As a result the shortenings on the upper side of the beam become considerably greater than the elongations on the lower side.
Within the elastic limit the elongations and shortenings are equal, and the neutral plane lies in the middle of the beam.
The number of knots, ties, bends, hitches, splices, and shortenings in use is almost unlimited and they are most confusing and bewildering to the uninitiated.
The simplest of all shortenings consists of a loop taken in the rope with the bights seized to the standing part (Fig.
One of the shortenings was Shreve's Cut-off, made only twenty-one years before this birth year of the Votaress.
The contours of his figures are correct, his shortenings pleasing and appropriate, and his compositions very judicious; the whole expressing great harmony and beauty.
He designed also the naked parts, as much as possible, in various shortenings and attitudes, in order to render his compositions as diversified as nature herself.
Not all shortenings will produce the same effect, and the baker should experiment with small batches.
Some of the shortenings used permitted the doughs to rise very much higher than where other shortenings were used, and it made no difference how often these doughs were made and the tests repeated.
With some shortenings the amount of fat brought out was nearly one-half of what was added; in others it would be less than one-fourth, and in some it was as high as three-fourths.
The shortenings that permitted a very high expansion of the dough on one test always gave a high expansion in another test, so that the results were uniform.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shortenings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
