Sentence examples for fastener from inspiring English sources

In mechanical and civil engineering the term pin, or more properly pin fastener, designates a peg- or boltlike device designed to fasten machine and structural components together or to keep them properly aligned.

Fasten the pin and turn the snowball over so that the fastener becomes the bottom.

Like the wheel, the zip fastener and other breakthrough technologies, it looks deceptively basic at first sight.

Meanwhile, a central piece of evidence in the case against Mr Sollecito was a bra fastener belonging to Ms Kercher on which was found a (contested) trace of his DNA.

Bolt, mechanical fastener that is usually used with a nut for connecting two or more parts.

Judson's fastener, called a clasp locker, was an arrangement of hooks and eyes with a slide clasp for closing and opening.

In 1923 B.G. Work of the B.F. Goodrich Company gave the name zipper to the slide fastener that had just been adopted for closing overshoes.

It has two pairs of silk strings, tuned (in relative pitch) to c g, which run from a fastener on the wooden belly to tuning pegs set in the sides of the pegbox.

Although Archimedes is credited with inventing the screw in the 3rd century bc, his screw was not today's fastener but actually two other screw-type devices.

IN THE annals of fashion the snap-fastener, or press-stud, holds a humble place.

World-shaking innovations from the Science Museum's permanent collection are also on proud display: the 1868 Cleopatra chain-stitch sewing machine; the 1926 Ethodyne broadcast receiver, a dismayingly complicated early valve radio; the first perforated lavatory paper; the first Post-It note; the zip-fastener (originally known, in 1851, as "the Automatic Continuous Clothing Closure").