Depositing
[dɪ'pɔzɪtɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deposit
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Examples
- Beg your pardon, Mr. Pickwick,' said Jackson, deliberately depositing his hat on the floor, and drawing from his pocket the strip of parchment. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Mr. Guppy is engaged in collecting the Galaxy Gallery of British Beauty from the wall and depositing those works of art in their old ignoble band-box. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It was at one time supposed that the depositing of metal on surfaces, by voltaic action, might be applied to the manufacture of numerous kinds of copper articles without manual labour. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- A patent automatic scale, designed to weigh the silver while depositing, is balanced to the exact weight of silver to be deposited on the article. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It was under strong inward pressure of this kind that Fred had taken the wise step of depositing the eighty pounds with his mother. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Here are indicated the defects in depositing the seed that only the inventions of the century have fully corrected. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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