Much of the function of the manual transmission can be carried over to, or analogized to the study of automatic transmissions. In its most basic form, a manual transmission consists of a set of gears along a pair of shafts, the input shafts and output shafts. The gears on one shaft engage with those on the other shaft.
A distilled beverage, spirit, liquor, or hard liquor is an alcoholic beverage produced by distillation of a mixture produced from alcoholic fermentation.he term spirit refers to a distilled beverage that contains no added sugar and has at least 20% alcohol by volume (ABV).
Barley water is a traditional herbal tea in various parts of the world. Drinking boiled grain in water, strained or not, is an ancient practice. Variations include: 1  Kykeon (Gr. ÎºÏÎºÎµÏÎ½, from ÎºÏÎºÎ¬Ï, to stir, to mix) was an ancient Greek drink made mainly of water, barley and naturally occurring substances. It was used at the climax of the Eleusinian Mysteries to break a sacred fast, but it was also a favourite drink of Greek peasants. 2  The British version is made by boiling washed pearl barley, straining, then pouring the hot water over the rind and/or pulp of a lemon, and adding fruit juice and sugar to taste.