It is said that the timbre was extremely enervating, and, together with the vibration caused by the friction on the finger-tips, exercised a highly deleterious effect on the nervous system.
Of course there was much less internal friction in outfits like Kirby's or the Countess Courteau's, where the men worked under orders, but even there relations were often strained.
The best method of joining limbs to the body so that there is the least possible friction is as follows.
Care must be taken to nip the wire well together at the hands to get enough friction to hold the thread firmly while the elastic pulls the legs up, on the other hand the thread must be just loose enough to pass through E.
Now, my understanding of this point is, that friction is practically one of the main elements in the problem.
Above a certain point where friction enough is developed to prevent slip, the more uneven the road surface is, the greater the power demanded for the propulsion of the locomotive.
He says, "we will not take into account the friction of parts.
What is friction doing all the time, while he is theoretically having his reciprocating parts storing up power and then giving it out again, just at the right time, and in the right quantity?
The fall of the rack is controlled by a friction break, B (Fig.
Such is the friction caused by the concussion of the fall, the rolling and rubbing of the apples together, and the pouring of the water, that decayed sections of the fruit are ground off and the rotten pulp passes away with other impurities.
It is an ingredient of gunpowder, is used on friction matches, and in medicine (as a laxative and insecticide), but its chief use is in the manufacture of sulphuric acid.
To writhe the body so as to produce friction against one's clothes, as do those who have the itch.
If much new capital has lately been created, it is naturally possible for the men to get employment without having to overcome serious friction or to reduce their demands in the way of pay.
There is to be studied, not only the friction which obstructs the action of natural forces, but positive perversions of the forces themselves.
How Economic Friction works to the Disadvantage of Immigrants.
Unless capital grows more rapidly than population, there is a certain friction to be overcome in obtaining places for new laborers.
Monopoly is not a mere bit of friction which interferes with the perfect working of economic laws.
If there is anything which, without impairing the motive powers of economic progress, puts an obstacle in the way of the movement, it has to be treated like one of these elements of friction to which we have just referred.
In actual life there is friction to be overcome in the making of such transfers, and this constitutes one of the subjects of the theory of Economic Dynamics and will in later chapters be fully considered.
Static theory deals with a world which is free, not only from friction and disturbance, but also from those elements of change and progress which are the marked features of actual life.
It is a type of economic activity in which all the primary forces work, but in which friction abounds and adjustments are made with extreme slowness.
Here there is a chance for economic friction and for variations from the theoretical standard, and the loan rate will sometimes exceed it; but in the long run the deviations will offset each other.
As soon as Birney became the accepted leader in the national society, there wasfriction between his followers and those of Garrison.
Washington continued to stand above party, and sought to mitigate the friction between his cabinet officers.
Adams and Jay, against the advice of Franklin, negotiated secretly with Great Britain, and only the moderation of Vergennes, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, prevented serious friction between the allies.
The records had often been interrupted by freezing of the ink, so the pen was replaced by a needle marking with less friction on smoked paper surrounding the record drum.
The regular method of producing the need-fire was by the friction of two pieces of wood; it might not be struck by flint and steel.
Where the wood to be employed is specified, it is generally said to be oak; but on the Lower Rhine the fire was kindled by the friction of oak-wood or fir-wood.
The flame was sometimes elicited by the friction of two pieces of oak, as appears from the following description.
But if the sacred fire was regularly kindled by the friction of oak-wood, we may infer that originally the fire was also fed with the same material.
But if the life of the oak was conceived to be in the mistletoe, the mistletoe must on that view have contained the seed or germ of the fire which was elicited by friction from the wood of the oak.
In some parts of Swabia the Easter fires might not be kindled with iron or steel or flint, but only by the friction of wood.
Then the high priest made the new fire by the friction of two pieces of wood, and placed it on the altar under the green arbour.
As some scholars have perceived, it is highly probable that at the periodic festivals in former times fire was universally obtained by the friction of two pieces of wood.
In Ruthenia the bonfires are lighted by a flame procured by the friction of wood.
In some cantons of Switzerland children still kindle a need-fire by the friction of wood for the sake of dispelling a mist.
When friction develops between two departments (of course it never does; this is merely a hypothetical case), my observation is that the catalog department is pretty likely to be a party to the affair.
In all cases, friction would appear to be the type which the most various irreversible phenomena copy, and this kinship is real and profound.
They say first that the friction of the tides producing heat must destroy vis viva.
In this way fresh analogies are revealed to us, which may often be followed into detail; ohmic resistance resembles the viscosity of liquids; hysteresis would resemble rather the friction of solids.
The peculiar nature of the commodity prevents any accumulation of stock; its combustible character--requiring the simple agency of friction to ignite it--renders it dangerous for large quantities of the article to be kept in one place.
Bruce, apparently influenced by some trumpery matter of property in England, possibly galled by friction with Comyn, had again bent the knee to Edward early in 1302.
Friction of a similar character existed between Maryland and Virginia, North Carolina and Virginia, and Maryland and Pennsylvania.
The Equal Righters promptly relighted them with loco-foco or frictionmatches and continued the meeting.
In this way both brush-holders can turn very freely, the friction of the parts being reduced to a minimum.
The disc is held in place by friction or by screws, g' g', Fig.
The reservoir R{2} was balanced by a long spring which facilitated the operation, and the friction of the parts was generally sufficient to keep it in almost any position.
The mechanical efficiency of the apparatus is very high owing to the fact that friction is reduced to a minimum and the weights which are moved are small; the output of the oscillator is therefore a very large one.
The mutual gravitational friction of each ring would accelerate some and retard others, until they had all acquired the same angular velocity.
Observe, then, that Davy made his epochal experiment of melting ice by friction when he was a youth of twenty.
Was not the heat produced, or at least some part of it, occasioned by this friction of the piston?
Rumford showed that heat may be produced in indefinite quantities by friction of bodies that do not themselves lose any appreciable matter in the process, and claimed that this proves the immateriality of heat.
His experiment for producing indefinite quantities of heat by friction is recorded by him in his paper entitled, "Inquiry Concerning the Source of Heat Excited by Friction.
By depressing the end of the lever (D) and hooking down its end, the friction blocks (E) are drawn against the surfaces of the wheel tires and retained there with just as much force as is thought requisite.
A good store of anti-friction pads will be found of the greatest value on the march to keep such portions of the harness as are found to rub the skin of any animal in the team from doing further mischief.
All these waggons have wheel friction breaks fitted to them, as had all the Sardinian waggons used during the Crimean war.
In other cases, it will be found that from the decay of one or more teeth, those which should meet friction and consequent wear have, in the absence of it, grown to an inordinate and inconvenient length.
The common mode of priming a gun from a flask or horn, when there are no percussion or friction tubes to be obtained, is, to say the least of it, inconvenient and dangerous.
If they ignite by simple friction there is danger of accident; if they "ignite only on the box," a supply of friction tablets should be carried, for the box will soon go to pieces with rough usage.
All comparatively light carts and waggons should have the lever friction breaks before mentioned attached to them.
Removal to pure air, cold water on face and chest, artificial inducement of respiration, friction of surface, followed by hot coffee or brandy and water.
A large hide of the sambur deer, well cured and greased so as to be soft and pliable, should, invariably protect the belly of the elephant, and the flanks under the fore legs, from the friction of the girthing rope.
The Act of 1850 caused some friction in Toronto, where the Roman Catholics asked for a second Separate School.
He further illustrated by reference to what he saw in France, Germany, and Ireland, how religious instruction might be given without causing any denominational friction or unpleasantness.
If spirit be not available, careful frictionwith the palm of the hand will generally be sufficient to ensure the desired result.
This treatment should not be applied, if the skin over the part is broken, for in that somewhat rare case the friction would irritate the wound.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "friction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
