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Example sentences for "revolve"

Lexicographically close words:
revolutionize; revolutionized; revolutionizing; revolutionnaire; revolutions; revolved; revolver; revolvers; revolves; revolving
  1. Suppose that for a period of two days, uniformly progressive, this Beryl were forced to revolve in sharp jerks at an increasing rate of speed!

  2. The rotor plates do not touch the stator plates in the dynamometers, but drag on the water with which the drums are partially filled, and thus tend to cause the drums to revolve around with them.

  3. The horse-power required to revolve the plates at any definite speed can therefore be controlled by having an outlet for the water at the proper radial distance from the shaft.

  4. O that in thy soul Thou wouldst revolve his noble conduct to thee Since thy arrival to the present day!

  5. Brassica napus, revolve or circumnutate; those of Allium porrum bend from side to side, and, if this movement had been traced on a horizontal glass, no doubt ellipses would have been formed.

  6. But that body whose nature it is to revolve in a circle, cannot possibly have either heaviness or levity; for it cannot move in a right line, either upwards or downwards, nor either by nature or against nature.

  7. The Pythagoreans and those who do not even place it at the centre, consider it to revolve in a circle, and they consider the Antichthon to revolve in like manner.

  8. There is another reason too why the universe is spherical in figure, since it has been shown to revolve in a circle.

  9. The Kosmos, being left to itself, ceases to revolve in the same direction, and begins its counter rotation; revolving by itself backwards, or in the contrary direction.

  10. But if a maker builds a motor with, say, eight cylinders, the driving impulses are so frequent that there is no danger of the engine ceasing to revolve between explosions, even if no fly-wheel is fitted.

  11. Here are two curved blades, so shaped that, when the propeller is made to revolve quickly, these blades will act powerfully upon the air.

  12. Then, usually with a handle, the engine is made to revolve so that the piston-rod moves down inside the cylinder and sucks in the explosive mixture.

  13. What the propeller does is to screw itself forward through the air, as one might revolve a corkscrew and drive it into a cork, or force a gimlet into a piece of wood.

  14. If we accept the tradition of the church as law, we might as well abandon the contest with Rome, because the traditions gradually, as they gather force and headway in time, revolve around the papacy.

  15. As the earth revolves from west to east the celestial sphere appears to us to revolve in the opposite direction, turning on the line joining the Celestial Poles as on a pivot.

  16. Let OZ be an axis, as nearly vertical as it can easily be set, round which the entire instrument may revolve through 180 deg.

  17. The circles in which the heavenly bodies appear to revolve are then vertical.

  18. The internodes do not move, but the tendrils revolve regularly.

  19. The tendril stands vertically upwards; the extremity of the shoot being bent abruptly downwards, and this position is probably of service to the plant by allowing the tendril to revolve freely and vertically.

  20. Tendrils of both kinds spontaneously revolve at about the same rate.

  21. It is a singular circumstance that immature tendrils revolve at their full velocity before they become sensitive, but in a useless manner, as in this state they can catch nothing.

  22. The shoot did not begin to revolve until nearly a yard in height; it then made a fine circle in 10 hrs.

  23. During several days the tendrils or internodes, or both, spontaneously revolve with a steady motion.

  24. They revolve more rapidly and vigorously than those of any other tendril-bearer observed by me, with the exception of one kind of Passiflora.

  25. The genus Lophospermum also shows us how such a transition is possible; for its branches spontaneously revolve and are sensitive to contact.

  26. In all the nine species observed by me, the young internodes revolve vigorously; the tendrils also revolve, but in some of the species in a very feeble manner; and lastly the petioles of nearly all revolve, though with unequal power.

  27. An open space is thus left for the next succeeding and younger tendril to stand vertically upwards and to revolve freely.

  28. In all the species observed by me, with one exception, the young internodes revolve more or less regularly, in some cases as regularly as those of a twining plant.

  29. Although the tendrils revolve with unusual rapidity, the movement lasts for only a short time.

  30. The petioles are not in the least sensitive, but revolve like the tendrils.

  31. Here we have a system of spheres, held by some power to a great central mass, around which they revolve with a fearful velocity.

  32. If we pass a steel wire through one of those floating spheres of oil, and make it revolve rapidly and steadily, thus imitating the motion of a planet on its axis, the oil spreads out, and we have the spheroidal form of our earth.

  33. The wheel is made to revolve with the utmost rapidity, in a perfectly dark room, and the sensitive plate uncovered.

  34. The grinding is a slow matter; each ingredient is ground separately in a vat, the bottom of which is a hard stone, whereon other hard stones of great weight revolve slowly.

  35. In the one case it is placed on a stand which is so constructed that on it the barrel can be made to revolve rapidly.

  36. The barrel is made to revolve as before; but this time there is inserted in it a spindle, on which is fixed a short arm with a point which touches very lightly the interior of the barrel.

  37. All the primary planets and asteroids revolve around the sun in the direction of their rotation, that is from west to east; and the planes of the orbits in which they revolve coincide very nearly with the plane of the sun’s equator.

  38. The sun’s rays supply light and heat not only to the earth, but also to the other planets which revolve round it.

  39. These wings revolve quickly when the heavy seed is falling, prevent a rapid decent, and help to scatter them.

  40. All the satellites, except those of Uranus and perhaps Neptune, also revolve from west to east.

  41. Most of the comets revolve around the sun in very irregular and elongated orbits, only a few having their entire orbit within the planetary system.

  42. Everything seemed to revolve round her, she recovered herself with difficulty.

  43. In a little the flywheel would slowly revolve and then she would be caught and ground up.

  44. Thenceforth the two bodies were parted, except for the gravitative attraction which impelled them to revolve about their common centre of gravity, and except for the light and heat they might exchange with one another.

  45. The supposition that a bright sun and a relatively dark sun might revolve around a common centre of gravity may at first sight seem improbable.

  46. This was folded into two parallel straight lines and passed through holes in the frame on either side, where a simple mechanism grasped it which could revolve the ends, cogs preventing them from turning in any direction but that desired.

  47. The weakening of the shunt field of a motor by the insertion of resistance in the shunt field circuit causes the armature to revolve more rapidly.

  48. Oil rings revolve with the shaft and feed the latter with oil, which is continuously brought up from the reservoir below.

  49. The self-oiling feature consists of rings which revolve with the shaft, and feed the latter with oil continually, which they bring up from the reservoir below.

  50. It differs from the tangent galvanometer in that the vertical coil and magnetic needle are mounted upon a standard free to revolve around a vertical axis, with provision for determining the angular position of the coil.

  51. This was dipped in oil and thrown on a pond of water and continued to revolve as the oil left the point for a great many minutes.

  52. This wheel the villagers, working by relays, cause to revolve with great rapidity till fire is produced by friction.

  53. In the hole a wooden winch, smeared with tar, was inserted and made to revolve with such force and rapidity that fire and smoke in time issued from the socket.

  54. As late as June 1868 a traveller in Mecklenburg saw a couple of peasants sweating away at a rope, which they were pulling backwards and forwards so as to make a tarry roller revolve with great speed in the socket of an upright post.

  55. Then he pulled the cord so as to make the rod revolve rapidly.

  56. At Gandersheim down to about the beginning of the nineteenth century the need-fire was lit in the common way by causing a cross-bar to revolve rapidly on its axis between two upright posts.

  57. They haul the rope backwards and forwards so as to make the tarred stick revolve rapidly, till the rope first smokes and then emits sparks.

  58. In the Halberstadt district the ends of the rope which was used to make the cross-piece revolve in the sockets had to be pulled by two chaste young men.

  59. These are figures in which four of the blocks generally revolve in order around the other four as a centre.

  60. The cube, on the contrary, being made to revolve on any one of its axes, constantly shows a different aspect, so that the child views it as a very extraordinary little block, full of fascinating surprises and whimsical apparitions.

  61. Of course, it seems infinitely more likely that the small earth should revolve than that the whole heavenly host should turn about the earth as a centre, and infinite likelihood is really absolute proof.

  62. Let me now 215 Revolve this doubt again with careful mind.

  63. In the blue glow of hyaline Golden worlds revolve and shine.

  64. That which appears only like a thin and silvery cloud streaking the heaven is in effect composed of innumerable clusters of suns, each shining with its own light, and illuminating numbers of planets that revolve around them.


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