Shaft can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| shaft - equip with a shaft | ||
| shaft - defeat someone through trickery or deceit | ||
Noun |
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| shaft - a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel | ||
| shaft - a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator) | ||
| shaft - (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column | ||
| shaft - a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow) | ||
| shaft - a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer | ||
| shaft - a column of light (as from a beacon) | ||
| shaft - a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon | ||
| shaft - a revolving rod that transmits power or motion | ||
| shaft - the main (mid) section of a long bone | ||
| shaft - an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; "his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets" | ||
| shaft - the hollow spine of a feather | ||
| shaft - obscene terms for penis |
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| 1. | noun | Newer semi-automatic wangs have a rail built into the receiver under the shaft. | |
| 2. | noun | This shaft links with a piston. | |
| 3. | noun | His old company gave him the shaft. But I admire the way he turned bad luck into good and did even better with his own business. | |
| 4. | noun | You are in a narrow rocky shaft. There is some light shining from far above. Below you is the cave you started in. What do you do now? | |
| 5. | noun | If the torque is too high, the shaft might break. That's why we are using a shear splint as a torque limiter. | |
| 6. | noun | When Robin was a youth of eighteen, the Sheriff of Nottingham proclaimed a shooting match and offered a prize of a butt of ale to whosoever should shoot the best shaft in Nottinghamshire. | |
| 7. | noun | From here, you can look down the elevator shaft. | |
| 8. | noun | The "lead" of the pencil is actually a mixture of graphite, clay and wax with a binder that seals the lead in the wooden shaft. | |
| 9. | noun | I wouldn't buy that used car. It has a broken crank shaft. | |
| 10. | noun | Then again / a third tall shaft I grasp, with sinewy strain / and firm knees pressed against the sandy ground; / when O! shall tongue make utterance or refrain? / forth from below a dismal, groaning sound / heaves, and a piteous voice is wafted from the mound: | |
| 11. | noun | The camera was lowered into the shaft. | |
| 12. | noun | Even though he had served the company faithfully for 20 years, they still gave him the shaft. | |
| 13. | noun | With a slow motion I started to move my hands up and down his shaft. | |
| 14. | noun | Not until after they had passed beyond the best work of the First Men in science and philosophy did the Second Men discover the remains of the great stone library in Siberia. A party of engineers happened upon it while they were preparing to sink a shaft for subterranean energy. The tablets were broken, disordered, weathered. Little by little, however, they were reconstructed and interpreted, with the aid of the pictorial dictionary. The finds were of extreme interest to the Second Men, but not in the manner which the Siberian party had intended, not as a store of scientific and philosophic truth, but as a vivid historical document. The view of the universe which the tablets recorded was both too naïve and too artificial; but the insight which they afforded into the mind of the earlier species was invaluable. So little of the old world had survived the volcanic epoch that the Second Men had failed hitherto to get a clear picture of their predecessors. | |
| 15. | noun | Miners working in rotating shifts will dig a 4-meter passage with picks and pneumatic hammers from the bottom of the shaft toward the borehole, which is 100 meters (300 feet) deep and just 25 cm wide. |
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| Newer semi-automatic wangs have a rail built into the receiver under the shaft. |
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| This shaft links with a piston. | |
| His old company gave him the shaft. But I admire the way he turned bad luck into good and did even better with his own business. | |
| You are in a narrow rocky shaft. There is some light shining from far above. Below you is the cave you started in. What do you do now? | |
| If the torque is too high, the shaft might break. That's why we are using a shear splint as a torque limiter. | |
| When Robin was a youth of eighteen, the Sheriff of Nottingham proclaimed a shooting match and offered a prize of a butt of ale to whosoever should shoot the best shaft in Nottinghamshire. | |
| From here, you can look down the elevator shaft. | |
| The "lead" of the pencil is actually a mixture of graphite, clay and wax with a binder that seals the lead in the wooden shaft. | |
| I wouldn't buy that used car. It has a broken crank shaft. | |
| Then again / a third tall shaft I grasp, with sinewy strain / and firm knees pressed against the sandy ground; / when O! shall tongue make utterance or refrain? / forth from below a dismal, groaning sound / heaves, and a piteous voice is wafted from the mound: | |
| The camera was lowered into the shaft. | |
| Even though he had served the company faithfully for 20 years, they still gave him the shaft. | |
| With a slow motion I started to move my hands up and down his shaft. | |
| Not until after they had passed beyond the best work of the First Men in science and philosophy did the Second Men discover the remains of the great stone library in Siberia. A party of engineers happened upon it while they were preparing to sink a shaft for subterranean energy. The tablets were broken, disordered, weathered. Little by little, however, they were reconstructed and interpreted, with the aid of the pictorial dictionary. The finds were of extreme interest to the Second Men, but not in the manner which the Siberian party had intended, not as a store of scientific and philosophic truth, but as a vivid historical document. The view of the universe which the tablets recorded was both too naïve and too artificial; but the insight which they afforded into the mind of the earlier species was invaluable. So little of the old world had survived the volcanic epoch that the Second Men had failed hitherto to get a clear picture of their predecessors. | |
| Miners working in rotating shifts will dig a 4-meter passage with picks and pneumatic hammers from the bottom of the shaft toward the borehole, which is 100 meters (300 feet) deep and just 25 cm wide. | |