How do you use Bourdon in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like drone or pipe, plus the exact meaning.
Bourdon meaning
- The burden or bass of a melody.
- The drone pipe of a bagpipe.
- The lowest-pitched stop of an organ.
Using Bourdon
- The main meaning on this page is: The burden or bass of a melody. | The drone pipe of a bagpipe. | The lowest-pitched stop of an organ.
- Useful related words include: drone, drone pipe, pipe, tabor pipe.
- In the example corpus, bourdon often appears in combinations such as: bourdon tube, the bourdon, bourdon said.
Context around Bourdon
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 4 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Bourdon
- In this selection, "bourdon" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, william, david, gertrude, tube, membrane and pressure stand out and add context to how "bourdon" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an aneroid bourdon tube mercury and be a bourdon tube a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "bourdon" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with bourdon
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Bourdon tube pressure gauges. (4 words)
The construction of a bourdon tube gauge. (7 words)
Diab's lawyer William Bourdon said his client had “never fled” anything. (12 words)
Malanga was there, along with the dealer Ivan Karp and curator Henry Geldzahler; also present were the art critic David Bourdon, socialite Brigid Berlin and others from Warhol’s “band of pop-artistic merrymakers”, in the words of a local paper. (41 words)
Due to the short distance between the lever arm link boss and the pivot pin and the difference between the effective radius of the sector gear and that of the spur gear, any motion of the Bourdon tube is greatly amplified. (41 words)
Bourdon said Le Drian wanted his client to be tried in Iraq to “ensure that she won’t be heading back home to France any time soon”, as part of efforts to prevent the return of jihadists. (37 words)
Example sentences (15)
Bourdon Membrane-type manometer The Bourdon pressure gauge uses the principle that a flattened tube tends to straighten or regain its circular form in cross-section when pressurized.
Diab's lawyer William Bourdon said his client had “never fled” anything.
Malanga was there, along with the dealer Ivan Karp and curator Henry Geldzahler; also present were the art critic David Bourdon, socialite Brigid Berlin and others from Warhol’s “band of pop-artistic merrymakers”, in the words of a local paper.
Mr Bourdon is a long-time French human rights lawyer who has represented Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Hervé Falciani of Swiss Leaks and Antoine Deltour of Lux Leaks.
Bourdon said Le Drian wanted his client to be tried in Iraq to “ensure that she won’t be heading back home to France any time soon”, as part of efforts to prevent the return of jihadists.
Liberal star candidate Gertrude Bourdon said in a radio interview Thursday that she was firmly opposed to having the government pay for surgeries in private clinics because the public system should be able to meet those needs.
Much of the instructors' stated task was to increase sets and repetitions for the trainees "so that they'd be more proficient," said Lt. Col. Stephen Bourdon, commander of 2-58th.
Also in 1849, Bernard Schaeffer in Magdeburg, Germany patented a successful diaphragm (see below) pressure gauge, which, together with the Bourdon gauge, revolutionized pressure measurement in industry.
Bourdon tube pressure gauges.
Due to the short distance between the lever arm link boss and the pivot pin and the difference between the effective radius of the sector gear and that of the spur gear, any motion of the Bourdon tube is greatly amplified.
French-speaking students can attend the Lycée Français ( Lycée Alexandre Dumas ), located in Bourdon.
Pressure can be measured using an aneroid, Bourdon tube, mercury column, or various other methods.
The Bourdon tube is separate from the face of the gauge and thus has no effect on the actual reading of pressure.
The construction of a bourdon tube gauge.
The pressure sensing element may be a Bourdon tube, a diaphragm, a capsule, or a set of bellows, which will change shape in response to the pressure of the region in question.
Common combinations with bourdon
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- bourdon tube 6×
- the bourdon 4×
- bourdon said 3×
- mr bourdon 2×