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A hinged picture can be swung out from the wall to reveal a squint looking into the Entrance Hall.
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The stock is hinged so the flukes can orient toward the bottom ( and on some designs may be adjusted for an optimal angle depending on the bottom type ).
It may be simply covered by a rubber flap or it may be an actual door hinged on the top that the pet can push through.
Doors can be hinged so that the axis of rotation is not in the plane of the door to reduce the space required on the side to which the door opens.
The selfbolting door principle can be used both for hinged doors as for rotating doors, as well as up-and-over doors ( in the latter case, the bolts are then placed at top and bottom rather than at the sides ).
An example is the RSSR linkage, which can be viewed as a four-bar linkage in which the hinged joints of the coupler link are replaced by rod ends, also called spherical joints or ball joints.
A window which can either tilt inwards at the top, or can open inwards hinged at the side.
A break action is a type of firearm where the barrel ( s ) are hinged and can be " broken open " to expose the breech.
Both rigid and hinged cuffs can be used one-handed to apply pain-compliance / control techniques that are not workable with the chain type of cuff.
They can either be hinged or static.
Unlike an ordinary callbox, its telephone is located behind a hinged door so it can be used from the outside, and the interior of the box is, in effect, a miniature police station for use by police officers.
It uses a spring activated locking mechanism to close a hinged shackle, and can be unfastened under load.
A triptych ( ; ( from the Greek adjective τρίπτυχοs (" three-fold "), from tri -= " three " + ptysso = " to fold ") is a work of art ( usually a panel painting ) which is divided into three sections, or three carved panels which are hinged together and can be folded shut or displayed open.
A zero length spring can be attached to a mass on a hinged boom in such a way that the force on the mass is almost exactly balanced by the vertical component of the force from the spring, whatever the position of the boom.
The best-known speculum is the bivalved vaginal specula ; the two blades are hinged and are " closed " when the speculum is inserted to facilitate its entry and " opened " in its final position where they can be arrested by a screw mechanism, so that the operator is freed from keeping the blades apart.
" Sometimes, as evident in the Ghent and Isenheim works, the hinged panels can be varied in arrangement to show different " views " or " openings " in the piece.
These extra keys are sometimes hidden under a small hinged lid that can be flipped down to cover the keys in order to avoid visual disorientation in a pianist unfamiliar with the extended keyboard.
Traditionally, a counting box is used with tiles numbered 1 to 9 where each can be covered with a hinged or sliding mechanism, though the game can be played with only a pair of dice, pen, and paper.
It is more practical to make a hinged desktop which can be lifted to give access to a small cabinet placed underneath it, despite the problems this layout can cause to objects left on it.
On land or when wading the blade can be unclipped and hinged vertically so it does not interfere with walking.
A Liseuse desk is a medium sized writing table with a small hinged panel in the middle which can spring up by the aid of a mechanism or be propped up at a desired angle to facilitate reading, or writing on its slanted surface.
Even if the inn uses hinged doors for security, it usually opens into a small entranceway where guests can take off their shoes before stepping onto the tatami floor, which would be separated by a sliding door.
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Stormalong was said to be a sailor and a giant, some 30 feet tall ; he was the master of a huge clipper ship known in various sources as either the Courser or the Tuscarora, a ship so tall that it had hinged masts to avoid catching on the moon.
In some cases, such as hinged garage doors, the axis may be horizontal, above the door opening.
The rig was built in hinged sections so it could be manipulated by frogmen to sink or rise, a key feature for the scene when Luke fails to levitate his ship from the water.
The introduction of films enabled the existing designs for plate cameras to be made much smaller and for the base-plate to be hinged so that it could be folded up compressing the bellows.
Most modern binoculars are also adjustable via a hinged construction that enables the distance between the two telescope halves to be adjusted to accommodate viewers with different eye separation or " interpupillary distance ".
The screens will be mounted on hinged panels, allowing them to be closed.
Flake terminations may be feathered, hinged, stepped, or plunging ( also known as overshot or outrepassé ).
Spring guns are typically cocked by a mechanism requiring the gun to be hinged at the midpoint ( called a break barrel ), with the barrel serving as a cocking lever.
There are three main types of contemporary metal handcuffs: chain ( cuffs are held together by a short chain ), hinged ( since hinged handcuffs permit less movement than a chain cuff, they are generally considered to be more secure ), and rigid solid bar handcuffs.
Nevertheless, many collectors of unused stamps want copies that are mint, never hinged which means that the gum must be pristine and intact, and they will pay a premium for these.
Plaquettes could be either hinged and flexible, like modern spectacle nose-pads, permitting a better fit, or static as in the older examples of this type.
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One of the pole shoes, hinged at the front, linked to the starter drive, and spring-loaded away from its normal operating position, is swung into position by the magnetic field created by electricity flowing through its field coil.
The front sheet-metal assembly, including the bonnet ( hood ) and wings, was a one-piece unit, hinged from the back, that swung up to allow access to the engine compartment.
Meanwhile, a sheet of paper was slid against a hinged platen ( see image ) which was then rapidly pressed onto the type and swung back again to have the sheet removed and the next sheet inserted ( during which operation the now freshly inked rollers would run over the type again ).
In the Western world, its most classical form is a church bell or town bell, which is hung within a tower and sounded by having the entire bell swung by ropes, whereupon an internal hinged clapper strikes the body of the bell ( called a free-swinging bell ).
The breech is hinged on the right side, and had to be swung open to load the round.
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It projects it with the tip foremost whereas other frogs flick out the rear part first, their tongues being hinged at the front.
The CQR design has a hinged shank, allowing the anchor to turn with direction changes rather than breaking out, while other plough types have a rigid shank.
This plan, its further detail fleshed out in the 1997 Houston Agreement, hinged upon Morocco's agreement to a referendum on independence or unification with Morocco voted by the Sahrawi population.
A window with a hinged sash that swings in or out like a door comprising either a side-hung, top-hung ( also called " awning window "; see below ), or occasionally bottom-hung sash or a combination of these types, sometimes with fixed panels on one or more sides of the sash.
The hinged gridirons were slid in and out of the stoves holding the meat while it cooked evenly on both sides, like modern day oven racks.
In 1847 Gabriel Lamé announced a solution of Fermat's Last Theorem for all -- i. e., that the Fermat equation has no solutions in nonzero integers, but it turned out that his solution hinged on the assumption that the cyclotomic ring is a UFD.
However, in quite a few of the antique versions a system of internal gears and / or levers connected both to the sliders and the hinged desktop automatically pushed the sliders out at the same time as the user pulled on the closed desktop to put it in its horizontal position.
They attach to things with ' strings ', byssal threads, which come out of their umbo on the dorsal ( hinged ) side.
The P-38 can opener is keychain-sized, about 1. 5 inches ( 38 mm ) long, and consists of a short metal blade that serves as a handle ( and can also be used as a screwdriver ), with a small, hinged metal tooth that folds out to pierce the can lid.
The can opener is pocket-sized, approximately 1. 5 inches ( 38 mm ) long, and consists of a short metal blade that serves as a handle, with a small, hinged metal tooth that folds out to pierce the can lid.
The back case has an extra hinged cover that can be folded out to allow the watch to stand upright on a table.
Such Steins may be made out of stoneware ( rarely the inferior earthenware ), pewter, porcelain, or even silver, wood or crystal glass ; they may have open tops or hinged pewter lids with a thumb-lever.
To open the door, it was required to push a hinged panel out of the release mechanism's opening.
Trapdoor spiders dig out an underground nest they line with their silk, and then top it with a hinged lid, the trapdoor.
There is a wirework cage inside to prevent mail falling out when the door is opened, a hinged letter chute to allow mail to fall into the collecting bag or sack and a serrated hand-guard to prevent unauthorised tampering with the mail through the aperture.
Even the windows are hinged so that they can only open 90 degrees to the wall, preserving strict design standards about intersecting planes, and further blurring the delineation of inside and out.
Another striking feature is the movable wall-seat — one entire wall section of the living area, with a built-in couch, is hinged on one side and supported by a caster on the other, allowing the entire structure to swing out, opening the room out to the adjoining terrace.
When a bus, truck or tractor or excavator has a vertical exhaust pipe ( called stacks or pipes behind the cab ), sometimes the end is curved, or has a hinged cover flap which the gas flow blows out of the way, to try to prevent foreign objects ( including droppings from a bird perching on the exhaust pipe when the vehicle is not being used ) getting inside the exhaust pipe.
* Gate ( rowing ), a hinged bar which can be locked over the top of a rowlock to prevent the oar from coming out
The filaments snap upward flinging pollen out of containers hinged to the filaments.
The stop signs used are mounted onto the pedestrian crossing poles which have a hinged bracket attached, allowing the students to easily and quickly extend ( swing ) the sign out onto the roadway, during breaks in the traffic.
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