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SWITCHES AND CUT-OUTS. _52. Switches, Cut-Outs._ Where apparatus is to be used frequently, such as for telephone and telegraph lines, it pays to make your switches, etc., carefully. The use of these switches, etc., will be shown in the proper place. Their construction only will be given here.
Chapter 5 of How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical is here in full — 59 sentences across 12 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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equipment designed to serve a specific function
From this reading “Switches, Cut-Outs._ Where apparatus is to be used frequently, such as for telephone and telegraph lines, it pays to make your switches, etc., carefully.”
the act of constructing something
From this reading “Their construction only will be given here.”
many times at short intervals
From this reading “Switches, Cut-Outs._ Where apparatus is to be used frequently, such as for telephone and telegraph lines, it pays to make your switches, etc., carefully.”
plural of “pay” — something that remunerates
From this reading “Switches, Cut-Outs._ Where apparatus is to be used frequently, such as for telephone and telegraph lines, it pays to make your switches, etc., carefully.”
inflected form of “show” — give an exhibition of to an interested audience
From this reading “The use of these switches, etc., will be shown in the proper place.”
plural of “switch” — control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit
From this reading “SWITCHES AND CUT-OUTS.”
apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code)
From this reading “Switches, Cut-Outs._ Where apparatus is to be used frequently, such as for telephone and telegraph lines, it pays to make your switches, etc., carefully.”
electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
From this reading “Switches, Cut-Outs._ Where apparatus is to be used frequently, such as for telephone and telegraph lines, it pays to make your switches, etc., carefully.”
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From this reading _52.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading SWITCHES AND CUT-OUTS.
equipment designed to serve a specific function
From this reading Switches, Cut-Outs._ Where apparatus is to be used frequently, such as for telephone and telegraph lines, it pays to make your switches, etc., carefully.
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading Switches, Cut-Outs._ Where apparatus is to be used frequently, such as for telephone and telegraph lines, it pays to make your switches, etc., carefully.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Switches, Cut-Outs._ Where apparatus is to be used frequently, such as for telephone and telegraph lines, it pays to make your switches, etc., carefully.
taking care or paying attention
From this reading Switches, Cut-Outs._ Where apparatus is to be used frequently, such as for telephone and telegraph lines, it pays to make your switches, etc., carefully.
the act of constructing something
From this reading Their construction only will be given here.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading SWITCHES AND CUT-OUTS.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Switches, Cut-Outs._ Where apparatus is to be used frequently, such as for telephone and telegraph lines, it pays to make your switches, etc., carefully.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading Switches, Cut-Outs._ Where apparatus is to be used frequently, such as for telephone and telegraph lines, it pays to make your switches, etc., carefully.
many times at short intervals
From this reading Switches, Cut-Outs._ Where apparatus is to be used frequently, such as for telephone and telegraph lines, it pays to make your switches, etc., carefully.
acknowledged as a supposition
From this reading Their construction only will be given here.
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading Their construction only will be given here.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading The use of these switches, etc., will be shown in the proper place.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading Switches, Cut-Outs._ Where apparatus is to be used frequently, such as for telephone and telegraph lines, it pays to make your switches, etc., carefully.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading Switches, Cut-Outs._ Where apparatus is to be used frequently, such as for telephone and telegraph lines, it pays to make your switches, etc., carefully.
plural of “line” — a formation of people or things one beside another
From this reading Switches, Cut-Outs._ Where apparatus is to be used frequently, such as for telephone and telegraph lines, it pays to make your switches, etc., carefully.
engage in
From this reading Switches, Cut-Outs._ Where apparatus is to be used frequently, such as for telephone and telegraph lines, it pays to make your switches, etc., carefully.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading The use of these switches, etc., will be shown in the proper place.
and nothing more
From this reading Their construction only will be given here.
plural of “pay” — something that remunerates
From this reading Switches, Cut-Outs._ Where apparatus is to be used frequently, such as for telephone and telegraph lines, it pays to make your switches, etc., carefully.
a point located with respect to surface features of some region
From this reading The use of these switches, etc., will be shown in the proper place.
marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness
From this reading The use of these switches, etc., will be shown in the proper place.
inflected form of “show” — give an exhibition of to an interested audience
From this reading The use of these switches, etc., will be shown in the proper place.
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading Switches, Cut-Outs._ Where apparatus is to be used frequently, such as for telephone and telegraph lines, it pays to make your switches, etc., carefully.
plural of “switch” — control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit
From this reading SWITCHES AND CUT-OUTS.
apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code)
From this reading Switches, Cut-Outs._ Where apparatus is to be used frequently, such as for telephone and telegraph lines, it pays to make your switches, etc., carefully.
electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds
From this reading Switches, Cut-Outs._ Where apparatus is to be used frequently, such as for telephone and telegraph lines, it pays to make your switches, etc., carefully.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The use of these switches, etc., will be shown in the proper place.
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading Their construction only will be given here.
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading The use of these switches, etc., will be shown in the proper place.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading Switches, Cut-Outs._ Where apparatus is to be used frequently, such as for telephone and telegraph lines, it pays to make your switches, etc., carefully.
the act of using
From this reading The use of these switches, etc., will be shown in the proper place.
employed in accomplishing something
From this reading Switches, Cut-Outs._ Where apparatus is to be used frequently, such as for telephone and telegraph lines, it pays to make your switches, etc., carefully.
in or at the place that
From this reading Switches, Cut-Outs._ Where apparatus is to be used frequently, such as for telephone and telegraph lines, it pays to make your switches, etc., carefully.
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading The use of these switches, etc., will be shown in the proper place.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Switches, Cut-Outs._ Where apparatus is to be used frequently, such as for telephone and telegraph lines, it pays to make your switches, etc., carefully.
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