Represents

Examples

• Each turbine in a penstock represents the power of 5,000 horses, and there are now ten or more employed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The latter represents the possibilities of the former; not its existing state. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• We may say then that this figure represents a 100-ton silo. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• All this Mr. Kipling represents as a most desirable state of affairs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Fig. 275 represents Dudley’s patent drawing. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I find her what he represents her, to the best of my judgment; and my mother speaks of her with great commendation. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The central dots in the section are the conducting wires round which are the gutta percha and hemp, and the outer rim represents the iron wire casing. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The City of God_ represents the possibility of making the world into a theological and organized Kingdom of Heaven. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Ibbetson’s British patent, No. 4,954, of 1824, represents the first application of this principle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• If you make any other change on it, it represents a different object or impression. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The upright strokes in each indicate the number of the crew, and the bird represents a chief, The Kingfisher. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The theory of lunar eclipses will be understood from Fig. 1, where _S_ represents the sun, _E_ the earth, and _M_ the moon. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Now this number represents a geometrical figure which has control over the good and evil of births. Plato. The Republic.
• Interest represents the moving force of objects--whether perceived or presented in imagination--in any experience having a purpose. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• This idea, then, is borrowed from, and represents some impression, which this moment appears to the senses. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The fifth compartment represents the clown as having jumped over pantaloon's head, and coming down to the ground; and in each succeeding division his farther descent is shown, till, in No. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The accompanying woodcut represents the largest of the four steam-hammers in Keyham factory. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Frezier, who visited Peru in 1713, represents Lima as containing between twenty-five and twenty-eight thousand inhabitants. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And this from which we run away, striking out the light and overturning one another into the street, is all that represents him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In figure 1, which is a plan or groundplat of a whirlwind, the circle V represents the central vacuum. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The form shown represents a phaeton weighing 1,400 pounds; the motor is of the single hydrocarbon type, and is simple, powerful and compact. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• An example of the latter is given in Fig. 225, which represents the Criterion generator. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Franklin represents the eighteenth century in his steadfast pursuit of intellectual, social, and political emancipatio n. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• This diagram represents the outlines of a near object, as seen by each eye separately. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The first harmony of 400, as has been already remarked, probably represents the rulers; the second and oblong harmony of 7600, the people. Plato. The Republic.
• The theory represents the Schoolmaster come to his own. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He certainly does not mean here to exaggerate the reward, and we may be assured that it was not less than he represents it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He humanizes a strange country; he is a friend at court; he represents the legitimate kindliness of government, standing between the poor and the impersonal, uninviting majesty of the law. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The annexed diagram represents the symbols for the whole alphabet. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• That shown in Fig. 219 represents one of the most important improvements. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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