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A simile is a figure of speech in which two different things are compared using like or as words.

Here in the given sentence, Foam brightens like the dogwood foam's brightness is compared to dogwood. Hence, it is a simile.

Part of the heat is conducted away by the metal table. Convection currents in air near the surface of the coffee are set up which accounts for some heat loss. Heat is also lost by radiation from the hot coffee to the surroundings. Most of the heat is lost by the last method.

Beats means the periodic increase and decrease in loudness heard when two notes of nearly the same frequency are sounded simultaneously.

Encoding refers to the getting information into memory.

The words do, does and did often cause confusion in the English language. They are all forms of the verb to do.

It is also common to use do, does and did as auxiliary verbs (or helping verbs) together with another verb in its base form. This is used to create negative sentences, questions, or for adding emphasis.

Examples :: 

* Russel did a great job on his debut match for team.

* Did you catch the train this morning?

* When did they arrive home?

From the given equation,

88x370/100 + 24x210/100 - 118 = x

=> x = 325.6 + 50.4 - 118

x = 258.

Pulmonary abscess is a type of liquefactive necrosis of the lung tissue. 

Hence, Localized area of pus formation in the lungs is Pulmonary abscess.