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Example sentences for "disks"

Lexicographically close words:
disk; disked; diskiver; diskivered; disklike; dislike; disliked; dislikes; disliking; dislikings
  1. Disks of haliotis shells were used as ear pendants in the Nez Perce region to the east.

  2. Four shell disks found among the refuse of a rock-slide grave near the head of Priest Rapids (Fig.

  3. A piece of wood in this grave suggests that it may not be an old one and that these disks may have been obtained from traders.

  4. It is said also to have the effect of developing red disks in the blood.

  5. The red disks will be seen to group themselves in rows, while the white disks will seem to draw apart, and to be constantly changing their form.

  6. Footnote: Authorities differ greatly in their estimate of the size of the disks (corpuscles) in human blood.

  7. The red disks are the air cells of the blood.

  8. Channels before unseen open, and the blood disks fly along at a brisker rate.

  9. The disks of the blood die, and new ones spring into being.

  10. Disks are continually forming in the blood, and are constantly dying--twenty million at every breath.

  11. In the Awatobi collections there are several small disks made apparently of pipe clay, which also were probably used as ornaments.

  12. The white used was an impure kaolin, which was found both in masses and in powdered form, and there were unearthed several disks of this material which had been cut into definite shape as if for a special purpose.

  13. Small round disks of pottery, with a median perforation, were not common, although sometimes present.

  14. In the chromatrope slide two circular disks of glass are placed face to face, each containing a design radiating from the centre, and painted with brilliant transparent colours.

  15. The disks vary in diameter from that of a pin-head to a quarter of an inch.

  16. By a small pinion gearing in toothed wheels or endless bands the disks are made to move in opposite directions in their own plane.

  17. The fronts of the lanterns are slightly inclined to each other so as to make the illuminated disks on the screen due to each lantern coincide.

  18. If parts of the picture are to be movable, two disks of glass are employed, the one movable in front of the other, the fixed part of the picture being painted on the fixed disk and the movable part on the other.

  19. With the thin paper disks of the color top this is an important matter.

  20. In all combinations of colors by disks as well as pigments there is some loss of purity and hence the colors of papers in the intermediate hues may be a little brighter in some cases than the results of two disks in combination.

  21. It will be noticed that the method of joining the disks for use on the Color Top is the reverse of that to be observed with the disks of the Color Wheel as shown in Fig.

  22. Illustration] With such an arrangement a very close match is produced, when the combined disks show the proportions to be R.

  23. Therefore if red, blue and green disks of medium size are joined on the wheel and in front of them small white and black disks are combined, we have a means for solving this problem.

  24. As the neutral gray papers are made in imitation of combinations of black and white disks this experiment is as convincing as the one regarding the yellow shade.

  25. In the meantime set the orange and red disks to the proportion of R.

  26. For this experiment place on the spindle, for example, a combination of orange, white and black disks, and in front of these disks put combined orange and black disks of smaller size.

  27. These disks are either entire, notched, or made of several pieces fastened together.

  28. The two gangs of disks throw the earth in opposite directions.

  29. If the disks are so set that they cover but a portion of the surface with a mulch of fine earth they leave a ridge exposed to the action of the wind and sun and the rate of evaporation is greatly increased.

  30. The disks should be set at such an angle that the whole surface shall be stirred or covered.

  31. Place the remaining two cardboard disks on the ends of the shaft and tack them to the standards also.

  32. The disks are mounted on the inside of the drawer front in a U-shaped piece of metal, F, Fig.

  33. The number beneath the pointer is noted; then the next turned up in a like manner, all being done while the drawer is open and the disks in plain sight.

  34. The disks are cut from thin wood, 1-1/4 in.

  35. Pressure is applied by turning the nut and repeated heatings of the disks will force them together to make perfect joints.

  36. Wires were then run from the lamp socket through the cork and wood disks and the whole painted with melted paraffin to close all apertures and keep out moisture.

  37. A number of bright tin disks tied to the limbs of a fruit tree will prove an efficient means of driving away infesting birds.

  38. Illustration: Disks of Paper or Metal as Well as Shot may be Thrown with This Pistol] Displaying Dye Colors A certain druggist utilized old electric bulbs for displaying dye colors.

  39. These last disks are not absolutely necessary, but they will add some to the appearance of the completed heater.

  40. Notches are cut in the disks C, D and E, Fig.

  41. These serve the purpose of preventing the disks from turning too freely.

  42. Two flanges or disks are attached to the tube to form a spool for the wire.

  43. Hunting-Knife Handles Very artistic handles for hunting knives and carving sets can be made by using disks of horn.

  44. The numbers for the combination can be found after the disks are in place and by turning the handle until the notch comes up to the place for the heel of the latch.

  45. Bend this into a cylinder and fasten it to the lugs on the disks by means of small screws or bolts.

  46. When I stirred it up it jumped to a small twig, catching hold with the disks of its finger-tips, and balancing itself with unexpected ease for so big a creature, and then hopped to the ground and again stood motionless.

  47. Sometimes a belt will contain eight or nine disks and a buckle, which cannot be bought for less than thirty-six to forty dollars.

  48. Each of these disks is made of two or more silver dollars, melted and run into a flat mould.

  49. Here are his lathes, tools and knives, and plaques, or disks of copper and ivory, cut by his own hand.

  50. A Swiss machine for this purpose consists of two disks carrying diamonds in their peripheries, which, being put in rapid revolution, cut parallel grooves in the face of the stone.

  51. Among the century's improvements in this line is the use of disks in place of the old shovel blades to penetrate the earth and revolve in contact therewith.

  52. A still later invention, curved spring teeth, has been found far superior to spikes or disks in throwing up, separating and pulverising the soil.

  53. Cutting disks are harnessed to steam motors and are adapted to break up at one operation a wide strip of ground.

  54. The imaginal disks make their appearance (that is, have been first detected) at very different epochs in the life; their absolute origin has been but little investigated.

  55. These centres of renovation are called imaginal disks or folds.

  56. The number of imaginal disks in an individual is large, upwards of sixty having been discovered to take part in the formation of the outer body of a fly.

  57. This connexion was not at first recognized and the true nature of imaginal disks was not at first perceived, even by Weismann, to whom their discovery in Diptera is due.

  58. In other insects the imaginal disks are less completely disconnected from the superficies of the larval hypodermis, and may indeed be merely patches thereof.

  59. The imaginal disks for the outer wall of the body, some of them, at any rate, include mesodermal rudiments (from which the muscles are developed) as well as hypodermis.

  60. Calliphora vomitoria) the imaginal disks are to all appearance completely separated from the hypodermis, with which they are, however, really organically connected by strings or pedicels.

  61. Cc of a soap-bubble in the form of a figure of revolution bounded by two circular disks AB and ab, and having the meridian section APa.

  62. Let one of these disks be made to approach the other by a small quantity dx.

  63. In the same way we may show that if the distance between the disks is increased, the pressure will be diminished or increased according as the distance is less or more than half the circumference of either.

  64. He then, by means of rings of iron-wire, disks and other contrivances, altered the form of certain parts of the surface of the oil.

  65. Now consider a portion of a cylindric film of length x terminated by two equal disks of radius r and containing a certain volume of air.

  66. If A1, C1 are the disks, so that the distance between them is less than [pi]r, the curve must be produced beyond the disks before it is at its mean distance from the axis.

  67. The two wheels are solid wooden disks of the rudest construction, generally without the protection of metal tires, and so small in diameter that the body of the car is raised only a few inches from the ground.

  68. All at once he stopped purring, leaving an abrupt silence in the air like the sudden shutting off of a stream of water, while his eyes grew wide, two lambent disks of yellow in the heap of black fur.

  69. For his quadruplex system he constructed a rheostat, or resistance box, with a series of silk disks saturated with plumbago and well dried.

  70. The poles of the electromagnet in the local or relay circuit are hollowed out and filled up with carbon disks or powdered plumbago.

  71. The pressure on the disks can be regulated by an adjustable screw, and in this way the resistance of the circuit can be varied.

  72. They had those disks that throw the green fire: we had not seen them before.

  73. It was a light frame of white metal bars, with spidery coils and huge glowing tubes and flimsy spinning disks mounted in it.

  74. This meant that the removal of the disks had not been understood by the creatures!

  75. If she had the Amiga, she enthuses, she could run a whole galaxy of seized computer-evidence disks on one convenient multifunctional machine.

  76. AT&T rarely sent security officers out to comb the hard disks of its consultants.

  77. Along with the disks and tapes, Izenberg had lost about 800 megabytes of data.

  78. Cut out a large number of them, and, in order to avoid trouble later on, it might be better to have the disks all of one size--about 4 inches in diameter.

  79. These disks are usually put behind the dial so that one "branch" and one "stem" can be seen at the same time through two openings.

  80. The clock moves these disks one step each night, so that a new pair shows each day.

  81. Greasy reflectors of ribbed tin backed them, making quivering disks of light.

  82. His hands were clenched, and the pupils of his eyes were like disks of blue fire.

  83. White water showed below in the disks of the landing lights' glow.

  84. Wing-tip lights were on, below, and disks of illumination played upon the roof of the jungle above the fire.

  85. Faint disks of light appeared far below, sweeping to and fro with the swaying of the plane, bobbing back and forth.

  86. As will be seen by the diagram, it has two disks revolving in opposite directions, it has no metal sectors and no metal contacts.

  87. The two disks of glass revolve near to each other and in opposite directions.

  88. To overcome this objection, to dispense with the dangerously cut plates, and also to better neutralize the revolving plate, throughout its whole diameter, I made a large machine having twelve disks 2 ft.

  89. She was carried forward and a little later turned her head, forgetting for a moment the humorous face that still had seemed to beckon above the white disks that inspired her with no interest whatever.

  90. No doubt there were faces also, but he was only vaguely aware of three white disks from which flowed forth lambent streams of concentrated light.


  91. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.