Sometimes hyphenated. Also known as low relief. A sculptural relief that projects from the background only slightly. Difficult to distinguish from full relief sculptures from a certain angle.
Donatello and his famous high and bas relief of the Pulpit of Saint Lorenz and the works of della Robbia cousins as the chorister by Luca della Robbia are very famous all over the world.
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2. to lay a good blow to one's mommy/daddy button.
3. to drop the hammer on one's meat and two veg.
4. to pitch a baseball square in one's junk.
2. to lay a good blow to one's mommy/daddy button.
3. to drop the hammer on one's meat and two veg.
4. to pitch a baseball square in one's junk.
1. (To be said in agony) AAAGGGHHHOWWW! NO WAY! Your two year old son just released the meteor!
2. I was swinging the hammer, missed the nail and I released the meteor!
3. Honey, if a man is ever being inappropriate with you, just release the meteor then run!
As derived from the phrase "RELEASE THE METEOR!" said, rather screamed, by Frau in the movie Austin Powers: Goldmember, after which point, Mini Me releases the heavy hunky thick steel meteor tied to a string. The intention is to strike the globe to illustrate what will happen when the real gold meteor strikes Earth but this meteor misses the globe and "accidentally" finds it's way into Dr. Evil's General and two Colonels.
2. I was swinging the hammer, missed the nail and I released the meteor!
3. Honey, if a man is ever being inappropriate with you, just release the meteor then run!
As derived from the phrase "RELEASE THE METEOR!" said, rather screamed, by Frau in the movie Austin Powers: Goldmember, after which point, Mini Me releases the heavy hunky thick steel meteor tied to a string. The intention is to strike the globe to illustrate what will happen when the real gold meteor strikes Earth but this meteor misses the globe and "accidentally" finds it's way into Dr. Evil's General and two Colonels.
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To take a piss!
by bragaboy February 14, 2014
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Friend 1:What took you so long to get here?
Friend 2: Sorry, I was stressed after a long day of work and, don't tell anyone but I had to pull my Pressure Release Valve
Friend 1:What took you so long to get here?
Friend 2: Sorry, I was stressed after a long day of work and, don't tell anyone but I had to pull my Pressure Release Valve
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Get the Keanu Reeves mug.1. One who reaves. Archaic term for one who despoils, plunders, bereaves, takes with violence.
2. Terrifying, cannibalistic, self-mutalating savages living in the outskirts of the settled universe in Joss Whedon's Firefly and Serenity.
2. Terrifying, cannibalistic, self-mutalating savages living in the outskirts of the settled universe in Joss Whedon's Firefly and Serenity.
Jayne: Reavers ain't men.
Book: Of course they are. Too long removed from civilization, of course, but men. And, I believe there is a power greater than men, a power that heals.
Mal: Reavers might take issue with that philosophy. If they had a philosophy. If they weren't too busy gnawing on your insides. Jayne's right, Reavers ain't men. Or they forgot how to be. Now they're just nothing. They got out to the edge of the galaxy, to the edge of the galaxy, to that place of nothing, and that's what they became.
Book: Of course they are. Too long removed from civilization, of course, but men. And, I believe there is a power greater than men, a power that heals.
Mal: Reavers might take issue with that philosophy. If they had a philosophy. If they weren't too busy gnawing on your insides. Jayne's right, Reavers ain't men. Or they forgot how to be. Now they're just nothing. They got out to the edge of the galaxy, to the edge of the galaxy, to that place of nothing, and that's what they became.
by theBlack November 22, 2004
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