Deferents

If they move the goal post the supers will make up the deferents, Beat your buttom on that ❋ Unknown (2008)

In its transposition of the Sun and Earth, the Copernican system obviated the need for numerous Ptolemaic epicycles and deferents and thereby greatly simplified and expedited the calculation of the rise and set times for the planets and constellations. ❋ David (2005)

By the time of Copernicus, the Ptolemaic system had grown ridiculously complicated, with spheres and epicycles and deferents and epicycles on epicycles, each trying to bring the system into alignment with increasing-accurate measurements. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The planets and stars moved around the earth in a combination of circles, epicycles, and deferents points moving on large circles around which the epicycles simultaneously revolved. ❋ David Dreman (1998)

Gone forever were the pre-Keplerian eccentrics, deferents, and epicycles in their complicated combinations. ❋ EDWARD ROSEN (1968)

When viewed abstractly or theoretically, these neatly designed concentrics, eccentrics, deferents, and epicycles were merely indispensable mathematical aids in computing and predicting the positions of the cosmic bodies. ❋ EDWARD ROSEN (1968)

After incredible labour, through innumerable wrong guesses, and six years of almost incessant calculation, he at length emerged in his two "laws" -- discoveries which swept away all epicycles, deferents, equants, and other remnants of the ❋ Oliver Lodge (1895)

While at work on the Rudolphine tables he used the old epicycles and deferents and excentrics, but he could not make theory agree with observation. ❋ George Forbes (1892)

He adopted the epicycles and deferents which had been used by Apollonius and others to explain the retrograde motions of the planets. ❋ George Forbes (1892)

The planets move in a similar way on epicycles, but their deferents have no geometrical or physical relation to the sun. ❋ George Forbes (1892)

Their theories remind one of the labored attempts to explain the solar system by the old Ptolemaic method of epicycles and deferents, when the one simple law of centripetal and centrifugal force was enough to account for all the majestic movements of the universe. ❋ Various (1888)

And, lastly, we must add to these all hypothetical modes of merely representing or _describing_ phenomena; such as the hypothesis of the ancient astronomers that the heavenly bodies moved in circles; the various hypotheses of eccentrics, deferents, and epicycles, which were added to that original hypothesis; the nineteen false hypotheses which ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)

Being deferred from your Early [Decision] school is worse than being outright [rejected] because you end up waiting [four] more months for nothing. ❋ C-Breeze (2007)

You [wasted]? [Deferibly] bro...[hic] :) ❋ Chemicallymark (2006)

bro [wat do] u [think about that] gurl over there? I [defer] Wanna go to get pizza [Defer] i want mickey ds ❋ YourboyQ (2009)

I WAWNA [SOUND] SMART SO I USE [TEH] WORD [DEFERENCE] ❋ Justin!! (2008)

[The kitty] [must be] deferalized before it can be [adopted]. ❋ GatorVet1982 (2011)

I don't want to do [snake's] on the pilaties [reformer] Jo I wish to defer the pain your putting me through: [deferred pain] ❋ Kevin Coates (2023)

I don't want to do [snakes] I wish to [defer] the pain of it. [Defered pain] ❋ Kevin Coates (2023)

Person [made] a [deferative] [movement]. ❋ Rogesright (2021)

After [filing] a complaint with [eeoc] for employment discrimination at work and a few months past they are done with the investigation. Base on facts and evidence according to eeoc. It’s [apodictic] to say that gaylord means boxes… Well I said fuck! “I was so sure I was going to get paid but it’s “Deferred help” . Case close!!! ❋ Maliit Tt Lalake Yan (2022)