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
Even when I'm cutting a pumpkin, I will cut a little bevel on the bottom, just cut a little edge off, and now it is solid on the board.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2022
“So if you do it at an angle, it will have a bevel edge.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 17, 2022
Cut out a piece of wrought iron and bevel its edges as shown in Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
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
A whisper of sweetness bevels the crisp edges.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2016
With very few exceptions molded and raised panels with broad bevels were used in all, and it is according to the arrangement of these panels that the different types of doors are best classified.
From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins
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
A St. Patrick’s Day decoration hung on the other side of the beveled glass door as I buzzed the receptionist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
Kuehn says a color core — a contrasting color visible in the beveled edge of the opening — is also an option.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2022
As he talks, I shed layers, tossing stuff onto the marble table below the big beveled mirror.
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
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
But, amid waves of contact, large languages lose their sharp edges, becoming bevelled as pieces of glass.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016
"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 ring has a V-shaped groove on its periphery, which in expanding closes over corresponding bevelled ledges on the inside of both the cap and the box.
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
How many centuries of cutting and gouging, beveling and grooving were required to accomplish this, who can tell?
They make a sound shrill as the scream of machinery beveling marble.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn
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
The alteration made inside a square in hewing timber, as opposed to standing bevelling.
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
A slight bevelling at the expense of the posterior margin will produce an anchylosis of the limb in a very slightly flexed position, which is found to aid the patient in walking.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell
The preventive treatment is the bevelling, or rounding off of the inside edge or rim of the hind shoes.
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
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