Sentence examples for rope ends from inspiring English sources

A splice is made by untwisting the constituent strands of two rope ends and weaving them together.

It is used for tying packages, to keep rope ends from fraying, and as a first step in making more complex knots such as the surgeon's knot and the square knot.

Ask a vertical-transportation-industry professional to recall an episode of an elevator in free fall — the cab plummeting in the shaftway, frayed rope ends trailing in the dark — and he will say that he can think of only one.

Ask a vertical-transportation-industry professional to recall an episode of an elevator in free fall the cab plummeting in the shaftway, frayed rope ends trailing in the dark and he will say that he can think of only one.

Onstage he was a rapid-fire jokester, an instinctive commentator on his own actions, the verbal repartee as much a part of his act as the rope ends that refused to rejoin, the rabbits that refused to materialize from a top hat, the bodies that refused to levitate on command.

It is found that the rotation of ropes (no matter its positive or negative) will increase the overall stress level over the wire cross section, however, restraining the rope ends leads to higher contact stress.

An overhand knot is made by crossing the rope end around the standing part to form a loop, bringing the rope's end through the loop, and pulling the rope taut.

Again, success depended on dogs inhibiting pulling the rope end.

In this condition, the length of the rope end accessible on each side was 63 cm.

If the rope end was still available to them, the experimenter held it for a maximum of 10 s.

The other dog (which had approached the apparatus in a straight line) subsequently went across to the free rope end.