live centre
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
But even in this case the weight of the work will aid to spring it, and relieve it from contact with the live centre.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
Another method employed on small lathes is to drill a hole through the live spindle to receive a taper pin p, the live centre end being shown at c.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
The sea lies all about this long-necked cape— There come the dogs, straight for me every one— Me, live despair, live centre of alarms!—
From A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul by George MacDonald
If the live centre does not run true the following difficulties are met with.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
The lathe centres should, for parallel work, stand axially true one with the other, and this can only be the case when the live centre runs true.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
