What's the difference between chamfer and champer?
Chamfer
Definition:
(n.) The surface formed by cutting away the arris, or angle, formed by two faces of a piece of timber, stone, etc.
(v. t.) To cut a furrow in, as in a column; to groove; to channel; to flute.
(v. t.) To make a chamfer on.
Example Sentences:
(1) Somehow, everything we produced had a decidedly 1970s feel, a look formed by both the number of chamfered blocks in the set, and the inescapable desire to make everything symmetrical as you stack floor upon floor.
(2) Although the dentin bonding agents tend to accumulate on chamfers, thereby increasing their thickness to 200-300 microns, the method looks promising as a simple way to protect the pulp from the consequences of microleakage.
(3) A chamfer with a bevel, a shoulder with a bevel, or chamfer preparations are not suited to this technique.
(4) The crown margin designs taught most often were the flat shoulder, the 45-degree bevel shoulder, and the chamfer.
(5) This study evaluated chamfered and beveled preparations for Class IV restorations of lesions with microfilled and macrofilled composite resin.
(6) Serial radiographic analyses demonstrate progressive narrowing of all of the chamfered cylinder design and less in hemispherical design with screw fixation.
(7) This study tested three different types of crown margin preparations--a chamfer, a shoulder, and a shoulder plus a bevel to determine whether or not the margin preparation could affect microleakage.
(8) Facial and lingual chamfer margins were placed in enamel, mesial and distal in dentin and cementum, and castings were made in Rexillium III alloy and were then cemented with a standardized technique.
(9) This study indicated that the resin bonded cast fixed partial denture with the lingual chamfer margin and mesial rest was the design to be chosen.
(10) Group I consisted of 43 restorations placed without any tooth preparation; Group II consisted of 72 restorations placed using a chamfer preparation.
(11) The margin designs were rounded-shoulder, rounded-shoulder with a bevel, and a chamfer.
(12) On the acetabular side, both the cementless hemispherical with screw-type adjuvant fixation, or the chamfered cylinder designs, used primarily with the UCLA porous surface replacements, but also with stem-type devices, appear to achieve best short-term results, while the entire variety of screw rings are disappointing.
(13) With 76 different types of Lego bricks scattered across the table, from flat baseplates to chamfered wedge-shaped blocks and lots of tiny pieces with nipples and sockets sprouting in all directions, the challenge was to know where to begin.
(14) These included the use of thin metal copings (0.1 and 0.2 mm), a chamfer preparation, an alloy with relatively poor creep resistance, and a large thermal contraction mismatch between the alloy and porcelain layers.
(15) The accepted marginal design indicated by manufacturers for ceramic jacket crowns is the 90 degrees full shoulder with a rounded gingival-axial line angle or a deep chamfer.
(16) The weakest restorations were observed when a 0.8-mm chamfer finish line (66.8 kg) was used.
(17) Seventy extracted intact, non-carious maxillary central incisors, of approximately the same size, were collected and randomly divided into the following seven groups: 90 degrees butt joint (control)), 1 and 2 mm 45 degrees bevels, 1 and 2 mm 60 degrees bevels, and 1 and 2 mm chamfer margins.
(18) There was no significant difference in marginal fit between the shoulder and the chamfer configuration in every luting material examined.
(19) The coping and crown dimensions were based on a prepared maxillary central incisor with a facial shoulder and a lingual chamfer.
(20) The experiments were conducted in the following manner: Ten pieces of full cast crowns were constructed by a conventional procedure with 12% Au-Ag-Pd alloy and each test-piece was cemented alternately by zinc phosphate cement on a master die (stainless steel) with a chamfer margin.
Champer
Definition:
(n.) One who champs, or bites.
Example Sentences:
(1) And if fancy hats and champers are more your scene, there's a free beach polo match here on 16 September, with public champagne bars and a barbecue.
(2) 3.02pm BST Hamilton does a minimal amount of champers spraying , nowhere near the direction of Rosberg.
(3) The Tory character chose caviar, a three-bird roast and gilded meringue or Eton Mess, washed down by the inevitable champers.
(4) Their “Come Dine With Me” menu would be “caviar to start, a three-bird roast and gilded meringues or Eton mess”, and they’d only drink “champers, darling!” “They’re almost shamelessly like this now – before at least they used to hide it.” – Thanet “I think that there are small businesspeople who believe in conservative values but aren’t being represented by the party any more.” – Thanet “I would hate for them to get in again.
(5) Their Come Dine With Me menu would be “caviar to start, a three bird roast and gilded meringues or Eton Mess” and they’d only drink “champers, darling!” Facebook Twitter Pinterest South Thanet voters have their say Tellingly, panellists’ perceptions of the Labour brand weren’t very different from those of the Conservatives at all.
(6) It was over a glass of champers … Jeremy Hunt: I am happy to report that as culture secretary I have always been impartial about the BskyB bid … Jim Naughtie: Do you think I'm a cupid stunt?