Sentence examples for zip fastener from inspiring English sources
noun
A fastener used in clothing, bags, etc, made up of two rows of teeth that are made to fit into each other by moving a slider along their length and opened again by moving the slider in the other direction.
The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.
And there was the sleek silhouette of a pony skin dress, a zip fastener horizontal at the waist line.
Like the wheel, the zip fastener and other breakthrough technologies, it looks deceptively basic at first sight.
In case of a zip fastener this propagation speed depends on the force with which the operator pulls on the slider.
The year 2014 is the centenary of the filing of a key US patent in the development of the modern zip fastener.
Emile-Maurice Hermès - creator of the first Hermès handbag - may have liked modern designs and creations such as the zip fastener, but he loathed Henry Ford's Johnny-come-lately ideas for mass production.
The zip was held shut by a common travel-style Yale padlock through holes in two zip fasteners.
Increasingly he painted huge dismembered heads, their mouths opening like zip fasteners, their big cyclopic eyes staring at bottles, walls, the ground.
The reason for going there is that the Mid-Cayman Rise is part of the 60,000km-long system of mid-ocean ridges that zigzags around the planet like a network of giant zip fasteners which open up regularly to reveal the liquid rock beneath.
The Birmingham couple's joint pension comes to £130 a week, supplemented by £15 from a scheme Mr Kenny joined during a stint as a porter at Boots, and £5 a week which Pat receives from a former job making zip fasteners.
A great quantity of ammunition is expended, the zip-fastener is kept busy and the customary sexual consummation is associated with the kill".
