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bevel

[bev-uhl] / ˈbɛv əl /


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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

The teeth for bevel pinions are sometimes put on by dovetails, 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

To answer an obvious question: The difference between 15 degrees and 12 degrees is so slight that a 15-degree sharpener is fine for both kinds of bevels.

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2018

A whisper of sweetness bevels the crisp edges.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2016

The wire edge is thus worn off quickly as there is no metal to be worn away in the middle of the bevels.

From A Course In Wood Turning by Archie S. Milton

A stone-clad block with beveled corners and slit windows, it sat on thick columns three stories above the street.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

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

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

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

Over the weekend, Matthews auctioneers in County Meath, Ireland, is offering for sale an “antique carved ivory ladies’ companion in scarlet lined leather upholstered carry box with inset bevelled glass panel”.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 21, 2017

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

In this case a bevelled piece j is employed, its bevelled face holding the work down upon the chuck face.

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

They make a sound shrill as the scream of machinery beveling marble.

From Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn

Generally speaking, the workmanship was excellent, the beveling of the panels and the molding of the stiles and rails manifesting the utmost painstaking.

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins

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 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

An instrument by which bevelling angles are taken.

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 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


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