Sentences with phrase «narrow slit»
A "narrow slit" refers to a thin opening or gap, which is usually long and not very wide. Full definition
«Leviathan Edge» (2009) is a partial skeleton of a male sperm whale visible through narrow slits in the wall.
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Apart from travelling on flat surfaces, it can also climb slopes, squeeze through narrow slits and transport loads.
Behind them rose a tall, dark keep with narrow slits for windows and several square towers, the tallest of which had a lantern shining in its upper rooms.
This enables them to squeeze through very narrow slits between underwater rocks, which is very helpful when they are fleeing from morays or other predatory fish.
Another feature that jumps out are the very narrow slit - like LED headlamps.
This study reports the discovery of the 41st reproductive mode which is different from all other known modes — breeding in live bamboo with narrow slits through which adults enter and deposit direct developing eggs and provide parental care.
Like the Kahn building, the front section of the pavilion is divided into three spaces, with a gracious central glass - walled entrance lobby and café with white - oak floors that incorporate narrow slits as ventilation outlets.
Its intricate design creates a trompe l'oeil effect — narrow slits serving as buttonholes alternate with woven buttons that look like real buttons from the distance.
With the guns pointing out from narrow slits around the top.
Tower itself had two rooms, one below and one above, and each room had narrow slits for windows from the days, hundreds of years ago, when guardsmen were sat there with their bows and arrows, on the look - out for raiders and poachers.
RTT News [The legislation specifically targets two Islamic traditional garments — the burqa, a full - body black cloak that includes a mesh over the face, and the «niqab,» a full - face veil that leaves a narrow slit only for the eyes.]
Pour the mixture to a baking dish and make a narrow slit in the middle of the loaf.
Make a narrow slit in the back of each shrimp (where the vein used to be) and stuff the shrimp with one jalapeño slice.
A narrow slit of windows was cut into the hotel's cinderblock wall and it looked away from Las Vegas Boulevard, into the desert.
Wang knew that to capture a 2D event using a streak camera, he would have to widen the camera's narrow slit.
In the early 19th century, the English physicist Thomas Young passed a beam of light through two narrow slits in a screen, and demonstrated the wave - like properties of light.
Those narrow slits next to the Portofino's headlights (inset) force air into the wheel wells, then out of the vents on the front fenders
«That's were we met — between here and here,» she said, pointing with pride to a narrow slit between two of the photos.
The only soil disturbance is the narrow slit in the soil surface where the seeds are inserted, leaving the remainder of the soil undisturbed, covered by crop residues and thus resistant to both water and wind erosion.
You don't get the unique ceramic piezoelectric call speaker found in the Mi Mix here though, with Xiaomi opting for a standard speaker channeling sound through a narrow slit above the screen.