tympan


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Cette derniere est juste un processus physique, a travers lequel, des sons entrent dans le tympan de l'oreille, et ainsi les messages passent au cerveau.
The veranda--that most privileged space in Conrad's fiction all the way through Lord Jim, a space of overhearing, mishearing, confession, and yarn-spinning--becomes, as Greaney says, thinking of Derrida's "Tympan," "the 'ear' of the building": both inside and outside, passage and limit, "the zone of cultural privilege but linguistic instability" (26).
This book elaborates his earlier concept of the parergon in the essay "Tympan," ix-xxix.
In the event of the master printer's death, his wife invariably became the children's "tutrice." The Venetian publisher and bookseller Melchiorre Sessa, for example, specifically requests in his will (12 November 1566), that his wife Veronica "always be owner and mistress of her goods while alive, governing our children in charitable love."(13) If a daughter remained at home, she could help with domestic chores as well as perform such simple duties in the atelier as hanging up freshly punted sheets for drying or removing paper from the tympan.
In stanza 5, the king, passing through a remote village at night, finds a tympan, an ancient Celtic lute played by plucking the strings or, as the king calls Taking the tympan into the woods, the king consoles his restless spirit by singing to its accompaniment.
(14) Certain details are clear, however: the box containing the type and the paper that is to be printed on appears to be covered by a tympan, which is attached by means of straps, and the presence of a tympan is confirmed by the primitive gallows on which it would
TYMPAN A Any drum instrument B Blast-furnace C Ingrowth of a cell who am I?
Langer-Mascle est egalement desarconne devant cette musique petaradante : << Ce Shong-Hi [hautbois] wms a des notes cornantes et farouches a vous crever le tympan. Chaque instrument joue pour son compte la melodie qui lui est confiee, sans se preoccuper des autres.
For example in Chapter 6--"Covering the Tympan and the Frisket"--this activity is broken down into discrete steps, and specific instructions are extracted from the various source manuals and presented in chronological order of their publication.
Les sons captes par l'oreille externe entrainent des vibrations du tympan qui, dans l'oreille moyenne, sont transmises a l'oreille interne par l'intermediaire des osselets.