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Momentary

adjective

Lasting for only a moment.

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A momentary fondu, a "melting" bend of the supporting knee (as opposed to fondue, a melting of Gruyère cheese) and she's into the next step.

The defense and goalkeeper Luis Robles have been stellar, matching the team record for shutouts in a season, even though their momentary lapses have been comical.

These occasions are strange affairs – momentary truces in the parliamentary calendar in which the finest of words are often spoken from all sides of the house, revealing every bit as much about the living as the departed.

4 Eat chocolate If you need a momentary boost, scoff sugar.

The day's surreal highlight was an act by an acrobatics troupe, which did flik flaks down the red carpet towards the VIPs, causing a momentary fracas among the president's security detail.

But, fascinating as it was to catch momentary close-ups of Thatcher's former colleagues such as Carrington, Heseltine, Tebbit and Hurd, I was suddenly reminded of the old, and today much less justified, joke about the Church of England being "the Tory party at prayer".

As I sat reading in bed, I heard the solitary pop of an early firework and had a momentary pang for familiar faces and a glass of fizz.

But Republican leaders acknowledged they had yet to reach an agreement that would prevent a lapse, even if momentary, in the National Security Agency's surveillance capabilities.

Aside from such momentary thrills as watching dictators tumble, and marching shoulder to brotherly shoulder with one's fellows, bellowing insults in a fleeting chorus of unified purpose, it has mostly brought trouble.

In Ramallah and Bethlehem, they took advantage of momentary lapses in the curfew to stock up on food and survey the destruction.

It hurls the byte towards an "interface card", which comes from yet another vendor, and the card directs the byte into one of the datacentre's many back-office computers, called "servers".This causes the byte some momentary confusion, because the datacentre has servers that were assembled by different makers, such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems or Dell.

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