Vane Sentence Examples

A motor will be used to make a weather vane.

The weather vane is a fine piece of 18th century ironwork.

The Kestrel 1000 & 2000 are tough, pocket-sized rotating vane anemometers.

The barbs possess further branches called the barbules, and adjacent barbules are attached to one another by hooks which stiffen the vane.

Let's complete our homemade weather station with a wind vane which will indicate which way the wind is blowing.

Most children were able to produce simple procedures to turn on lights, sound the alarm and turn the weather vane.

The ignition coil receives current whilst the metal vane is passing through the magnetic field of the hall sensor.

The former had a weather vane on its gable that was illustrated by Claude Messent in his book on the subject.

The statement of Vane and Ludlow, when they refused to acknowledge Cromwell's government, that it was "in substance a re-establishment of that which we all engaged against," was true.

He discovered that parliamentary government after all was not the easy and plain task that Pym and Vane had imagined, and Cromwell had in the end no better justification of his rule than that which Strafford had suggested to Charles I., - "parliament refusing (to give support and co-operation in carrying on the government) you are acquitted before God and man."

Velocity anemometers may again be subdivided into two classes, (1) those which do not require a wind vane or weathercock, (2) those which do.

Anemometers which measure the pressure may be divided into the plate and tube classes, but the former term must be taken as including a good many miscellaneous forms. The simplest type of this form consists of a flat plate, which is usually square or circular, while a wind vane keeps this exposed normally to the wind, and the pressure of the wind on its face is balanced by a spring.

He constructed an apparatus in illustration, which he called a radiometer or lightmill, by pivoting a vertical axle carrying equidistant vertical vanes inside an exhausted glass bulb, one side of each vane being blackened and the other side bright, the blackened sides all pointing the same way round the axle.

Winthrop served repeatedly, though not continuously, as governor of the colony till his death in 1649, his rejection in 1636 being due to a party of theological revolt which chose Henry Vane (afterwards Sir Henry) to the office.

Hence even before the Westminster Assembly met in July 1643, Independency could reckon among its friends men of distinction in the state, like Cromwell, Sir Harry Vane, Lord Saye and Sele; while Milton powerfully pleaded the power of Truth to take care of herself on equal terms. In the Assembly; too, its champions were fit, if few.

Sailing on the river Thames, Bradley repeatedly observed the shifting of a vane on the mast as the boat altered its course; and, having been assured that the motion of the vane meant that the boat, and not the wind, had altered its direction, he realized that the position taken up by the vane was determined by the motion of the boat and the direction of the wind.

Mrs Hutchinson was supported by Governor Vane, Cotton, Wheelwright and the great majority of the Boston church; opposed to her were Deputy-Governor John Winthrop, Wilson and all of the country magistrates and churches.

The strength of the parties was testel at the General Court of Election of May 1637, when Winthrop defeated Vane for the governorship. Cotton recanted, Vane returned to England in disgust, Wheelwright was tried and banished and the rank and file either followed Cotton in making submission or suffered various minor punishments.

A stator vane actuator is an integral part of the HMU.

Inlet guide vanes -- devices positioned by the inlet guide vane actuator pilot valve.

They are a leading manufacturer of gear, piston and vane pumps.

By replacing 68 vane type air motors with piston type air motors, an automotive paint plant has cut air consumption by 85 %.

Vane compressors, whether air or water cooled, find diminishing use for industrial applications.

Scott 's initials appear in the weather vane at the very top of the Clock.

Let 's complete our homemade weather station with a wind vane which will indicate which way the wind is blowing.

It has a weather vane inspired by a similar feature from Red House and incorporating a ' B ' to signify the Bexleyheath logo.

The weather vane on top of the dome was controversial at the time the church was consecrated in 1825.

The weather vane on the tower is called a banner type.

The meetings became increasingly popular, and were soon attended not only by the women but even by some of the ministers and magistrates, including Governor Henry Vane.

Strong Poison When Mystery writer Harriet Vane is accused of the murder of her lover, the evidence seems pretty damning.

Vane anemometers or heated head air meters may be used to measure air flow in ducts.

Henry Vane the Younger also carries a grudge from the grave.

This particular food is reflected in the shape of the weather vane atop the town's 16th century tolbooth.

Almost alone in his age, Vane believed in universal toleration.

Scott's initials appear in the weather vane at the very top of the Clock.

Tower surmounted by a large ball (replica) on a 15-foot shaft, topped by a weather vane.

There was a brass weather vane and a painted sundial on the outside of the Hall but it is not known where these were.

Men so moved so to act could hardly be commonplace; and so among them we find characters strong and marked, with equal ability to rule and to obey, as William Bradford (1590-1657) and Brewster, Edward Winslow (1595-1655) and Miles Standish (1584-1656), John Winthrop (1588-1649) and Dr Samuel Fuller, and men so inflexible in their love of liberty and faith in man as Roger Williams and young Harry Vane.

As human beings, particularly as middle class westerners, we are vane enough to think that we are masters of our own destiny.

On the 9th of September Charles refused once mere the Newcastle Propositions offered him by the parliament, and Cromwell, together with Ireton and Vane, obtained the passing of a motion for a new application; but the terms asked by the parliament were higher than before and included a harsh condition - the he was blunt," says Waller, "he did not bear himself with pride or disdain.

Vane, Ludlow, Robert Overton, Harrison and Major Wildman, the head of the Levellers, were all arrested, while the royalist rising under Penruddock was crushed in Devonshire.

The two great merits of this anemometer are its simplicity and the absence of a wind vane; on the other hand it is not well adapted to leaving a record on paper of the actual velocity at any definite instant, and hence it leaves a short but violent gust unrecorded.

Furthermore, since the wind varies in direction and the axis has to follow its changes, a wind vane or some other contrivance to fulfil the same purpose must be employed.

The temperature of a gas is measured by the mean energy of translation of its molecules, which are independent of each other except during the brief intervals of collision; and collision of the separate molecules with the blackened surface of a vane, warmed by the radiation, imparts heat to them, so that they rebound from it with greater velocity than they approached.

The sensitive vane or strip may then be placed behind the slit; its width will not affect the resolving power though there may be a diminution of sensitiveness.

After his death she became the wife of Harry George Vane, 4th duke of Cleveland, and died in 1901.

Charles used his influence to carry through parliament the act of indemnity, and the execution of some of the regicides was a measure not more severe than was to be expected in the times and circumstances; but that of Sir Henry Vane, who was not a regicide and whose life Charles had promised the parliament to spare in case of his condemnation, was brought about by Charles's personal insistence in revenge for the victim's high bearing during his trial, and was an act of gross cruelty and perfidy.

Vane tempest, which was playing house, therefore became more of a chill out room.

This particular food is reflected in the shape of the weather vane atop the town 's 16th century tolbooth.

The vane on top of the tower served to counteract wind torque.

Vane junior do make Report of the Papers referred concerning the Scotts Army.

There also was the Anemodoulion, a beautiful pyramidal structure, surmounted by a vane to indicate the direction of the wind.

As early as 1665 he diverged for a short time from medical pursuits at Oxford, and was engaged as secretary to Sir Walter Vane on his mission to the Elector of Brandenburg.

The rotation of the mercury is detected and measured by means of a small vane of platinum wire immersed in it, the shaft of this vane being connected by an endless screw with a counting mechanism.

In 1630 Barnard Castle was sold to Sir Henry Vane, and in the same year the castle is said to have been unroofed and dismantled for the sake of the materials of which it was built.

This increase of velocity implies an increase of the reaction on the surface, the black side of a vane being thus pressed with greater force than the bright side.

When the rays of the sun or a candle, or dark radiation from a warm body, are incident on the vanes, the dark side of each vane is repelled more than the bright side, and thus the vanes are set into rotation with accelerated speed, which becomes uniform when the forces produced by the radiation are balanced by the friction of the pivot and of the residual air in the globe.

This was an incident in a famous episode, important rather as a symptom than in itself, namely, the Antinomian controversy, " New England's earliest protest against formulas," in which Vane and Ann Hutchinson took the lead in criticizing the official orthodoxy of the colony.