16 Verbs to Use for the Word compressions

Q.The power of a rod or pillar to resist compression becomes very little when the diameter is small and the length great?

For the repression means actual compression of muscle, the muscle contained in the viscera.

And finally, Daniell says: "A vibrating body, before it can act as a sounding body, must produce alternate compressions and rarefactions in the air, and these must be well marked.

Yet of the two, I think that error the most pardonable, which, in too straight a compass, crowds together many accidents: since it produces more variety, and consequently more pleasure to the audience; and because the nearness of proportion betwixt the imaginary and real time does speciously cover the compression of the Accidents.

We have only to consider one forward motion of the prong, and if that motion cannot condense the air, then no wave can be produced; for after a prong has advanced and stopped moving (no matter for how short a time), if it has not compressed the air, its return motion (on the same side) cannot do anything toward making a compression.

Mr. Ryfe would have felt this, could he have seen the gestures of the woman he loved, while she tore his letter into shredscould he have marked the carriage of her haughty head, the compression of her sweet, resolute lips, the fierce energy of her white, cruel hands.

Immediately beneath the skull lay the greater part of a human tibia, presenting the peculiar compression known as a platycnemism to the degree of affording a latitudinal index of .512; while beneath and surrounding it lay the fragments of a large number of human bones, probably constituting an entire individual.

When the form with a tenon is used the under cut is extended a short distance horizontally into the block to prevent any compression from below.

On the other hand, when they wish to rise, they relax the compression of the abdominal muscles, when the air-bladder fills and distends, and the body immediately ascends to the surface.

On their part, they would sit in deep attention, shielding their faces from the fire, and responding to enunciations directly contrary to their convictions with an occasional "yes-seh," or "ceddenly," or "of coze," or,prettier affirmation still,a solemn drooping of the eyelids, a slight compression of the lips, and a low, slow declination of the head.

The same thing had already been remarked in cases of holes punched with a rounded punch, where the burr, when examined, was found to have suffered the greatest compression just below the punch.

"The full period of several members possesses most dignity and modulation, and conveys also the greatest degree of force, by admitting the closest compression of thought.

When he appeared on the threshold of the omnibus in all his hugeness, a cry of alarm arose;Where was he going to sit? Antony Thouret, noticing Berryer at the bottom of the omnibus, went straight up to him, sat down on his knees, and quietly said to him, "You wanted 'compression,' Monsieur Berryer.

Perhaps not for a century hence will the policy of King Cotton work its legitimate results, and the volcano at length come to its head and defy all compression.

He was staring at the road aheadas the driver of a high-powered motor through April mud must do, of courseyet his sister thought she detected a curious compression of the lips not due wholly to the strain of driving under difficulties.

But even when imitating the compression of these short tales Mrs. Haywood did not always succeed in freeing herself from the "amour trop delicat" of the romantic conventions.

16 Verbs to Use for the Word  compressions