The idea of printing by means of moveable types had probably suggested itself to the imagination of many persons conversant with impressions taken either from blocks or seals.
Sometimes also it is printed with moveable type; and occasionally the musical characters are printed on the paper, and the lines printed afterwards.
Thus, in one hour, four thousand sheets of paper are printed on one side; and an impression of twelve thousand copies, from above three hundred thousand moveable pieces of metal, is produced for the public in six hours.
This mode of producing copies possesses, in common with that by moveable types, the advantage of admitting the use of woodcuts: the copy of the woodcut in the stereotype plate being equally perfect.
These moulds are themselves copied by casting the plaster in a liquid state upon the moveable types set up by the compositor.
These moveable types, the obedient messengers of the most opposite thoughts, the most conflicting theories, are themselves copies by casting from moulds of copper called matrices.
In that most generally adopted a mould is taken in plaster from the moveable types, and in this the stereotype plate is cast.
Kwa´kü üt´cpi Moveable mat of reeds or sticks for covering hatchway opening, Fig.
Though moveable chairs or stools are rare, nearly all of the dwellings are provided with the low ledge or bench around the rooms, which in earlier times seems to have been confined to the kivas.
In this lathe the slide rest and frame were moveable along the traversing-bar, according to the length of the work, and could be placed in any position and secured by a handle and screw underneath.
Cilia, when furnished with fibres by whose agency they are rendered moveable and susceptible of inversion, are called tentacula, which here occur under every variety of form.
This element is therefore moveable in all directions, is the most unstable, and in form most similar to the æther.
For the first time, in the Mammalia, the eyes are moveable and covered with two perfect lids, without the other organs of sense having suffered degradation through this completion of the eyes.
If the light of the æther becomes fixed, a less dense, and thus a less heavy matter, must originate, and one whose atoms aremoveable against each other.
With the ear and the moveable organs of voice originates a kind of language, which is in a condition to express a multitude of sentiments.
On the other hand, in the moveable thoracic animals or Birds, the mechanical instincts at once re-appear.
Moveable or voluntary organs of feeling are called tactile organs.
A skin, which is moveable by means of muscles, must take the noblest rank.
Thus, in these animals the sense of feeling obtains special and moveable organs; they are Tactile animals.
An integument clothed with hair, and self-substantially moveable is the perfection of this organ, it is a fur--Furred animals.
The corrosive body regarded specially as simply a pure earthy body, must stand opposite to the two moveable elements.
The furniture of the rooms consisted of a deal table and a moveable divan of wicker-work, while another, formed of the same solid materials as the house, spread in the Egyptian fashion along one side.
With a taste for study, which he found rather inconvenient in the moveable existence of a man of the world, and a military wanderer, he had, however, contrived to reserve an hour or two every day for literary pursuits.
Within the cavity of the mouth was a small moveable tongue, which by its motion at proper intervals, admitted or intercepted the air in its passage to the flute.
This object may be readily attained by the use of raised moveable types and the heavy pressure of an iron pen or mallet.
Finally, p q r, in both figures, is the moveableindex first shewn in fig.
These inverted cups make also one body with the moveable cover shewn between d and e, and to which is soldered the tube h i--which, sliding in the case f g, keeps this inverted vessel steady.
In China and Japan, therefore, the use of moveable types was of short duration.
In Europe, however, when the art of printing frommoveable types once became known, the case was very different.
However this may be, at the time of the lawsuit the work of years was already perfected, printing with moveable types was now an accomplished thing, and the great Mazarin Bible, if not finished, was at any rate on the point of completion.
As a matter of fact, the first inventor of printing is unknown, and even as regards moveable types it is impossible to say with absolute certainty when or by whom the idea was first conceived.
In these early copies the body of the work consists of a text printed from moveable types, with a block-printed illustration at the head of each page.
This moveable piece of wood does the principal work, and is easily replaced when it has sustained injury.
One of the most ingenious is that of a coach with a moveable roof and a frame with pulleys to drop the ladies in from the top, in order to avoid the disarranging of their hoops which would necessarily attend their entrance by the door.
It is possible that the whole of these eminences may, at some distant period, have been formed by the drifting of moveable sands.
They are covered by a coat of black vegetable earth, from six inches to a foot in thickness, which shows that they cannot be of very recent formation, though at some distant period they may have been formed by the drifting of moveable sands.
However this may be, for an absolutely fixed eye, I conceive there can be no doubt in the case of an eye that is moveable and capable of adjustment.
When two moveable eyes are present, the notion of space of three dimensions is obtained in the same way as it is by the two hands, but with, much greater precision.
There is a very interesting class of grubs which live under water, where they construct for themselves moveable tents of various materials as their habits direct them, or as the substances they require can be conveniently procured.
We observed more than one of these in the act of breaking through this covering, within which there is, besides, a round moveable lid of a sort of brown wax.
The caterpillar of a small moth (Tinea) which feeds upon the lichens growing on walls, builds for itself a moveable tent of a very singular kind.
I had a box made twelve inches square and nine deep, with a moveable glass lid.
For, in the first place, it is made up of an immoveable centre, and a moveable radius, qualities which are contrary to each other.
It is that act of a moveable which belongs to its power of moving.
Besides, it would perhaps be absurd on the very mention of it, that an animal force residing in the moveable body of the planet for the purpose of moving it, should exert and relax itself so often without weariness or decay.
But if by that time you are still minded to go, we shall not hinder your departure, with your wife, your sons, and all your moveable property.
Two of these were moveable on a hinge, and were directed respectively upon the horizon, and the star the altitude of which it was desired to determine.
A relief party should therefore be provided with a branding-iron and moveable letters, and with paints, and they should mark the tree in many places.
When he wants a carriage for pleasure, he fits it up for that purpose; his moveable perch allows him to make it anything.
A sort of wooden stirrup was suspended by a solid strap to a moveablepulley on the rope.
Though the idiom of the Lamas is alphabetical, much in the manner of our European languages, yet they make no use of moveable type; stereotype printing on wood is alone practised.
Many years ago, I have seen Chinese boxes on which such moveable figures were apparent only when the box was held against the light.
I should rather compare the statue of Lysippus to those moveable masses of rock which are mentioned by various authors, both ancient and modern.
A small wedge of cork enables the moveable piece of glass to be thrown forwards, until it assumes any angle, or is brought parallel to the front of the trough.
The grass that overspread the ground, the branches and foliage of the trees, all shone with that reddish and moveable light which varies in its intensity at the will of the animal by which it is produced.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moveable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
