stiffening
IPA: stˈɪfʌnɪŋ
noun
- An item, material or feature that makes something stiffer.
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Examples of "stiffening" in Sentences
- The muscle is stiffening slowly.
- They are postcard sized bits of fabric art, with some kind of stiffening in the centre which go directly in the post.
- Campbell interjects and says "there's too many qualifications" in the dossier, adding that the document needs "stiffening".
- One prelate of distinction devoted his triennial charge to the subject, and a general "stiffening" of episcopal good nature set in all round.
- Shear thickening refers to a material's "stiffening" response to a shear stress, or force, which can occur as shock, vibration, or g-force side loads.
- He heard her breath coming quickly, and saw the kind of stiffening that went through her body; but she kept silence, and did not speak again till they were almost at his house-door.
- Shakespeare could not recover the fresh and popular part of the thing; for he came at a later stage in a process of stiffening which is the main thing to be studied in later mediævalism.
- In addition to statical functions, such as stiffening of the building or room and taking up of loads, they should also meet fire-resisting, sound-insulating and heat-insulating requirements.
- Army C, under the Austrian General von Pflanzer-Baltin, likewise supplied with a good "stiffening" of German soldiers, was accredited to the far-eastern section -- the Pruth Valley and the Bukowina.
- – I say I would become emphatic and cogent, not to say rather complacent, in such an address, when it would all go for nothing by reason of the Odd Girl’s suddenly stiffening from the toes upward, and glaring among us like a parochial petrifaction.