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body wave

noun as in hair curling treatment

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The 27 tests generated seismic signals whose ‘body wave’ magnitude ranged from 4.2 to 6.2.

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It was important to Morgan to get the texture right — hair that tended to get a little frizzy and would have been ironed straight in the early ‘70s. “I asked to have a body wave put into it so it would go frizzy.

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“Take one step closer and examine your new body. Wave to yourself. You have now become Michael Sterling,” she said, in the neutral tone you’d use to tell someone he’s now Episcopalian.

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The yields predicted so far vary because it depends on the precise formula used: which scaling relation of the yield as a function of body wave magnitude is used - and that depends on a variety of factors such as the depth and type of rock where the test was conducted, for example.

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Barnes, 29, stands in front of the mirrors and runs through a basic series of movements: a jump, a body wave, a neck isolation, a hip isolation, a shimmy, a march.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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