These sliders fulfilled in a simple manner the function of the modern keys, and preceded the groove and pallet system of the modern organ.
After describing the other parts (see ORGAN), Hero passes on to the sliders with perforations corresponding with the open feet of the speaking pipes which, when drawn forward, traverse and block the pipes.
The only possible object of these gatings--two of which are shown in each of the sliders of Bramah's lock--was to prevent the tentative method of picking.
There are two classes of back–sliders and they should be dealt with in different ways.
Back–sliders who are sick of their wanderings and sin and desire to come back to the Lord.
God has greatly honored this verse in bringing back–sliders back to himself.
These latter, to be sure, are only sliders too, and the end of their descent is often deeper than that of their humble brethren of the pea and thimble.
However assiduously I have plied my vocation, I have never thought that I was doing the good which our masters expect of us in stopping the sliders on the slippery scale of criminal descent.
To maintain the fit of the sliders to the slides a slip of metal is inserted, as at e and at c, and these are set up by screws as at f, f and b, b.
The direct light of the lamp G, and that reflected from the mirror M, is condensed by the illuminating lenses CC, upon the transparent figures in the opaque sliders at E, and the image of these figures is formed at PQ, by the object lens D.
The variation of the distance of the lens D from the sliders in EF was not exactly adapted to the motion of the lantern to and from the screen, so that the outline of the figures was not equally distinct during their variations of magnitude.
But none of these earlier sliders made much good out of their novelty.
The fallacy of bad sliders is to be content with this gain of power in the action last named, and to substitute slide for swing (the arms eventually rowing the stroke home in either case).
There is nothing that will do back-sliders so much good as to come in contact with the Word of God; and for them the Old Testament is as full of help as the New.
What we want to do is to get back-sliders to hear what God the Lord will say.
The sliders consist of narrow strips of wood which are made to slide horizontally, right and left, under the stage.
During the bleaching operation the two sliders o, o, fig.
These frames, G and H, are fitted with sliders upon the angular edges of the flat broad bars, I and K.
Betwixt these guides, friction-roller sliders are placed, attached to the gin-ropes, to which sliders the corves are suspended.
The rising and sinking motion is communicated to this machine by chains which are attached to iron sliders below, and which are wrought by the hosier's heel when necessary.
It has sliders and is clamped to the bed in the same manner as the headstock, but only one bolt is used.
Sliders are mounted on the ends of the long arms and are kept in place by setscrews.
It was too early for the regular concert to start, but they were experimenting with the set, shifting the sliders around on the tuning coil in an effort to catch some of the messages sent out by near-by amateurs.
This he effected by enabling the owner so to alter the sliders as to render the lock inaccessible to such key if applied by any other person but himself, or until the sliders had been rearranged so as to admit of its proper action.
The sliders can be moved in and out a short distance in the direction of the axis of the rows of pipes.
These sliders have iron jacks fixed to them, and connected with the keys, and the keys, when touched, make the sliders move regularly.
So, when the keys, touched by the hand, drive the sliders forward and draw them back regularly, alternately stopping and opening the holes, they produce resonant sounds in a great variety of melodies conforming to the laws of music.
His sliders are therefore perfectly opaque, except that portion upon which the transparent figures are drawn, and the exhibition is thus conducted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sliders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
