What's the difference between breastwheel and overshot?
Breastwheel
Definition:
(n.) A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight.
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Overshot
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Overshoot
(a.) From Overshoot, v. t.
Example Sentences:
(1) Under some conditions the internal concentrations transiently overshot the steady-state values.
(2) Passengers on board a flight to Kalibo, in the Philippines, tweeted photos of the plane with its emergency chutes deployed after it apparently overshot the runway while landing in bad weather.
(3) Transferase activity toward estrone overshot control values during recovery and was elevated above its presurgery value at 7 days.
(4) He failed to recover from a disappointing opening eight holes and on the par-five 9th Woods slightly overshot the green with his second shot, sending his chip from the first cut well left of the pin.He sunk the remaining putt to card his first birdie of the day but then pulled his tee shot at the 10th well left and played the back nine one over par, starting with two bogeys before clawing back to finish tied for sixth place.
(5) Erikson and Wlezien, who authored the great book The Timeline of Presidential Elections: How Campaigns Do (and Do Not) Matter, actually overshot Obama's 3.9pt win by about a point, calling for a 5pt Obama victory .
(6) Relative errors were comparatively larger for very short and very long times-to-collision throughout, where events of the first kind were overshot, the latter ones undershot.
(7) Malcolm Turnbull's Faustian pact on climate change is heartbreaking | Mark Butler Read more But it will be able to count “carry over”, under the accounting rules governing international emissions calculations, because it “overshot” or did better than the special deal it received at the Kyoto meeting for its first climate change pledge to 2012.
(8) More discerning caffeine addicts will enjoy independent Incoming Coffee, right next door on Station Approach (if you find yourself at the Costa, you’ve overshot).
(9) Subjects undershot or overshot the target when opposing or assisting loads were presented, respectively.
(10) The spleen sequestered the damaged red cells selectively, while the liver compensated and overshot the sequestration for spleen after splenectomy.
(11) As a result, a) the initial rapid ventilatory component, phase 1, was not observed when initiated from light exercise, whereas the overshot phase 1 was observed from rest in anticipation and voluntary breathing frequency condition due to the rapid increase of tidal volume; b) compared with the anticipation condition, the phase 1 response of VE in the non-anticipation condition was slower with prior-rest, and not with prior-light exercise; and c) the restriction of the breathing frequency for entraining the exercise rhythm did not affect the initial rapid response, but decreased the fluctuation of VE in the steady state, compared to the condition of voluntary breathing frequency.
(12) He set out seven main policies: • A three-year cap on welfare spending, but with no detail on which benefits would be included in the cap or the action taken if the cap was in danger of being overshot.
(13) For both horizontal cell bodies and axons, the waveform in response to large spots or annuli consisted of a hyperpolarizing on-transient, followed by a depolarizing rollback to a sustained plateau during light on, and a rapidly depolarizing off-transient that overshot the dark potential level.
(14) These values dropped 10- to 100-fold and remained so until the methionine was withdrawn, then returned to, or overshot, the initial values.
(15) Food intake in formerly REST groups overshot on refeeding for 7 days, but this was significant only in DMNL rats.
(16) Although 30% of nitroprusside patients overshot their baseline MAP by more than 25%, no esmolol patients had this degree of rebound.
(17) Upon re-entry the Vostok vehicle overshot the designated landing site, which resulted in fasting of the animals for 42 h, exposure to cage temperatures of 12-15 degrees C, and 2 days delay in death of the rats.
(18) Overall, it's becoming clearer that the weakness of the economy is having a material impact on the public finances and it certainly looks as if the OBR's forecasts for this year for borrowing will be overshot.
(19) However, adjustments in infusion rate systematically overshot the desired change in steady state concentration, probably due to nonlinear clearance of HMBA.
(20) The resting potential of the cell was influenced mainly by the concentration of K. The peak of the receptor potential (the transient), which in a normal solution and with strong light approaches zero membrane potential, overshot this level in a K-rich solution.