(n.) A kind of plume, now called damson. See Damson.
(v. t.) Same as Damask, or Damaskeen, v. t.
Example Sentences:
(1) Well, I'd be surprised if anyone actually believes it has the power to inspire Damascene conversions among the prejudiced.
(2) Always a good cook, she had a Damascene moment one day when, looking for a way to perk up a slightly flat pasta dish, she gave it a squeeze of lemon.
(3) Many Damascenes who oppose the regime, including most of the activists who organised the street protests of 2011, have left for Beirut.
(4) Ticciati has, however, played in a Prom before: as a teenager, with the National Youth Orchestra, in a concert of Sibelius's First Symphony conducted by Colin Davis – the Damascene experience that inspired him to pursue conducting.
(5) For those who believe that celebrity culture is anti-culture, and that any society that elevates random individuals and ignores the rest has nothing to teach us, any Damascene conversions on BBC1 will be a sigh in a storm, which will ebb to nothing when the celebrity returns to its natural habitat.
(6) I remember being called to see a patient who had fallen out of bed and vividly recall that Damascene moment of realising that for all the lectures, revision, exams and mnemonics that had characterised medical school, I had no idea what to do with this human being or how to solve the problem of her being on the floor.
(7) I worked at Mixmag for five years, a die-hard indie fan who had a Damascene conversion at the age of 20 in the unlikely setting of a rave on Margate pier.
(8) Unless Zuckerberg has had a truly Damascene conversion, it is unlikely Facebook and Google will lead the way, as their profits are so dependent on collecting user data.
(9) The report, called Women at the Top 2005, congratulates the Conservative Women's Organisation (CWO) for its recent Damascene conversion to all-women shortlists after standing opposed to the idea for a long time.
(10) Mark Lynas , an anti-GM protester in the late 1990s who now admits to a Damascene conversion to the merits of the technology in recent years, believes the protesters have misjudged the public attitude to GM this time round.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The trio had been friends for a decade previously, and shared pivotal musical experiences (a love of Weezer 's second album, Pinkerton; a Damascene indie rock conversion via the Pixies ' Surfer Rosa).
(12) I’m looking forward to being an old artist and not giving a shit.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘I had a Damascene moment when I realised that the masquerade of dressing up as a woman and getting away with it, or “passing”, as they call it in the tranny world, was a fairly unrewarding experience.’ Outfit by Central St Martins student Oto Kazumi.
(13) She said: "What is clear from today's statement is the secretary of state has not had a Damascene moment where the scales have fallen from his eyes, and rolled back key elements of his reforms.
(14) The report calls for the City regulators to report to parliament in two years' time on a new regime to allow new banks to set up with less capital and welcomes the government's Damascene conversion to open up the payments system to new players.
(15) The speed and reach of Rupert Murdoch's damascene re-conversion to the web emerged today after the News Corp chairman announced his first internet acquisition since the dotcom boom.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close • Some Damascenes expressed surprise at Assad's agreement to hand over chemical weapons, Jonathan Steele reports from the Syrian capital.
(17) The powerful ranks of oil and gas industry executives had not witnessed a Damascene moment.
(18) "For years they think we have been happy with tiny reforms; it is insulting," says one 30-year-old Damascene man who asked not to be named.
(19) Ann Farmer Woodford Green, Essex • Anglican bishops Desmond Tutu and George Carey have had Damascene conversions on euthanasia and now back the right of the terminally ill to end their lives in dignity.
(20) Martin Chulov, in Beirut, and Alec Luhn, in Moscow, report : Damascenes reported more checkpoints than usual in regime-held areas, but said the capital continued to function as it had during the past two years of ever more entrenched war.
Inlay
Definition:
(v. t.) To lay within; hence, to insert, as pieces of pearl, iviry, choice woods, or the like, in a groundwork of some other material; to form an ornamental surface; to diversify or adorn with insertions.
(n.) Matter or pieces of wood, ivory, etc., inlaid, or prepared for inlaying; that which is inserted or inlaid for ornament or variety.
Example Sentences:
(1) Computer-designed and fabricated inlays and onlays are now an available treatment modality, with a reported 3-years follow-up looking very promising.
(2) If ceramic inlays and onlays are considered in restorative work, some operations which, more than in other areas of dental engineering, decide upon the success or failure should be given special attention.
(3) Four operators completed 132 one-visit inlays and onlays utilizing a new indirect posterior composite resin system (ICS).
(4) The surface roughness of Cerec-inlays after polishing with diamond polishing pastes or Diafinish-disks was compared to polishing with aluminium oxide disks (AOD).
(5) This in vitro study compared different methods of finishing luting composite resin spaces after insertion of composite resin inlays.
(6) Class I gold inlays were made in an acrylic premolar and molar.
(7) The restored teeth were then histologically prepared and the joints between cement and inlay morphometrically evaluated at eight defined sites.
(8) Obvious differences were seen among the participating dentists with regard to the clinical quality of Cerec inlays.
(9) This study was conducted to determine the extent of hardening of three dual-cured cements under composite resin inlays and to determine the effectiveness of a light-reflecting wedge in promoting curing of the cements in the proximal margin.
(10) The transducer has a disc construction, approximately 4 mm thick by 16 mm diameter, and measures two orthogonal axes of shear simultaneously; this disc is mounted into an inlay that can be inserted into any stock orthopaedic shoe of the type commonly prescribed for diabetic foot problems.
(11) Using a simple press-molding technique, well-fitting crowns, inlays, and veneers can be fabricated without an additional ceramming procedure.
(12) The aim of this study is to investigate the marginal leakage by means of SEM analysis after in vitro and in vivo application of porcelain inlays in the cervical area, bonded to the enamel by a microfilled composite.
(13) The inlays in the older group appeared to perform better than those in the younger group.
(14) The observation period of inlay restorations was from 1 year to 11 years and 6 months.
(15) In this setting additional lead shielding of the camera is possible using a table reinforced with 5 cm of lead with a central hole for the 7PH-collimator, which has a special lead inlay.
(16) After thermal and mechanical loading the composite inlays with the wider composite layer showed more marginal gaps than both groups of ceramic inlays.
(17) The adaptability of composite resin inlays was examined.
(18) Although the marginal microleakage was witnessed in both inlays, it appeared that porcelain inlays provided a better marginal seal, in comparison to SR-Isosit inlays.
(19) The use of gold electroforms provides (1) a porcelain jacket crown and adaptable gold margin; (2) a matrix for porcelain inlays; (3) an adaptable margin for cast ceramic bonded to metal crowns or abutments.
(20) Compared to the general technique in using inlays there are two major difficulties: keeping the parallelism of several pins and the danger of hurting the pulp.