Sentence examples for a receptacle that from inspiring English sources

The astronauts at the station have attached a receptacle that bypasses the separation system, but the complicated workaround is time consuming and wastes water.

The Ford is also cleaner at the pump, both for an owner's hands and the environment: there's no fuel-filler cap, only a receptacle that accepts the filling station's pump nozzle; the system has less evaporative emissions.

Special containers were affixed to the bottom of showers to collect runoff; likewise, bath water drained into a receptacle that was later used for flushing toilets (pouring it into the bowl forces it down the drain).

The astronauts are working around the problem now with a receptacle that bypasses the separation system, but it is a complicated workaround that is time consuming and requires the astronauts to waste a great deal of water in the process.

For producing continuous fibre, the liquid is fed into a bushing, a receptacle that is pierced with hundreds of fine nozzles through which the liquid issues in fine streams.

"What we are trying to do is put [the cobalt-60] in a receptacle that can contain its radioactivity and send it [to the nuclear waste site] to be confined," Mr Eibenschutz said.

On a recent evening at eight o'clock, a small boy set off up Fifth Avenue in the Nineties, jar in hand — actually, it was a plastic receptacle that had held takeout chicken vindaloo the night before — and stalked his prey.

12 Recently, the Sawyer Corporation and Messiah College partnered to design a gravity-fed biological filter system that uses a locally available receptacle that is easily maintained by household members.

Advertisers have turned to the genre to sell Litter Genie, a cat-waste receptacle that neutralizes odors, Andrew Adam Newman reports.

The genus Ficus is characterized by its unique enclosed inflorescence, the syconium, which is an urn-shaped receptacle that contains tens to thousands flowers.

The berry results from the development of the flower receptacle that consists of a pith at the centre, a fleshy cortex, an epidermis, and a ring of vascular bundles with branches leading to the achenes, the true fruits.