Employing
[im'plɔiŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Employ
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Examples
- The power and efficiency of a dynamo are increased by employing the devices previously mentioned in connection with the motor. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In 1800 Mears devised a machine employing shears. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Yet so strong is the appearance of this having occurred that naturalists can hardly avoid employing language having this plain signification. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- At present, intellectual and emotional limitation characterizes both the employing and the employed class. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- So I conceived of an engine employing guncotton. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- These inventors conceived and put in practice the great idea of employing the current from an electro-magnetic machine to excite its own electric magnet. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The contrivance was a mere toy, employing no light and being merely a little machine which, when revolved, gave figures, printed in different positions, the semblance of motion. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They are only the repayment of a part of the expense which must be laid out in employing it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I shall not rest satisfied with merely employing my capital in insuring ships. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The sovereign, like, any other owner of stock, may derive a revenue from it, either by employing it himself, or by lending it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Yes, yes, Mr. Philander, if you insist upon employing slang in your discourse, a 'lion. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- This is done sometimes by employing the high-tension currents to drive a local dynamo which generates low-tension currents. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The electric transmission of power is effected by employing the source of power to drive a machine called a dynamo, which generates an electric current. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- As it hinders the one from working at what he thinks proper, so it hinders the others from employing whom they think proper. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Like the rent of land, it is a neat produce, which remains, after completely compensating the whole risk and trouble of employing the stock. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- As capitals increase in any country, the profits which can be made by employing them necessarily diminish. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The funds destined for employing industry are less than they had been the year before. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The Rocket, indeed, more than fulfilled all the conditions required by the directors of the railway, who thereupon decided on employing locomotive engines for the traffic on the line. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Being united themselves, they ought one and all to set their faces against employing any man who is united with any other man,' said Mrs. Sparsit. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He was a skilful master, and successful in his profession, employing the mildest and most encouraging methods. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Knowledge of things in that intimate and emotional sense suggested by the word acquaintance is a precipitate from our employing them with a purpose. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The Turkish mines are wrought by slaves; and the arms of those slaves are the only machines which the Turks have ever thought of employing. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It becomes gradually more and more difficult to find within the country a profitable method of employing any new capital. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I hate such greediness--so good as your father is to the family, employing the man all the year round! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- As I had also been working on a telegraph system employing tuning-forks, simultaneously with both Bell and Gray, I was pretty familiar with the subject. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Do not you remember, Mrs. Weston, employing him to write for you one day? Jane Austen. Emma.
- In 1898 it was estimated that there were in the United States 14,000 miles of electric railroads, with a nominal capital of $1,000,000,000, and employing 170,000 men. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Having exhausted his handkerchiefs he was now employing his napkin for the use he had previously made of his handkerchiefs. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A man grows rich by employing a multitude of manufacturers; he grows poor by maintaining a multitude or menial servants. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Method in any case is but an effective way of employing some material for some end. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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