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Example sentences for "high pressure"

  • There should be a rather high average boiler pressure, as high pressure is more economical than low.

  • What harm will be done by blowing off a boiler under a high pressure of steam?

  • What are the principles which distinguish a high pressure from a low pressure engine?

  • A boiler should never be blown out at high pressure, as there is great danger of injuring it.

  • These modifications, as already named, are the doing away with the walking beam, the utilization of high pressure steam, and the development of the compound engine.

  • Triple expansion engines have three cylinders, a high pressure, an intermediate, and a low pressure cylinder.

  • If the water is blown off under a high pressure, then after the waste is all out the iron is hot enough to dry up the scale, making it hard and very difficult to remove.

  • The water at high pressure is to set people’s invention at work upon the introduction of hydraulic apparatus for cranes, et cætera, which now cause much hand labor and are scarcely worth steam-power.

  • The water is to come in at high pressure, and run in iron or lead pipes up every house, scale every wall.

  • When it’s all settled, there’s to be water on at high pressure everywhere, and an earthenware drain pipe under every tap, a tube of no more than the necessary size.

  • Engines thus governed should be run at high pressure so as to insure the ignition of the producer-gas mixtures formed when the position of the cam corresponds with the minimum opening of the gas-valve.

  • If the engine be of rather large size one, moreover, which operates at high pressure--such a method of starting is very troublesome.

  • Is this rule for the size of the feed pump applicable to the case of high pressure engines?

  • How do you ascertain the power of high pressure engines?

  • Clearly not; for since a cylinder full of high pressure steam, contains more water than the same cylinder full of low pressure steam, the size of the feed must vary in the same proportion as the density of the steam.

  • After his arrival, instruction was driven at high pressure.

  • Fancy parties where the room was saturated with this heroic fluid, theatres where it should be kept at high pressure; what passion in the souls of the actors and spectators!

  • And in less than two days the "Susquehanna," by putting on high pressure, could arrive in that port.

  • War is a wonderful stimulant; and many things were done at high pressure, in the early days of August, to increase the resources, in men and material, of the Naval Air Service.

  • Life in the service was lived at high pressure, and was commonly short.

  • The military machine that was to supply the small expeditionary force was working at high pressure, and the air was tense.

  • What might be high pressure in a man of sedentary habits who reaches the age of fifty, might not be high pressure in a full blooded formerly athletic man of the same age.

  • To the group of cases caused by various poisonous agents, or following high peripheral resistance and consequent high pressure, he gave the name, secondary arteriosclerosis.

  • Hypertension means high pressure, and yet it carries with it a suggestion of high pressure which is harmful to the individual.

  • In the case of areas of high pressure, Loomis also found an elliptical form predominating; the longer diameter being about twice as long as the shorter (ratio 1.

  • Thus, on the isobaric chart showing the mean pressure over the world in January, there are seen immense areas of high pressure (anticyclones) over the two great continental masses of the Northern Hemisphere.

  • Have these gradients at the different stations any relation to the proximity of low or high pressure?

  • The permanent ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are regions of high pressure, with calm air in the interior and strong outblowing winds at the borders.

  • There is, we know, an initial impulse that tends to drive air from a region of high pressure toward a region of low pressure; but the actual movement of the air is another matter.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    general engagement; great soul; high character; high chief; high command; high explosive; high food; high importance; high level; high pressure; high priest; high reputation; high water; higher culture; higher degree; higher grade; higher levels; higher order; higher planes; higher plants; higher sphere; higher type; highly remarkable; highly sensitive; religious doctrine; will please