(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.
Morse
Definition:
(n.) The walrus. See Walrus.
(n.) A clasp for fastening garments in front.
Example Sentences:
(1) First, contact your school, even if you are no longer a student there, recommends Ben Morse, head of Year 13 at the Piggott school, Reading.
(2) Auditory lateralization was investigated in 26 right-handed and 26 left-handed, normal subjects using seven different dichotic listening tests in each proband (free recall of digit lists, free recall of consonant-vowel (CV) syllables, four different CV syllable monitoring paradigms, and free recall of Morse codes).
(3) Although, among jobbing-actor roles in series such as Casualty, Lovejoy and Inspector Morse, he also appeared in the Dennis Potter drama Cream in My Coffee (1980), with Peggy Ashcroft; a TV version of Mr Jekyll and Hyde (1990) and Ending Up (1989), based on the Kingsley Amis novel about old buffers going grumbling to their doom.
(4) The receptor-linked tyrosine phosphatase RPTP alpha from human brain (Kaplan, R., Morse, B., Huebner, K., Croce, C., Howk, R., Ravera, M., Ricca, G., Jaye, M., and Schlessinger, J.
(5) The National Rifle Association said the election sent a clear message to lawmakers that they should protect gun rights and be accountable to their constituents, not to "anti-gun billionaires" – a swipe at the New York mayor, Michael Bloomberg, who supported Giron and Morse.
(6) Measured data were supplemented with Monte Carlo-calculated relative dose rate data generated using the MORSE code.
(7) Willett, Norman P. (University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, Kennett Square, Pa.), and Guy E. Morse.
(8) He said that the money market desk had told compliance, then headed by Stephen Morse, about the decision to reduce the Libor submission.
(9) I first meet him as the 43-year-old sits in his Inspector Morse-style Jaguar outside Radio 2.
(10) Subsequently, a surface substance was obtained from strains 1142 or 1124 by the method of Morse.
(11) ITV1's prequel to Inspector Morse, Endeavour, has proved there is still life in the franchise, attracting an average audience of 6.5 million on Monday night.
(12) Timing measures were obtained from subjects instructed to tap a Morse key in synchrony with a metronome which marked a timing pattern consisting of alternating blocks of intervals of imperceptibly different duration.
(13) were tested on their ability to learn letter names of Braille configurations presented visually or tactually and to Morse Code signals presented aurally.
(14) Performance was higher for braille than for Morse code.
(15) The NAO comptroller and auditor general, Amyas Morse, recently refused to sign off the accounts of the Department for Education due to his opinion that “ the level of error and uncertainty in the statements to be both material and pervasive ”, which bears out Kerslake’s concern: Morse says he simply does not know whether academy schools are spending public money well enough.
(16) Wayne Morse of Oregon, the so-called "Tiger of the Senate", managed 22 hours 26 minutes to stall debate on an oil bill in 1953, while Robert La Follette Sr of Wisconsin kept going for 18 hours 23 minutes in 1908 to talk out a bill that would have allowed the US treasury to lend currency to banks during fiscal crises.
(17) However, the Guardian disclosed last month that the head of the NAO , Amyas Morse, appeared to undermine the process before it had even started by telling Hartnett that the inquiry would find "nothing of substance".
(18) At the time of the killings, Bales had been under heavy personal, professional and financial stress, Morse said.
(19) Just before he left the base, Morse said, Bales told a special forces soldier that he was unhappy with his family life, and that the troops should have been quicker to retaliate for a roadside bomb attack that claimed one soldier's leg.
(20) Our previous work has shown that 26 of 38 cases (68.4%) of primary adenocarcinoma of the colon exhibited significantly elevated levels of c-myc RNA compared to normal colonic mucosa (M. D. Erisman, P. G. Rothberg, R. E. Diehl, C. C. Morse, J. M. Spandorfer, and S. M. Astrin.