(n.) Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc.
(n.) The branches of a bridle bit.
(n.) A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the middle part of a flask.
(n.) Cool confidence; assurance; impudence.
(v. t.) To be impudent or saucy to.
Example Sentences:
(1) In group III, multiple confluent ulcers were produced in the cheek pouch on one side, with a single ulcer in the contralateral cheek pouch; no drug was applied, and the tissues were prepared for histology.
(2) Cheek pouches were removed from BIO 87.20 male hamsters 4 weeks, 8 months or 18 months of age.
(3) Pekka Isosomppi Press counsellor, Finnish embassy, London • It may have been said tongue in cheek, but I must correct Michael Booth on one thing – his claim that no one talks about cricket in Denmark .
(4) The histopathologic investigations showed that the inflammatory reaction occurred in the buccal tissues was more powerful and the healing manifestations appeared earlier and continued more rapidly in the cheek.
(5) This difference, however, did not influence the detection of rhythmical ictal activity in cheek and sphenoidal montages in our study, nor the assignment of side, site or time of seizure onset by unbiased readers.
(6) We present a computer-aided videodensitometric method for the determination of oxygen saturation in red blood cells flowing through capillaries of the hamster cheek pouch retractor muscle.
(7) The nasal reconstruction in 8 patients and cheek reconstruction in 1 using a free flap from the deltoid region has been successfully undertaken in our department since August 1987.
(8) Results of both stathmokinetic and labelling experiments indicate that cell production in the cheek pouch epithelium of iron-deficient animals is impaired.
(9) After cultivation in vitro, cells from some transformed colonies produced tumors when inoculated into the cheek pouch of young golden hamsters.
(10) Serum starvation and RNA synthesis inhibition experiments using hamster cheek pouch carcinoma cell line 1 cells suggest that the c-Ki-ras protooncogene is indeed quiescent in the normal hamster cheek pouch epithelium and that failure to detect its mRNA is not related to the slower proliferation of the normal epithelial cells.
(11) Rich, clear and with real depth, these are the prize awaiting anyone who picks up the shin, cheeks and tails before they're put in the mincer.
(12) On stage at La Bastille after his election victory, footage showed that after Hollande gave Royal a kiss on the cheek, Trierweiler demanded of him: "Kiss me on the mouth."
(13) This study suggests that neural and adrenergic mechanisms are not the primary determinants of arteriolar tone in the hamster cheek pouch.
(14) After the medium was incubated at 37 degrees C for 48 h, 37-49% of the retinoid remained, whether or not tissue (neonatal Syrian hamster cheek pouch) was present, and irrespective of explant age.
(15) A new clinical method using a square rule leaned on the cheek using these reference points is recommended.
(16) The case of a patient with an extensive vertical laceration of the right cheek involving Stensen's duct is reported.
(17) Increases in permeability of the hamster cheek pouch were quantitated by the formation of microvascular leaky sites.
(18) Large defects after Mohs' surgery for these lesions may involve the nose, cheek, forehead, and other parts of the face as well as the eyelids, medial canthus, and lacrimal drainage system.
(19) If she seems little intense, it probably has something to do with why she is so wildly successful, yet we remain determined to reduce her – in her own tongue-in-cheek words – to a nightmare dressed like a daydream.
(20) At 32 days all the permanent cheek-teeth are erupted.
Stonework
Definition:
(n.) Work or wall consisting of stone; mason's work of stone.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 13 rooms all retain a sense of history, with exposed stonework, and most have sea views.
(2) The private owners of some of Britain's most magnificent houses will be invited for the first time to apply for grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund to restore their crumbling stonework.
(3) Focal outbreaks of malaria occurred on 76 spots in 38 counties, including civil-run mines, stoneworks and lumberyard sites, accounting for 140,00 migrants doing temporary work there.
(4) His father has built a new two-storey home near the site of their old house, with meticulous stonework behind the hearth.
(5) The Guardian eventually tracked the stone down to a warehouse in south London , owned by Paye Stonework & Masonry Ltd.
(6) Since the roof of Midhowe has long since gone, Grant covered up the exposed stonework with hangar-like structure, but the curious thing is that this doesn't detract at all from its powerful and brooding atmosphere.
(7) The church has been cleaned up, its bullet-riddled stained glass windows and roof replaced, although the stonework still carries evidence of the crime.
(8) On a wooden gantry 30 metres above Glasgow’s busy city centre, specialist masons are preparing to remove the first layer of stonework from the west wall of the Mackintosh library.
(9) It depends on how much money they have to keep it going: there are annual repairs, generational costs such as maintaining the stonework, the roof, the wiring and the cost of paying the cleaners and other staff.
(10) Social housing is the lifeblood of London, London will be losing its lifeblood Eddie Izzard A lot of what he thinks is going wrong with inequality in cities like London is summed up for him in the stonework of the Sutton estate mansion blocks.
(11) The word “trust” has at some point been hacked off the stonework leaving a blank between “Sutton” and “dwellings”.
(12) Then an inch of mortar falls, and the stonework begins to slide.
(13) The effect of weathered stonework has been immaculately recreated by Richard Nutbourne and his team of scenic artists – who usually work on stage sets for the opera and ballet next door.
(14) Delicately carved white capitals which were miraculously preserved for 1,800 years under thick clay now sit, discoloured by air pollution, in pools of rainwater, while cracks caused by winter ice have appeared in the stonework.
(15) "Over the months we have recorded and scrutinised every square centimetre of Stonehenge in unparalleled detail, revealing over 700 areas of stoneworking, rock art, graffiti, damage and restoration."
(16) Driving the need for modernisation are the threat of fire, water damage decay and dilapidation, it says, and the combined effect of pollution and lack of maintenance, which have caused decay to the stonework.