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On-Yomi: ソツ、リツ、シュツ — Kun-Yomi: ひき.いる

Koohii stories:

1) [rtkrtk] 5-2-2008(152): Keep separate from proportion. Gandalf is trying to adjust the aspect ratio of his monitor from 4:3 to 16:9 so that he can watch Lord of the Rings in widescreen format. He's poking around the inside of his monitor with a magnesium needle when he causes a short circuit which sets his needle on fire making the needle look just like a sparkler.

2) [rgravina] 28-9-2006(137): It's quite mysterious how each sparkler gives of sparkles at a precise ratio of ten to one. Physicists have been studying this effect for decades, known as the Sparkler Effect, and using it to explain why stars look like sparklers in the night sky.

3) [noname] 2-8-2008(58): A witches spell requires the proper RATIO of ingredients: "TEN SPARKLERS and TEN COCOONS into the HAT ye load, wait TEN minutes and watch it explooooode! hehehehehe".

4) [Shibo] 14-6-2008(40): When I first started downloading torrents, I thought that ratios were very mysterious. Now I keep a sparkling ten to one ratio!

5) [uberclimber] 19-3-2011(22): When the world's ratio of women to men mysteriously changed to ten to one overnight, the men all lit sparklers in celebration: "Hey fellas! We're all gonna get laid!". 率 りつ rate; 軽率 けいそつ rash, thoughtless, careless, hasty; 率いる ひきいる to lead, to spearhead (a group), to command (troops).

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