bevel
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To bear up under the higher stress, the PDK’s clutches, gearsets and bevel gear have all been reinforced.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Shifting into fifth gear, I straddled the centerline to correct the bevel toward the borrow pit and accelerated into triple digits.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2022
The building nods nicely to the past, with its off-white, bevel siding and flat roof that juts out over a concrete island, a place where sculptures will reside instead of gas pumps.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2022
“The Rockette bevel is what it’s all about.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2020
To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
The aim was realism in the inflatables’ corners and bevels but with distortion and accentuation in certain curves.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2022
Staircases that had simple bevels and architecture give way to columbines, lotuses and other ornate features carved into the walnut and mahogany.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 20, 2020
It in fact produces what Chef’sChoice calls a Gothic Arch Edge, which consists of three distinct bevels, the final one at 15 degrees.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2018
Over two days, she’d chiseled out long bevels and deep notches, standing in a growing pile of pine shavings.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2017
This renders this form of gearing preferable to skew bevels when employed upon vertical shafts.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
With a beveled chord progression and a haunting repetition of the name, it became perhaps her most requested song, and was covered by many, including the White Stripes, Candi Staton, Reba McEntire and Olivia Newton-John.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Their beveled corners are polished to a high glossy sheen, which creates slender vertical stripes that contrast sharply with the charcoal shadows from which they emerge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
Do you want to know if someone needs a changing table topper with beveled sides, preferably before Friday?
From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2025
There’s nothing especially technological about the California artist’s pictures, which are painted with oils on canvases whose beveled edges suggest infinity pools.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2022
A huge beveled mirror gave a man sitting on the stool a view of the whole grill.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
He has also acted in theatre and on screen, busked, potted, bevelled glass, made music and made people laugh - he's about to cameo in TV series Black Comedy, which showcases indigenous sketches.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2019
After the second set of microelectrodes was implanted, the excised portion of Scheuermann’s skull was returned—though it was bevelled at the seams to allow the wires to pass through to the pedestals.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018
"The cause is Ozymandian The map of Sapokanikan Is sanded and bevelled The land lone and levelled By some unrecorded and powerful hand Which plays along the monument And drums upon a plastic bag"
From The Verge ● Oct. 23, 2015
Staff would deliver trays of prototype phones for him to inspect and pore over, spinning them to check for balance and running his fingers across the bevelled edges and joints.
From Reuters ● Aug. 20, 2013
Another example of the use of a bevelled scraper is shown in Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
“I wanted to keep the planters very linear, without any beveling on the edges, and that informed my material choice,” she says.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
Plywood is made from layers of compressed sheets, which the beveling reveals at the sides.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2016
We settled on a sculptural stylized version and this sketch shows a study in variations on the amount of beveling and possible finishes.
From Time ● Mar. 4, 2015
A beveled joint is made by beveling the members so that the plane of the joint bisects the angle at which the members meet.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
The reaming tool No. 9 is next indexed to the working position for finishing the hole and beveling the outer edge slightly.
From Turning and Boring A specialized treatise for machinists, students in the industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, etc. by Franklin D. Jones
Very thick books have a rather clumsy appearance with their many superimposed boards; this is improved by bevelling on all four sides the upper thick board.
From Practical Bookbinding by Paul Adam
Also, the bevelling of any piece of timber or plank to any required angle: as the bearding of dead wood, clamps, &c.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
This may, however, be remedied to a great extent by bevelling off the ends from the outside as shown in Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
He soon invented a machine for bevelling hoop-rings, and made five thousand dollars the first year from its use.
From Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous by Sarah K. Bolton
When in situ it is accommodated by the Cutigeral Groove, a cavity produced by the bevelling out of the superior portion of the inner face of the wall of the hoof.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks
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