The weights and measures not enumerated here are explained at the foot of the page in which they occur.
The Foreign Weights and Monies have been converted into English, at the following rates.
Weights and Measures: All that refers to weights and measures is merely an application of similar operations and reasonings.
Pans on the main frame are used to carry weights to hold the disks down to their work.
This, with an elaborate treatise on weights and measures, remains in MS.
The Babylonians had the divisions of the year, the month, and the day; they fixed weights and measures, and calculated square and cube roots.
They held to their old method after a better one had been invented, just as half the Western world to-day holds to an antiquated system ofweights and measures after a far simpler system of decimals has been introduced.
He will probably tie heavy weights to your necks and drop you into a deep hole in the ocean," replied Roy promptly.
And what would we be doing all the time he was tying the weights to us?
They tried the chest-weights and tested the bars and experimented with about everything they found down there, and then went into the adjoining compartment and peered into the shower-baths and passed on the merits of the steel lockers.
In spite of the weights upon its legs, it rose to the surface, once, twice, thrice.
In larger pieces of work especially, this should be done as quickly as possible so that a board with weights upon it, to serve as a press, may be laid over them all at once.
Weights should be to the nearest pound, lengths to the nearest 0.
This container and water is balanced byweights placed on the other scale pan.
The larger units of stress are read from the graduations along the side of the beam, while the intermediate smaller weights are observed on the dial on the rear end of the beam.
In some parts of India and China very heavy weights are carried by an ingenious framework of bamboo.
The inner end of the bamboo was secured by heavy weights being placed on it.
To coin money; regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin; and fix the standard of weights and measures.
To coin money, regulate the value thereof and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; Clause 6.
Then, pretending that one's output is greater than it really is will be classed with "divers weights and divers measures," with their false standards.
The additional fatigue from handling additional weights causes fatigue to increase with the weight, but not in direct proportion to the extra weight handled.
The arrows were of different weights and sizes; the lighter sort, for long ranges, about two feet three inches; while the heavy were a cloth yard in length.
At this time I greatly improved my sledge, by placing it on two small wheels belonging to the guns of the ship, making it a light and commodious carriage, and so low, that we could easily place heavy weights on it.
Would not such a ridiculous system of weights and measures paralyze exchange and demoralize industry?
Accordingly, he devised an experiment in which paddle wheels were made to rotate in a vessel of water by means of falling weights somewhat like the weights of a clock.
The amount of work represented by the falling of the weights was easily calculated, and so was the amount of rise in temperature of the water caused by the friction of the water with the rotating paddle wheels.
We are all heer," said Odell, and he added his hat to his coat and the pile of weights on the scale-beam, and put his right foot on the rung of his chair.
Curse these Rebels," he shouted, "they've taken our window weights to make bullets.
Although a man of presence, measurable by scales with weights enough, our general has no more ponderosity now than a leaf in a mountain storm at Hale--and no more control over the hurricane.
That is to say, the well-cylinder is gradually sunk by its own weight, aided, if necessary, by heavy additional weights piled upon it.
He then loaded himself with sand, as a sportsman who is required to carry weights in a race loads himself with shot, and stepping into the water disappeared.
When a press cannot be had, they may be put between boards, and heavy weights laid on.
In lieu of the screw-press, heavyweights laid on the paper for several hours, will answer the same purpose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weights" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
