A long screwdriver is more powerful than a short one, for the screwdriver is rarely exactly in line with the axis of the screw, but the handle revolves in a circle.
In this the entire mechanism carrying the wheels on which the band-saw revolves can be moved up and down, so as to bring the point where the saw leaves the upper wheel as close to the top of the different sized logs as possible.
The edge as it becomes thin, tends to spring away from the stone and this tendency is aggravated if the stone revolves away from the edge.
The Sun-Spots are not devoid of motion, and from their movements we learn that the radiant orb revolves upon itself in about twenty-five days.
The star [delta] of Cepheus is in the same case: it is an orb eclipsed in a period of 129 hours, and its eclipsing planet also revolves in the plane of our vision.
The plane of the oscillations remains fixed, but the Earth revolves beneath, from West to East.
Isolated on all sides in space, it revolves round the Sun, along a vast orbit that it accomplishes in a year.
Let us, for example, get close to Sirius: in this star we admire a sun that is several times heavier than our own, and of much greater mass, accompanied by a second sun that revolves round it in fifty years.
We saw in the preceding lesson that the Moon revolves round us, describing an almost circular orbit that she travels over in about a month.
The Earth revolves round him in a year, and in consequence he seems to revolve round us, sweeping through a vast circle of the celestial sphere.
This observation proves that the Sun revolves upon itself.
Our globe, moreover, actually revolves upon itself so that we read the whole in due sequence.
As the Earth revolves upon itself, all the parts successively exposed to the Sun are in the day, while the parts situated opposite to the Sun, in the cone of shadow produced by the Earth itself, are in night.
And just as a galaxy in the material realm revolvesaround the black hole at its center, in the temporal realm, the flow of time itself revolves around eternity.
Every time that the temporal continuum revolves around eternity, it has a new age, much like the years of the earth as it revolves around the sun.
In the case of matter, it revolves around a black hole, in which there is not found any matter, but there are places of emptiness inside of the matter, in fact, most of an atom is empty space.
In the case of time, it revolves around eternity, an enigma where there is no such thing as time, even as there are certain areas where no time exists in physical existence, such as a book.
While they both are revolving within themselves, they are also revolving together, around an enigma which, as other of the centers, is completely devoid of the thing which revolves around it, but is found plentifully in them.
Likewise, physical existence, which is a combination of time and matter, revolves around a place in which there is no physical existence, namely, the spiritual realm.
So, noiselessly, proceeds time, and the earth revolves and revolves through its alternations of sun and shade.
She has neither water nor atmosphere, and always presents the same surface to the earth in consequence of rotating on her axis in the same time as she revolves round the earth.
When the fruit falls from the tree the wing revolves with great rapidity, very much on the lines of a propeller blade.
The earth revolves on its axis from west to east, nearly 17.
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She swings us in her orbit from winter to summer and revolves us from day into night and from night into day.
He also held that the Earth revolves daily on its axis, and yearly around the sun.
The roller revolves slowly, so that the hanks, while passing continuously through the bleaching powder, are for the greater part of the time being exposed to the air.
A vertical scourer consists of a number of steel or iron beaters attached to a vertical spindle which revolves inside a metallic woven or perforated casing, the whole being fitted with an effectual exhaust.
Thus this shaft revolves thirty times per minute, that is, the rod r rises and falls each second.
To be sure the armature of the dynamo which generates that current revolvesonly once a second, but it carries coils enough upon its rim to make that number of alternations.
C, C, the wheel which turns or revolves round that part of the cranked center mark A.
From the fireplace there starts a tube which runs to the base of the altar, where it revolves on a pivot, while its upper part revolves in a tube fixed to the fireplace.
It sometimes happens that the ball revolves in the current and carries along the butterflies, which thus describe a circle around an axis.
They hav a koal blak eye, which revolves on its axis, and shines like a glass bead.
Thare are menny people who not only beleave that this world revolves on its axis, but they beleave that they are the axis.
That humanity is the pivot round which Mr. Spencer's philosophic system revolves is seen in the earliest Essays, and notably in his making mental evolution the subject of the first instalment of his Synthetic Philosophy.
If he speaks on the high matters round which, like planet tethered to sun, the spirit of man revolves by irresistible attraction, it is with hesitating voice and with no deep emotion.
This produces an intense magnetic field between the ends of the magnets, and in this space revolves the armature.
The third machine, which far excels the two just described, is made when a running stream can be diverted to a mine; the impetus of the stream striking the paddles revolves a water-wheel in place of the wheel turned by treading.
Each timber also has a wooden pulley, which together with its iron axle revolves in holes in the timber.
The bronze pipe not only revolves round the little iron axle, but it also rotates with it; therefore, when the axle revolves, the little axle and the bronze tube in their turn raise the tooth and the stamp.
The wheel has sixty teeth, since it is necessary that the rundle drum should revolve twice while the toothed wheel revolves once.
There is an iron band around the small axle of the balancing drum, each journal of which revolves in an iron bearing fixed to a timber.
This drum surrounds an iron axle which has a pinion at the bottom and revolves in an iron cup in a timber.
It consists of a drum about 5 in diameter and 10 in high, which revolves by clockwork once in twenty-four hours, the same mechanism also driving a small clock.
The shaft revolves continuously, but has, at the same time, a to and fro motion in the direction of its axis, so as to cause the thread to move forward constantly and form a cop.
But, as soon as a core of thread has been formed, it is in contact with the entire surface of the cone, and thus revolves with a mean velocity until it is finished.
A mixer, F, revolves in the interior of this, and effects an intimate admixture of the lime and acid without the necessity of the former being pulverized beforehand.
If to a vertical pipe we adapt a horizontal one that revolves with a certain velocity, and throws out water horizontally, it will be understood that, from a bird's eye view, the jet will form a spiral.
The catastrophe has disarranged its course, but it still revolves in a prolonged orbit around the sun, carrying its broken débris in a long trail behind it.
This consists of two parts, the upper portion a piece of hard, round wood which one priest revolves with a rope or cord known as Netra.
The working of the implement thus requires the labour of two priests, one of whom presses down the plunger, and the other who revolves the drill rapidly by means of the rope.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "revolves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
