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Example sentences for "give motion"

  • It has often been attempted to give motion to a wheel by the power of a loadstone, but hitherto without effect; no substance in nature being found to have the power, by interposition, of cutting off its attractive property.

  • An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.

  • Endless, or perpetual screw, a screw used to give motion to a toothed wheel by the action of its threads between the teeth of the wheel; -- called also a worm.

  • DU QUET A Frenchman who, in 1714, designed a small windmill to give motion to the wheels of his carriages.

  • The presser of the operation, of which something has already been said, appears at F; and of the two arms which support and give motion to it, one appears very plainly at E, its centre of motion being at C.

  • A large spur-wheel G, is fixed upon the axis F, to give motion to the endless chains; see both figures.

  • The two large wheels C and E give motion to the wheels H, I, which are supported on bearings between two standards b, b, bolted down to the ground sills.

  • Now, to give motion or to resist motion is itself either a breach or a use of a law of Nature, according as we express that law.

  • But if it be no breach of law to give motion to the air, it is in God's power to bring us favourable winds.

  • The effect of both is the same: it is to give motion to matter, and nothing more.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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