(v. t.) To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp).
(v. t.) To inclose and hold in the hand or with the arms; to grasp; to embrace.
(v. t.) To surround and cling to; to entwine about.
(n.) An adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt, the covers of a book, etc.
(n.) A close embrace; a throwing of the arms around; a grasping, as with the hand.
Example Sentences:
(1) This permitted employment of cast combined crowns with wide perigingival metal rims to support the clasp dentures to make them look better when supplying 73 patients with partial removable dentures.
(2) The RPI clasp assembly generated the most uniform stresses.
(3) The author uses his experience as a certified dental technician to discuss arch and tooth preparation, clasping, and proper impression technique.
(4) Tightening of clasps already in contact with a tooth frequently produces adverse changes.
(5) Fabrication of a provisional restoration to fit the existing clasp assembly requires special consideration.
(6) Differences between frameworks, number of clasps, and depth of undercuts were all significant.
(7) It was concluded that the gingivally approaching clasp is potentially damaging.
(8) He was pictured standing silently with his hands clasped and holding his order of service as others around him sang God Save the Queen, and was later forced to confirm that he would sing the anthem at future events.
(9) The abutment tooth is then prepared, providing adequate clearance between the clasp assembly and the tooth preparation.
(10) The following therapeutic proposal was adapted: On the maxilla, a three-step procedure: first step: building of metal copings on 13, 16 and 26 and metal-ceramic crowns on 11 and 21, second step: building of telescop crowns on 16 and 26 and clasps on 13, 11 and 21, third step: casting of the removable partial denture framework and soldering to the telescop crowns and clasps.
(11) A certain degree of deterioration of occlusion, articulation, stability and clasp retention of the dentures fitted did occur, however.
(12) In a 16-year-old girl, congenital extensor deficiency of the hand with absence of true clasping of the thumb was transmitted by an autosomal dominant mechanism of inheritance.
(13) Loads applied to the denture saddle were transmitted through the occlusal rest and also the clasp components causing movement of both denture saddle and the abutment tooth.
(14) The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences in the material and the variation among individual technicians in the retentive force of both clasps.
(15) In the case of soldering electrically wrought wire clasps to metal structures such as rests and connectors, there is no fear of of overheating a wide area of wires.
(16) The patient tries to smile, but her fingers are clasped together while her nails claw at the flesh on the back of her hands, and the tears continue to pour down.
(17) Blindfolded subjects clasped the opposite surfaces of an object with the same frontal profile as the visual figure between thumb and forefinger and moved the latter together from end to end across the object.
(18) They really ought to have done more, bearing in mind Pantilimon had needed three attempts to clasp a low cross from Chelsea's first attack of any real threat, 21 minutes into the game.
(19) After testimony finished for the day he stood for the jury’s exit, his hands clasped, staring down at the desk in front of him.
(20) clasps give only small vibration when the path of removal is adjusted.
Hasp
Definition:
(n.) A clasp, especially a metal strap permanently fast at one end to a staple or pin, while the other passes over a staple, and is fastened by a padlock or a pin; also, a metallic hook for fastening a door.
(n.) A spindle to wind yarn, thread, or silk on.
(n.) An instrument for cutting the surface of grass land; a scarifier.
(v. t.) To shut or fasten with a hasp.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Hospital Admission and Surveillance Program (HASP) was a pre-PSRO program in Illinois.
(2) Small heat-stable, acid-soluble proteins (HASP) have been isolated from Bacillus subtilis nucleoids obtained from cell lysates of low ionic strength and lysozyme concentration.
(3) HAsp was without effect on excitatory postsynaptic potentials elicited by stimulation of granular layer.
(4) Actions of dihydrokainate (DHKA) and 3-hydroxy-DL-aspartate (HAsp), inhibitors of high-affinity uptake for L-glutamate (Glu), were studied in vitro in thin hippocampal slices of the guinea pig.
(5) were caused by HASP's activities and not by other factors.
(6) Memory models of procedural memory, semantic memory, and working memory, which are necessary to represent the process of the problem-solving, are constructed within a framework of a model of associative processor, HASP, proposed by one of the authors (Hirai 1983).
(7) This study compares patients admitted to 46 hospitals in Illinois before and after the establishment of HASP.
(8) Fast responses to kainate (KA) were augmented by the inhibitors to a similar extent as were Glu responses whereas slow KA responses were insensitive to HAsp.
(9) The amplitude of the depolarizations induced by Glu and by L-aspartate (Asp) in CA3 neurons are markedly augmented by DHKA and HAsp.
(10) Some findings suggest that the "post-HASP" admissions had the greater need for hospital care; this trend affected both Medicaid and non-Medicaid patients, however, The combined evidence suggests that concurrent review, as implemented by HASP, helped shorten L.O.S.
(11) It is not possible to determine the concentrations of unoccupied receptors in intact or gonadectomized males, or rats of either sex treated with androgens, due to masking by the moderate affinity, high capacity oestradiol binder (hepatic atypical sex hormone-binding protein, HASP).