(n.) Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber.
(n.) An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; -- called also a bevel square.
(a.) Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.
(a.) Hence: Morally distorted; not upright.
(v. t.) To cut to a bevel angle; to slope the edge or surface of.
(v. i.) To deviate or incline from an angle of 90¡, as a surface; to slant.
Example Sentences:
(1) The distance between the bevel end of the tube and the carina was determined with a fibreoptic bronchoscope.
(2) With the straight bevel with a slight angulation (40 degrees), the limit of the cavity-filling joint is clear.
(3) Electrical potentials in the cat lumbosacral spinal cord evoked by the action of single medial gastrocnemius Ia afferent fibres were recorded using low impedance, bevelled micropipette electrodes and the spike triggered averaging technique.
(4) After placement of the glass-ionomer cement, etching of the bevel, and placement of a resin bonding system, microfilled resin was placed over the bonding agent in one increment, light-cured, finished, and given 500 thermocycled 500 times between 5 and 55 degrees C. A silver nitrate staining technique was used to evaluate microleakage measured in graticular units (gu) along the dentinal interface under stereomicroscopy.
(5) In an effort to overcome restrictive adhesions following flexor tendon repair, a technique involving beveling of the tendon ends and fine compressive suturing was used in 50 patients (110 tendons).
(6) The use of short-beveled needles considerably decreased the number of traumatic punctures.
(7) Instead of the ends of the cuts being squared, the ends were beveled or rounded.
(8) Each margin of the cavities was finished in one of three ways: butt joint and etching; butt joint and no etching, or; bevel joint and etching.
(9) Those differences can be summarized as follows: (1) the occurrence of pronounced, highly curved hackle marks, which could in many instances be mistaken for conchoidal marks;(2)the appearance of the beveled edges bordering the cratering on the side opposite origin of force; and (3) a more apparent tendency toward an inverse relationship of muzzle velocity and energy to radial fracture length and degree of curving along crater boundaries.
(10) The bevelled and interdigitated structures seen in many sutures may be interpreted as an expedient solution to the problem of fast growth.
(11) If the Black Class II preparation is used, it is suggested that bevels be confined to the facial and lingual margins of the proximal box.
(12) Forty cast gold dowels and cores were made for four groups of dowel channels that had, respectively, 1 mm, 2 mm, 3 mm, and 1 mm with a 60-degree bevel (collar) of the remaining buccal dentin at the entrance of the canal.
(13) The observed experimental alterations in ME behavior after bevelling were in agreement with those predicted by a relatively simple electrical model comprising of two conductive pathways in parallel having opposite in sign sensitivities.
(14) By rotating the puncture needle the spinal meninges become penetrated with the bevel adjusted parallel to the main fibre direction.
(15) Companion surgeries for comparison consisted of similar flaps, but utilized an inverse bevel primary incision.
(16) There was no significant difference among beveled metal margins, metal butt margins, or porcelain butt margins either before or after cementation at the 95% confidence level.
(17) This problem was more significant when the guidewire was withdrawn through the beveled needle, in comparison to the nonbeveled type.
(18) In the first experiment, embryos in different stages of development were used for micromanipulation by removing half of the blastomeres with a beveled aspirating pipette.
(19) This clinical study determined the feasibility of a sealed resin composite restoration to arrest dental caries using a minimal tooth preparation: a bevel in enamel only without removal of the carious lesion.
(20) This is located by inserting the needle at a point one quarter of the distance from the ischial tuberosity to the greater trochanter in the gluteal fold and then feeling two distinct losses of resistance as superficial and deep fascia are penetrated with a short-bevelled needle.
Rule
Definition:
(a.) That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a regulation; a prescription; a precept; as, the rules of various societies; the rules governing a school; a rule of etiquette or propriety; the rules of cricket.
(a.) Uniform or established course of things.
(a.) Systematic method or practice; as, my ule is to rise at six o'clock.
(a.) Ordibary course of procedure; usual way; comon state or condition of things; as, it is a rule to which there are many exeptions.
(a.) Conduct in general; behavior.
(a.) The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
(a.) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
(a.) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result; as, a rule for extracting the cube root.
(a.) A general principle concerning the formation or use of words, or a concise statement thereof; thus, it is a rule in England, that s or es , added to a noun in the singular number, forms the plural of that noun; but "man" forms its plural "men", and is an exception to the rule.
(a.) A straight strip of wood, metal, or the like, which serves as a guide in drawing a straight line; a ruler.
(a.) A measuring instrument consisting of a graduated bar of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, which is usually marked so as to show inches and fractions of an inch, and jointed so that it may be folded compactly.
(a.) A thin plate of metal (usually brass) of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.
(a.) A composing rule. See under Conposing.
(n.) To control the will and actions of; to exercise authority or dominion over; to govern; to manage.
(n.) To control or direct by influence, counsel, or persuasion; to guide; -- used chiefly in the passive.
(n.) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
(n.) To require or command by rule; to give as a direction or order of court.
(n.) To mark with lines made with a pen, pencil, etc., guided by a rule or ruler; to print or mark with lines by means of a rule or other contrivance effecting a similar result; as, to rule a sheet of paper of a blank book.
(v. i.) To have power or command; to exercise supreme authority; -- often followed by over.
(v. i.) To lay down and settle a rule or order of court; to decide an incidental point; to enter a rule.
(v. i.) To keep within a (certain) range for a time; to be in general, or as a rule; as, prices ruled lower yesterday than the day before.
Example Sentences:
(1) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
(2) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(3) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
(4) Also critical to Mr Smith's victory was the decision over lunch of the MSF technical union's delegation to abstain on the rule changes.
(5) Titre in newborn was as a rule lower than the corresponding titre of mother.
(6) Former lawmaker and historian Faraj Najm said the ruling resets Libya “back to square one” and that the choice now faced by the Tobruk-based parliament is “between bad and worse”.
(7) The exception to this rule is a cyst which can be safely aspirated under controlled conditions.
(8) This situation should lead to discuss preventive rules.
(9) Cas reduced it further to four, but the decision effectively ends Platini’s career as a football administrator because – as he pointedly noted – it rules him out of standing for the Fifa presidency in 2019.
(10) Paul Johnson, the IFS director, said: “Osborne’s new fiscal charter is much more constraining than his previous fiscal rules.
(11) Models with a C8-symmetry and D4-symmetry can be ruled out.
(12) CEA and bacterial antigens were not detected in the material, and the presence of alpha-fetoprotein, HLA and blood-group antigens may be ruled out on account of their respective molecular weights.
(13) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(14) In fact, if the roundtable operated by the rules it publishes, most of its members might have been thrown out.
(15) Injections of l-amphetamine were not effective, ruling out non-specific effects of pH, osmolarity and the like and also ruling out noradrenergic actions as explanations of the behavioral effects.
(16) My father wrote to the official who had ruled I could not ride and asked for Championships to be established for girls.
(17) The prediction rule performed well when used on a test set of data (area, 0.76).
(18) Analysts say Zuma's lawyers may try to reach agreement with the prosecutors, while he can also appeal against yesterday's ruling before the constitutional court.
(19) The ruling centre-right coalition government of Angela Merkel was dealt a blow by voters in a critical regional election on Sunday after the centre-left opposition secured a wafer-thin victory, setting the scene for a tension-filled national election in the autumn when everything will be up for grabs.
(20) But employers who have followed a fair procedure may have the right to discipline or finally dismiss any smoker who refuses to accept the new rules.