"Numbfish" is a word in ENGLISH
The torpedo, which numbs by the electric shocks which it
gives.
Perhaps there are many "nows" of varying duration, depending on just what it is we are doing. We must face up to the fact that, at least in the case of humans, the subject experiencing subjective time is not a perfect, structureless observer, but a complex, multilayered, multifaceted psyche. Different levels of our consciousness may experience time in quite different ways. This is evidently the case in terms of response time. You have probably had the slightly unnerving experience of jumping at the sound of a telephone a moment or two before you actually hear it ring. The shrill noise induces a reflex response through the nervous system much faster than the time it takes to create the conscious experience of the sound.It is fashionable to attribute certain qualities, such as speech ability, to the left side of the brain, whereas others, such as musical appreciation, belong to processes occurring on the right side. But why should both hemispheres experience a common time? And why should the subconscious use the same mental clock as the conscious?
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A kind of fire raft or torpedo bat.
Read the complete definitionThe torpedo, or electric ray, the touch of which gives an electric shock. See Electric fish, and Torpedo.
Read the complete definitionTo cause to explode; as, to fire a torpedo; to disharge; as, to fire a musket or cannon; to fire …
Read the complete definitionOne who, or that which, produces ignition; especially, a contrivance for igniting the powder in a torpedo or the like.
Read the complete definitionAny one of numerous elasmobranch fishes of the order Raiae, including the skates, torpedoes, sawfishes, etc.
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to a torpedo; resembling a torpedo; exerting a benumbing influence; stupefying; dull; torpid.
Read the complete definitionA kind of detonating cartridge or shell placed on a rail, and exploded when crushed under the locomotive wheels, -- …
Read the complete definitionA kind of small submarine boat carrying an explosive charge, and projected from a ship against another ship at a …
Read the complete definitionAny one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, …
Read the complete definitionAn engine or machine for destroying ships by blowing them up.
Read the complete definitionAn explosive cartridge or shell lowered or dropped into a bored oil well, and there exploded, to clear the well …
Read the complete definitionA kind of shell or cartridge buried in earth, to be exploded by electricity or by stepping on it.
Read the complete definitionto destroy by, or subject to the action of, a torpedo.
Read the complete definitionA quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged …
Read the complete definitionA kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard …
Read the complete definitionof Torpedo
Read the complete definitionturpídu n torpedo. v [A; a12] torpedo. Giturpídu ang bapur ug natundag, The ship was torpedoed and sank.
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