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Example sentences for "transverse"

Lexicographically close words:
transubstantiated; transubstantiation; transudation; transvaluation; transversal; transversely; trap; trapdoor; trapesing; trapeze
  1. This hypostyle hall stood with its greatest length transverse to the general axis of the temple, so that it was entered from the side.

  2. In reaching the farther side of the pit, we crossed unwittingly an ice-bridge formed by a transverse pit or tunnel in the ice, which opened into the pit we were examining.

  3. The dorsals have short transverse processes and neural spine, the anterior and middle ones (those with a haemal spine or carina) having a large anterior pneumatic foramen between the nib-facet, the foramen being triangular in shape.

  4. Throughout the series also the neural spines and transverse processes are comparatively long.

  5. Tail-feathers umber-brown, with irregular and imperfect transverse narrow bands of ashy and pale reddish-white, and tipped with the same.

  6. The great transverse arches are inscribed on their western sides from the Benedicite: "Omnes volucres coeli.

  7. These are continued above the capitals, and the great transverse arches of the vaulting spring from the continuations on a level with the top of the triforium.

  8. Below the angels with their outstretched arms in the pendentives the western sides of the great transverse arches have inscriptions from the Benedicite, and on their eastern from Romans i.

  9. These correspond with the lesser pilasters of the arcading, and from them spring transverse arches, as in the great central aisle.

  10. Four are formed by the arcading, and the fifth by the great transverse archway connecting the nave and dome.

  11. These tints dye the rocks and sands in splashes and long transverse streaks which merge into a single joyous exclamation in vivid color whose red and yellow accents have something of the Oriental.

  12. The director is made with a deep groove, the transverse section of which is more than three-quarters of a circle; in this the globe-shaped probe-point of one blade of the scissors runs.

  13. They make a transverse incision into the tree to the depth of some inches, and then cut sloping down from the notch, till they leave a flat superficies.

  14. They had to cling desperately to the nearest object to hand to prevent themselves from sliding violently against a transverse bulkhead.

  15. Both transverse bulkheads were almost hidden by indicators, voice-tubes, and pipes for transmitting the compressed air from the air-flasks to the torpedo-tubes.

  16. Capillitial threads transverse to the sporangial cavity, attached usually at each end, plain or only slightly roughened Dianemaceae B.

  17. The capillitium threads are rough, with irregular spines and sharp-edged transverse plates, occasionally extending to form rings.

  18. In some cases the plasmodium before maturing seems to assume the form of a plasmodiocarp, which, by transverse fission at intervals, forms the curious four-sided conceptacles.

  19. Transverse section of sporangium; shows trabecular calcareous nodules of the capillitium, x 15.

  20. Peridial thickenings in form of parallel meridional ribs connected by delicate transverse threads 2.

  21. OO Capillitium marked by sharp-edged transverse plates and by numerous nodes 6.

  22. The transverse vincula are often at right angles to the principal branches, and the meshes, where formed, are often long and rectangular.

  23. The transverse cross-lines and other markings on the loops indicate that they are composed of different ancestral germ-plasms.

  24. The difference between the products is even greater after transverse fission of the Infusoria, for a new anus must be formed at the anterior part and a new mouth posteriorly.

  25. To obviate the necessity for 'legs,' a simple and efficient substitute is shown in the transverse section.

  26. A novel feature in the hull of so small a boat is its division into water-tight compartments by transverse and longitudinal bulkheads, composed of galvanised steel plates riveted to the steel frames.

  27. To these dislocations of the strata we owe the transverse cracks across the central part of New York, which needed only the addition of the fresh water poured into them by the rains to transform them into lakes.

  28. We will give the reader two views of the latter kind, illustrating the longitudinal and transverse arches before spoken of.

  29. CROSS'-BAR, a transverse bar: a kind of lever.

  30. The method of reading these rolls or volumes, which were written in transverse columns across the breadth of the papyrus, is clearly shown here.

  31. The lip and base have the favorite ovolo moulding; the body has two rows of fluting separated by a transverse band, charged with leaves, and with a swan in the centre.

  32. The vines were trained on a trellis-work, supported by transverse rafters resting on pillars; and a wall, extending round it, separated this part from the rest of the garden.

  33. The transverse lines are brown, or sometimes reddish, but are not always distinct, especially in the male.

  34. In the white dotted paler green forms there are several transverse whitish lines, some of them wavy, between the yellowish spiracular line and the dark green line along the middle of the back; head, marked with black on each cheek.

  35. Marie-Foix sign: withdrawal of lower leg on transverse pressure of tarsus or forced flexion of toes, even when leg is incapable of voluntary movement.

  36. The skin of the foot was a little thin and pale; the temperature was low; and the nails had transverse striations.

  37. These movements were those of nystagmus, almost transverse and very rapid, and suggestive rather of a vibratory trembling than of a true nystagmus of the eye or of labyrinthine disease.

  38. Radiograph negative, except that one picture showed a change in left twelfth rib, near the transverse process.

  39. The back of the neck is marked by deep transverse folds, and the seventh spine does not stand out.

  40. A thrill pervaded my system; just before me were two, the mightiest of the whole, tall as the stems of proud oaks, supporting on their tops a huge transverse stone, and forming a wonderful doorway.

  41. A transverse section would be sub rectangular.

  42. The sides are straight and a transverse section is somewhat rectangular.

  43. A transverse section would be a sharp oval.

  44. Transverse section of the head of the Amphioxus.

  45. Transverse section of a fish's tail (from the tunny).

  46. Transverse section of an Amphioxus-larva, with five gill-clefts, through the middle of the body.

  47. Horizontal transverse section of the eye of a human embryo, four weeks old (magnified one hundred times).

  48. But it is soon divided by a number of transverse constrictions into, first three, then five successive cerebral vesicles.

  49. These features are seen still more clearly in the transverse section of the duck-embryo in Figure 1.

  50. The original longitudinal axis becomes oblique, sinking below to the left and rising to the right, and approaches nearer and nearer to a transverse position.

  51. Immediately after their formation the two coelom-pouches of the Amphioxus are divided into several parts by longitudinal and transverse folds.

  52. But in these it soon passes away, the one vesicle being divided into several successive parts by transverse constrictions.

  53. The real features of this and of its dependent formations are best seen in the transverse section of the Amphioxus (Figure 2.

  54. Transverse section of the back of the head of a chick-embryo, forty hours old.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    transverse section; transverse sections