Some sounds retain their standard letters, and others are represented by combinations.
Elmen thought he could make a better magnet by combinations of alloys.
Think of the North Sea triumph in positioning oil rigs by combinations of batteries of computers, satellites and thruster motors.
Many of the most striking effects are caused by combinations of pigmental and structural colours.
Other colours are produced by combinations of melanophores, erythrophores, and iridocytes.
Milk went from being an enrichment to just another filler: condensed milk was gradually replaced by combinations of nonfat milk powder and even vegetable oil.
In this theory, schizophrenia, say, would be caused by combinations of 1,000 rare genetic variants, not of 10 common genetic variants.
Cacophony, the opposite of euphony, is usually produced by combinations of words that require a staccato, explosive delivery.
They are known as subalpine and montane forests and are dominated by combinations of pine, spruce, and fir.
The bottom of the U's are split into parallel tilting hallways, each blocked, either at the front or in the middle, by combinations of pink, green, blue and yellow fluorescent tubes.
They are often produced not by individual compounds but by combinations of chemicals, including some that are odourless but modify the effect of others on nerve receptors.
