What's the difference between berm and fraise?

Berm


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Berme

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Berm Sex Role Inventory and the Defense Mechanism Inventory were administered to 66 high school students (31 boys and 25 girls), ages 14-19.
  • (2) Buried in the berm will be radar reflectors, magnets and a “Storage Room”, constructed around a stone slab too big to be removed via the chamber entrance.
  • (3) Each volunteer S completed the Berm Sex Role Inventory, the Interpersonal Style Inventory, and Loevinger's Sentence Completion Test.
  • (4) "No Nato," said Mohammed, the 14-year-old son of a Dafniya rebel fighter drinking tea behind one of the giant sand berms that shield rebel positions from sniper fire.
  • (5) You will capture the berm tomorrow morning.” Once again, Abu Ali’s reactions got the better of him.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Los Laureles canyon is cut off by an earth berm, a highway and the border wall – all inserted by Homeland Security.
  • (7) Some posting showed extremists weeping with joy as dozens of Iraqi army humvess were driven through a sand berm on the border into Syria.
  • (8) In the past, when they attacked, they tried to fill up the trench beyond our berms with a bulldozer, but this time was different,” said a Kurdish officer, Major Ibrahim, who has fought Isis since August 2014.
  • (9) They were very good fighters, but they also had good guns,” said Kovali, whose forces are on the front berm across from Isis-held Iraqi territory.
  • (10) With almost no formalities, the commander pointed to a large earth berm about 350 metres away.
  • (11) Susie and John Munro, who live in cottages beside the golf course car park, at the foot of the same hill which Milne’s house sits on, have complained about an earth wall or berm built by Trump’s staff which now entirely blocks their view across the old dunes and out to sea.
  • (12) He said he saw crews building a berm around a valve.
  • (13) I think of that configuration of berm, chamber, shaft, disc and hot cell – all set atop the casks of pulsing radioactive molecules entombed deep in the Permian strata – as perhaps our purest Anthropocene architecture.
  • (14) The government has decided to erect a fence and berm around the contours of the camp, Alhmoud told IRIN, "to prevent any foul play from the outside and the inside".
  • (15) The Iraqi army is on the other side of that berm,” he said.
  • (16) The present plans for marking the site involve a berm with a core of salt, enclosing the above-ground footprint of the repository.
  • (17) It looks arid now, but in heavy rains the water courses along the canyon, where these houses are, and can only escape through a drain in the berm wall.
  • (18) ODI cited the examples of Jordan refusing to welcome 70,000 Syrians stranded in the desert area of Berm and Kenya’s plans to shut the long-running Dadaab refugee camp and repatriate its largely-Somali refugee population.
  • (19) Three options have been proposed including an earth berm around the village, upstream storage and house-by-house defences.
  • (20) Like the building, the car park is raised up on a defensive berm, surrounded by gabion walls and hedgerows, reinforcing the feeling that this alien spaceship is cut off from the surrounding streets.

Fraise


Definition:

  • (n.) A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it.
  • (n.) A defense consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position.
  • (n.) A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.
  • (v. t.) To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Histological examination showed that the diamond fraise left a smooth abraded surface and the wire brush left an uneven surface.
  • (2) The diamond fraise is a more exacting instrument and with the recent introduction of the extra-coarse grit diamond fraise, the instrument is as abrasive as the standard wire brush.
  • (3) The introduction of diamond fraises has, in the author's opinion, provided greater safety and more versatility than the wire brush.
  • (4) The couple had quiet, clean sex offenders as domestics; they raised and cooked vegetables, aubergines and fraises des bois besides cabbages, listened to records, read Racine, sunbathed in their tiny yard.
  • (5) The diamond fraise is more easily controlled by the less experienced surgeon and because of its availability in many different shapes, widths, and grits, it provides greater versatility to the surgeon than the wire brush.
  • (6) Significant improvement, lasting longer than three years, was achieved using both types of abrading tool: the wire brush and the diamond fraise.
  • (7) Excision was attempted again in 1983 using both dermatome and high-speed fraise; this time, the cosmetic outcome was excellent.
  • (8) Because of its severe disfigurement and resulting negative psychosocial impact, the nevus was first removed in 1980 by means of a high-speed fraise; the cosmetic results, however, were not altogether satisfactory.
  • (9) On the basis of our surgical experience so far we can recommend the following method: resection of the pseudarthrosis with removal of all pathologically changed tissue (also by fraising), insertion of Küntscher nails from the heel to the tibia, adequate covering of the pseudarthrosis location with spongiosa grafts from the pelvic ridge.
  • (10) Use of a high-speed, air-driven turbo-grinder equipped with diamond fraises that revolve at 85,000 revolutions per minute has improved results in dermabrasions on the face by, it is estimated, 50%.
  • (11) In seventeen cases the pedal joint was drained by means of track made by an electric fraise.
  • (12) Rose bits and surgical fraises of different sizes were used at 5,000-80,000 R.P.M.
  • (13) A patient with linear porokeratosis was successfully treated with diamond fraise dermabrasion.
  • (14) Radiologic, histologic, and fluorescence microscopic examinations showed that an internally cooled fraise was advantageous.
  • (15) Dermabrasion using a diamond fraise is a simple and fast method for removing multiple seborrheic keratoses with minimal trauma, rapid healing, and good cosmetic results.
  • (16) According to our experience, excochleation must be followed by drilling the cyst wall and fraising off the compact substance.
  • (17) Contrary to the rose bit or the surgical fraises, the DS got soiled more easily and produced definitely finer cuts.
  • (18) Comparisons can also be made between various brushes or fraises, as well as types and strengths of peeling chemicals.
  • (19) During each contact of a cutter with the bone, coarse fraises with low R.P.M.
  • (20) In 31 patients phenol was applied to the wall of the bone cavity after this had been carefully curetted or fraised.