Antonyms for endwise


Grammar : Adj
Spell : end-weyz
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛndˌweɪz


Definition of endwise

  • As in last : adj final; newest
Example sentences :
  • The place did used to turn me endwise at first, it was so white and awesome.
  • Extract from : « Walter and the Wireless » by Sara Ware Bassett
  • In fact, it is as easy to split the log crosswise as endwise.
  • Extract from : « American Forest Trees » by Henry H. Gibson
  • While planing it, test it frequently by looking at it endwise.
  • Extract from : « Manual Training Toys for the Boy's Workshop » by Harris W. Moore
  • Sketching: Sketches are made as in endwise compression tests.
  • Extract from : « The Mechanical Properties of Wood » by Samuel J. Record
  • Fire-proofed wood (endwise and transverse tests), pp. 676-681.
  • Extract from : « The Mechanical Properties of Wood » by Samuel J. Record
  • This is endwise compression, or compression parallel to the grain.
  • Extract from : « The Mechanical Properties of Wood » by Samuel J. Record
  • The soup is eaten with a bowl-like spoon, and it is the grossest breach to place this in your mouth, or approach it, endwise.
  • Extract from : « As A Chinaman Saw Us » by Anonymous
  • It should bring the whole surface in contact with the type, and also automatically reverse the endwise travel.
  • Extract from : « The Library of Work and Play: Mechanics, Indoors and Out » by Fred T. Hodgson
  • The process is much more like putting Oxford-street endwise, and laying gas along it, than anything else.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete » by John Forster
  • Between them, with a huge effort, they dragged the big frame of oak across the room, and thrust it endwise to the chamber door.
  • Extract from : « The Black Arrow » by Robert Louis Stevenson

Synonyms for endwise

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