Straight-line Sentence Examples

He paused only long enough to locate her, and then made a straight line for her.

This is most clearly marked on the side of the Apennines, where the great Aemilian Way, which has been the high road from the time of the Romans to our own, preserves an unbroken straight line from Rimini to Piacenza, a distance of more than 150 m., during which the underfalls of the mountains continually approach it on the left, without once crossing the line of road.

The Via Flaminia was the earliest and most important road to the north; and it was soon extended (in 187 B.C.) by the Via Aemilia running through Bononia as far as Placentia, in an almost absolutely straight line between the plain of the P0 and the foot of the Apennines.

In all, there is a wonderful amount of specialization, though perhaps in a very straight line from generalized forms; but the affinity to Australian or Polynesian types is in many cases clearly traceable, and it cannot be supposed but that these last are of cognate origin with those of New Zealand.

Napoleon, in making the road over the Simplon, deviated from the straight line in order to leave it standing.

In the Orthorrhapha, in the pupae of which the appendages of the perfect insect are usually visible, the pupa-case generally splits in a straight line down the back near the cephalic end; in front of this longitudinal cleft there may be a small transverse one, the two together forming a T-shaped fissure.

Indeed, he never shook off the erroneous ideas of his time regarding the paths of projectiles, further than to see that no part of them could be a straight line.

Stations which are placed in a straight line across a sea are then connected and " sections " are made.

The curve thus constructed should be a straight line inclined to the horizontal axis at an angle 0, the tangent of which is 1.6.

Rowland, believing that the curve would continue to fall in a straight line meeting the horizontal axis, inferred that the induction corresponding to the point B-about 17,500-was the highest I Phil.

For the desulphurization of zinc blende where it is not intended to collect and save the sulphur there are many mechanical kilns, generally classified as straight-line, horse-shoe, turret and shaft kilns; all of these may be made to do good work on moderately clean ores which do not melt at the temperature of desulphurization.

Beyond the fort are various public buildings leading to Otoo Street, the main thoroughfare, which runs two miles in a straight line to Christiansborg.

This line has been twice modified by treaties between Bolivia and Brazil, but without the consent of Peru, which claimed all the territory eastward to the Madeira between the above-mentioned line and the Beni-Madidi rivers, the line of demarcation following the Pablo-bamba, a small tributary of the Madidi, to its source, and thence in a straight line to the village of Conima, on Lake Titicaca.

The line adopted starts from Lake Suches, the source of a small river of that name flowing into the north of Lake Titicaca, crosses the Cordillera by the Palomani to the Tambopata river, follows that stream to the mouth of the Lanza, thence crosses to the source of the Heath river, which forms the dividing line down to its junction with the Madre de Dios, descends that river to the mouth of the Torosmonas, thence in a straight line north-westerly to the intersection of the Tahu.amanu river by the 69th meridian, and thence north on that meridian to the Brazilian frontier.

The vapour tension may approximate to a linear function of the composition, and the curve will then be practically a straight line.

Also the notion that snakes when attacking are able to jump off the ground is quite erroneous; when they strike an object, they dart the fore part of their body, which was retracted in several bends, forwards in a straight line.

Newton defined the diameter of a curve of any order as the locus of the centres of the mean distances of the points of intersection of a system of parallel chords with the curve; this locus may be shown to be a straight line.

Thence it crosses that lake in a straight line and afterwards the Ruwenzori to its highest point, Margherita peak, whence it follows the Lamia River to its junction with the Semliki.

The Avenue Jules Ferry is intersected by a north-to south street running in a straight line over two miles.

The rectangle, for instance, has so far been regarded as a plane figure bounded by one pair of parallel straight lines and another pair at right angles to them, so that the conception of " rectangularity " has had reference to boundary rather than to content; analytically, the rectangle must be regarded as the figure generated by an ordinate of constant length moving parallel to itself with one extremity on a straight line perpendicular to it.

In the case of a plane area or a plane continuous line the moment with regard to a straight line in the plane is the same as the moment with regard to a perpendicular plane through this line; it is the sum of the products of each element of area or length by its distance from the straight line.

When the value of dyldx is not very small E is no longer constant, but is rather greater in compression and rather less in extension than -yP. This can be seen by considering that the relation between p and is given by a curve and not by a straight line.

The cylinder is mounted on an axis and turned round, while the style attached to the vibrating body is in light contact with it, and traces therefore a wavy circle, which, on taking off the paper and flattening it, becomes a wavy straight line.

It imitates the motions made in polishing a speculum by hand by giving both a rectilinear and a lateral motion to the polisher, while the speculum revolves slowly; by shifting two eccentric pins the course of the polisher can be varied at will from a straight line to an ellipse of very small eccentricity, and a true parabolic figure can thus be obtained.

On the assumption of uniform pressure up the bore, practically realizable in a Zalinski pneumatic dynamite gun, the pressure-curve would be the straight line HK of fig.

If the pressure falls off uniformly, so that the pressure-curve is a straight line PDF sloping downwards and cutting AM in F, then the energy-curve will be a parabola curving downwards, and the velocity-curve can be represented by an ellipse, or circle with centre F and radius FA; while the time-curve will be a sinusoid.

But if the pressure-curve is a straight line F'CP sloping upwards, cutting AM behind A in F', the energy-curve will be a parabola curving upwards, and the velocity-curve a hyperbola with center at F'.

A system of circles is coaxal when the locus of points from which tangents to the circles are equal is a straight line.

Since the area of a circle equals that of the rectilineal triangle whose base has the same length as the circumference and whose altitude equals the radius (Archimedes, KIKXou A ir, prop.i), it follows that, if a straight line could be drawn equal in length to the circumference, the required square could be found by an ordinary Euclidean construction; also, it is evident that, conversely, if a square equal in area to the circle could be obtained it would be possible to draw a straight line equal to the circumference.

A given straight line being viewed as equal in length to the circumference of a circle, he sought to find the diameter of the circle.

The diameter sought is the straight line from A to the limiting position of the series of B's, say the straight line AB co.

For in such a construction every point of the figure is obtained by the intersection of two straight lines, a straight line and a circle, or two circles; and as this implies that, when a unit of length is introduced, numbers employed, and the problem transformed into one of algebraic geometry, the equations to be solved can only be of the first or second degree, it follows that the equation to which we must be finally led is a rational equation of even degree.

De Inclinationibus had for its object to insert a straight line of a given length, tending towards a given point, between two given (straight or circular) lines.

Following Euclid, a right angle is formed by a straight line standing upon another straight line so as to make the adjacent angles equal; any angle less than a right angle is termed an acute angle, and any angle greater than a right angle an obtuse angle.

Galileo proceeded to measure the motion of a body on a smooth, fixed, inclined plane, and found that the law of constant acceleration along the line of slope of the plane still held, the acceleration decreasing in magnitude as the angle of inclination was reduced; and he inferred that a body, moving on a smooth horizontal plane, would move with uniform velocity in a straight line if the resistance of the air, and friction due to contact with the plane, could be eliminated.

Newton assumed the possibility of choosing a base such that, relatively to it, the motion of any particle would have only such divergence from uniform velocity in a straight line as could be expressed by laws of acceleration dependent on its relation to other bodies.

The south side, running nearly due east and west, is about equally long, if measured from the end of the west wall to the point which the east wall would touch when produced due south in a straight line from the place at which it was demolished to make way for " Nero's house."

The error of flatness of the joints from a straight line and a true square is but thth in.

Turkey claimed that the peninsula of Sinai consisted only of the territory south of a straight line from Akaba to Suez, and that Egyptian territory north of that line was traced from Rafa to Suez.

Peaucellier's discovery of the straight line link motion associated with his name, and he also invented the skew pentagraph.

A joint commission was appointed, which marked out the boundary from Rafah, about midway between Gaza and El-Arish, in an almost straight line S.S.W.

Between the debouchment of the Upper Murghab from the Firozkhoi uplands into the comparatively low level of the valley above Bala Murghab, extending eastwards in a nearly straight line to the upper sources of the Shibarghan stream, the Band-i-Turkestan range forms the northern ridge between the plateau and the sand formations of the Chul.

Deduction is analysis when it is regressive from consequence to real ground, as when we start from the proposition that the angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles and deduce analytically that therefore (i) they are equal to equal angles made by a straight line standing on another straight line, and (2) such equal angles are two right angles.

The light reflected from the fixed mirror traces a straight line on the paper, serving as a base line from which the variations in declination are measured.

It is therefore adequately represented, for mathematical purposes, by a straight line AB drawn in the direction in question, of length proportional (on any convenient scale) to the magnitude of the force.

If funiculars be drawn for two positions 0,0 of the pole in the force-diagram, their corresponding sides will intersect on a straight line parallel to 00.

When the given forces are all parallel, the force-polygon consists of a series of segments of a straight line.

For diagrammatic purposes each member is sufficiently represented by a straight line terminating at the two joints; these lines will be referred to as the bars of the frame.

Again, any plane w is the locus of a system of null-lines meeting in a point, called the null-point of c. If a plane revolve about a fixed straight line p in it, its ntill-point describes another straight line p, which is called the conjugate line of p. We have seen that the wrench may be replaced by two forces, one of which may act in any arbitrary line p. It is now evident that the second force must act in the conjugate line p, since every line meeting p, p is a null-line.

P,, we draw any system of parallel planes meeting a straight line OX in the points Mi, M2,

The curve of positions corresponding to (4) is a parabola, and that of velocities is a straight line.

If two masses m1, nil moving in the same straight line impinge, with the result that the velocities are changed from u1, u2, to ui, ui, then, since the impulses on the two bodies must be equal and opposite, the total momentum is unchanged, i.e.

For the condition of equilibrium of forces not parallel is that they shall be represented in direction and magnitude by the sides and diagonals of certain parallelograms, and of parallel forces that they shall divide certain straight lines in certain ratios; and the parallel projection of a parallelogram is a parallelogram, and that of a straight line divided in a given ratio is a straight line divided in the same ratio.

The most common forms for the paths of the points of a piece of mechanism, whose motion is simple shifting, are the straight line and the circle.

Shifting in a straight line is regulated either by straight fixed guides, in contact with which the moving piece slides, or by combinations of link-work, called parallel motions, which will be described in the sequel.

Shifting in a straight line is usually reciprocating; that is to say, the piece, after shifting through a certain distance, returns to its original position by reversing its motion.

That for a pair of turning pieces with parallel axes, and for a turning piece and a shifting piece, the line of contact is straight, and parallel to the axes or axis; and hence that the rolling surfaces are either plane or cylindrical (the term cylindrical including all surfaces generated by the motion of a straight line parallel tO itself).

In a pair of pieces in rolling contact every straight line traversing the line of contact is a line of connection.

To work with a wheel of any other figure, its section must be a rolling curve, subject to the condition that the perpendicular distance from the pole or centre of the wheel to a straight line parallel to the direction of the motion of the rack shall be constant.

Let r1 be the radiusvector of a point of contact on the wheel, Xi the ordinate from the straight line before mentioned to the corresponding point of contact on the rack.

It also determines the forms of the teeth of straight racks, if one of the centres be removed, and a straight line EIE, parallel to the direction of motion of the rack, and perpendicular to CilCi, be substituted for a pitch-circle.

The figure of the path of con tact is that traced on a fixed plane by the tracing-point, when the rolling curve is rotated in such a manner as always to touch a fixed straight line EIE (or EIE, as the case may be) at a fixed point I (or I).

The teeth of a rack, of the same, set, are traced by rolling the rolling curve on both sides of a straight line.

Teeth of Skew-Bevel Wheels.The crests of the teeth of a skew-bevel wheel are parallel to the generating straight line of the hyperboloidal pitch-surface; and the transverse sections of the teeth at a given pitch-circle are similar to those of the teeth of a bevelwheel whose pitch surface is a cone touching the hyperboloidal surface at the given circle.

Oldhams coupling may be used with advantage where the axes of the shafts are intended to be as nearly in the same straight line as is possible, but where there is some doubt as to the practibility I or nermanency of their exact continuity.

Then, if the two ends of the stroke be in one straight line with the axis of the crank, S=2R; (37)

Draw BE perpendicular to CB, cutting CD produced in E, then E is the instantaneous axis of the bar ADB; and the direction of motion of A is at every instant perpendicular to EAthat is, along the straight line ACa.

Peaucellier, a French engineer officer, was the first, in 1864, to invent a linkwoik with which an exact straight line could be drawn.

It can be proved that the point C always moves in a straight line at right angles to the line EF.

The combination of the parallelogram with a straight-line motion, for guiding one of the points in a straight line, is illustrated in Watts parallel motion for steam-engines.

Adding the centres corresponding to these several axes to the figure, it will be seen that there are six centres in connection with the four-bar chain of which four are permanent and two are instantaneous or virtual centres; and, further, that whatever be the configuration of the chain these centres group themselves into three sets of three, each set lying on a straight line.

Originally nomads (hunters and fishers), all the Finnic people except the Lapps and Ostyaks have long yielded to the influence of civilization, and now everywhere lead settled lives as herdsmen, agriculturists, traders, &c. Physically the Finns (here to be distinguished from the Swedish-speaking population, who retain their Scandinavian qualities) are a strong, hardy race, of low stature, with almost round head, low forehead, flat features, prominent cheek bones, eyes mostly grey and oblique (inclining inwards), short and flat nose, protruding mouth, thick lips, neck very full and strong, so that the occiput seems flat and almost in a straight line with the nape; beard weak and sparse, hair no doubt originally black, but, owing to mixture with other races, now brown, red and even fair; complexion also somewhat brown.

Single and two-reel machines are generally constructed on the " straight line " principle, i.e.

The distance from Mt Ararat to Serrakhs in a straight line is about 930 m.

The treaty gave to Portugal all lands which might be discovered east of a straight line drawn from the Arctic Pole to the Antarctic, at a distance of 370 leagues west of Cape Verde.

The new boundary line starts from the summit of the Sapaleri (or Zapalegui), where the Argentine, Bolivian and Chilean boundaries converge, and runs west to Licancaur, thence north to the most southern source of Lake Ascotan which it follows to and across this lake in the direction of the Oyahua volcano, and thence in a straight line to the Tua volcano, on the frontier of the province of Tarapaca.

When the ellipse becomes a circle, the meridian line becomes a straight line parallel to the axis, and the film passes into the form of a cylinder of revolution.

At first the tension will diminish, but if the process be continued the tension will reach a minimum value and will afterwards increase to infinity as the chain between A and B approaches to the form of a straight line.

In a straight line the two towns are only 80 m..

Seen from the valley, this straight line of lofty heights, culminating in Crossfell, presents the nearest approach in England to the appearance of a mountain range.

The low island of Anglesey, which is built tip of the fundamental Archaean rocks, is important as a link in the main line of communication with Ireland, because it is separated from the mainland by a channel narrow enough to be bridged, and lies not far out of the straight line joining London and Dublin.

The simplest instance of a caustic by refraction (or diacaustic) is when luminous rays issuing from a point are refracted at a straight line.

In November 1768, at a general council of the Six Nations with Sir William Johnson and representatives of Pennsylvania and Virginia, held at Fort Stanwix, on the site of the present Rome, New York (q.v.), at which was signed a treaty establishing the boundary line between the English possessions and the territory claimed by the Six Nations, the Indians sold for $io,000 to Thomas Penn (1702-1775) and Richard Penn (1706-1771), respectively, the second and third sons of William Penn - the founder of Pennsylvania - by his second wife, the remaining land in the province of Pennsylvania to which they claimed title, namely the tract lying south of the west branch of the Susquehanna river and of a straight line from the north-west corner of what is now Cambria county to the present Kittanning (in Armstrong county), and all of the territory east of the Allegheny river below Kittanning and south of the Ohio river.

The new building, the shell of which was completed in 1906, faces the Rettifilo, a new wide street which leads from the Borsa in a straight line to the railway station; at the back it joins the former building, which is at a higher level.

There are over 120 separate chambers, the caverns extending nearly a mile in a straight line.

Correspondingly, the straight line a a represents uniformly distributed supply, also cumulatively recorded, of the same quantity of water over the same period.

Now, in order that a reservoir may enable the varying flow, represented cumulatively by the irregular line, to be discharged in a continuous and uniform flow to satisfy a demand represented cumulatively by the straight line a a, its capacity must be such that it will hold not only the II% surplus of the same year, but that, on June loth, when this surplus has been used to satisfy the demand, it will still contain the water c d-19%stored from a previous year; otherwise between June 10th and August 31st the reservoir will be empty and only the dry weather flow of the stream will be available for supply.

The reservoir begins to fall at the end of February, and continues to do so with few and short exceptions until the end of August, and it so happens that about the end of August this dotted line, b b representing actual cumulative demand, crosses the straight line a a of uniform demand, so that the excess of demand, represented by the slope from June to September, is balanced by the deficiency of demand, represented by the flatter slope in the first five months, except as regards the small quantity b e near the end of February, which, not having been drawn off during January and February, must overflow before the end of February.

In June 1696 Bernoulli addressed a letter to the mathematicians of Europe challenging them to solve two problems - (1) to determine the brachistochrone between two given points not in the same vertical line, (2) to determine a curve such that, if a straight line drawn through a fixed point A meet it in two points P 1, P 2, then AP 1 m +AP 2 m will be constant.

It is one of the most crooked streams in the world, and its length in a straight line is less than half that by its curves.

Rounding the southern end of the island, there is no other inlet save the small bay north of Fort Dauphin, at the southern end of the straight line of coast already mentioned.

The straight line and the line through the centre parallel to the chords are named conjugate diameters; each bisects the chords parallel to the other.

In this case the forward false cast is hit high and continued into a straight line backcast without any water contact.

The regression coefficient for a straight line through origin is.

As the piston moves up and down in the cylinder it rotates the crankshaft and converts the straight line motion into rotary motion.

For straight line depreciation, we would normally expect your items to be depreciated over a minimum period of three years.

I mean who gives a toss about the transfer between funds to reflect the straight line devaluation of the fixed asset.

On their backs they have a fin called a dorsal fin which helps them to swim in a straight line.

Writing down the equation of a straight line given a diagram with a parallel line and the y intercept.

However, it is rare that relationships in biology, including enzyme kinetics, follow a straight line.

To produce a finite straight line continuously in a straight line.

Outline shapes Outline shapes, such as triangles, rectangles and parallelograms, consist of a series of straight-line segments between the vertices.

The normal toe-in setting is up to 20 minutes, which provides good straight-line stability.

It was nervous at the rear and very twitchy even in a straight line.

A straight line extension of the curve can lead to a gross underestimate.

His mind has a lightning-like zig zag which is its straight line of smiting.

Reverse curves are compound curves in which the components are of contrary flexure, like the letter S; strictly the term is only applicable when the two portions follow directly one on the other, but it is sometimes used of cases in which they are separated by a " tangent " or portion of straight line.

As the ellipse degenerates into the straight line joining its foci, the contracted parts of the unduloid become narrower, till at last the figure becomes a series of spheres in contact.

A third way to predict the future that I believe is reliable rejects both the slavish following of the straight line and the purely speculative approach.

They tell me that if the fox would remain in the bosom of the frozen earth he would be safe, or if he would run in a straight line away no foxhound could overtake him; but, having left his pursuers far behind, he stops to rest and listen till they come up, and when he runs he circles round to his old haunts, where the hunters await him.

The best test for moderate AMS is to have the person walk a straight line heel to toe just like a sobriety test.

Normal press ups, aim to keep a straight line through your back.

Depreciation for tax purposes is calculated by systematically applying the straight-line depreciation method.

Current path files The current path files list the straight-line segments used to produce the field.

For a straight-line graph, pick two points on the graph.

Rentals under operating leases are charged on a straight-line basis over the lease term.

The highest mark was 20cm up the bell, the total straight-line distance from rim to shoulder being 48cm.

By nature, we 're like shopping trolleys - inclined to veer away from the straight line of God 's revealed will.

The straight line from start-up to sustainable success is largely a myth (though of course there are exceptions to this rule).

These are easy to turn but hard to coax into just traveling in a straight line.

Since they're designed for negotiating rapids, they are not meant for steering in a straight line and will not do so very well even in calm waters.

Women with allergies, constant smudgy liner or who simply can't apply a smooth, straight line will benefit from permanent eyeliner.

With your non-dominant hand, tug lightly on the outer edge of your lid, making it taut and allowing yourself to draw a straight line right where your lashes meet your lid.

Gradually work this line outward towards the outer corner of your eye in a straight line that continues to follow your lash line.

Again, this measurement is a straight line.

When choosing family portrait poses, don't simply arrange the subjects in a straight line.

If using fruit, spread the fruit in a straight line about 1/3 of the way up from the bottom of the tortilla.

Or you can put them in a straight line along the top, bottom or center of the page.

The bra strap should make a straight line across your back.

Walking in a straight line may become difficult and speech may be slurred.

Cut a straight line off the top of the round face cake.

Give the command to heel, and walk in a straight line.

No longer do you have to use the straight line shape.

Marking the outside perimeter layout first will ensure that your footing holes are in a straight line.

However, it tends to look its best when laid out in a straight line and square to the walls.

Then use chalk or a pencil to draw a straight line connecting the two centers.

Bateau is a neckline that rests in a straight line that meets at the shoulders, measuring equally on the front and the back.

For women with large hips, select a short that fits close at the hip and then drops in a straight line to just above the knee.

To examine the lenses for imperfections, hold the glasses at an arm's length, then look through them at a straight line in the distance, such as the edge of a window.

Slowly move the lens across the straight line.

Have your dog sit, then get him down onto his belly (DOWN), then touch your dog and draw a straight line horizontally.

A simple straight line that flips at the end will add movement and swing to tresses kept above shoulder length.

You can create your own straight line amortization chart with an Excel spreadsheet.

For example, Mortgage-x.com has several different pre-formatted spreadsheets including a straight line amortization chart which can be quickly created using an Excel spreadsheet.

To do it best, you want to keep your body in a straight line with your feet pointed.

This gives you more power and will keep you on a straight line.

Pawns - These pieces, which number eight of each color, form a straight line across the board in front of the other pieces.

The rooks are allowed to move in a straight line either across the board or in a line toward the opposing player's side of the game board.

There's a math truism that says, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

The stones are set in a straight line without additional accent stones.

Ladder designs with two bars holding one or more diamonds in a straight line.

Lay the stacks in a straight line on a table, and cut a piece of string or yarn slightly longer than the length of the hearts.

Keep toenails short and clean, by cutting in a straight line across the top of the nail.

With the right end of the lace insert it in the opposite side hole creating a straight line.

Some of these knots are formed in a straight line that creates a band, while others express mystical shapes like the triangle and circle.

Use your sewing machine to stitch a straight line about a quarter of an inch from the edge of the fabric.

Lift your butt and hips off of the floor until your body forms a straight line from your shoulders to your knees.

When you get into a pushup position, make sure your body forms a straight line from your heels to your head.

Keep your body in a straight line from your head to your toes and hold for 30 seconds to one minute.

Your front shin should remain in a straight line with your ankle.

Your right shin should remain in a straight line with your ankle.

What the plank should look like from the side is a straight line from your heels, up your legs over your back to the crown of your head.

Keeping a straight line from the crown of your head down to your toes, push yourself up off the ground with your hands shoulder width apart, flat on the ground.

In the up position, your arms are completely straight, your legs are completely straight and your body from your head to your heels forms a straight line down the general line of your spine.

As you lower yourself toward the ground, your body should move in one motion and should always form a straight-line all the way down.

Make sure your body forms a straight line from heel to head.

Make sure that you flatten your back, creating a straight line with your body from your head to your heels.

If you find yourself popping your booty up into the air or if you feel your back begin to sway, move into the half-plank by dropping your knees to the ground, maintaining the straight line of your body.

Step your feet behind you and place your toes on the ground - your body should form a straight line from head to heels.

Hold the kettlebell in one hand with your arm extended in a straight line from your shoulder.

Engage your abs and lift your hips off the floor so that your body forms a straight line from your feet to your head.

Follow the typical relay race format of having a challenge for each team, such as carrying an egg on a spoon or running in a straight line blindfolded.

Though her story of Harry Potter is continuously rising in intensity, Rowling's style of telling her tales stays on the same, straight line.

The rules of life guide us in a straight line, though our journey is never a straight line and it takes a wise person to know when those rules must be bent or broken.

A classic French manicure features the white tips in a straight line across the end of the nail.

His lips thinned to a straight line.

His lips thinned into a straight line as he focused on the food in his plate.

Its greatest length in a straight line along the mainland is from N.W.

The Suez Canal runs in a straight line for 20 m.

Lower your body toward the floor, maintaining your body in a straight-line from head to heel.