Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Skateboard Vocabulary


Word
Picture
Definition
Wheels
Street skateboard wheels are rounded and symmetrical to use less material and keep the wheel light for flip tricks
Deck
The deck is the largest part of the skateboard and plays the biggest role in its quality. The type of deck usually tells what kind of skateboarding the skaters does.
Truck
The trucks are the metal part that connects the board and the wheels. They have adjustable parts and really affect the way our board feels.
Axle
The axle is the metal rod that runs through the hangar of a skateboard's trucks. The axle can, after a lot of riding, start to slip to one side. This makes one wheel too loose, and one wheel too tight
Plate
The skateboard plates give off a noticeable set of sparks when secured in place on your skateboard and dragged on the ground. plates.
Nose
The nose is the front kicktail of your skateboard. It is usually slightly broader than the tail.
Tail
The tail is the back kicktail of your skateboard. It is usually slightly smaller than the nose.


Monday, September 1, 2014

e-mail Symbols

The e-mail addres has many symbols that in the ordinary text have a different meaning and pronunciation, That symbols are:

e-mail Symbol:
Name
Used
@
At
Separate the localpart and domaind of the e-mail addres
\
Backslash
used to indicate that the character following it should be treated specially
.
Dot
Used to separate some ideas or names form the e-mail address
_
Underscore
It´s a sepator between words, because you can´t use space on e-mail address
! # $ % & ' * +  = ? ^  ` { | } ~
-
Other symmbols
These symbols may it uses, but it must to be in middle of backslash proceded by a quotation mark
-
Hyphen
Used to unit some compound words like fifty-nine and others

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