(a.) Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an acid.
(a.) Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
(n.) That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
(n.) That which has the power of fretting or irritating.
Example Sentences:
(1) The influence of mucin on the corrosion behaviour of seven typical dental casting alloys was investigated.
(2) Pitting corrosion was seen on low-resistant Ni-Cr alloys, which had less Cr content.
(3) It would appear that there was airborne spread of the organism from these cooling water systems which had not received conventional treatment to inhibit corrosion and organic growth.
(4) Following the injection of suitable media, the arterial tree of 22 post-mortem human stomachs was studied by angiography, or corrosion and micro-dissection.
(5) It was determined that the Ag-rich phase of Ag-Pd-Cu-Au alloy was preferentially attacked to form Ag2S corrosion product.
(6) Crevice corrosion propagation for gamma 2-free vs. gamma 2-containing amalgams was characterized by lower acceleration and maximum rates during the most dynamic period.
(7) The traditional alloys used as metal bases for fixed partial dentures are accompanied by various problems such as corrosion, allergy, toxicity, casting, and preparation for both patient and prosthodontist and in magnetic resonance imaging for diagnosis.
(8) Similarly, significant correlations were found between the individual tissue reaction scores and crevice corrosion scores from the 201 individual sites, again for all devices and for the asymptomatic and symptomatic removal groups.
(9) In the cracks corrosion products usually found on amalgam were identified.
(10) The study included 101 specimens and used an injection-corrosion technique that obtained internal casts of the main trunks and coronary arterial branches.
(11) The use of methyl methacrylate corrosion-casts has made it possible to examine the intracranial microvasculature on a three-dimensional scale with the scanning electron microscope.
(12) The present paper states very briefly the main steps leading to the technique of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of vascular corrosion casts.
(13) Early corrosion phenomena required re-polishing every three months.
(14) The objective of this study was to determine the in vitro corrosion products that resulted from crevice corrosion of low- and high-copper dental amalgams.
(15) We present eight cases of chemical burns of the eyes from titanium tetrachloride, an acidic corrosive liquid.
(16) They depended on the type of the AC-plates as well as on their age and corrosion intensity.
(17) Corrosion potential and zero resistance ammetry studies were carried out; the effects observed were variable and depended upon the nature of the metal and its surface condition.
(18) The electrical stimulus parameters produced by the Nucleus receiver-stimulator cause no loss of spiral ganglion cells or corrosion of the platinum band electrodes.
(19) Microvascular corrosion casts of chicken embryos between four and 19 days after fertilization have been prepared.
(20) If these points are considered, comparative data, even of quantitative nature, can be obtained from corrosion casts.
Wear
Definition:
(n.) Same as Weir.
(v. t.) To cause to go about, as a vessel, by putting the helm up, instead of alee as in tacking, so that the vessel's bow is turned away from, and her stern is presented to, the wind, and, as she turns still farther, her sails fill on the other side; to veer.
(v. t.) To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle.
(v. t.) To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance.
(v. t.) To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly.
(v. t.) To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend.
(v. t.) To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole.
(v. t.) To form or shape by, or as by, attrition.
(v. i.) To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance.
(v. i.) To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually.
(n.) The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment.
(n.) The thing worn; style of dress; the fashion.
(n.) A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like.
(n.) A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.
(n.) A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, -- used in measuring the quantity of flowing water.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
(2) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
(3) Today, she wears an elegant salmon-pink blouse with white trousers and a long, pale pink coat.
(4) The third patient was using an extended-wear soft contact lens for correction of residual myopia.
(5) A man wearing a badge that says "property team" quietly parries some of her points, but chooses not to engage with others.
(6) Scott was born in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, the youngest of the three sons of Colonel Francis Percy Scott, who served in the Royal Engineers, and his wife, Elizabeth.
(7) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
(8) Clearly, therefore, image is everything, especially in a world that can still be unkind to geeky people venturing out in public wearing their latest invention.
(9) Cabrera, wearing a bulletproof vest, was paraded before the news media in what has become a common practice for law enforcement authorities following major arrests.
(10) Excessive poppet wear has also been noted in the aortic position; poppet embolization has occurred on 2 occasions, and a third patient was found, at the time of reoperation for periprosthetic leak, to have opppet wear sufficient to permit embolization.
(11) Higher rates are reported by individual clinicians, and our recent in vitro wear tests of Proplast II Teflon interpositional implants suggest an in vivo service life of only 3 years.
(12) Then there were the mini-dress-wearing Barclaycard girls whose job was “to help educate and change people’s minds”.
(13) Wearing down women’s resistance has become eroticised – and, worse, normalised.
(14) Problems associated with cloth wear and the unexpectedly slow rate, in man, of tissue ingrowth into the fabric of the Braunwald-Cutter aortic valve prosthesis have been discouraging, although this prosthesis has been associated with a very low thromboembolic rate in patients receiving anticoagulant therapy.
(15) A foretaste of discontent came when Florian Thauvin, the underachieving £13m winger signed from Marseille last summer , was serenaded with chants of ‘You’re not fit to wear the shirt” from away fans during Saturday’s FA Cup defeat at Watford .
(16) Increased wear-resistance of microsurgical instruments by facing, electric spark alloying and vacuum surfacing increases the working life of the instruments by 1.5-3 times.
(17) Bone cement particles promote polyethylene wear, which in turn promotes granuloma formation, bone resorption, and subsequent bone cement disintegration.
(18) An actor dressed like one of the polar bears that figure in Coke ads limped up, wearing a prosthesis on one paw, a dialysis bag and tubing.
(19) Song appeared to give Bolt a good luck charm to wear around his wrist.
(20) Wearing a brown leather fedora and dark sunglasses, the 69-year-old was ushered into a waiting van shortly after dawn and taken to the western port city of Kobe, the headquarters of the Yamaguchi-gumi.