His razor-sharp ears had picked up the distinctive metallic shaking of a skillet atop a burner.
In this study, 8-month-old infants were given a novel rattle that produced a distinctive sound when shaken.
After Reena Shah, an actress who is on the cover of the CD, led a lesson in bhangra's distinctive moves (lots of shoulder shaking and hip swiveling) the crowd — bhangra regulars and newbies, aunties and uncles and cousins — quickly got sweaty.
Nor was it hammering like a bluefish, with distinctive, head-shaking knocks.
As a result, museums around the world contain thousands of artefacts (including 'magical' wands and knives) adorned with the hypnotically repulsive face of Bes, who often wears a distinctive plumed headdress, and shakes a rattle.
Cynics might declare this a gruesome joke or that someone hacked into the dead man's account (ew!) but the recipient can't shake the distinctive personal nature of the note.
In 2010, researchers discovered elephants also have a distinctive "bee alarm rumble", which, when played, causes the animals to flee while shaking their heads, likely an attempt to kill the insects.
The transcriptome analysis clarified distinctive metabolic pathways under three different growth conditions, static culture, high temperature, and xylose medium, in comparison to the control condition of glucose medium under a shaking condition at 30°C.
