Bearings

Examples

• It puts the student in the habitual attitude of finding points of contact and mutual bearings. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Viewed in its social bearings, however, she feels free to pronounce an opinion. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• But it does not lead to new perceptions of bearings and connections; it limits rather than widens the meaning-horizon. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• On the ends of the shafts of the bottom and top rolls there were cylindrical sleeves, or bearings, having seven sheaves in which was run a half-inch endless wire rope. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Edison has strong convictions on the liberal use of lubricants, but argued that in the ordinary oiling of machinery there is great waste, while much dirt is conveyed into the bearings. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The ends of the balance staff are made very small so as to form very delicate pivots which turn in jewel bearings. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• As matter of fact, every perception and every idea is a sense of the bearings, use, and cause, of a thing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He therefore planned a system by which the ten thousand bearings in the plant are oiled automatically; requiring the services of only two men for the entire work. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The Educational Bearings of the Conception of Development. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• To prevent the pressure-force of the deep sea from jamming the joints, roller bearings are so arranged about them that freedom of action is constantly maintained. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But it is easier to give this definition than it is to present specific geographical subject matter in its vital human bearings. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• They found an engine somewhat loose in the bearings, and there followed remarks which would not look well in print. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I had looked into my affairs so often, that I had thoroughly destroyed any slight notion I might ever have had of their bearings. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The spindles were mounted on a wheeled carriage that traveled back and forth a considerable distance from the drawing rolls, which were mounted in bearings in a stationary frame. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I had never seen one, and did not know how it worked, with the result that we soon burned up the babbitt metal in the bearings and spent a good part of the night getting them in order. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The safety-lamp had been given to the miner, the caisson to the bridge-builder, the anti-friction metal to the mechanic for bearings. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Such is the assemblage of armorial bearings on coach panels that the Herald's College might be supposed to have lost its father and mother at a blow. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• On the ends of the shafts of the bottom and top rolls there were cylindrical sleeves, or bearings, having seven sheaves, in which was run a half-inch endless wire rope. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Quartered in this dingy hatchment commemorative of Symond are the legal bearings of Mr. Vholes. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• A top view of the rolls is shown in the sketch, one roll and one of its bearings being shown in section. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The tube, when in position, was lowered down upon its bearings on the pier by opening valves in the pontoons, which thus sunk sufficiently to ease them of their load. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• This motor was made from the parts--such as fields, armature, commutator, shaft and bearings, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This consists of an antifriction compound of tin, 10 parts, copper, 1 part, and antimony, 1 part, and is specially adapted for the lubricated bearings of machinery. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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