическом варианте соединение линейной и станционной части телефонной системы. в общем случае - поле коммутации.
- An international organisation which provides mainly emergency medical help, but also relief to victims of earthquakes, floods and other disasters, or to prisoners of war. abbr icrc
- Скрещивать, пересекать
- To sail or steam across another vessel’s bow.
- —ply composite композит с перекрестным расположением волокон
- Securities transaction in which the same broker acts as agent for both sides of the trade; a legal practice only if the broker first offers the securities publicly at a price higher than the bid.
Cross, английский
The process of two trains meeting at crossing loops, while travelling in the opposite direction on single track.
Cross, английский
Cross, английский
Cross - bar, английский
Cross - cut, английский
Cross - timber in which the fibres deviate from a line parallel to the sides of the piece. cross grain may be either diagonal or spiral grain or a combination of the two., английский
Cross - walk, английский
Cross adit, английский
Cross area of all floors, английский
Cross assembler, английский
Кросс-ассемблер
Cross assimilation, английский
Cross axis, английский
Cross axis tracker error, английский
Cross banding, английский
Veneer applied to the edge of table tops or drawer fronts at a right angle to the face veneer.
Cross bar, английский
- Rod used in draping or as a support brace.
- In a grating, one of the connecting bars which extend across bearing bars, usually perpendicular to them; where they intersect the bearing bars, they are welded, forged, or mechanically locked to them. cross, 3 crocket
Cross bar centers, английский
In a metal grating, the distance between centers of the cross bars.
Cross batten, английский
A batten, 2. cross beam, crossbeam 1. a large beam between two walls. 2. a girder that holds the sides of a building together. 3. any beam that crosses another. 4. a strut between the walings on opposite sides of an excavation. 5. a beam which runs transversely to the center line of a structure. 6. any transverse beam in a structure, such as a joist. cross-bedding in sedimentary rocks, inclined laminations or bedding which lends textural and color pattern to building stone of such material.
Cross beam, английский
Cross bearing, английский
Significant, английский
- Значительный
- A значимый (о суффиксе и т.п. ) (ант. non-significant) | n означающее, сигнификант
Initiation, английский
- Навыки
- Начало; зарождение; возникновение; инициирование
Commemorate, английский
Proclamation, английский
An order in which britain prohibited its american colonists from settling west of the appalachian mountains.
Eligibility, английский
- Право на (программу, получение льгот)
- Правомочность, соответствие установленным требованиям
- Соответствие критериям
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Line gun, английский
A firearm used to shoot a messenger line to another ship or to stranded people. see also coston gun.
Line ahead, английский
Formation in which each ship follows the one ahead (cf. column).
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