Parap

Inner suburb of the city of Darwin in Australia: 

Parap is an inner suburb of the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. Parap derived its name from that applied by Dr John A Gilruth, first Commonwealth Administrator in 1912.

He applied the name Paraparap (believed to have been a pastoral property of Dewing near Moriac, Geelong), but had to abbreviate it to Parap later during his term.

Parap was also the staging point to the event known as the Darwin Rebellion, on 17 December 1918, in protest against Gilruth's administration.

Parap became well known as the 2½ Mile in subsequent years, being near the Railway Workshop when the train ran in pre-World War II years.

Parap is a predominantly residential suburb and is usually associated with its sister suburb, Fannie Bay and the adjacent inner suburbs of Ludmilla and Stuart Park.

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Pullup

Pullup (pull up and pull-up) plural pullups:

1. An exercise: 

An exercise done for strengthening the arms and upper body, in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar.

A pull-up is an upper-body strength exercise. The pull-up is a closed-chain movement where the body is suspended by the hands, gripping a bar or other implement at a distance typically wider than shoulder-width, and pulled up.

As this happens, the elbows flex and the shoulders adduct and extend to bring the elbows to the torso.

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2. (electronics) A pullup resistor.

In electronic logic circuits, a pull-up resistor (PU) or pull-down resistor (PD) is a resistor used to ensure a known state for a signal.

It is typically used in combination with components such as switches and transistors, which physically interrupt the connection of subsequent components to ground or to V_CC.

Closing the switch creates a direct connection to ground or V_CC, but when the switch is open, the rest of the circuit would be left floating (i.e., it would have an indeterminate voltage).

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3. Pull-up jumper, 

A basketball move in which a player dribble drives, stops and shoots a jump shot

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4. Duplicate every fourth frame

Mathematically for NTSC this is relatively simple as it is only needed to duplicate every fourth frame. 

Various techniques are employed. 

NTSC with an actual frame rate of 24⁄1.001  (approximately 23.976) frames/s is often defined as NTSC-film.

A process known as pullup, also known as pulldown, generates the duplicated frames upon playback.

This method is common for H.262/MPEG-2 Part 2 digital video so the original content is preserved and played back on equipment that can display it or can be converted for equipment that cannot.

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Planalp

1. Alpine pasture: 

Planalp is the name of an alpine pasture (alp) and dispersed settlement above Brienz, Bernese Oberland, on the southern flank of Brienzer Rothorn, at an altitude between about 1300 and 1900 metres above sea level, now also the name of a stop of the Brienz Rothorn Railway (1341 m).

The settlement is a Walser foundation, first recorded in 1306. At least seasonal use of the area is assumed for the late Roman period, as numerous local toponyms have Latin etymologies.

There is a legend according to which Planalp was completely destroyed by avalanches, the only survivor being an infant boy found floating in its cradle in Lake Brienz.

Since the identity of the infant was unknown, it was given the surname of Abplanalp, ab being Latin for 'from'. 

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2. Swiss surname 

Abplanalp is a Swiss surname. Originally a locational surname, it is derived from Planalp, the name of an alpine pasture (alp) and dispersed settlement above Brienz, Bernese Oberland, on the southern flank of Brienzer Rothorn.

 As a Swiss-American surname, Abplanalp has also been simplified to Aplanalp or Planalp.

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Peeweep

1. Type of bird: 

Peeweep is a type of bird, often understood to be a lapwing.

It is common through temperate Eurosiberia.

It is highly migratory over most of its extensive range, wintering further south as far as North Africa, northern India, Nepal, Bhutan and parts of China.

It migrates mainly by day, often in large flocks.

Lowland breeders in westernmost areas of Europe are resident.

It occasionally is a vagrant to North America, especially after storms, as in the Canadian sightings after storms in December 1927 and in January 1966.

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2. Lumphinnans Colliery in Scotland

Lumphinnans Colliery in Kelty, Scotland, also was known as Peeweep

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Paraparap

1. Rural locality in Australia: 

Paraparap is a rural locality in the Surf Coast Shire, Victoria, Australia. 

The Paraparap Parish was made available for sale in the 1850s, but was much less successful than other sales in the region, with slightly more than half of the lots being sold in the initial sales.

The locality remains largely rural, and now contains the Drol Kar Buddhist Centre, the headquarters of the Geelong Veteran Cycling Club, the Giddings Road Nature Reserve, and a winery.

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2. Suburb of the city of Darwin in Australia

Parap is an inner suburb of the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. 

Parap derived its name from that applied by Dr John A Gilruth, first Commonwealth Administrator in 1912.

He applied the name Paraparap (believed to have been a pastoral property of Dewing near Moriac, Geelong), but had to abbreviate it to Parap later during his term.

Parap was also the staging point to the event known as the Darwin Rebellion, on 17 December 1918, in protest against Gilruth's administration.

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