Spacers

To keep the ties from pulling through the cardboard, they are often slid through spacers, these little plastic tabs with holes in them that look like beams from a cheap Meccano (tm) set, and the wires are so crimped and tangled that pulling them out through the spacers is nearly impossible. ❋ Ulysses (2009)

She got back to golfing as quickly as she could after her surgery, but post-surgery golf carried a different set of physical demands: After the double mastectomy, she had "spacers" - platelike devices that leave room for eventual implants-and worried about possible injury. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When air flows in the spaces between the disks, the spacers are arranged in such a way as to provide inward momentum to the air, causing the disks to move. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is envisaged for milling operations on starting-up spacers, that is to say where no guide rule can be employed. ❋ Gnter Hanisch (1993)

By a generous margin, the majority of correspondents were two-spacers, that is they hit the space bar twice some even three times after a period, regardless of what font they were using or for what medium they were writing. ❋ RUSSELL SMITH (2011)

· small boards, called spacers, should be nailed to the tops of the formwork to keep the sides of the forms from leaning toward each other before the concrete is poured; ❋ Unknown (1977)

A group of "spacers" (space workers who have been modified to be asexual) are on Earth for shore leave and looking cash in? thanks to the sexual perversions of the "frelks" (spacer-lovers). ❋ Unknown (2004)

In this department they mold all the ca parts that the harrows use, such as spacers, bushings, braces, (word indistinct), and so on. ❋ Unknown (1967)

He said that his company produces parts for Caterpillar in high volumes, such as spacers and threaded tools, some of which are produced outside by sliding-head specialists. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The system needs "spacers," as D'Antoni called them, primarily 3-point specialists. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is made of two plates of aluminum, which are separated from each other by three "spacers", also made of aluminum. ❋ Jon Tegner (2010)

There are three different lengths of screws included for optimum fit, along with rubber "spacers" to enhance the system's dampening. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Because the tables at Haskell School don't flush to the walls like the ones at Wanaque School, "spacers" would have to be purchased to close the gap between the tables and the walls. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"spacers" that you put a AA cell in to make it the size of a larger battery; six quality AAs plus six spacers will cost you only about $US27. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We spacers, for a relatively young history, spend too much time, IMHO, living in the past. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Three strands - the shortest nineteen inches long, with blue/grey and clear AB faceted Czech rondels, silver-lined clear glass coins, Thai silver spacers, and one massive AB clear crystal pendant. ❋ Stringmonkey (2009)

Instead of using wind-powered blades to rotate a shaft and generator, the Tesla-inspired design consists of an array of closely spaced, parallel, thin metal disks separated by spacers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“The turbine of the present invention has the advantage that it is efficient over a wider range of fluid flow rates, as compared with turbines of the prior art, due to the airfoil-shaped spacers,” the patent explains. ❋ Unknown (2010)