Sentence examples for base shaft from inspiring English sources

The wings of the turbine retract into the base shaft via a device described here within this article.

Architects had already established the analogy with the classical column, dividing it into the tripartite arrangement of base, shaft and capital.

"We determined, after a lot of anguish, that the only way to marry these was to work the base over and create a classical base, shaft and modern cornice," said the architect Charles A. Platt.

The building's characteristics are its tripartite system of a base, shaft, and capital, the treatment of the skyscraper as a tower, and the use of setbacks.

For him, the skyscraper isn't a classical column, with a base, a shaft, and a capital.

Gilbert refined the proportions between these elements and articulated them by using different materials for each: stone base, brick shaft, terra cotta crown.

A high-quality database, originally employed to develop the ICP design method, was used to assess the uncertainties of base and shaft capacities.

And then at the apex, we see a good view of the top, with a statue of St. Peter; but we have coins depicting Trajan on depicting the original statue the base, the shaft, a portrait of Trajan, a naked portrait of Trajan, a heroicized portrait of Trajan, depicted after death, divinized at the apex of the column.

Previously it has been suggested that scales were modified into feathers in some way, (evolutionarily, a large raised scale could easily get very long and thin over time to form something like a filament and then later split into multiple fibers) but it is also possible that they are something like more derived feathers that have a base (the shaft) and the filaments protrude from the top or side.

Each guide rod is hinged to the base with shaft, capable of swinging in radial direction, as shown in Fig. 7b.

A Jones fracture is the most common type of metatarsal fracture and refers to a break between the base and shaft of the fifth metatarsal bone of the foot.