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Example sentences for "gauging"

Lexicographically close words:
gauge; gauged; gauger; gaugers; gauges; gaulois; gaun; gaunt; gaunted; gauntlet
  1. The latter debated, as if gauging the measure of his weakness while he stared aloft at the work involved.

  2. He gazed questioningly about, gauging his chances with swift calculation, since there was no time for indecision.

  3. The other and younger man stood upright, but his muscles, too, were poised and balanced with all nicety of readiness and his eyes were measuring the distance between: gauging sundry odds of life and death.

  4. That they demanded should be remedied, because the system of measuring and gauging simply meant robbery and double robbery.

  5. First, that "minerals be weighed only, seeing that measuring and gauging are sources of endless losses to the hewers.

  6. Gauging with rule and pencil, 43; with the marking-gauge, 43.

  7. He was a novelist, and of the three may be said to have had some practice in the gauging of character.

  8. After squaring up the timber accurate gauging of the ends is another important point.

  9. Hinges call for careful gauging and accurate fitting, otherwise trouble is certain to occur.

  10. A good workshop method of gauging the depth of the mortise for a stub tenon is shown in Fig.

  11. Never is man more moved than when he stands Gauging the force Omnipotence creates.

  12. Public spirited, courageous, Gauging chances at their best; Let his character commend him, Time will gladly do the rest.

  13. Gauging Bonaparte's missive at its true worth, the Emperor determined to re-conquer Italy, an enterprise that seemed well within his powers.

  14. Knowledge of the history of France, the faculty of gauging the real strength of popular feelings, tact in conciliating important interests, all were alike despised.

  15. Gauging aright this insidious appeal to the centrifugal forces of the political mind, he turned a deaf ear to von Schön's suasive efforts and kept the ship of state on its course, without swerving.

  16. For they seem incapable of gauging the German psyche.

  17. This, however, is not painting a portrait; but gauging the length and breadth of the several features, and jotting down their dimensions in arithmetical ciphers.

  18. And this was he for whom the world found no fitter business than quarrelling with smugglers and vintners, computing excise dues upon tallow, and gauging ale-barrels!

  19. I was pervaded by the unpleasant idea that all those furtive eyes were upon me; gauging me because I was the brother of a personality.

  20. That a minimum of measuring and gauging shall be required to test the diameter and form of the thread.

  21. Gauging the pitch of threads, after hardening, i, 108.

  22. Furthermore, the more acute the angles the less the importance of gauging the threads to precise diameter, especially if the tops and bottoms of the male and female thread are clear of one another, as in Fig.

  23. These are usually termed templates, but their application to the work is termed gauging it.

  24. T, gauging one corner only, or we may make it as at T', thus gauging the length of the journal as well as the corners.

  25. We then make a male gauge G, and apply this to the work, thus gauging the round corner.

  26. Close to it is a man winding steel wire, or rather braid, on a 15-inch gun; beyond again there are workmen and inspectors testing and gauging another similar giant.

  27. The gauging turns upon the ten-thousandth part of an inch, and any mistake or flaw may mean the lives of men.

  28. Gauging by Observation of the Maximum Surface Velocity.

  29. The determination of the position of these filaments, which Boileau terms the gauging filaments, cannot be effected entirely by theory.

  30. In permanent gauging weirs, a cast steel plate is sometimes used to form the edge of the weir crest.

  31. The volume of flow can be ascertained from the depth in the gauging chamber.

  32. It was designed after experience in gauging the great South American rivers.

  33. The channel below the weir was used as a gauging tank.

  34. The simplest method of gauging small streams and channels is to observe the greatest surface velocity by floats, and thence to deduce the mean velocity.

  35. To test at any time the discharge of the orifices, a gauging basin B is provided.

  36. The method of gauging which involves the least trouble is to determine the surface velocity at the thread of the stream, and to deduce from it the mean velocity of the whole cross section.

  37. If the discharge is to be tested, the water is turned for a definite time into the gauging basin, by suddenly opening and closing a sluice at c.

  38. Gauging weirs are most commonly in the form of rectangular notches; and care should be taken that the crest is accurately horizontal, and that the weir is normal to the direction of flow of the stream.

  39. The art or process of producing or gauging a plane surface.

  40. A templet or pattern for gauging the commonly accepted dimensions or shape of certain parts in general use, as screws, railway-car axles, etc.

  41. An instrument for gauging or testing a plane surface.

  42. A good eye and a faculty for gauging distances correctly is a great help, indeed, quite a necessity, as also is judgment with regard to the requisite power to put behind the ball.

  43. Measuring rule for gauging in centimeters the depth of any location by subtraction of the length of the uninserted portion of the esophagoscope or bronchoscope.

  44. This assistance in gauging depth is one of the great advances in foreign body bronchoscopy obtained by the development of distal illumination.

  45. Gauging of the volumes and valuation of the dynamical power of water-courses which feed machines.

  46. Gauging of the volumes and valuation Guaging Lecture 22.

  47. Finally, numerical exercises concerning the loss of work due to the proejudicial resistances in various machines, the gauging of holes, orifices, &c.

  48. In gauging the currents the float is placed in the water at a defined point and allowed to drift, its course being noted and afterwards transferred to a plan.

  49. A cheap float for gauging the surface drift can be made from an empty champagne bottle weighted with stones and partly filled with water.

  50. The total quantity of sewage to be dealt with per day can be ascertained by gauging the flow in those cases where the sewers are already constructed, but where the scheme is an entirely new one the quantity must be estimated.

  51. Greater accuracy will be obtained if a properly-formed gauging pond is constructed independently of the manhole and a double rectangular notch, similar to Fig.

  52. Gauging his distance swiftly, he went into action.

  53. He was gauging the distance to the hangar door, the positions of the guards, the time it would take to spin out the combination.


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