If your eyeballs fall out of their sockets repeatedly, you might be a candidate for a lateral tarsorrhaphyâin which doctors sew up your eyelids part of the way to keep them from opening too wide. You could also learn the following technique for popping your eye back in yourself: First direct your gaze downward.
Fulfil vs. fulfill. Fulfill is the American spelling of the verb meaning to accomplish or to satisfy. Fulfil is the preferred spelling outside North America. Both forms are common in Canadian writing. The spelling preferences extend to fulfilment and fulfillment, but not to fulfilled, fulfilling, and fulfiller, which have two lâs everywhere.
In physics and mechanics , a fulcrum is âthe point against which a lever is placed to get purchase or upon which it turns or is supported. â (From the OED). The fulcrum is the support about which a lever pivots . The fulcrum in physics is related to the physics of the lever and the physics of simple machines .