Repeat the same experiment, placing the untwisted yarn in sulphuric acid.
Burn separately a sample of the untwisted warp and filling threads.
Burn a piece of untwisted yarn and notice whether it burns slowly and curls up into a black crisp cinder leaving a disagreeable smell, or burns with a flash leaving a light ash behind.
An end of poorer quality, or in a spoiled condition, as the coarser end of a web of cloth, the untwisted end of a rope, ect.
To becomeuntwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy.
Fine and soft woolen yarn, untwisted or lightly twisted, used in knitting and embroidery.
The faith of very many men seems a duty so weak and indifferent, is so oftenuntwisted by violence, or raveled and entangled in weak discourses!
To fag out, to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas.
A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning.
If a carcass is to be made, tow or hemp, or untwisted rope, is immersed in the composition while hot, and taken out and formed into a ball of the size required.
My line was forty yards of untwisted silk upon a multiplying reel.
Laocoon shut his mouth, which had been stretched open for about eighteen centuries, untwisted the last coil of the snake, and stepped down, a free man.
Little Davie, on seeing this, untwisted his fingers and went up to her.
Joel gave one plunge at the bag, untwisted it, and thrust in his hand.
The evening light gleamed upon the glistening skin of the fish, as it suddenly untwisted itself, and writhed into another form.
They are properly all gold stitches; but purse silk, thin cord, or even untwisted silk may be used.
Raw or spun silk is a soft untwisted cream-coloured silk, used for daisies and other simple white flowers, or in outlining.
I bent a link by main force and untwisted the chain that had hampered me about the ankles, and sprang to my feet, with the chain in my hand.
Here she untwistedthe coil at the back of her head and let it fall in a soft curling shower round her shoulders--"Oh, yes!
Her fingers twisted and untwisted a little straying curl.
She put up her hand and untwisted the little tendril of brown hair that hung deliciously over her left ear.
The Life suspended above them untwisted its loosely gathered in strands, the strands shone with a golden light and entwined again in soft forms.
Macro came hurrying in with hot sand from the hearth, wrapped in linen and tied with strands of untwisted rope.
For this purpose the spindles were set upright at the end of the frame, and the rovings or strips of untwisted fibre were carried on bobbins on the inclined frame.
Then, as the carriage carrying the whirling spindles continues to back away, the thicker parts of the thread, being comparatively untwisted are pulled down to the average diameter and are twisted in turn.
The woof series seems to consist of untwisted strands of bast or flax.
The remarkable feature of this example is the character of the woof, which seems to be a broad braid formed by plaiting three strands of untwisted fiber, probably bast.
The fiber has the appearance of bast and is plaited in untwisted strands, after the manner shown in the illustration.
Drew untwisted the chain with a wrist flip, sprang forward toward the cheval-glass, and stamped his foot down upon the smoking telephone receiver as if it were the head of a rattlesnake.
He untwisted her cold fingers, and palmed the weapon under a shielding cuff.
Bunyan wrote his "Pilgrim's Progress" on the untwisted papers which were used to cork the bottles of milk brought for his meals.
He dismounted, untwisted a piece of telegraph wire which had begun to cut the horse's leg, examined it deliberately, and climbed into his saddle.
The state into which old ropes are reduced when they are untwisted and picked to pieces.
To join the two untwisted ends of a rope together.
A strong and pliant hank, or untwisted skein of rope-yarn marled together, and used as a strap to fasten round a shroud or stay, or slings to which to hook a tackle to hoist in any heavy articles.
The strands of the loose ends of the cords are now completely untwisted by inserting the cord in the groove of the scraper and repeatedly rubbing it up or down with the back of a knife.
In order to expedite the scraping of the bands, the threads are untwisted before pulling out from each other, the loose end need not exceed 1-1/2 cm.
A broken tent-pole can be mended permanently by placing a splint of wood on either side of the fracture, and by whipping the whole together, with soft cord or with the untwisted strand of a piece of rope.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "untwisted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
