(n.) A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer.
(v. t.) To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue.
(v. t.) To cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the method proposed by Trela (1975) is applied, thin layers of the petrous crest are chiselled out until the common crus of the superior and posterior semi-circular becomes apparent.
(2) A new system, which includes cannulated chisels and a cannulated one-piece plate that can be inserted over a guide wire, is suggested.
(3) Our technique of using autogenous bone, cut with a thin chisel which curls to the shape of the ear canal, will be presented and illustrated.
(4) Nevertheless it is still far from clear, perhaps even to May herself, what will emerge once she has finished with her hammer and chisel.
(5) A chisel edged, stainless steel ring was cemented to the butt end of a dentin cylinder.
(6) Ultrasonic chisels are used clinically to remove composite-retained bridges from one or both abutment teeth.
(7) The super-sized Alabaman certainly looks the part: 228lbs of chiseled musculature and fast-twitch fibers that wouldn’t be out of place in an NFL team’s defensive backfield.
(8) We obtained good results in preventing these complications by a fixation at the hollow which is made by chiseling the frontal bone and by fibrous tissue which grows through the small holes of the implant tail.
(9) They scalped them to remove the hair, they removed the eyeballs and ears, they knocked off the faces, then removed the jaws and chiseled away the edges to make the rims nice and even.
(10) "The decision to return the marbles to the place where they were chiselled, next to those sculptures from which they were so illegally and violently ripped apart."
(11) The surgical blade, and especially the reciprocating motor-driven diamond tip eliminated overhangs better than the chisel.
(12) Back in the freezer, I put down the two-inch chisel and pick up a one-inch.
(13) He is a boat-rocking libertarian with a chisel-jawed faith in a small state and the power of the little man transmitted through the internet.
(14) Approximately half routinely use a chisel as opposed to a bur for bone removal.
(15) The first chink of light has been spotted between the top three and the chasing pack, a three-point gap chiselled out between Mourinho's team and fourth-placed Everton to suggest a massed scramble towards the summit is thinning out.
(16) Chisel in hand, he walked slowly around the base of his giant sculpture, carefully inspecting the detail on the eagle crest in front, and the name inscribed on the back – John Garang de Mabior.
(17) Vibration isolating gloves were tested and resulted in an additional reduction in vibration of up to 63% when used with the chisel sleeve.
(18) Displacement amplitude measurements at the tip of the two designs available showed that the curved chisel was twice as powerful as the straight chisel.
(19) Madrid kept their cool in the face of the storm and, gradually, they chiselled out a foothold.
(20) It showed that substantially higher vibration levels are produced at the chisel of a chipping hammer than at its handle.
(a.) Confident; full of assurance; in a bad sense, morally hardened; shameless.
(a.) Strong; firm; compact.
(a.) Inured to fatigue or hardships; strong; capable of endurance; as, a hardy veteran; a hardy mariner.
(a.) Able to withstand the cold of winter.
(n.) A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty drug-free patients (12 women and 8 men) meeting DSM-III criteria for major depressive disorder were given the Kobasa Hardiness Questionnaire, which contains subscales measuring feelings of powerlessness, security, and alientation.
(2) Hardy has a 10in tattoo of Lee along his left shin.
(3) It is suggested that this early immune maturity may play a role in the hardiness of WAD goats and in their relative resistance to helminth and protozoan infection as compared with local sheep.
(4) A heat source contained in a modified Hardy-Wolff-Goodell dolorimeter was used as a stimulus to produce pain on the posterolateral aspects of the left forearms of volunteer subjects.
(5) Hardy headlines as an ex-con named Bob Saginowski who is trying to live out a quiet life away from crime as a bartender.
(6) There weren't many people out on their bikes in Harrogate over the weekend: the weather was too poor even for hardy Yorkshire folk.
(7) Most critical are (a) how hardiness is to be measured; (b) whether hardiness should be treated as a unitary phenomenon or as three separate phenomena associated with commitment, control, and challenge; and (c) whether hardiness has direct effects on health or indirect effects by virtue of buffering the impact of stressful life events.
(8) Gene frequencies were compared with previous data and all European populations studied so fare agreed with the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.
(9) The number of people in the group corresponded to the theoretical number of heterozygotes in accordance with the Hardy-Weinberg equation, suggesting that sucrase deficiency is recessively inherited in a simple Mendelian fashion.
(10) The study findings did not support the buffering effects of hardiness in the presence of greater amounts of stress.
(11) Vegetation is low, widely spaced and hardy, most of it armed with spines.
(12) The favorable morphology and hardiness in organ culture of this preparation have permitted a wide range of electrophysiological, cellular, and molecular studies.
(13) Departures from the Hardy-Weinberg expectations, indicating an excess of heterokaryotypes, were noted and critically analysed by comparing samples obtained simultaneously in the same locality from different cow sheds, from different sections of the same cow shed and from night and day catches in the same cow shed.
(14) The distribution of the Blast-1 genotypes in the present study was concordant with Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (p greater than 0.7), which indicates that the frequency of the Blast-1 gene in the population is derived from random mating in preceding generations.
(15) The observed frequency distribution of individuals with homozygous NOR-positive, heterozygous, and homozygous negative acrocentric chromosomes was in accordance with the Hardy-Weinberg law in all five pairs of the acrocentric chromosomes as well as in total.
(16) Over 42% of the variance in family functioning was accounted for by family hardiness, functional support, family stressors, and parental age.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tom Hardy and George Miller at the press conference.
(18) Theoretical estimates were made of the chronological decrease in the incidence using a formula for Hardy-Weinberg expectation in a partially inbred population and applying appropriate consanguinity rates, taken from the literature, during the period from 1942 to 1983.
(19) An experiment is reported which tests Fazey & Hardy's (1988) catastrophe model of anxiety and performance.
(20) Another thing is that scientists like Sarah Hardy have been able to demonstrate a far greater richness of female flexibility in reproductive strategies.