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By choosing from the time-frequency atoms, fitted to EEG by the MP algorithm, those conforming to the above criteria, we obtain a detailed, automatic and high-resolution parametrization of the relevant structures, which correspond to sleep spindles [ 9 10 ] . Figures 10and 11present results of such a procedure carried out for several derivations of an overnight sleep EEG recording.
Charts showing the chief languages and their derivations can be found in many dictionaries—inside the front cover of The Random House Unabridged , for example.
Knocked for a feather meaning `greatly surprised' could be a humorous blend of knocked for a loop and knocked over with a feather , just as fleazy is perhaps a blend of flea and sleazy . To go on a bilge or drinking spree used by three Northern informants is perhaps an alteration of to go on a binge , or perhaps a punning alteration, or perhaps a pronunciation variant, with l substituted for n , as in chimney/chimley . For lack of evidence, all of these derivations are essentially guesses.
In his treatise on words and expressions derived from firearms [XV,1], Richard Lederer was often correct in his selection of words but was often wrong as to their meanings and derivations.
Under the entry for Howard , therefore, we are given notes on the noble house of that name, along with the possible derivations of the surname.