After the four pieces have been sawed out on the mitre box, they should be placed together on a flat surface, such as the bench top or floor, to see if the mitres fit perfectly.
A kite having a stiff, flat surface presented to the wind will often cut up queer antics, while the same frame covered with a more flexible covering will fly beautifully.
It is well to remember in gluing mitre joints that end grain absorbs more glue than a flat surface.
Thus, if we cut out an elliptical figure from a board one inch in thickness, and rest it on a flat surface by one of its edges (as at No.
Corks may always [Page 91] be softened by using either a proper cork squeezer, or by placing them under a piece of board or a flat surface, and rolling and pressing the cork till quite elastic.
Many of the candies that are turned out on a flat surface must be worked to make them creamy.
Then pour out on a flat surfacethat is well dusted with confectioner's sugar.
A is ground away to avoid its contact with the work and give clearance, while clearance to the cutting edge is obtained by filing or grinding a flat surface B at the necessary angle to the upper face of the cone.
If the lathe bed is provided with ways having a flat surface, as was shown in Fig.
To bring to a lower level; to overthrow; to topple down; to reduce to a flat surface; to lower.
A representation of the surface of the earth, or of some portion of it, showing the relative position of the parts represented; -- usually on a flat surface.
Is there any warrant for saying that Scripture teaches that the earth is a flat surface?
To state that the scriptural view of the world is, that "the earth is a flat surface," is misrepresentation.
The problem of how to transcribe on a flat surface in a single picture the effect later produced by a stereoscope with two pictures, has confronted painters for hundreds of years.
Obviously this could not be accomplished on a flat surface, for the emotion of depth is a necessity to the recognition of equilibrium.
And the line, of which we have heard so much, will then become a direction and equality of pure form; it will no longer be simply an indication on a flat surfaceby means of a mark.
They are evened up on the edges by jarring on a flat surface.
Sharpening Skates with a File [306 Two methods are shown in the sketches for filing skates-one for hollow filing and the other for filing flat [Illustration: Filing a Flat Surface] and straight across the blade.
These were placed on a flat surface and a weight set on them.
Place it on a flat surface (marble is good, but any perfectly smooth surface will do) and place distance pieces 1/8 in.
A decoration of a flat surface, as of a band or belt, representing circular disks lapping one upon another.
A flat surface, as of a panel or of a fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board.
The handles, however, are better adapted for pushing the scrapers forward on a flat surface, and judging from the wear upon them they must have been so used.
But if the stone be held in the hand, with the middle finger in the cavity, the wear is precisely on that part of the stone which would come in contact with a flat surface, in hammering upon it.
A flat surface is frequently left on the sides of the ovate |553| implements in or about the same position.
In two of these the end of the flake has been chipped into a straight scraping edge at an acute angle to the body of the flake, so as to form a tool which can be held in the hand and used for scraping a flat surface, perhaps of bone.
Let a be the distance between the equidistant feet, and d the distance through which the screw is protruded or retracted from its zero position on a flat surface.
By working upon these alternately with the same polisher, we finally get our polisher into such shape that it approximates more and more to a flat surface, and with extreme care and slow procedure we finally attain the results desired.
People in Europe were just beginning to realize that they were living on a sphere and not upon a flat surface, and that there was a vast new land on the other side of the ocean.
Notched iron bars can be made to "crawl" along a flat surface by alternately heating and cooling them.
And the shadow, which falls upon a great stone quadrant instead of upon a flat surface, moves at the rate of two and a half inches a minute.
Should this not be so, mix some more plaster and strengthen the cast, endeavouring to get a flat surfaceon the top.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flat surface" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
