(n.) The unit for estimating the weight of a/riform substances; -- the weight of a liter of hydrogen at 0/ centigrade, and with a tension of 76 centimeters of mercury. It is 0.0896 of a gram, or 1.38274 grains.
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Frith
Definition:
(n.) A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth.
(n.) A kind of weir for catching fish.
(a.) A forest; a woody place.
(a.) A small field taken out of a common, by inclosing it; an inclosure.
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(1) At Chapel-le-Frith in 1786, for instance, Wesley recorded a kind of punk festival riot: "The terror and confusion was inexpressible.
(2) The Celeb Diaries will be published this autumn and is one of the publisher's priority titles for Christmas 2008 Frith began his journalism career at Emap's Smash Hits in 1990, and in 1994, at the age of just 23, was appointed editor before leaving for Sky Magazine in 1996.
(3) Frith, the former editor of Heat magazine, has not been appointed as the permanent editor of Time Out, but he is understood to have turned down the Radio Times job.
(4) Frith, who took over Heat in 2000, previously edited Smash Hits and Sky magazine.
(5) The Heat editor-in-chief, Mark Frith, is leaving Bauer Consumer Media after more than 10 years developing and overseeing the celebrity magazine phenomenon.
(6) One of his idols was the critic and essayist Max Beerbohm, whose biography his father had written and whose work Jonathan, with the aid of Roger Frith , turned into a one-man show, The Incomparable Max.
(7) Frith has won every major British publishing award, including PPA editor of the year twice and, in 2005, the BSME Mark Boxer Award for special achievement in UK magazine publishing.
(8) The patient response sequences were similar to those seen in an earlier study by Frith and Done (Psychol Med, 13, 779-786, 1983), but some control group differences emerged.
(9) Frith is joining Love along with other new arrivals including Francesca Burns, who is to be senior fashion editor-at-large.
(10) Good spellers were equally able to identify matched and mismatched pairs, while poor spellers showed greater difficulty in identifying mismatches than matches, supporting Frith's (1980) "partial cues" explanation of poor spelling performance.
(11) Commenting on the shortlist - whittled down from 170 entries - chair of the judges Simon Frith said: "The renaissance in British music continues with the emergence of a wealth of new talents, demonstrated by the presence of eight debut albums.
(12) The results suggest important differences in the temporal evolution of inhibitory processes, and are discussed in terms of Hemsley's (1977) and Frith's (1979) theories.
(13) This finding is seen as providing some support for Frith's (1979) theory that the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia are due to awareness of processes that normally occur preconsciously.
(14) The claim that impaired metarepresentational ability underlies the social, communicative and imaginative deficits of autism (see paper by Uta Frith in this issue) is discussed.
(15) In human subjects the drug increased the number of alternation responses, which can be interpreted as an increase in stereotyped switching and which is similar to the response pattern produced by some groups of psychotic patients on the same task (Frith and Done 1983; Lyon et al.
(16) Time Out, which announced last month that the former Heat magazine editor Mark Frith would become its new editor, fell 15.2% year on year to 64,712 copies a week.
(17) Frith joined Heat in December 1997 as deputy editor when it was still in development and known as Project J.
(18) In February Frith announced that he was leaving Heat, which he had edited for more than 10 years, to write a book about his years at the celebrity magazine.
(19) Frith is understood to still be in talks with Time Out about his long term future at the London listings magazine.
(20) In addition to the consultancy, next year Frith will write a second book and take up a regular slot on BBC Radio 2's Steve Wright Show.