(n.) An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.
Example Sentences:
(1) • Install the latest versions of your internet browsers and update add-ons such as Java and Adobe Flash.
(2) Despite a slightly esoteric focus on the importance of adobe housing, House of Earth also includes graphic sex, including "a scorching lovemaking scene on a hay bale".
(3) "There are a lot of people in Isis who are good at Adobe applications – InDesign, Photoshop, you name it.
(4) Despite the spat between Apple and Adobe, which means that the iPad is hobbled by its inability to play Flash content, it's still a wonderful device for consuming media.
(5) "The Adobe CS5", burbled Narayen, "is a phenomenal release which enables you, our customers, to create without boundaries while speeding the creative process from concept to execution.
(6) This ketchup-and-mustard-coloured adobe bar may have sticky tables and the odour of a frat house on a Sunday morning, but trying a terremoto here (for just £2) is something of a rite of passage.
(7) But Holland-Kaye insists: “We’re working with them – it’s part of the warp and weft of an airport community.” Heathrow has contributed to double glazing and adobe huts, originally designed as earthquake shelters, to protect pupils from noise.
(8) We did a report last year, around the same time, and we had anticipated growth of about 43%,” said Sean Blanchfield of PageFair, which produced the report with Adobe.
(9) Rumours of a no-poaching agreements between top tech companies prompted a US justice department probe in 2010, leading to a promise by Google, Apple, Adobe and others to refrain from such pacts.
(10) US officials have been working with representatives from the companies affected – believed to include Adobe Systems, Yahoo and Northrop Grumman – as well as experts from the National Security Agency, the US surveillance and codebreaking agency.
(11) The El Rancho Restaurant and Motel (867 Navajo Blvd) in Holbrook, Arizona, is a solid adobe-coloured brick building with a covered carport and a large L-shaped, two-storey motel in the back.
(12) Here are some practical things that Mozilla can do to help: 1 Protect security researchers Mozilla has demonstrated that it has some negotiating leverage with Adobe – after all, it was able to fend off the demand for details of users’ systems to be leaked to video companies.
(13) If you use Adobe Reader you can download a lightweight alternative such as Foxit Reader or SumatraPDF for viewing PDF files and then uninstall the Adobe offering.
(14) Step a few feet from the beach, however, and the small towns are 100% Chilean with colourful adobe homes and farmers who still use oxen-pulled carts.
(15) The computer software company Adobe has been hacked, potentially compromising the data of 2.9 million customers, the company revealed on Thursday.
(16) By open-sourcing the sandbox that limits the Adobe software’s access to the system, Mozilla is making it auditable and verifiable.
(17) "The plan is to dual-run our new Adobe AIR-powered iPlayer alongside our existing download manager for a few months, until we're confident that the new platform works and can scale," says Rose.
(18) Adobe also said it would give affected customers the option of enrolling in a one-year complimentary credit monitoring membership.
(19) Other companies like Adobe and IBM would embed its IDOL search product in their own and sell it on to clients, generating healthy recurring license fees for Autonomy.
(20) The peer group has been expanded from 13 to 16 companies, with Adobe, EMC, Qualcomm, SAP and the Walt Disney Company added to a line up that includes all the major names in tech, from Apple to Cisco, Google and Microsoft.
Cement
Definition:
(n.) Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc.
(n.) A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water.
(n.) The powder used in cementation. See Cementation, n., 2.
(n.) Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship, or men in society.
(n.) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; -- called also cementum.
(n.) To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement.
(n.) To unite firmly or closely.
(n.) To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom.
(v. i.) To become cemented or firmly united; to cohere.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study, a potassium nitrate-polycarboxylate cement was used as a liner and was found clinically to tend to preserve pulpal vitality and significantly eliminate or decrease postoperative pain.
(2) The incidence of femur fracture in non-cemented hip arthroplasty has been reported to be between 4.1% and 27.8%.
(3) Essential characteristics of the composite bone cement included a homogeneous and uniform fiber distribution, and a minimal increase in apparent viscosity of the polymerizing cement.
(4) Two hundred and forty root canals of extracted single-rooted teeth were prepared to the same dimension, and Dentatus posts of equal size were cemented without screwing them into the dentine.
(5) Cermet cement sealings showed defects more frequently.
(6) On Monday, the day after a party congress officially cementing Putin's candidacy in the 4 March presidential election, the top stories on Inosmi concerned modernisation, the eurozone crisis and Iran.
(7) To overcome these problems we developed methotrexate bone cement (MTX-Palacos) with the aim to obtain high local concentrations of methotrexate in order to destroy remaining tumor cells and avoid systemic side effects.
(8) The component was revised in forty-five patients, revision and advancement of the trochanteric component was done in twenty-five patients, and impinging bone or cement was removed from six patients; a combination of these procedures was done in nineteen patients.
(9) No clear population trends were seen in dental disease incidence except for cemental caries which were found among Copper and Bronze Age remains.
(10) All the flies were collected from a breeding site inside an abandoned cement building.
(11) Bone cement particles promote polyethylene wear, which in turn promotes granuloma formation, bone resorption, and subsequent bone cement disintegration.
(12) In addition, hypertension, blood group, surgical approach, and choice of cemented or cementless total hip replacement did not seem to affect the incidence of deep-vein thrombosis.
(13) The use of glass-ionomer cements in clinical dentistry has expanded greatly over the last decade.
(14) This study evaluated the bond strength between glass ionomer cements and laser-etched dentin.
(15) Microscopy revealed a spectrum of tissue reactions, ranging from a seemingly direct bone-cement contact to a fibrous membrane, up to 1.5 mm thick.
(16) Forty metal femoral cups were matched with a cemented acetabulum, while with 46 the acetabular implant was cementless.
(17) Cement was pressurized into the cavity of the anatomic specimens, and the maximum interface shear strength between the cement plug and the bone was experimentally determined for each revision.
(18) No significant differences were found among any of the cements at any of the times.
(19) With equal cementing conditions and points of measurement for all crowns, the PFM crowns were found to be significantly superior to the other crown types.
(20) This study evaluated the usefulness and accuracy of preoperative planning for cemented and cementless total hip arthroplasty (THA).