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bevel

[bev-uhl] / ˈbɛv əl /


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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

Shifting into fifth gear, I straddled the centerline to correct the bevel toward the borrow pit and accelerated into triple digits.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 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

“The Rockette bevel is what it’s all about.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2020

Pinion a drives the bevel gear c, which is in one piece with pinion d.

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

To answer an obvious question: The difference between 15 degrees and 12 degrees is so slight that a 15-degree sharpener is fine for both kinds of bevels.

From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2018

Over two days, she’d chiseled out long bevels and deep notches, standing in a growing pile of pine shavings.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 21, 2017

If bevels, use ratio radii .082 and 12.25; and teeth numbers 16.6 and 203.8 respectively.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

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

This flat piece will have beveled edges and it will be secured to the roof ridge board.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024

There’s nothing especially technological about the California artist’s pictures, which are painted with oils on canvases whose beveled edges suggest infinity pools.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 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

But, amid waves of contact, large languages lose their sharp edges, becoming bevelled as pieces of glass.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2016

"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

Printed on Tinted Paper, beautifully Illustrated with Maps and Fine Engravings, chiefly from Photographs taken on the spot by the Author; bound in blue cloth, bevelled boards, $6.00.

From Guide to West Point, and the U.S. Military Academy by Various

“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

The beveling may be done by roughing out with a hacksaw and finishing with a file.

From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.

This beveling should be done so that only a thin edge is left where the two parts come together, just enough points in contact to make the alignment easy to hold.

From Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting Electric, Forge and Thermit Welding together with related methods and materials used in metal working and the oxygen process for removal of carbon by Harold P. (Harold Phillips) Manly

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

An instrument by which bevelling angles are taken.

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

Absurd, wasn't it, but the Ranger was not dreaming about the bevelling trowel of the titan mountain gods?

From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut

The principle is that bevelling off the front edge of the cutter, as shown in Fig.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose

Also, the bevelling of any piece of timber or plank to any required angle: as the bearding of dead wood, clamps, &c.

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


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