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Blue movies are rated X, which means that only people of 18 and over can watch them.
According to the X-ray, everything is all right.
Could I have two tickets to Malcolm X?
Please take this chart to the X-ray Room on the third floor.
X rays are used to locate breaks in bones.
We have detected an abnormality on your x-ray.
Let's take an X-ray just in case.
Do I need X-rays?
The x-ray showed two broken fingers.
Dentists take x-rays to examine your teeth.
The doctors are looking at an x-ray.
We don't know yet if he really broke his leg. They'll do an X-ray of it.
Dentists examine teeth with x-rays.
The doctor used X-rays to examine my stomach.
I have to go and have an X-ray tomorrow.
Three x cubed plus a constant. What am I on about?
Three x cubed plus a constant. Where was I?
I sat in the waiting room while my dog was getting X-rayed.
Movie subtitles
Send him to X-ray and then in ER3.
The dagger, which was stuck into the heart of the old racketeer, bore the same X mark on the handle.
He remembers John Bunny and Francis X. Bushman, Henry B. Walthall.
Can't tell till the x-rays are made.
Dr. Hackenbush, Mrs. Upjohn is complaining again and these x-rays show nothing wrong with her.
Who are you gonna believe, me or those crooked x-rays?
Mrs. Upjohn, may I present Dr. Leopold X. Steinberg of Vienna?
The x-ray!
X-ray!
Anyway, I want you to have some x-rays taken, lots of them.
I sent her to a well-known specialist for an examination and X-rays, and on this date she returned to me for his report.
All right, that's enough of the x-ray treatment.
Have you got some kind of a machine, an X-ray or a vacuum cleaner maybe that sorts out the words you want?
I'm off to get x-rayed.
At his magnificent Roman estate, the Marquis of X prepares for his guests.
I am sending you the widow of Captain Kolverer, who will enter the service as X-27.
I'm sorry, I'll have to search you, X-27.
The more you cheat and the more you lie, the more exciting you become, X-27.
X, 7, 9. 3, 6, 2, 1.
Well, I intend changing those names to X, Y or Z.
I'm coming back unexpectedly in the middle of the night and surprise her with this mysterious Mr. X.
BEWARE OF X AT MIDNIGHT!
We're taking this man to the hospital for an x-ray.
I sent her to a well-known specialist for an examination and x-rays.
I want lots of 8x10's.
I know that knocking over one of those 2x4 windjammers and clubbing a few pirates into the sea doesn't mean much to you boys today, but what I'm getting at is that guy who stuck out his neck for Stephen Decatur.
And the pajamas in Dexter's apartment show nothing under the X-ray.
He's in the X-ray room.
She'll bring him Bar Double X when her pa dies.
I was at a tremendous height and you two behind metal at the bank vault, the X-ray room.
In my time, every child has heard of X-rays.
A special page with lots of X's.
I want X-rays made to be quite sure.
And I couldn't relax until Frankie sees those X-rays.
News and current affairs
Sophisticated X-ray diagnostic techniques such as CT scans make it possible to detect many cancers at a treatable stage.
The idea behind a slippery slope is that if you do x, which is acceptable, you will end up doing y, which is not.
Roentgen undertook experiments with X-rays in order to study the structure of the atom and found, to everyone's surprise, that X-rays also made living tissue transparent.
As a measure of its magnitude, consider this: In 2012, the new Internet address system, IPv6, created more than 340 trillion trillion trillion (3.4 x 1038) addresses - that is, around 4.8 x 1028 addresses for every person on earth.
Radioactivity, x-rays and the discovery of the electron opened up a new world.
Roger Caillois (1913-1978) ironically mocked such thinking: If I forget my umbrella at X's house, it is because I feel a subconscious sympathy for X. My lapse was only apparent.
Since then, X-ray structural analysis of protein molecules has helped us to understand the chemistry of biological reactions.
Although Max von Laue, Walter Friedrich, and Paul Knipping had discovered the diffraction of X-rays by crystals, it was Lawrence Bragg who understood how it could be exploited scientifically.
In 1909 he returned to Britain to take up a chair at Leeds, continuing his work on the nature of X-rays.
He became director of the Royal Institution in London in 1923, where he attracted some outstanding young scientists interested in the X-ray field.
Among them were two recent Cambridge graduates, William Astbury and John Desmond Bernal, who became interested in the problem of protein structure--Astbury as a result of being asked by Bragg to provide X-ray diagrams of wool and silk.
A mammogram (x-ray of the breast) is administered to ostensibly healthy people to detect unsuspected disease.
Malcolm X, the black nationalist leader, visited Ghana two years later, and again in 1964.
Let a journalist call an economics professor for his view on whether free trade with country X or Y is a good idea.
This scare arose during Senator John Kerry's failed presidential campaign in 2004, when digitized x-rays were sent from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston to be read in India.
When health officials tell us confidently that X is going to happen, and then Y happens instead, we lose trust in their leadership.
Today we call those disturbances radio waves, microwaves, infrared and ultraviolet radiation, x-rays, and gamma rays.
Describing his unsuccessful attempts to obtain well-ordered X-ray diffraction patterns from crystals of the protein pepsin, he wondered whether Bernal could help obtain crystals of other proteins.
They repeated the X-ray experiment, but with the crystal surrounded by its mother-liquor and sealed in a glass capillary, obtaining patterns with large numbers of crystalline reflections.