(n.) A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gun moves backward and forward. [See Gun carriage.]
Example Sentences:
(1) The RF voltage on certain parts on the chassis could be as high as 200 V. In order to reduce these voltages and the stray fields the machine should be equipped with a "large capacitive shield" in cases where this is possible.
(2) "High-tech transmission, chassis, suspension, all new interior, bucket seats, dash, 440 horsepower, 5.7-litre engine," he says, quick-fire, sounding every bit the used car salesman.
(3) These include the use of lightweight composite materials rather than steel in the chassis, and the company's plan to lease rather then sell their cars, something that removes a major financial barrier for the consumer.
(4) But the company’s carbon fibre chassis are currently manufactured abroad by a supplier.
(5) The McLaren F1 was the world’s first road car to be built with a carbon fibre chassis and every car built more recently by McLaren Automotive has the same.
(6) Once you have arranged eight blocks of drink, you hit the serve button, and the drink is mixed for you inside the chassis of an old PC; a pipe fed through the disk tray delivers the mixture into a cup.
(7) Amid the charred chassis and broken glass there is a vital point of principle to salvage: in certain conditions rioting is not just justified but may also be necessary, and effective.
(8) That’s why it is so urgent that the countries of Europe adopt very strong policies that will end the people smuggling trade across the Mediterranean.” While Hopkins was more concerned to appeal to the readership of “brilliant British truckers” who get fined if they’re caught with “feral humans” clinging to the chassis all the way from Calais, it’s only a matter of time before Abbott’s advice is taken up, and cruelty is presented as the only way to prevent further loss of life in the Med.
(9) The 5% tariff would be phased out over five years for windscreens, petrol car engines, batteries and chassis.
(10) They put the engine and the chassis together very late, in Jerez.
(11) The object reveals itself to be a monster truck painted in pastel colours, its chassis raised high above gargantuan tyres.
(12) Functional homology at the level of protein secondary structure with Actinomyces viscosus T14V type 1 fimbriae (M. K. Yeung, B. M. Chassy, and J. O. Cisar, J.
(13) In 2009 Meyer, a social psychologist at the University of Zurich, was fitted with an i-limb, a state-of-the-art bionic prosthesis developed by a Scottish company, Touch Bionics, that comes with an aluminium chassis and 24 different grip patterns.
(14) The issue of chassis leakage currents flowing through areas on the surfaces of patients' bodies is again being discussed, probably because of increasing acceptance of International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Standard 601-1, the use of more instruments with computational capability but with generally higher chassis leakage currents at the bedside, the absence of evidence that the 500-microampere chassis current limitation of IEC 601-1 has been harmful, and the lack of data to substantiate the lower limit currently applied in the United States.
(15) In the past, items such as car chassis, fridges and household goods as well as tyres and Vélib hire bikes have been retrieved.
(16) Measurement of emissions of incomplete combustion products as determined on a chassis dynamometer provides knowledge of the chemical composition of the particle-associated organics.
(17) Born in postwar rationing, the Defender feels as quintessentially British as the Queen, Churchill or Bond, among the other national icons who have been plonked atop its unbending chassis.
(18) A few yards on, an official ran a mirror underneath the chassis and a large Alsatian dog sniffed around its wheels.
(19) The fabric seat is made from 62 post-consumer recycled drink bottles and the chassis from recycled polypropylene.
(20) A new one-compartmental movable disinfectant dA-4 unit mounted on the chassis of the motor car gA3-53-12 with high technical performance is characterized by the improved layout of the equipment and can be run in the foci of infection at any time of the year.
Classis
Definition:
(n.) A class or order; sort; kind.
(n.) An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian church.
Example Sentences:
(1) Drogba hit the side-netting with Chelsea's best chance after Salomon Kalou had escaped Antolín Alcaraz to skip to the goal-line, before the visitors finally opened up Wigan with a classy move to take the lead just before the hour mark.
(2) We need classy players, players we can trust, players who we know what they will give us, and players who have the desire, motivation and wish to play for England .
(3) His first goal was clinical in its execution and classy in its creation but the second was a thing of beauty, a scything volley after he exchanged passes with the substitute Ángel Di María, launching himself into the air and making the perfect connection to volley the ball into the far corner.
(4) The 41-year-old could do nothing to prevent City’s classy second as the break neared.
(5) It was a brilliantly classy way of making the story go away.
(6) Why not sip it from a rather more sophisticated china rim as opposed to sucking it toddler-like through a slit in a plastic lid (stay classy, Seattle).
(7) They were also the first modern family to do so, to be informal yet classy, upright yet kind, and, most important, themselves.
(8) We then were subjected to the affair of the menu, in which we learnt just what classy, sophisticated affairs Liberal Party fundraisers are.
(9) The Shard was proposed, and being by the celebrated Renzo Piano and having a certain classiness in its form, was approved following a public inquiry.
(10) After that, much of the first half was all about Japan dominating possession, with the Lionesses struggling to second-guess Aya Miyami’s midfield promptings and sometimes wrongfooted by the classy Rumi Utsugi.
(11) Alvaro Negredo, a second-half substitute, rescued a modicum of pride with a classy left-foot strike after 80 minutes but the late flurry, after Jérôme Boateng had been sent off for bringing down Yaya Touré, was a deception.
(12) The HTC One is a powerful, feature-rich device that is also beautiful and classy, while Samsung's handset feels like an overpowered children's toy.
(13) The first goal was typical Arsenal, classy in its creation and clinical in its execution.
(14) On that note, I'd like to offer my congratulations to North Korea on a resilient display, and in possession they were occasionally quite classy too."
(15) She spellchecks on Twitter Asked for etiquette tips on how to stay classy online, Stewart advised the audience to try not to misspell on social media.
(16) All that savouring their drinks, inhaling bouquets, admiring vintages, being all classy and evolved.
(17) His eagerness was refreshing and he might have deserved better 7 Ryan Mason A blur of energy in Spurs’ midfield, driving his team forward, but he must ally that with better composure in his shooting 6 Nabil Bentaleb Looks a classy and comfortable player, working in tandem with Mason, and his influence will grow in time.
(18) Kyle Edmund loses in first round at Wimbledon to Adrian Mannarino Read more Facebook Twitter Pinterest Classy … No1 seed Novak Djokovic.
(19) It was a goal of beauty, the classy passing and movement untouchable, and it knocked both stuffing and ambition out of the hosts until their stoppage time consolation.
(20) doncobaino has this to say: doncobaino 23 April 2014 12:51pm A very classy statement from Moyes.