(a.) Pertaining to Doris, in ancient Greece, or to the Dorians; as, the Doric dialect.
(a.) Belonging to, or resembling, the oldest and simplest of the three orders of architecture used by the Greeks, but ranked as second of the five orders adopted by the Romans. See Abacus, Capital, Order.
(a.) Of or relating to one of the ancient Greek musical modes or keys. Its character was adapted both to religions occasions and to war.
(n.) The Doric dialect.
Example Sentences:
(1) Linguistically, Gaelic has been brought to the point of extinction, Doric and Scots have been sidelined for years.
(2) Only 20 A380s were sold at Paris, to a leasing company, Doric.
(3) Railway locomotives of the 1830s were often decked out in neoclassical or gothic ornament designed to disguise their rude mechanical parts, while Britain's first mainline trunk railway, the London to Birmingham, concealed its terminus at Euston behind a giant Greek Doric portico.
(4) Speer's most successful piece of architectural theatre was the brilliant feat of announcing the Führer at Nürnberg by training hundreds of searchlight beams up into the sky, like Doric columns of light.
(5) Behind them stands a 1960s city of brutalist high-rises and office blocks, but many of these are undergoing an extraordinary redesign – with hollow Doric columns being affixed to slender concrete pillars.
(6) Ziggy played Stranraer, Scary Monsters (Super Neeps), Speyside Oddity, Black Tie White Pudding, The Spiders from Largs, Hunky Doric, Under Perthshire … The hits kept on coming.
(7) The Snowden bust still stood at Fort Greene Park’s Prison Ship Martyrs monument, atop a single Doric column.
Gutta
Definition:
(n.) A drop.
(n.) One of a series of ornaments, in the form of a frustum of a cone, attached to the lower part of the triglyphs, and also to the lower faces of the mutules, in the Doric order; -- called also campana, and drop.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the gutta-percha in the apical segment is not elevated above 45 degrees C, molecular transformation is avoided and the ultimate volume changes which accompany temperature cycling are small, predictable, and controllable.
(2) There were some differences between all brands of gutta percha cones.
(3) Gutta-percha showed gross leakage in six out of eight tests.
(4) Forty-five extracted anterior teeth were obturated with gutta-percha, the apical 3 mm of the roots were resected, and 2-mm-deep retrograde preparations were prepared.
(5) Five teeth were filled with only gutta-percha points, fifty teeth were filled with a particular cement alone, and the rest of the teeth were filled with a particular cement in conjunction with gutta-percha points.
(6) Two obturation techniques were used with each sealer; the single gutta-percha point technique, and lateral condensation with multiple gutta-percha points.
(7) If the gutta-percha samples dissolved within 15 min, the times were recorded and statistically analyzed.
(8) Great chemical heterogeneity was found among gutta-percha cones of different origin as well as within the same brand between small and large sizes.
(9) A reentry of the canal is performed eliminating the old obturating material, biomechanical preparation and obturation with sealer and thermo gutta-percha.
(10) This study evaluated in vivo aspects of CPC and CPC mixtures compared to those of commercial hydroxyapatite (HP) and several endodontic materials: Grossman's cement (GC), calcium hydroxide-iodine paste (CHP) and gutta-percha plate (GP).
(11) Gutta-percha cones were used as solid core in all cases.
(12) At the 6.5 mm level, thermomechanical condensation differed only from the chloroform-softened gutta-percha (p < 0.01).
(13) An in vitro computerized temperature measurement system was developed to measure intracanal temperatures produced by different heated gutta-percha obturation techniques.
(14) An in vitro dye leakage study was performed to evaluate the sealing ability of the following retrofilling materials: high- and low-temperature injectable thermoplasticized gutta-percha with and without sealer, a glass ionomer cement, and amalgam with and without varnish.
(15) It was concluded that hard tissue formation was more pronounced after root filling with Sealapex than with calcium hydroxide or gutta-percha points.
(16) Microscopic evaluation of the specimens revealed that (1) the gutta-percha, Grossman's sealer, and polyethylene tubing are well tolerated by rat intraosseous tissue and (2) a canal overextended 2 mm.
(17) In the control group instrumented root canals were obturated with gutta-percha only.
(18) Extracted human premolars were prepared, and the following materials were introduced into the pulp cavities: Cavit, Durelon, Dycal, Fletcher's cement, IRM, AH26-silver free, gutta-percha, Duo Percha, Fuji ionomer, and zinc phosphate cement.
(19) Samples of four brands of gutta-percha and the nine ingredients that make up one brand were studied in vitro to observe their interaction with the serum complement system, thus allowing for assessment of their possible inflammatory potential.
(20) Groups of 10 female golden Syrian hamsters were implanted with uniform discs (6 mm in diameter and 1 mm thick) of white base-plate gutta percha (GP), gray welding-rod polyvinyl chloride (PVC), low-density polyethylene (LDPE), or test alloys, under Nembutal anesthesia.