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Example sentences for "inverting"

Lexicographically close words:
invert; invertebrate; invertebrated; invertebrates; inverted; inverts; invest; invested; investigate; investigated
  1. Wt judgement would he make of uppermost and lowermost who had always seen through an inverting glass?

  2. Their operation is by inverting the motions of the lymphatics of the membrane, which lines the nostrils, and the caverns of the forehead and cheeks; and may thence possibly be of service in the hydrocephalus internus.

  3. The experiment can be tried by inverting a tumbler over a rose-bud in a saucer of water.

  4. A popular remedy is to throw henbane seed on hot cinders, inverting a cup over them to receive the smoke and empyreumatic oil produced.

  5. By thus inverting the legitimate order, you do what is tantamount to demonstrating A through itself; for your demonstration will not hold unless you assume A at the beginning, in order to arrive at C.

  6. Defn: A thermometer by merely inverting which the temperature may be registered.

  7. Terrestrial telescope, a telescope whose eyepiece has one or two lenses more than the astronomical, for the purpose of inverting the image, and exhibiting objects erect.

  8. For what is this, but inverting the very Nature of Things?

  9. But for an old Man to be introduced in the first Act; and to appear a young one in the second, is inverting Nature.

  10. This, he says, is because the Mule has the horse for a father, and the Hinny the ass, thus inverting the actual facts!

  11. Before inverting the first apparatus, however, the reception bag must be removed, for fear of spilling its mercury.

  12. As they become dry, on inverting their upper end, they discharge a viscid liquid from it, and they are pressed at several times with oiled fingers to promote its flow.

  13. This space, being filled with the solution of chloride of lime, is to be turned up into the shut end by covering the open end with the finger, and inverting the tube; a few drops of water may be sent through to wash the mercury.

  14. The gold should fall out cleanly and completely on merely inverting the cup over the pan of the balance.

  15. Remove the dried silver chloride, by inverting the crucible, and weigh it.

  16. The British Admiral turned all his ships eight points simultaneously, inverting the order of his line, to rescue his injured vessel.

  17. On the other hand certain movements are entirely his own, such as his excellent device of inverting the line after passing through the enemy's fleet, a great improvement on Collingwood's method of leading down it in normal order.

  18. Recurring to his intention he drew the corks of the mineral waters, and inverting each bottle one by one over the window-sill, heard its contents dribble in a small stream on to the gravel below.

  19. In the inverting telescope the satellites move from right to left in the nearer parts of their orbit, and therefore transit Jupiter's disc in that direction, and from left to right in the farther parts.

  20. The shadows do not travel in the same apparent paths as the satellites themselves across the disc, but (in an inverting telescope) below from August to January, and above from February to July.

  21. It is to be looked for to the left of the ball (in an inverting telescope) at quadrature preceding opposition, and to the right at quadrature following opposition.

  22. The latter inverts but does not reverse right and left; therefore after inverting our picture we must interchange right and left because they have been reversed by the inversion.

  23. The real dextrin is determined by inverting a portion of the filtered liquid with HCl, and then determining its reducing power.

  24. The starch is estimated by inverting a portion of the solid dextrin, and determining the glucose formed by Fehling.

  25. Upon inverting the direction of rotation, the needle was again affected, but in the opposite direction.

  26. The same effect would take place if by inverting the direction of motion of the wire in passing between either set of poles (fig.

  27. At first, indications of electric currents were obtained; but when these were tested by inverting the direction of contact, and in other ways, they were found to be due to other causes than the one sought for.

  28. Inverting the helix ten or twelve times, and at such periods that the deflecting forces exerted by the currents of electricity produced in it should be added to the momentum of the needle (39.

  29. Yet the possibility was not lost sight of that the great planet, by inverting its mode of action, might undo its own work, and fling the comet once more into the inner part of the solar system.

  30. Inverting the process, Sir David Gill in 1897 derived the constant from the parallax.

  31. I will take the liberty, however, of inverting the order in which the purposes of these good men are mentioned, beginning at what they end with.

  32. There, inverting the order which had been properly adopted, when the Life and Letters were new matter, the poems are placed first; and the rest takes its place as subsidiary to them.

  33. Instead of inverting one hive, set them both on a cloth right side up, and smoke the bees; the queens are easily found, while they are all paralyzed; then put the bees all together.

  34. Make sure of this, by inverting it, and letting a little drop out.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inverting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.