bevel
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To bear up under the higher stress, the PDK’s clutches, gearsets and bevel gear have all been reinforced.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
According to Adidas, the Weagle design on the front of the sweater features a “combination of sublimation and classic twill embroidery,” producing a bevel effect.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2023
Even when I'm cutting a pumpkin, I will cut a little bevel on the bottom, just cut a little edge off, and now it is solid on the board.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2022
The building nods nicely to the past, with its off-white, bevel siding and flat roof that juts out over a concrete island, a place where sculptures will reside instead of gas pumps.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2022
From these points of division draw lines to the centre, and these lines will show the required bevel at the end of each spoke, as shown in the figure.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
The aim was realism in the inflatables’ corners and bevels but with distortion and accentuation in certain curves.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2022
Staircases that had simple bevels and architecture give way to columbines, lotuses and other ornate features carved into the walnut and mahogany.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 20, 2020
It in fact produces what Chef’sChoice calls a Gothic Arch Edge, which consists of three distinct bevels, the final one at 15 degrees.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2018
A whisper of sweetness bevels the crisp edges.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2016
The wire edge is thus worn off quickly as there is no metal to be worn away in the middle of the bevels.
From A Course In Wood Turning by Archie S. Milton
Their beveled corners are polished to a high glossy sheen, which creates slender vertical stripes that contrast sharply with the charcoal shadows from which they emerge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
Do you want to know if someone needs a changing table topper with beveled sides, preferably before Friday?
From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2025
A St. Patrick’s Day decoration hung on the other side of the beveled glass door as I buzzed the receptionist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2023
Kuehn says a color core — a contrasting color visible in the beveled edge of the opening — is also an option.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2022
As he talks, I shed layers, tossing stuff onto the marble table below the big beveled mirror.
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
He has also acted in theatre and on screen, busked, potted, bevelled glass, made music and made people laugh - he's about to cameo in TV series Black Comedy, which showcases indigenous sketches.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2019
After the second set of microelectrodes was implanted, the excised portion of Scheuermann’s skull was returned—though it was bevelled at the seams to allow the wires to pass through to the pedestals.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018
"The cause is Ozymandian The map of Sapokanikan Is sanded and bevelled The land lone and levelled By some unrecorded and powerful hand Which plays along the monument And drums upon a plastic bag"
From The Verge ● Oct. 23, 2015
Staff would deliver trays of prototype phones for him to inspect and pore over, spinning them to check for balance and running his fingers across the bevelled edges and joints.
From Reuters ● Aug. 20, 2013
This bevelled edge is divided into 25 equal divisions round its circumference, as denoted by the lines marked 5, 10, &c.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
“I wanted to keep the planters very linear, without any beveling on the edges, and that informed my material choice,” she says.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
Plywood is made from layers of compressed sheets, which the beveling reveals at the sides.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2016
We settled on a sculptural stylized version and this sketch shows a study in variations on the amount of beveling and possible finishes.
From Time ● Mar. 4, 2015
Start to work on the four posts by squaring them up to the proper length in pairs and beveling the tops as shown.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
How many centuries of cutting and gouging, beveling and grooving were required to accomplish this, who can tell?
In marine architecture, implies those frames which are square with the line of the keel, having no bevelling upon them.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
He soon invented a machine for bevelling hoop-rings, and made five thousand dollars the first year from its use.
From Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous by Sarah K. Bolton
When in situ it is accommodated by the Cutigeral Groove, a cavity produced by the bevelling out of the superior portion of the inner face of the wall of the hoof.
From Diseases of the Horse's Foot by Harry Caulton Reeks
A jig, or cradle, is easily made by bevelling the edges of two separate pieces of wood and then glueing and screwing them together as at Fig.
From Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by William Fairham
Then, on the planed side, mark 21⁄4 in. at one end, 11⁄4 in. at the other end, and take to that width, afterwards bevelling the edge as before.
From Hand-Craft The Most Reliable Basis of Technical Education in Schools and Classes by John D. Sutcliffe
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