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.

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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.

State of Play 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.

Kentucky.com: Homepage 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.

Tesla-Inspired Bladeless Wind Turbine Could Generate Power Comparable to Coal Power Plants | Impact Lab 2010

It is envisaged for milling operations on starting-up spacers, that is to say where no guide rule can be employed.

6. Labour Safety Measures 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.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 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;

Chapter 6 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).

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

CASTRO ADDRESSES STEELWORKERS IN HAVANA 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.

Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news 2010