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
According to Adidas, the Weagle design on the front of the sweater features a “combination of sublimation and classic twill embroidery,” producing a bevel effect.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2023
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
“So if you do it at an angle, it will have a bevel edge.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2022
Their houses are very ill built, the walls bevel.
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
The difference is in the angle of the bevel that forms the cutting edge: Traditional European knives have roughly 20-degree bevels, while Japanese knives have roughly 15-degree ones.
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
"It is swell, I declare!" said Jane, with her eye on the wrought-iron work of the outer doors and the jewels and bevels of the inner-ones.
From With the Procession by Henry Blake Fuller
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
The film has its visual pleasures, though: The sandstorm at the temple is a nice touch, and shooting through the lounge’s beveled glass windows was a stroke of genius for DP Haris Zambarloukos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2022
He explains that the new plank needs a beveled edge so it will fit up tight against the keel.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
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
This angle, however, gives to the tool a keenness that will cause chattering on brass work unless the top face be bevelled to the tool body, as is a to b in the figure.
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
Except for the beveling of the mold for the curtain wall recesses, the framing is all plain saw and hammer work.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette
At the same time, the form tool No. 10, held at the rear of the cross-slide, is fed up for beveling the flange to an angle of 60 degrees.
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
The principle is that bevelling off the front edge of the cutter, as shown in Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
Then, on the planed side, mark 21⁄4 in. at one end, 11⁄4 in. at the other end, and take to that width, afterwards bevelling the edge as before.
From Hand-Craft The Most Reliable Basis of Technical Education in Schools and Classes by John D. Sutcliffe
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
Absurd, wasn't it, but the Ranger was not dreaming about the bevelling trowel of the titan mountain gods?
From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
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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