BEVEL • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Bevel

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/bˈɛvəl/ Listen

noun

Bevel n.

Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber.

An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; called also a bevel square.

verb

Bevel v. t. (past & past part. beveled or bevelled; pres. part. beveling or bevelling) To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.

Bevel v. i. To deviate or incline from an angle of 90°, as a surface; to slant. "Their houses are very ill built, the walls bevel."

adjective

Bevel adj.

Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.

Hence: Morally distorted; not upright. (Poetic) "I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel."

A bevel angle, any angle other than one of 90°.

Bevel wheel, a cogwheel whose working face is oblique to the axis.

See images of 'Bevel'

Etymology of 'Bevel'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Bevel" Quotes from Famous Books

... common form we shall endeavor to explain as clearly as possible. In the first place, it is very light, scarcely half the weight of the average old-fashioned shoe. The foot surface is rolled with a true bevel, making that portion of the web which receives the bearing of the hoof, the width of the thickness of the wall or crust. This prevents pressure upon the sole, and makes the shoe a continuation of the wall of the foot. The ground surface of the shoe has also a true ...

— Rational Horse-Shoeing • John E. Russell

... feet square, 20 feet long, with internal end flanges, ways planed on its upper surface, and ends squared off, a monster, perhaps, but if our civil engineers wanted such a casting for a bridge, they'd get it. Add to this central section two bevel pieces of half the length, and set the whole down through the floor where your masonry would have been and rest the whole on two cross walls, and you would have a structure that if once made true would remain so regardless of external influences. Cost? Yes; and so do ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 • Various

... The bevel gearing is revolved by shafting connected with pulley wheels and belting, the wheels being 3 ft. and 11/2 ft. in diameter, and 6 in. broad. The driving engine is placed at one end of the building. Each vat requires from 21/2 to 3 horse-power, or in other words, an expenditure ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 • Various

... well-formed, are short and feeble in comparison with the animal's size. The head has a strong, horny cap for a cranium. The mandibles are powerful, with bevelled tips and three or four teeth on the edge of the bevel. ...

— More Hunting Wasps • J. Henri Fabre

... enlargement is to be mounted, should be the same size as the intended picture. The frame is made of four strips of pine wood, two inches wide, one inch thick on the outside, and three quarter inch on the inside, making a quarter inch bevel on the inside edge of the face; these are nailed together and glued. To this, tack a piece of bleached muslin, free from knots and rough places, which has been cut two inches larger each way than the frame. Use six ounce Swede upholsterers' tacks, placing one in the centre of the ...

— Crayon Portraiture • Jerome A. Barhydt

More quotes...