The action of ammonia on the skin renders it soft and pulpy, and diminishes its strength by separating the layers of which it is composed.
This not only diminishes the discharge, but has a good effect on the blood, particularly where there is more or less decomposition of the flesh.
But, as it is much more probable that the influence of the nature of the sides diminishes indefinitely as the channel is larger, this must be regarded as a defect in their formula.
This resistance diminishes with the velocity of the relative motion, and becomes zero in a fluid the parts of which are relatively at rest.
This causes a recoil of the water which momentarily diminishes the pressure in the pipe below the pressure due to the statical head.
But if the sluice is above the tail-water level, then the head is constant till the level of the sluice is reached, and afterwards it diminisheswith the time.
According to the experiments of Grassi, the compressibility of water diminishes as the temperature increases, while that of ether, alcohol and chloroform is increased.
In actual pipes, however, work is expended in friction against the pipe; the total head diminishes in proceeding along the pipe, and the free surface level is a line such as ab1c1, falling below abc.
The inlet radius is greater than the outlet radius, and the centrifugal head diminishes the velocity of flow into the turbine.
This shows that the efficiency increases with the pressure p, and diminishes with the speed v, other things being the same.
After each scraping the discharge diminishes rather rapidly to 10% and afterwards more slowly, the diminution in a year being about 25%.
In channels of trapezoidal form the velocity increases and diminishes with the discharge.
The centrifugal head diminishes the pressure at the inlet surface, and increases the velocity with which the water enters the wheel.
Consequently the flow into the turbine increases when the speed increases, and diminishes when the speed diminishes, and this again augments the variation of speed.
Usually the velocity diminishes along the main as the discharge diminishes, so as to reduce somewhat the total loss of head which is liable to render the pressure insufficient at the end of the main.
For a given plane the expression in brackets diminishes as [Omega] increases.
It seeks equality, it ends in inequality; it seeks the abolition of monopoly, it creates a new monopoly; it seeks to increase happiness, it actually diminishes it.
Northward along this range the thickness of the marble constantlydiminishes and rarely exceeds ten feet.
The limestone conglomerate is best developed from the Potomac to Leesburg, and from that region southward rapidly diminishes until it is barely represented at the south end of Catoctin Mountain.
Drainage, therefore, diminishesevaporation simply by removing the surplus snow and rain-water by filtration.
Sand scarcely diminishes at all in bulk by drying; but peat shrinks one-fifth in bulk, and strong agricultural clay nearly as much.
The stigma of disfranchisement cheapens the respect due to their opinions, diminishes their earnings and makes them subjects in the home as they are in the State.
No one imagines that business or politics diminishes or destroys the conjugal and paternal instinct in men.
When any cause occurs, which diminishes to a certain degree the supply of sensorial power in respect to the whole system; as suppose a temporary inexertion of the brain; what happens?
As the attraction of the moon countervails or diminishes the terrene gravitation of bodies on the surface of the earth; a tide rises on that side of the earth, which is turned towards the moon; and follows it, as the earth revolves.
In its more powerful state of exertion, it diminishes or destroys sensations and irritations, which are stronger than natural, as in intoxication, or which precede convulsions, or insanity.
Every sermon printed, diminishes his stock for the pulpit.
This sweet place is beautiful even yet, though no longer of a beauty young and blooming, such as you left it; but the character Of the prospect is so 'grand that winter cannot annihilate its charms, though it greatly diminishes them.
It is written with power, apparently by Professor Wilson, but with a degree of passion which rather diminishes the effect; for nothing can more lessen the dignity of the satirist than being or seeming to be in a passion.
The wheels of a machine, to play rapidly, must not fit with the utmost exactness, else the attrition diminishes the impetus.
Let us give it no quarter, for it diminishes our fitness for the full possession of God; but let it not cause our tongue to falter in "giving thanks to the Father who made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.
It "diminishes as the square of the distance" from the source.
This continual agitation destroys and diminishes by degrees the land.
Two lines drawn through the axes of our two eyes meet at the object we attend to: this angle of the optic axes increases or diminishes with the less or greater distances of objects.
A stimulus greater than natural diminishes the quantity of sensorial power in general.
A quantity of stimulus greater than natural, producing an increased exertion of sensorial power in any particular organ, diminishes the quantity of it in that organ.
In like manner a stimulus greater than natural, applied to a part of the system, increases the exertion of sensorial power in that part, and diminishes it in some other part.
This diminishes the dangers of navigation and considerably decreases the speed with which the tides rush through.
It keeps us young, it makes hope immortal, it emancipates from lower pursuits, it diminishes the weight of sorrows, it administers an anaesthetic to every pain.
In nature, attractiondiminishes as distance increases; in the realms of grace, it grows with distance.
It diminishes rapidly, however, as soon as one leaves the mountainous region and goes further east over the tableland.
On the right bank the height of the cliffs graduallydiminishes up river.
It comes to the surface at the foot of the cone, where the slope diminishes and the cone gradually passes into the plain.
This regularity diminishesin proportion as one approaches the coast.
Its slope diminishes gradually toward the bottom (from 0.
In further confirmation of the truth of the proposition that education diminishes crime, I will introduce the following statistics, gleaned from various official documents respecting prisons.
The iris dilates and contracts, and thus enlarges or diminishes the size of the pupil as the light that fails upon the eye is faint or strong; but this dilation and contraction are not instantaneous.
Whatever stupefies the brain, impairs the healthy action of the nerve of smell, or thickens the membrane that lines the nasal cavities, and thusdiminishes the sensibility of the nerves ramified upon it, injures this sense.
All these effects are produced by the habitual use of snuff, which, when introduced into the nose, diminishes the sensibility of the nerves, and thickens the lining membrane.
Lastly, it may be noticed that in the above-cited experiments, and others of a similar kind, the process goes on most rapidly at first, and steadily diminishes thereafter.
Any source which diminishes the sum-total of our already all too limited supply of combined nitrogen must be regarded as worthy of most serious consideration.
The amount of nitrates in drainage-waters steadily diminishes from autumn through the winter months, and is least in spring.
The process thus diminishes in activity the lower down we go.
It should never be taken when the body is exposed to severe cold, as it diminishes the resistance of the body.
An evolution in which the command diminishes its front, as in passing from line to column, or from extended order to close order.
On the contrary, he multiplies his dependencies upon nature;[124] but while increasing their sum total, he diminishes the force of each.
Hunter and fisher folk, relying almost exclusively upon what their land produces of itself, need a large area and derive from it only an irregular food supply, which in winter diminishes to the verge of famine.
Every mechanical invention which lessens the necessity for rough, untrained, muscular, human labour, diminishes also the social demand upon woman as the producer in large masses of such labourers.
There is absolutely no ground for the assumption that increased intelligence and intellectual power diminishes sexual emotion in the human creature of either sex.
The first appreciable effect of the alcohol after entering the blood is that of an anæsthetic; that is, it diminishes the sensibility of the brain and nerve structures, in the same direction as ether and chloroform.
It also diminishes very greatly the power of the muscles, and it diminishes the intellectual power of the nervous system.
In the state of collapse the voluntary nervous system is depressed; alcohol diminishes the power and activity of the nervous centres of the brain, hence its action is undesirable in shock or collapse.
In other words, its presence diminishes all the physical phenomena of life.
Roberts showed, years ago, that alcohol even in small doses, diminishes the activity of the stomach in the digestion of proteids.
These researches prove that alcohol diminishes the natural power of the tissues to resist injury, promotes degeneration, and has a disastrous effect on future generations.
It amounts to 17 per cent on the fore-fingers, while on the thumbs and on the remaining fingers the frequency diminishes (Table III.
Franklin, who was a pioneer in many so fields, seems to have been a pioneer in eugenics also by arguing that a standing army diminishes the size and breed of the human species.
Sodium chloride diminishes the solvent action of water on uric acid and the urates; but potassium salts, on the contrary, do not, they may even increase the action.
The effect of seasoning instead of increasing the range, diminishes it, by dulling the finer perception of flavours.
The actual extent of the projection remaining the same throughout, the angle of suspended slope, for that reason, diminishes as the cliff increases in height.
If the insulated plate P{1} is disconnected, leaving one of the ends a of the primary insulated, the filament becomes dark or generally it diminishes in brightness (Fig.
As the carbons burn away, the fine wire receives more current and the magnetism diminishes in proportion.
The current traversing the primary is strongest at the end b which is connected to the terminal T{1} of the induction coil, and diminishes in strength towards the remote end a.
In general, the interposition of a body between the coil and tube, increases ordiminishes the brilliancy of the tube, or its facility to light up, according to whether it increases or diminishes the electrification.
The interposition of the dielectric in this case only slightly increases the inductive effect, but diminishes considerably the electrification through the air.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "diminishes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
