Impelling
[ɪm'pɛl]
Definition
(adj.) markedly effective as if by emotional pressure; 'impelling skill as a teller of tales'; 'an impelling personality' .
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Impel
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Examples
- I don't doubt you any longer, said Dorothea, putting out her hand; a vague fear for him impelling her unutterable affection. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It also must fit with such tightness as to prevent any escape of the gas in that direction, and force it to exert all its impelling power upon the ball. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The contrivance which was to take the place of the hand and eye of man in holding, applying, directing and impelling a cutting tool to the surface of the metal work was the _slide-rest_. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- As there are two factors at work impelling the piston, only a relatively low pressure in the boiler is required. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The hands of the clock are also moved by electro-magnets, by which means the impelling forces and the resistances encountered by the pendulum are always constant. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The speed of the instrument is regulated by the fan _e_; _f_ is the impelling weight, and _h_ the wire connected with the distant instrument. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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