needle bearing

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noun

engineering an antifriction roller bearing in which long rollers of very small diameter fill the race without a cage to provide spacers between them

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Words nearby needle bearing

needful, Needham, neediness, needle, needle bath, needle bearing, needle biopsy, needlecord, needlecraft, needle exchange, needlefish

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How to use needle bearing in a sentence

The others are difficult to identify, since they reacted with other oxygen-bearing molecules in the soil.
Methane on Mars: Life or Just Gas?|Matthew R. Francis|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Their decay proceeded without a ready supply of oxygen, producing hydrocarbons like methane instead of oxygen-bearing molecules.
Methane on Mars: Life or Just Gas?|Matthew R. Francis|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Thanks to the film bearing his name, Oskar Schindler is probably the most well-known of these, but there are many others.
The Straight Hero of Cameroon’s Gays|Jay Michaelson|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There, he first picked up needle and thread to mend the shirt of an SS guard who had just beaten him.
From Auschwitz to the White House: One Tailor’s American Tale|Martin Greenfield|December 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST

For his part, Logan now believes that more than 95 percent of cone bearing trees are infected.
What It Takes to Kill a Grizzly Bear|Doug Peacock|November 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The sense of bearing on to the voice, or endeavoring to push the tone by any pressure whatever, should be absolutely avoided.
Expressive Voice Culture|Jessie Eldridge Southwick
One, a man of distinguished looks and military bearing, was a little in advance of the other two.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
The needle of the archdruidress broke, as she shook her head viciously at the scoffer.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
The individual prisms are usually slender, with one beveled, wedge-like end, but are sometimes needle-like.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
From several doorways other men emerged, some of martial bearing, showing that the place was garrisoned to some extent.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini