Synonym: barb, beam, beam of light, calamus, cheat, chicane, chouse, cock, diaphysis, dick, dig, gibe, irradiation, jibe, jockey, lance, light beam, pecker, peter, prick, putz, quill, ray, ray of light, rotating shaft, scape, screw, shaft of light, shot, slam, spear, tool. Similar words: chaff, south africa, aft, raft, daft, waft, graft, draft. Meaning: [ʃæft /ʃɑːft] 
n. 1. a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer 2. an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect 3. a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow) 4. a column of light (as from a beacon) 5. the main (mid) section of a long bone 6. obscene terms for penis 7. a long pointed rod used as a weapon 8. a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator) 9. (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column 10. a vertical passage into a mine 11. a revolving rod that transmits power or motion 12. the hollow spine of a feather. v. 1. equip with a shaft 2. defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit.
n. 1. a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer 2. an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect 3. a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow) 4. a column of light (as from a beacon) 5. the main (mid) section of a long bone 6. obscene terms for penis 7. a long pointed rod used as a weapon 8. a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator) 9. (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column 10. a vertical passage into a mine 11. a revolving rod that transmits power or motion 12. the hollow spine of a feather. v. 1. equip with a shaft 2. defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit. 
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271. Gear: Machine component consisting of a toothed wheel attached to a rotating shaft.
272. The fine grating photoelectric shaft encoder based on the Moire fringe signal has the advantages of high accuracy, high response frequency and easily realized miniaturization.
273. The prop shaft vibrated like mad and shook the exhaust mounting loose.
274. In addition, using the cylindrical tank, the purge gas mainly congregates around the rotational shaft, and swirl always occurs, which is disadvantage to the degassing of hydrogen.
275. This paper has concluded an equation of the balanced torque about the electrical shaft system with open variable resistor, and has analyzed the Characteristic of the balanced torque.
276. New air bearing-rotor system is applied to technological rebuild of the shaft system in air cycle refrigerator which uses the conventional rolling bearing-rotor structure.
277. The rolling device is adopted clipping device with air expansion core shaft.
278. A new type of conveyance receiver has been developed for the winding system of vertical shaft.
279. The first step is to close all vents and openings at the top of the hoistway to prevent water from entering the elevator shaft.
280. Main shaft adopts automatic returning lubrication system to free operator from the worry of negligent lubrication and basic part damage.
281. Objective : To investigate the effect of intramedullary interlocking nail on nonunion and refracture of femoral shaft.
282. Resolution: the replacement of wear of the cardan shaft fork link for the ball.
283. It is applied on motors, motorcars, transmission shaft,[Sentencedict.com ] gear axle and so on.
284. The motor shaft penetrates the planar toothed cutter head and the rotating blades are flat, cross shaped or Y-shaped.
285. Based on researching the shaft bearing replacer, this paper built the models of electromagnetic field and vortex density in bearing race snap being induction heating.
286. A two-step forging approach was taken in the production of GH4169 turboshaft of an engine, which was an integration of a disk and a shaft.
287. The classification, naming and field description are introduced of the Tertiary and Quaternary rocks from monitoring shaft hole.
288. They made the lampstand of pure gold and hammered it out, base and shaft; its flowerlike cups, buds and blossoms were of one piece with it.
289. Limited weight and dimensions are possible by the monobloc industrial design type with the rotor directly assembled on the motor shaft.
290. In this plate photography of the elevator shaft scene, the safety harness suspending Ewan McGregor ( Obi -Wan Kenobi) is clearly visible. It would be digitally removed in the final frame.
291. The system includes main motor, main reduction gearbox, transmission shaft ect.
292. Blow - out proof shaft, retained with unique Guide Bar System.