Sentence examples for on their axis from inspiring English sources

For the uninitiated (and unfortunate), rod hockey involves a 4-by-3-foot wide tabletop rink with miniature hockey players that are controlled by sliding rods back and forth; spinning the rods makes the players turn on their axis and shoot the puck.

The third main consequence is that internal Scottish politics have shifted on their axis too.

Even the opening scene is keen to spin your preconceptions on their axis, featuring, as it does, Michael Gambon shooting someone in the head.

This year, the tests are aimed additionally at stopping teams making wings rotate backwards on their axis.

The load test on the front wing has been made tougher, to prevent teams from making their wings rotate on their axis for aerodynamic benefit.

This is not the case with advancement designs in which a number of perforators can be preserved and the flap advanced without risk of the perforators twisting on their axis.

Operation Martlet was to commence one day before Epsom with XXX Corps' 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division and the 8th Armoured Brigade securing VIII Corps' flank by capturing the high ground on the right of their axis of advance.

In general, airborne wind turbines can be divided into two groups based on their rotation axis: vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) and horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWT) [19, 20].

As the dancers spin endlessly on their own axis — upper bodies in repose, one arm raised toward the divine — their white skirts billow, while the music gradually accelerates and builds toward ecstasy.

Spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris) frequently leap out of the water while spinning on their long axis, hence their common name.

Two laser-Doppler interferometers simultaneously measure the bodies' dynamic motions on their common axis of motion.