The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act. From LearnThat.org. [Orison Swett Marden]
If the mass is allowed to dry on the paper, it often leaves a bright blue stain, due to the blue pigment in the cells of the filament. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
I dangled between two worlds on a thin filament and felt it fray. From Wordnik.com. [Denise Hamilton discusses Sugar Skull] Reference
A medium - to lightweight spinning setup spooled with 6 - or 8-pound mono-filament is perfect. From Wordnik.com. [How and Where to Fish for Pickerel] Reference
The lamps were of the incandescent variety, and what we now know as the filament was platinum wire. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Steel and Electricity] Reference
The teardrop elongates until a tail of ink, called a filament, stretches away like the tail of a comet. From Wordnik.com. [Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Reference
Its 13-million-light-year-long stream of galaxies, gas and dark matter - known as a filament - is pouring into a region already full of galaxies. From Wordnik.com. [Universe Today] Reference
In MACSJ0717, a 13-million-light-year-long stream of galaxies, gas and dark matter - known as a filament - is pouring into a region already full of galaxies. From Wordnik.com. Reference
They found evidence that a 13-million-light-year-long stream of galaxies, gas and dark matter -- known as a filament -- was causing repeated collisions in the cluster. From Wordnik.com. [Starbulletin Headlines] Reference
The mandibles each suddenly end in a curved, slender filament, which is probably used as a tactile organ to explore the best sites in the flesh of their victim for drawing blood. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
Just make sure your shreds are what Anderson calls "filament" thin. From Wordnik.com. [Potatoes (and Potato and Greens Soup) in Portugal] Reference
The great question was and is to preserve the little filament which is heated to incandescence, and from which we get the light. From Wordnik.com. [Electricity for Boys] Reference
Reference is made to a previously known galaxy 'filament' that was discovered in an earlier study. From Wordnik.com. [Universe Today] Reference
In the seats directly in front us, there was this little kid with some kind of filament toy they sold at the arena. From Wordnik.com. [Dubious Quality] Reference
"filament," is not heated in contact with the air. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Steel and Electricity] Reference
Why the filament in bulb does not readily burn out. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island] Reference
Thus, at 2.33 P.M. the length of the filament was 6 µ; at. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
D. Stages of growth of a sheathed filament -- a at 9 A.M., b at 3 P.M., c at. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Then there are nets-metallic shrouds for tanks and trucks, filament nets for people. From Wordnik.com. [Soon, 'Phasers On Stun'] Reference
= The pollen-bearing organ of the flower, usually consisting of filament and anther. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Motors purred, lights flashed, every filament of the screen became alive with strange fires. From Wordnik.com. [The Seed of the Toc-Toc Birds] Reference
Each stamen consists of a very delicate long filament and an anther basifixed to the filament. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Mangled in filament, the pelican will unfold from her valise-like nap and try, panicked, to fly. From Wordnik.com. [The Slender Scent] Reference
The abscissae represent intervals of time, the ordinates the measured lengths of the growing filament. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Breeding resistance: The resistant bacterium sends out a filament to another bacterium, pulling it in. From Wordnik.com. [The End Of Antibiotics] Reference
Agony's confetti, bolts of spider-filament, cost of blinking, probing electricity, crescendo of feeling. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Guggenheim Visits an Operation] Reference
At GE, William David Coolidge first improved the light bulb by replacing carbon with a tungsten filament. From Wordnik.com. [Body Imaging] Reference
At other times, however, the transformation takes place at the same time, both in the filament and in the anther. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Hardy has shown that such a destruction of part of the filament may be effected by the attacks of another organism. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Attach to the end five fine points of white wax, and paint them also cream colour; shade the filament of the pistillum red. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling] Reference
The results obtained with these lamps vary as much as 25 per cent., according to the care bestowed in producing the filament. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference
As the Edison 16 candle lamp gives 1.6 carcels and its filament burns 1,000 hours, the wear will increase the price of the carcel by. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896] Reference
You can save money in reducing the filament brightness by increasing the regeneration, which will make up for the loss of brilliancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Radio Boys at the Sending Station Making Good in the Wireless Room] Reference
STAMENS, or STAMINA, signify the filaments that surround the pistil; and the enlarged part at the end of each filament is called anther. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling] Reference
In previous investigations, however, debris as seemingly inconsequential as a light-bulb filament provided clues to the cause of a crash. From Wordnik.com. [Usair 427: Not So Thorough?] Reference
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