Crossword clues for straightedge
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Straightedge \Straight"edge`\, n. A board, or piece of wood or metal, having one edge perfectly straight, -- used to ascertain whether a line is straight or a surface even, and for drawing straight lines.
Wiktionary
a. Living one's life against/without the use of alcohol, smoking, and illegal drugs. alt. Living one's life against/without the use of alcohol, smoking, and illegal drugs. n. A tool which is flat, rectangular and commonly made of wood, metal or plastic and is used to draw, cut or check the straightness of straight lines.
WordNet
n. hand tool consisting of a flat rigid rectangular bar (metal or wood) that can be used to draw straight lines (or test their straightness)
Wikipedia
A straightedge is a tool with an edge free from curves, or straight, used for transcribing straight lines, or checking the straightness of lines. If it has equally spaced markings along its length, it is usually called a ruler.
Straightedges are used in the automotive service and machining industry to check the flatness of machined mating surfaces.
True straightness can in some cases be checked by using a laser line level as an optical straightedge: it can illuminate an accurately straight line on a flat surface such as the edge of a plank or shelf.
A pair of straightedges called winding sticks are used in woodworking to amplify twist (wind) in pieces of wood.
Usage examples of "straightedge".
A double-bind game is a game with self-contradictory rules, a game doomed to perpetual self-frustration--like trying to invent a perpetual-motion machine in terms of Newtonian mechanics, or trying to trisect any given angle with a straightedge and compass.
Newtonian mechanics, or trying to trisect any given angle with a straightedge and compass.
They climbed the rickety scaffolding and Arkoniel had the artist show Tobin how he used a brass straightedge and calipers to mark out the shapes and keep the lines even.
He looked through the porthole again, seeing nothing but darkness, thick clouds, and the faint orange straightedge of a starboard fin that was only just cooling down from their entry.
The straightedge streets of his adopted town bear ingenious names: numbers, states, presidents, and the trees slaughtered to make way for them.
Catherine chose a pencil and straightedge ruler, and set the box aside on the grass verge.
As if somebody had reached down with a straightedge and scoured a deep dark cut into these hot rocks.
As the beeps came in Matthews took a straightedge and drew lines from Okinawa and Iwo Jima on his map table.
As the beeps came in Matthews took a straightedge and drew lines from Okinawa and I wo Jima on his map table.
Pressing one finger down from Derry to the CanadaVermont border in a westernreaching straightedge, he located their approximate position.
Their foliage became geometrical, each leaf fashioned as if by compass and straightedge into circle, oval, hexagon or square.
He was fascinated by the way she handled the oldfashioned straightedge razor as she flicked it up and down her legs.
She gently removed an old-fashioned straightedge razor and a small sharpening stone.
Laying them out on the table in his room, he began a row of patterns, using his fingers for calipers and a piece of broken practice blade for a straightedge.
On the starboard side, but close to the middle, is a plain oak drawing-table with drawing-board, T-square, straightedges, set squares, mathematical instruments, saucers of water color, a tumbler of discolored water, Indian ink, pencils, and brushes on it.