Some slide rules (" duplex " models ) have scales on both sides of the rule and slide strip, others on one side of the outer strips and both sides of the slide strip ( which can usually be pulled out, flipped over and reinserted for convenience ), still others on one side only (" simplex " rules ).

If the sides of the flattened loop are pulled away from each other, the flattened loop ends pull out of the half hitches and the knot falls apart, but if the free ends

John Trumbull had pointed this out as early as 1776, when a shot fired from the fort was able to reach Defiance's summit, and several officers inspecting the hill noted that there were approaches to its summit where gun carriages could be pulled up the sides.

The molecules at the surface do not have other molecules on all sides of them and therefore are pulled inwards.

One way to picture this is to imagine a flat soap film bounded on one side by a taut thread of length, L. The thread will be pulled toward the interior of the film by a force equal to 2L ( the factor of 2 is because the soap film has two sides, hence two surfaces ).

Casualties were light on both sides, but Jourdan pulled back to Niewied while Kléber recoiled toward Düsseldorf.

Although the term kerf is often used to refer to the width of the saw blade, it actually means the width of the cut, which is affected by the width of the blade, the amount of wobble created during cutting, and the amount of material pulled out of the sides of the cut.

Gradually, the bi-oriented chromosome is pulled towards the center of the cell until microtubule tension is balanced on both sides of the centromere ; the congressed chromosome then oscillates at the metaphase plate until anaphase onset releases cohesion of the sister chromatids.

One of Washington's officers, thinking he was dead, as he was in between both lines, exposed from fire on both sides, pulled his hat over his eyes, but when the smoke cleared, Washington appeared, unharmed, waving his men forward.

After the examination, the body has an open and empty chest cavity with chest flaps open on both sides, the top of the skull is missing, and the skull flaps are pulled over the face and neck.

Noted for its resistance to being pulled apart ( tensile strength ), the dovetail joint is commonly used to join the sides of a drawer to the front.

At the Battle of Lundy's Lane, both sides claimed victory, but because U. S. forces had suffered so many casualties, they pulled back to Fort Erie.

A traditional cruller ( or twister ) is a fried pastry often made from a rectangle of dough, with a cut made in the middle that allows it to be pulled over and through itself producing twists in the sides of the donut.

At the metaphase to anaphase transition, this cohesion between sister chromatids is dissolved, and the separated chromatids are pulled to opposite sides of the cell by the spindle microtubules.

If the trailing edge of the wing is pulled in on both sides at the same time, the aircraft " flares ," i. e., slows and temporarily gains additional lift.

In keeping with the vertical emphasis, hair was pulled back at the sides and worn in a high knot or cluster of ringlets, often with a fringe ( bangs ) over the forehead.

Byzantine icons often show readers and church singers wearing a stikhar-like garment ( more loose and flowing than the modern stikhar ) and a pointed hat with the brim pulled out to the sides ( see here, lower left corner ).

In the 1928 film, The Crowd, a tunnel of love is featured in which the sides are voyeuristically pulled down at a place where couples are likely to be kissing.

The hollowed out trunk is covered on both sides by goat skins which are pulled tightly with rope.

A few seconds later, an ESPN camera that had zoomed in on Herta's head pulled back when Herta clenched his fists and put them against the sides of his head.

That afternoon when they had pulled up in front of the broken-down ranch house, his hopes had been high.

Summers pulled up short, and turned around.

At the first restaurant he sensibly pulled up to go in for his dinner, and as a consequence did not see Cobb strike the open range at the mouth of the canyon and head straight across the swells for Antler.

She stood up, pulled the coat from her shoulders and started to slide it off, then let out a high-pitched scream and I let out a low-pitched, wobbling sound like a muffler blowing out.

Five or so minutes later the marine abruptly pulled up and stepped into sunlight, immediately throwing his hands over his eyes.

She pulled her legs up under her, to rise, her full peasant skirt drawing up her thighs, and Feathertop's music pfffted away.

This man, Tom said, had the play shut up in his desk, I believe, and when Tom sat down, he pulled it out and apologetically told Tom that they wouldn't be able to use it.

One afternoon, as the women sat clucking softly, a new carload of people pulled up at the gate.

He pulled it over, climbed up, and lifted out the big volume, almost losing his balance from the weight of it.

Killpath pulled one thin leg up, clamping his arms around the shinbone to press his knee into an incredibly scrawny gut.

The police car had pulled up behind a small sedan, its headlights still on.

He sat up and watched as they pulled themselves over the stern.

`` Bon jour '', I said brightly, sitting up, which pulled the covers to her hips.

When this happens, the anchor may be pulled out of the bottom, and in some cases may need to be hauled up to be re-set.

" Iroquois are also known for " embossed " beading in which strings pulled taunt force beads to pop up from the surface, creating a bas-relief.

" Relieved that he had not accidentally attacked one of his own ships in the darkness, Hallowell pulled up between Orient and Franklin and opened fire on them both.

Alexander, the final unengaged British ship that had followed Swiftsure, pulled up close to Tonnant, which had begun to drift away from the embattled French flagship.

It could be used as both a joystick and paddle ( twist ), and not only pushed down to operate as a fire button but also pulled up.

It operated using a small wheel much like that on cigarette lighters which was wound up with a key before use and which, when the trigger was pulled, spun against a flint, creating the shower of sparks that ignited the powder in the touch hole.

For instance, a simple Rolling Hitch tied around a railing and pulled parallel to the railing might hold up to a certain tension, then start sliding.

Discontinuous technology allows the entire kiln charge to come up to full atmospheric pressure, the air in the chamber is then heated, and finally vacuum is pulled.

When beached or in shallow water the tiller was moved to the lower hole, the blade rope was slackened and the rudder head pulled up so the rudder could operate in shallow waters.

The mandrake – or “ man-drag-on ” [...] screamed when you pulled them up into the air just as human beings would scream if you buried them alive.