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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of preset.

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  • Here, you enter the product dimensions and compare it to a list of "presets" - objects everyone is familiar with, such as a credit card, a soda can, a sheet of paper, a door … Since the site has been around awhile, it has accumulated a ginormous database of user-generated product size comparisons; for example, here is Tweet Blocker:

    ResourceShelf 2009

  • For example, a low priority function, like seeing how many Hours, Minutes, and Seconds youÂ’ve got left to play on the CD, or adjusting your favourite presets, is a 2 second press.

    SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1217 2009

  • It's an uncanny musical representation of an old car radio, the kind where the presets were accessed with those black push-buttons that physically yanked the needle to the appropriate place on the dial.

    The band in Heaven, they play my favorite song Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • It's an uncanny musical representation of an old car radio, the kind where the presets were accessed with those black push-buttons that physically yanked the needle to the appropriate place on the dial.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • But on the advice of Lightroom programmer Andy Rahm McCormack dug into the text of the software's existing template files, called presets, and adapted them to produce a custom file with a 24-frame per second rate used in some video.

    Crave: The gadget blog 2009

  • But on the advice of Lightroom programmer Andy Rahm McCormack dug into the text of the software's existing template files, called presets, and adapted them to produce a custom file with a 24-frame per second rate used in some video.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets 2009

  • Several users have created "presets," which make it possible to share specific sky and water palettes with others.

    AM Radio's tree, reloaded Bettina Tizzy 2008

  • Several users have created "presets," which make it possible to share specific sky and water palettes with others.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Alpha Auer 2008

  • i attended the presets last year and they are great performers. i haven't seen ladytron or the faint live, but i doubt the presets were a better draw than ladytron+the faint because of their popularity and notoriety.

    blogTO 2009

  • Lightroom comes already with some basic presets, which instead of remembering all the steps you took to edit one photo, you can save these steps into "presets".

    Amazon.com Gold Box Deals 2010

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