He kept his hand on the gear lever, feeling the turning gears through it.

As the two turning gears ground together, the loose one was crunched.

Baumer roared suddenly, then went back to turning gear trains once more.

All of this is written in the most general terms, using a dry functional language that clanks with turning gears and ratchets.

The rule about keeping the drive wheels off the pavement is paramount - to keep them from turning gears inside the transmission and differential.

Damage to a turning gear delayed the ship's final check-out trials from August to September 2010.

He began cranking lustily and the sound of turning gears and a growing whine came from the cabinet.

There were rings atop rings, turning gear shapes and twirling, pulsing moires.

In most clocks it is a simple fan fly (K), a flat piece of sheet metal mounted on the fastest turning gear shaft.

A Jacking gear (also known as a Turning gear) is a device placed on the main engine shaft of a marine vessel.

Also, a turning gear is engaged when there is no steam to slowly rotate the turbine to ensure even heating to prevent uneven expansion.

Java applets do not have to be profound; they can also be decorative, like flapping flags, bouncing balls, shimmering text or turning gears.

Barring gear (or "turning gear") is the mechanism provided to rotate the turbine generator shaft at a very low speed after unit stoppages.

World 7 - Lunar Base: Garlen's mechanical base of operations filled with turning gears and maze-like passages.

A few feet above their heads and a few feet aft, the engines were racing at thousands of RPM, turning gears to drive the seven-bladed main rotor.

She descends a steel staircase into a sinister cityscape straight out of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis," a landscape of metal girders, turning gears and gritty, urban smokestacks.

Superman then flies to the bridge and sees that the federal agent is about to be crushed by the bridge's turning mechanism and saves her by "derailing" the massive turning gear.

The grey-green chop seemed to be an infinite array of turning gears in a vast mechanism, and across it, bright silver flickers of sunlight jittered like electric current across a power grid.

The turning gear base of the radar tower was returned to its original position in 2001 with the rest of the radar tower stored at RAAF Base Williamtown.

In one, Munch's Odessey, designed by Lorne Lanning, the creator of the popular Oddworld computer game, characters hopped and ran around a richly detailed factory floor, complete with turning gears and starkly realistic, dynamic lighting and shadows.

Although she was not repaired to operational condition - her stern engine was decoupled from the propeller shaft and equipped with an electrical turning gear - there are no permanent changes that would prevent her from ever sailing under her own power.

In Romulan the phrase 'Klingon vermin dung' is three words long, while the Tellarite phrase used time and again is written in six words- hveet tiv swih sih il li- meaning 'torque of the turning gears.' "

To try activating his TV automatically without getting up and sharing with Gromit a new contraption he invented, Wallace activates his Tellyscope which shoots a tennis ball into the wall turning gears and cogs activating the TV.

In 1925 the Star Can Opener Company of San Francisco improved on Lyman's wheel blade by adding a second, serrated or toothed wheel, called a "feed wheel" or "turning gear" to ride below the rim of the can and rotate the can against the cutting wheel.

Type 517 radar is believed to be an A-band/VHF air search radar widely deployed on PLA-N surface vessels with 4 antennas in two crossed-brace supported pairs, one above the other, mounted in pairs on each side of a single tubular support carried on the turning gear.