How To Use Curved In A Sentence
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If it were a little more curved it would collapse, imploding on itself in a cosmic crunch; a little less curved, and every star, planet, sun and galaxy would fly apart from each other and so would every atom of matter in each of them.
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This gave the Roman soldier a great deal of protection as it curved around his body.
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I found the head of the flat humerus so characteristic of the extinct order to which the Plesiosaurus has been assigned, and two digital bones of the paddle, that, from their comparatively slender and slightly curved form, so unlike the digitals of its cogener the
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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By the time the higher elevations are reached, such strange notions as Einsteinian curved space-time and the quantum uncertainty principle, heavy meals indeed, seem not so difficult to digest.
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Its curved frame suggests almost a modern reinterpretation of the bentwood chair.
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Honsha carries are a sword with a snaky curved blade and a short dagger - like weapon with a slightly longer hilt and a blade curved backwards.
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All the houses will have a traditional look with curved timber framed windows, decorative roof detail and over-door pediments.
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He is shown seated before his famous invention: a ruling machine for producing concave diffraction gratings, which are slightly curved metal plates scored with minutely spaced lines that diffract light into spectra.
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The curved tail covers the nose while sleeping during extreme temperatures, acting as a filter to warm and humidify the inhaled air.
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In contrast, a strongly obtuse apical angle is associated with an incurved ventral beak that is appressed to the dorsal umbo, resulting in the delthyrium being partly obscured.
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The reflector is a standard fitting on the front pillar of the bike, hence the curved mount.
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At the end of the abdomen is the telson, which bears a bulb-shaped structure containing the venom glands and a sharp, curved aculeus to deliver the venom.
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The track curved away below him.
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By this action, the highly elastic axis must be bent at the lower extremity, where it is naturally slightly curved; and I imagine it is by this elasticity alone that the zoophyte is enabled to rise again through the mud.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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Two twin marble staircases curved upwards, leading to the second floor.
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Caps are 12.5 oz. wool blend and have buckram-backed front panels, pre-curved visors, and grey undervisors.
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The Chough (pronounced ‘chuff’) is an elegant member of the crow family, a little smaller than a Rook and distinguished by a bright red, slightly decurved bill and red legs and feet.
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The road curved gently upwards.
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Higher order spherical aberration in apochromats is a result of strongly curved lens surfaces.
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Hurricane Gustav curved away from the Caribbean Islands and headed toward open ocean.
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The chiffon shirred strapless bodice curved naturally into her body, and the satin skirt spilled over the floor.
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Every house had its garages; some had curved driveways where cars were parked.
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
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The stone interior of the church held darkness as a curved shell holds water.
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He opened his mouth - which was curved up with a slightly crooked grin - to speak, but thankfully the elevator tinged and the doors hissed open.
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I don't know how it followed a curved course in space - maybe it was outgassing and rotating, which would make its path helical.
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Henley Compact Offices are quirky sheds with curved roofs redolent of gypsy caravans.
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Because of their incurved leaves, the plant is narrow and can be grown at a tighter spacing.
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It's time to go up to your front door, Mother, and ring the rattling buzzer of a bell, the door with two curved fangs.
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A curved glass feeding bottle and a sealed tin of powdered milk.
THE WHITE DOVE
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In the Eklakhi Tomb we see for the first time an Islamic curved roof inspired from the bamboo version, and the slight slope on the roof is a departure from traditional cubical construction and served to throw off rainwater.
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Her lips curved into a content smile thinking about them, their strength, happiness, and virtue.
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The spine is in Spain very curved, producing what is termed _ensellure_, or saddle-back -- a characteristic which gives great flexibility to the back and prominence to the gluteal regions, sometimes slightly simulating steatopygia.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
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Scarlett Johansson (left) and Kate Beckinsale maximize their almond-shaped eyes and oval faces with softly curved arches.
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There is a fine oak carved overmantel and an old door opens on to the curved stone stair to the first floor.
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The cusp has a curved anterior margin and the base is short.
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Fourthly, the tube can be curved into the bronchia without deforming its tubular cross section.
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Application of the strong equivalence principle provides the basis for a definition of parallel transport in curved space time.
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Rotary press a web or reel fed printing press which uses a curved printing plate mounted on the plate cylinder.
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The curved scar of the rift followed the island's contour, spewing sulfurous gases.
MINUTES TO BURN
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Long ago, my brother and I were practicing with 65# recurved bows and cedar hunting arrows.
Has anyone ever had a string snap on them when they were shooting?
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The creature was about the size of a bushbok, was a dirty white in colour, and carried a pair of horns about two and a half feet in length, slightly curved, enormously thick at the base, strongly ridged for about half their length, and thence sweeping smoothly away to points as sharp apparently as those of bayonets.
Through Veld and Forest An African Story
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The building's long, curved roofline is balanced on one side by a tall, twisting tower, with an observation deck floating above the city like a treehouse.
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Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves. Mitch Albom
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And then there were the bones-a bear's digit, with the great curved claw still attached; the complete vertebrae of a small snake, articulated and strung on a leather thong, so the whole string flexed in a lifelike manner; an assortment of teeth, ranging from a string of round, peglike things that Jamie said came from a seal, through the high-crowned, scythe-cusped teeth of deer, to something that looked suspiciously like a human molar.
Dragonfly in Amber
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The road curved, and I emerged from a copse to confront a splendid panorama.
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Wood bannisters and staircases, rooms with curved windows, doorknobs that were made out of glass.
August 2006
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Clear and sharp as anything, this colourless white arc curved in a half circle before me.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most Cuckoos have moderately sized, slightly down curved bills, medium to long wings and zygodactylous feet.
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At the entrance to the gallery an upright, abstracted figure, smoothly curved, sat atop a heavy-duty steel truck spring.
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The Duke was revelling in the occasion, his toothless mouth curved up in a great leer like the mask of comedy.
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The road curved suddenly to the left.
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The design's signature is the curved wall that defines an edge of the courtyard.
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The pressure and friction caused by forcing the curved pins into the straight hinges will resist the self-closing tendency of the door.
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They consisted of a curved U-tube filled with mercury attached to a bulb containing creosote.
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First, she removes the fabric covering from the frame and cuts off the curved handle with a hacksaw.
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Sepals very large, incurved, overlapping each other, having the appearance of being semi-double, and being of good substance.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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The photograph on the facing page shows a pair of pictures, illustrating two curved designs bending round towards each other.
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The horn becomes greyish brown, short, strongly downcurved.
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There is a fat, curved spur at the back.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bottom of each drawing is curved, like a photographic vignette.
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Cenogenetic processes, on the other hand, include such phenomena as the formation of yolk and the embryonic membranes, the temporary allantoic circulation, the navel, the curved and contracted shape of the embryo, and the like.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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The sarcophagus clutched something in his hands, too, something small, bonelike, and curved.
GUARDIAN OF THE VEIL
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The body is prismoid in form, narrower above than below, and slightly curved, so as to be convex lateralward.
II. Osteology. 6a. 5. The Radius
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Short Turkish Swords - yataghans or curved daggers, were most frequently used for hand-to-hand combat where they usually were decisive for the result of combat, since the use of fire-arms had still been slow and unpractical.
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It can be done: they have found a firm of glass-makers in Venice that can produce the big double-curved pieces of glass required.
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I followed a curved track between the walls of the monks' fraternities.
Times, Sunday Times
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The mountain theme is incorporated throughout the facility - from its curved parapets and sculptured stone fountain to the grassy park with tree-covered walking trails.
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The caps are very irregular in shape, curved, repand, radiately furrowed, sometimes zoned; gray, or hair-brown in color, with a perceptibly hairy surface, the hairs running in lines on the surface.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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The flowers commonly have more or less recurved petals, and usually face outward or upward (as opposed to drooping).
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This force is active when wind is flowing around curved paths, and high or low pressure centers.
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Each wall was aligned with alcoves that curved around statues.
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The streets' surfaces were curved slightly, so that the middle was domed up above the rest and there were cluttered gutters along the edges.
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Both boys were born with chordee, which if left alone results in a curved penis later in life, with the possibility of pain and even in bad cases sexual disfunction.
The First Cut
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Ma'dan blacksmiths make fishing spears, reed splitters, sickles (curved cutting tools), and nails for the canoes.
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Spring flowers give way to those gum balls, woody balls covered with curved spines and containing one or two winged seeds.
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In her Scurved posture, draperies gathered to one side of her body, we recognize the Gothic ivories and stone portal figures that were her ancestors.
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A swag is a decorative accent to fabric created by hanging a fabric in a curved pattern between two points.
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The sheets are bilobed about a median furrow, visible in both vertical and horizontal sections, and form straight to gently curved, cross-cutting traces.
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Features: This network is a woven belt and a right-left helical screw alternately weave, usually connected by straight or curved section string section string.
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The aluminium balustrade with afrormosia handrail supports an angled hardwood book rest and the cast aluminium reading lamp, with a curved metal stem, springs from a hardwood post on the side.
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The first M91 / 30 rifles therefore, used the curved backsights of the old dragoon rifles.
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They are narrow or wide, swell out in the middle (ventricose), are curved like a bow (arcuate), and have a sudden wave or sinus in the edge near the stem (sinuate).
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
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His route curved away in a graceful sweep ahead of him. Three hours later he was obsessed with petrol.
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This was later elongated to become rectangular in plan, with roofing of bamboo as well, only this time curved in the shape of a barrel.
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I myself slouch in my chair so badly that my spine is curved like a boomerang.
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Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves. Mitch Albom
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In Mysidiella newtonae n. sp., from the early Norian of the Wallowa Terrane of Oregon, the lunule is even shorter and more deeply incurved than in M. orientalis.
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Cribellate silk is combed out from the cribellum using the calamistrum, a group of specialized, curved setae on the metatarsus of the fourth leg.
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There is a fat, curved spur at the back.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those distortions guide the moving masses along straight-line geodesics, which look like the curved trajectories that physicists call orbits.
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Louis curved his arm around her shoulders and placed a kiss on her cheek.
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We moved on to the under construction grand ballroom set with its twin curved staircases which surround a massive pipe organ (sound familiar?)
Boing Boing: April 27, 2003 - May 3, 2003 Archives
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Nobody doubted these were sharks' teeth, as they had two curved cusps and a well-developed root.
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Lateral or terminal on shoots of the preceding season; sterile flowers oblong-cylindrical, 1/4 inch in length; anthers yellow, red-tinged: fertile flowers on the upper side of the twig, erect, cylindrical; cover-scales broad, much larger than the purple ovuliferous scales, terminating in a long, recurved tip.
Handbook of the Trees of New England
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The boiler is the same as that in the standard type of engine, but the wheel base is 17 ft. 7 in., and in order to allow it to traverse curves easily, the front axle is fitted with a radial axle-box, which is in one casting from journal to journal, and fitted at each end with brass steps for the bearings; the box is radial, struck from the center of the rigid wheel base, and the horn plates are curved to suit the box, the lateral motion being controlled by strong springs.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
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Cutting a curved edge into large paving units always looks awkward to me.
Times, Sunday Times
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Smaller units can also be staggered in a similar fashion, or fanned out in arcs if a curved shape works particularly well in the garden.
Times, Sunday Times
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They seemed rare round there from the time he took; and I was just casting about in my mind as to what method would be best to employ in getting up the smooth, yellow, sandy-clay, incurved walls, when he arrived with it, and I was out in a twinkling, and very much ashamed of myself, until Silence, who was then leading, disappeared through the path before us with a despairing yell.
Travels in West Africa
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The petals may be overlapped, recurved, frilled, crinkled or ruffled.
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Fat-tailed sheep (of lamb age or older) are highly valued, and are often roasted with the tail intact, curved over the body to display it and to help baste the meat.
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As I did so, a figure walking along the road that curved gently with the land toward our farm and meandered past our house, caught my eye.
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Long and thin, the latter hang like a magical forest or are curved and twisted into puppet figures of varying sizes.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are narrow or wide, swell out in the middle (ventricose), are curved like a bow (arcuate), and have a sudden wave or sinus in the edge near the stem (sinuate).
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
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Although mammoths came much later than dinosaurs, I spotted a giant pair of ancient curved ivory tusks protruding from an isolated cliff.
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We had, however, lost some time in fording the stream, and we had but the one glimpse of him as the trail curved.
Tish
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Second, the surgeon uses straight and curved osteotomes to cut the bone parallel to the acetabulum's posterior column.
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In apical view, tooth 1 has a D-shaped cross section, with curved margin of the ‘D' facing mesially, and a broad groove extending over the distal surface of the crown.
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The first ship is almost done; Kulovaara wanted a more distinctive topside for the sister ships, and the proposal includes a spectacular curved-glass stern.
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The downfield resonance is attributed to molecules (mostly DCPC) on the highly curved region of the bicelle torus.
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Winds blowing in the upper atmosphere in curved paths are called gradient winds.
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The _first glume_ is concave, pale yellow, shining and cartilaginous to about 2/3 its length from the base, and the upper third is membranous, dimidiately ovate; at the back in the cartilaginous portion, there are three to six deep convex smooth ridges running across the glume; the membranous tip is thin and with anastomosing green veins; the margins of this glume are thick, narrowly incurved, ciliolate, and with a narrow wing on the outer margin.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Einstein's theory predicts that such gyroscopes will undergo geodetic precession merely because space-time is curved in the planet's vicinity.
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His lips curved into a knowing smile though Georgia tried to keep her expression as disinterested as possible.
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Many are shaped like small potatoes but others are curiously long and curved like crooked sausages.
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This could result from the compaction of curved or partially enrolled individuals, or possibly peri-mortem or post-mortem muscle contraction.
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They have curved doors made of marine-grade ply with a lacquer finish.
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One curved walnut kitchen cupboard had eight layers of gloss applied to perfect its sheen.
Times, Sunday Times
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Iron forks with three curved prongs, called craams, are sometimes used to scoop the cockles out of the sand.
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He may perchance find a few of the curved Omani daggers with handsome sheaths adorned with filigree silver, to which is usually attached, by a leather thong, a thorn extractor, an earpick, and a spike.
Southern Arabia
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It possesses six rays; the apical rays are long and curved.
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A curved, paved area links the lawn to a colourful flowering herb garden, one of only two on the island.
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His long, curved neck, wrinkled face and hooked nose gave him an appearance similar to that of a vulture.
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He held out his hands, and a long staff of spectral blue light appeared between them, with a serrated, curved blade attached to one end.
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Caps are 12.5 oz. wool blend and have buckram-backed front panels, pre-curved visors, and grey undervisors.
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She was naturally attractive with her cute face and short but nicely curved body.
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The UFO was described as oblong with a curved front and a series of small nozzles at the rear.
Daily News & Analysis
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The plates themselves are shaped as depicted in Fig. 55, _a, b, c, a_ and _b_ curved to meet the outlines of the shoe, and _c_ shaped so as to wedge tightly over the posterior ends of the side plates, and between them and the shoe.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot
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The vane guide plate is inserted in the lunular hollow formed by the curved walls of the vane.
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It has a sweeping driveway, terrace and a curved brick wall surrounding an orchard.
Times, Sunday Times
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Larsen's frost-blackened lips curved cynically
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At the aft end of the ventilation hatches, a curved beam spans the deck.
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his curved lips suggested a smile but his eyes were hard
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Its interior offers a complex expanse of soaring, curved steel beams.
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The lowest point of each elliptically shaped orbit curved below the planet's ionosphere, allowing the magnetometer to obtain better-than-planned regional measurements of Mars.
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Rib chops are identified by the slightly curved rib bone and the presence of the rib-eye muscle outside of the curve.
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Introduced to cannot exhibit B - batten curved surface extends square law mediumly in shoe design system.
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The original fireplace in the hall proved to have an elegant curved back and a decorative fireback of herringbone brick and was surmounted by a massive pine lintel.
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On the first floor are reception rooms and a kitchen, all bespoke curved units and granite tops.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Pentamerida were biconvex with incurved beaks and were characterized by an internal muscle platform, the spondylium.
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Pictures of bound feet show the toes bent right under the sole, which is so curved it is concave.
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His mouth curved in amusement, but his narrowed gaze was thoughtful, as though her observations had surprised him.
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Supposing the curved portion is a constant tool face angle curve, new mathematical models of well track design of 3D directional wells and sidetracked holes are established.
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The ridge curved away to the right and we had no idea where the top was.
A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
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If pelvises are present, compare: the male pelvic girdle will have wider ischio-pubic ramus, while the female will have a defined ventral crest, a curved subpubic concavity, & a wide sciatic notch.
Mordicai: crown me king!
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To the north a curved antechamber led to two rectangular rooms about 12 metres long, while a smaller antechamber led to yet another rock-cut chamber to the south.
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It gets better and better, the water cutting deeper into the curved and hollowed rock, with slabby undercuts and terraced waterfalls.
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There's nothing grand about it, just a set of pillars carefully constructed in curved bricks holding up a roof of Collyweston slates with a ball and cross finial on top.
Pillars of the Community
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The third law says that the motion of any moving body tends to be rectilinear, even if in fact it is circular or curved through collision.
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The ice in her voice curved Roman's into a charming grin.
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The surgeon also passes the straight and curved curettes directly into the portal.
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There is an unexplained niche behind a thick area of curved wall in the playroom.
Times, Sunday Times
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One was curved like a shell; in its depths, pale amethyst glinted.
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The shape of the dorsal fin is variable ranging from low and stubby with a broad base to high and falcate (curved).
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And if light paths are not straight but bent, then space is not flat but curved.
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The tail fins are hinged and have a curved surface, which results in the missile spinning in flight for aerodynamic stabilisation.
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For example, the weakly zygomorphic flower is scarlet, shows diurnal anthesis and has a backwardly curved labellum.
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My grandfather, who had badly sprained his ankle only a week before while getting a lesson in baile tropical out on the patio with Esperanza´s sister, and had been getting around with a cane, was now sitting on the edge of Eula´s bed, his head and hands leaning heavily on the curved handle, sobbing pitifully.
Burying Eula - A Day Of The Dead Story
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Look through the curved window and you can see deer roaming wild.
Times, Sunday Times
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Christopher Oram's representational set—several moveable curved walls featuring three levels of louvered doors behind balconies, "Hollywood Squares" style—looked a little dull.
Ladies' Man
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With a thin hilt and a curved bend, three sharp prongs spiked out nastily and gleamed in the room's bright light.
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The ibis has an exotic air with its burgundy plumage and oddly curved beak.
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The ceiling panels, curved soffits, and decorative guardrails all sport themes from Native American culture.
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I noted how its curved edges were constructed from broken fragments of tiles.
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It should be remembered that in his era there was little thought or knowledge of fractal geometry, curved space or different degrees of infinity.
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Chicks more than a week old are removed from their nests between early March to May by using curved needles tied to a rope which are inserted into the nest cavities entangling the chicks.
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Weapons mounts sprouted from every possible angle—Sisko, eyes narrowing, counted four projections that should be phaser mounts on just one of the down-curved, backswept wings—and the hull was laced with what appeared to be sensor points.
Proud Helios
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Condole supports: Eligible adornment cannot appear beat of curved arris , protruding.
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She was naturally attractive with her cute face and short but nicely curved body.
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The table, made of maple and walnut, features curved legs, intricate dovetailed joints made by hand and dowels and biscuits to connect the various pieces.
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The level brows shaded eyes that looked straight out at him, fearless, unconcealing; the richly curved lips were parted in a dazzling expression of happiness.
Gold Out of Celebes
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My hand was resting on a curved metal strut that could have been the edge of a hold.
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If the projectile is fired parallel to the ground, this effect causes the typical downward curved trajectory.
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The leaves are broad, with short stems; the heads are large, white, very compact, well protected by the incurved leaves, and equal in quality to those of the Cauliflower.
The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
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Dark pines and yellow birches lay ahead, as the shoreline curved to meet me.
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The Kagemusha fixed blade appears to be a highly utilitarian knife with its upswept blade and slightly curved handle for user comfort.
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Terrified, he ran to a stairwell; its helix curved upward toward the floors above.
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After ten minutes the road curved west and dipped down into a shallow ravine.
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On the basis of relevant test, the curved bear capacity of carbon fiber cloth reinforce reinforcing bar steel fiber concrete beam is studied.
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The shape of the violin - the upper bout or shoulders, the incurved waist, the lower bout or hips - were the creation of the unknown 15th-century inventor.
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Unless you are wrapping the framing around the window with drywall, both the jambs and the casings on the new window will need to be curved.
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However with ray tracing, shadow mapping, radiosity, and caustics, an algorithm to compute light reflected from curved or transparent surfaces, it is easy to create multi-layered soft lights and shadows in LightWave.
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Which may be why the vipers in the political snake pit are rattling their rattles and baring those long, curved fangs.
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Sicklebills have evolved a long, curved beak used to probe for insects in thick moss and tree bark.
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He hung the curved doors in the library using highly decorated throw hinges with cast finials and extremely wide leaves.
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This paper has made introduction of construction technology of steel box continuous curved beam as the references for construction departent and design department.
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His hands are the same, long, clever fingers, five of them, with webbing stretched between and ending in wicked, slightly curved, claws.
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The furniture was the wrong shape - it was curved and crooked.
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All of the joints are dovetailed and the compartments are curved and fitted perfectly.
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That curved lines as they can be varied in their degrees of curvature as well as in their lengths, begin on that account to be ornamental.
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These bright red rainforest honeycreepers have long, curved bills that are ideally suited for sipping nectar from Hawaiian lobelias.
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Shell short, broad robust, sides curved; spire about equal to the mouth; upper whorls nearly flat on the side; suture bordered by a slightly thickened margin; surface marked by a few large rounded revolving lines crossed by irregular lines of growth, so as to produce a semi-cancellate appearance.
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
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Typically, these plants consist of axes clothed in short, curved, decurrent leaves up to 1 cm in length and 0.5 cm wide.
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Given the upright but slightly curved posture of the rice leaves, this point was well exposed to prevailing light conditions.
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It is necessary to use curved trajectory to satisfy the combat requirement of shipborne weapon system.
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The _first glume_ is narrow, linear, membranous, grooved, finely bicuspidate at the apex, with incurved margins and two nerves ending in tubercles below.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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To warm up, Guru decided that we needed to work on short-sword ours is called a golok -- which is machete-length, though generally with a slightly-curved edge.
Thumper Rabbit's Daddy's Dictum
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The die was curved surface held down. The position of drawing rib was determined according to the analysis on the wrinkling trend of sheet bar made by DYNAFORM software.
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They came out from the shelter of the cedar forest with a rush, yelling furiously, each man waving his long jezail in his left hand, while a long curved tulwar, keen as a razor, flashed in his right -- big, stalwart, long-bearded, dark-eyed men, with gleaming teeth and a fierce look of determination to slay painted in every feature.
Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills
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Mr Golightly returned his gaze to the mire where a curlew had alighted and was delicately foraging with its long curved beak.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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Campanulate: bell-shaped: more or less ventricose at the base and a little recurved at the margin.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology