It was a luxury so penetrating and powerful that it affected him like an opiate. The Rock of Chickamauga Joseph A. Altsheler But while there's life there's hope, you know; and meantime I'll send you an opiate to relieve the pain. The Eternal City Hall Caine A strong emetic and a subsequent cathartic; and then an opiate and the bark.
Expand +. In this Number Talk, Fran Dickinson engages his 5th and 6th grade students in divining the function from the input and output numbers. As the learners guess input numbers, the educator generates the output number. After each guess he has one of the learners âgraph the point..
The term 'sixth form' describes the school years numbered 12 and 13, which are called the Lower Sixth and Upper Sixth by many schools. These may be written L6 and U6. The term survives from an earlier system when the first five years of English secondary schooling were known as forms. Pupils started their first year of secondary school in the first form or first year, and this was the year in which pupils would normally become 12 years of age.