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
The upper rolls are raised or lowered simultaneously by power, by means of the shaft s, and the bevel gears r, which operate the screw a′.
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
Use a chop saw to put 45-degree bevels at the corners and screw the box together using exterior trimhead wood screws that are 2.5 or 3 inches long.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 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
The knife is universally jointed, to permit the hands of the operator to determine the different bevels cut.
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
This flat piece will have beveled edges and it will be secured to the roof ridge board.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
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
The floors were beveled concrete, the shower stalls wood planks and plastic curtains crawling with black mold.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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
For finishing purposes the corners need not be so much bevelled as in figure, but may be very slightly relieved at the corners a and b, 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
It has a beveling and a leveling device, as well. p.
From Practical Mechanics for Boys by James Slough Zerbe
Start to work on the four posts by squaring them up to the proper length in pairs and beveling the tops as shown.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
A jig, or cradle, is easily made by bevelling the edges of two separate pieces of wood and then glueing and screwing them together as at Fig.
From Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by William Fairham
In marine architecture, implies those frames which are square with the line of the keel, having no bevelling upon them.
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
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
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.
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