metal covering

The first shot missed; the second did not, melting the metal covering of the box and the circuitry inside.

Unfortunately, such metal coverings are usually not very attractive.

Cyborgs came out, too, and the flies bit their metal coverings in vain.

Gold metal coverings serve both protective and ornamental purposes.

While computers can realistically simulate the metal covering of T-1000, they still cannot produce realistic human skin, let alone facial expression.

In virtual free-fall the little craft settled into a huge airlock, and a metal covering slid over it.

Metal coverings on the windows.

A provisional metal covering was installed to protect the remaining adobe tile floors, adobe walls, and foundations from the elements.

A canopy is an overhead roof or else a structure over which a fabric or metal covering is attached, able to provide shade or shelter.

The Obin who had come with the machines scrambled to the top of the machines and retracted the metal coverings, revealing large, multibarrel flechette guns.

Iorek Byrnison was dismantling a gas-engined tractor that had crashed; the metal covering of the engine was twisted and buckled and one runner bent upward.

A. According to the Department of Transportation, the metal coverings found on some curbs are steel face curbs used in high-traffic areas like bus routes and corners and near driveways.

It was largely replaced with arc welding, as metal coverings (known as flux) for the electrode that stabilize the arc and shield the base material from impurities continued to be developed.

Cyrus Harding thought that it had not exploded; that it was possible some barrels might be saved, and that the powder, which is usually enclosed in metal coverings might not have suffered from contact with the water.

By extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like.

Yale used a lattice screen, or basketwork of soft tough wrought iron instead of the hard cast, infused in the metal covering of the vaults, thus producing incomparably strong corners and surfaces that Yale presented to be unbreakable.

Walter B. Melvin, one of the architects on the Plaza's design team, said some decorative elements of the roof - the metal coverings on some turrets, for example - had disappeared, for reasons that were not recorded, almost as soon as the Plaza was completed.