(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.
Draft
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught.
(a.) Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as Draught.
(v. t.) To draw the outline of; to delineate.
(v. t.) To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial.
(v. t.) To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select.
(v. t.) To transfer by draft.
Example Sentences:
(1) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
(2) Hopes of a breakthrough are slim, though, after WTO members failed to agree a draft deal to rubber-stamp this week.
(3) In fact, the lowest-rated game of last year's World Series between the Giants and the Tigers edged out the opening round of the draft by only 2.4 million viewers.
(4) Stray bottles were thrown over the barriers towards officers to cheers and chants of: “Shame on you, we’re human too.” The Met deployed what it described as a “significant policing operation”, including drafting in thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest, after previous events ended in arrests and clashes with police across the centre of the capital.
(5) However, the law minister indicated he would allow the supreme court to approve a draft of the letter.
(6) The Baseball Hall of Famer Barry Larkin's son Shane, who clearly had the more imaginative father of the three, was drafted 18th; he'll be playing for the Dallas Mavericks.
(7) Despite his misgivings, Griffith-Jones agreed to draft new legislation that sanctioned beatings, as long as the abuse was kept secret.
(8) The airport drafted in extra staff to help passengers.
(9) Aware that her press secretary, Bernard Ingham, a former labour correspondent for the Guardian who understood the range of attitudes within trade unions, had tried to soften the impression that she saw Kinnock as another General Galtieri [Argentina’s president during the Falklands war], the draft text tried to distinguish between unions, rival parties and what the final text (the one she actually delivered) called “an organised revolutionary minority” with their “outmoded Marxist dogma about class warfare”.
(10) At the time MPs were debating a draft bill outlining the unpopular economic reforms that will have to be imposed.
(11) Chilcot has now embarked on the “Maxwellisation process”, whereby those the inquiry intends to criticise will be sent draft passages of the report for comment.
(12) Castin' makes me feel good: Ghostbusters' diverse team is a victory Read more Dan Aykroyd heralds Ghostbusters cast as 'most magnificent women in comedy' Read more “There’s three drafts of the old concept that exists,” said Aykroyd.
(13) UK in denial over Saudi arms sales being used in Yemen, claims Oxfam Read more A previous draft report prepared by the arms export controls select committee was set to call for a suspension of UK arms sales to Saudi pending an independent investigation into the way the Saudi-led coalition was conducting a bombing campaign in Yemen.
(14) Recently, social phobia has been described in DSM-III and in International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 (1986 Draft), as a diagnostic entity and classified under the anxiety disorders.
(15) Indeed, he was invited to help draft Johnson's first state of the union speech.
(16) Greece's desperate plight hovers over the meeting, although formally there is no mention of Greece on the agenda or in the statements drafted for the meeting.
(17) Even so, Dinsmore, known to colleagues in Scotland for being very cool and disciplined, was soon drafted down to Wapping to become the Sun's managing editor in London as new senior staff were brought in after the sudden closure of the News of the World.
(18) One of the criticisms of Obama is that instead of asking vice-president Joe Biden to oversee a task force looking at proposals for reform in January and then leaving Congress to come up with a draft bill, he should have pushed his own set of proposals when emotions were still raw.
(19) The draft released last Monday had been hailed by some church observers and gay rights groups as “a stunning change” in how the Catholic hierarchy talked about gay people.
(20) "We have done everything humanly possible to ensure that every stage of drafting, every stage of comments and expert reviews carried out, that we look for any potential error or any source of information that might not carry the highest levels of credibility," he said.