The lawn mower has a rotary blade. From LearnThat.org.
rotary dial. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The accident blocked all traffic at the rotary. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"If a liquid has not what we call rotary power both halves of the double disk appear of the same tint," he explained. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasure-Train] Reference
The turbo-cycle rotary is an engine with a very low part count and high power density. From Wordnik.com. [Sustainable Design Update » Blog Archive] Reference
In the original show, Smart had a built in rotary-dial telephone in his shoe that he would use to contact CONTROL. From Wordnik.com. [Get Smart's Shoe Phone Video Contest « FirstShowing.net] Reference
This is because pulse (aka rotary) digits are created by causing breaks in the DC current (see Basic Telcom V). From Wordnik.com. [The Official Phreaker's Manual Version 1.1 by The Jammer and Jack the Ripper] Reference
The heat wheel - also known as a rotary heat exchanger or Kyoto Cooling - is a refinement of cooling systems using outside air. From Wordnik.com. [Slashdot] Reference
Tools that must be turned to gouge and scrape ground materials are referred to as "rotary" tools for obvious reasons. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
"rotary" brushes essentially contact "all" surfaces of the carpet fibers during the cleaning process. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
She campaigned in small towns before rotary clubs. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Chase Smith: A Free-Speech Crusader] Reference
There's no good reason why I miss rotary phones as I do. From Wordnik.com. [Acute Amusement] Reference
He answered the beige, wall-mounted rotary with a smile. From Wordnik.com. [Last Visit to the Toy Store] Reference
There was the clicking whir of a rotary phone being dialed. From Wordnik.com. [Trust Walk] Reference
This was the first rotary press made for a good grade of book-work. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
The reciprocating motion is generally preferred to the rotary for fire-engines. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction] Reference
You played it with the rotary dial from a telephone on an impossibly small screen. From Wordnik.com. [Video Games: The 21st Century's Fine Art Frontier] Reference
Years of declining budg-ets have left some city departments with rotary-dial phones. From Wordnik.com. [New Deal In Detroit] Reference
Gossip flowed freely, without the threat of breaking a nail on that pesky rotary dial. From Wordnik.com. [Martini Business] Reference
He began throwing sand out from under his feet like a record-busting rotary snow plough. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Luck] Reference
Obsolete rotary telephones, for instance, are already beginning to come back into vogue. From Wordnik.com. [Sell It While It's Hot. Collect It When It's Not.] Reference
Ties, rare as rotary phones, sprouted from my male co-workers 'necks whenever a client visited. From Wordnik.com. [Leave Your Hat On, But Lose The Jeans] Reference
He called the police from Matt's phone — a rotary dial, another of Matt's Salvation Army finds. From Wordnik.com. [Coping Stones] Reference
We visited churches, schools, rotary clubs, spoke to any assembly of parents and teenaged children. From Wordnik.com. [Dillard University, five years after Katrina] Reference
It was some light part of the rotary engined aero-hydroplane, the Drifter, cutting the water like a knife. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane] Reference
A driver entering a traffic circle, or rotary, must yield the right of way to drivers already in the circle. From Wordnik.com. [When your right of way goes wrong] Reference
It's a little impractical (who uses rotary phones anymore?), but for Gaga, it's a rare moment of literalism. From Wordnik.com. [Lists: A highly selective list of awesome things Lady Gaga has worn on her head] Reference
Its rotary engine can run on either hydrogen or gasoline, and a hybrid system boosts fuel economy on either fuel. From Wordnik.com. [A green tour of the Detroit auto show] Reference
One of the day's goals is to test the ASH's tiny but noisy rotary engine, which powers a propeller just behind the cockpit. From Wordnik.com. [Up, Up And Away] Reference
This forgotten car is incredibly rewarding to drive, with its smooth-revving rotary engine, slick shifter and lithe handling. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Picks: Sporty and muscle cars, part 1] Reference
The body is charged with a slow-burning combustible, in the manner of the ordinary rocket, whereby it is given a rapid rotary motion. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
Manual reel mowers are also a greener choice for smaller spaces, though cutting performance hasn't matched rotary mowers in our tests. From Wordnik.com. [Cutting mower emissions: Tougher smog rules could mean pricier mowers] Reference
Helicopter leasing is also back, rotary aircraft the only means to jockey skilled workers to offshore oil rigs and other remote locales. From Wordnik.com. [Boeing's Commercial And Military Feast] Reference
Lyons, Caen, Rixbeim, the great centres of the industry, were much disturbed concerning that marvellous "rotary and dodecagonal" machine. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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