Openings
['opənɪŋ]
Examples
- The system of filling adopted consists of a culvert in each side wall feeding laterals from which are openings upward into the lock chamber. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Attach a small toy bell to a glass rod (Fig. 166) by means of a rubber tube and pass the rod through one of two openings in a rubber cork. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Avoid all openings or rents in the paper. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The effect of screening the objects from the eye at short intervals is produced by looking with one eye through the openings at the image of the disc, reflected from a mirror. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The back of the cave was so lost in dense shadow that I could not distinguish whether there were openings into other apartments or not. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- After the steam has spent itself in turning the turbine, it condenses into water and makes its escape through openings in an inclosing case. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The towers are each pierced by two archways, 31? feet wide, and 120? feet high, through which openings passes the floor of the bridge at the height of 118 feet above high water mark. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The water which flows into the turbine case causes rotation of the wheel, escapes from the case through openings, and flows into the tail water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The openings at the gables perform an important part in the ventilation by admitting all the air that can sweep over the top sawdust. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The front of the dam is the arc of a circle 740 feet long with fourteen openings which, when the gates are raised to the full height, permit a discharge of 140,000 cubic feet per second. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These openings are visible on all gas stoves, and should be kept clean and free of clogging, in order to insure complete combustion. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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