(n.) A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.
(n.) A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it.
(v. t.) To fasten together by dowels; to furnish with dowels; as, a cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tooth fracture on failure occurred in seven out of ten Flexi-post-retained cores, while only three out of ten of the Para-post-retained cores and none of the Dentatus dowel-retained cores presented this unrepairable type of failure.
(2) Blocks of trials were made to the small dowel and to the large dowel.
(3) These modifications include the intraoperative threading of the standard cylindrical graft dowel (either autologous or heterologous) and the development of two new instruments designed to insert the graft into the intervertebral space.
(4) This suggested the most effective surgical treatment: Vetral clearance of disks, removal of prominences, and fusion of the three levels through the use of four bone dowels.
(5) Forty cast gold dowels and cores were made for four groups of dowel channels that had, respectively, 1 mm, 2 mm, 3 mm, and 1 mm with a 60-degree bevel (collar) of the remaining buccal dentin at the entrance of the canal.
(6) A total of 140 dowel samples were cast in Rexillium III and were divided into seven groups.
(7) In the past, because it has often been ignored that the bonding at the cement-dentin interface is weaker than that between the metal and cement, the true impact of surface configuration and cement thickness on the retention of dowels has never really been observed.
(8) The history of the nonlocking type of intracoronal semiprecision rest has been traced from its origins with Neurohr in 1930, up to its present use as the Thompson dowel rest.
(9) Coping designs for attachment overdentures must provide retention, resistance to rotation, and bulk when joined with the dowel and attachment, without negating the advantage of the reduced crown-root ratio.
(10) In blocked and control trials, the wrist moved with a single acceleration to the target dowel.
(11) The effect of cement type was significant only with tapered dowels.
(12) A silver plated die with a double dowelling technique is used.
(13) Arthrodesis that maintains normal contours of the foot, including its length and height, can be accomplished by the dowel technique described in this article.
(14) The margin of the crown and the dowel construction therefore were not at the same level.
(15) He backed those words with action, handing the 17-year-old Tom Davies and the 18-year-old Kieran Dowell full debuts in midfield and giving the under‑21s captain Jonjoe Kenny his first senior outing from the bench.
(16) 12 mm bone dowels are then driven into the holes, immediately stabilizing the segment.
(17) Immediate preparation of the dowel spaces had no effect on the apical seal.
(18) Targets were three-dimensional translucent dowels placed concentrically at 30 cm from the subject.
(19) The study also includes a comparison of root-resected teeth restored with root screws and composite cores versus those which had been restored with cast gold dowels, showing that both types of reconstruction had the same durability concerning the risk of root fractures or loss of retention.
(20) The use of paper matches is a simple and effective method for holding the dowel pin in the proper relation while the die stone portion of the cast is being poured.
Howel
Definition:
(n.) A tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering rheir work, especially the inside of casks.
(v. t.) To smooth; to plane; as, to howel a cask.
Example Sentences:
(1) Much less obvious – except in the fictional domain of the C Thomas Howell film Soul Man – is why someone would want to “pass” in the other direction and voluntarily take on the weight of racial oppression.
(2) Silver staining (Howell and Black, 1980) was used in light and electron microscopic studies for detecting the localization of argentophilic nuclear proteins in fertilized ova and cleaving mouse embryos.
(3) "They are wrong, we are bang on track, everything is on track," Howell said.
(4) Howells says that it only takes a small number of Afghans to harbour the terrorists to undermine a large military.
(5) Explaining the belated discovery of the FCO-witheld files, Foreign Office minister Lord Howell told parliament his department had "decided to regularise the position of some 2,000 boxes of files it currently holds, mainly from the 1950s and 1960s, which were created by former British administrations overseas.
(6) Concerned about growing opposition to Britain's military presence in Afghanistan, underlined by Kim Howells, a former Foreign Office minister, in today's Guardian, the cabinet and defence chiefs are pinning their hopes on training, mentoring, and even partnering the Afghan national police force and army in operations.
(7) Anderson (Men's) 10:30 – 12:30 huntergather 11:00 Margaret Howell (Men's) 1 11:30 – 13:00 Kit Neal e 11:30 – 14:30 Christopher Kane (Men's) 12:00 Oliver Spencer 12:30 – 14:00 Fashion East Men's Presentations 12:30 – 14:30 John Smedle y 13:00 Richard James 13:30 – 15:30 Maharishi 14:00 Hackett London 14:30 – 16:00 COMMON 15:00 Jimmy Choo 15:30 – 17:30 Ducham p 16:00 Alexander McQueen (Men's ) 16:30 - 18:30 Pringle of Scotland (Men's) 17:00 James Long 17:00 – 19:00 Solange Azagury-Partridge 17:30 – 19:00 Alex Mullins 18:00 Moschino 19:00 Casely-Hayford Updated at 9.01am BST
(8) For the control of a high degree of hypocoagulability the Howell's time is the best guide.
(9) Kim Howells, a former Foreign Office minister with responsibility for Afghanistan and current chairman of the parliamentary intelligence and security committee, questions in our newspaper today the central tenet of the government's case for fighting in Afghanistan: that it is the frontline of a war that would otherwise be conducted on British streets.
(10) B., H. T. Abelson, D. E. Housman, N. Howell, and A. Varshavsky, 1984, Nature (Lond.
(11) Radio 1's Phil Lester and Dan Howell, who made their names on YouTube as Danisnotonfire and AmazingPhil, won the inaugural Golden Headphones award, voted for by listeners.
(12) TGN38 is an integral membrane protein previously shown to be predominantly localized to the trans-Golgi network (TGN) of cells by virtue of a signal contained within its cytoplasmic 'tail' [Luzio, Brake, Banting, Howell, Braghetta & Stanley (1990) Biochem.
(13) In one of the essays, David Howell criticised the Blackadder model of the conflict (Neil Kinnock's oft-quoted claim that Scargill was "the labour movement's nearest equivalent to a first world war general").
(14) Howells also mines the territory of feeling lonely or alienated at a wedding- the ritual in our culture specifically designed to celebrate togetherness - in the show, May I Have the Pleasure?
(15) There was a predictable flurry of outrage; the then culture minister Kim Howells, commenting on the exhibition as a whole, scrawled "conceptual bullshit" across a Tate comment card and pinned it to the visitors' wall.
(16) Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian I found out about the murder from a friend, Ros Howells [now a Labour peer], who was very active in race relations in the Lewisham area and told me about it within days.
(17) Support for shale gas Plans for a new nuclear power station at Hinkley in Somerset have also come under fire recently, with the Conservative peer Lord Howell of Guildford warning of rising costs of the “elephantine” project and HSBC criticising the £25bn cost for Hinkley’s new reactors .
(18) 5.36am BST Dodgers 2 - Cardinals 2, bottom of 11th So now JP Howell (add your TV joke here) has to face Carlos Beltran who may have saved the game for the Cards earlier by throwing out Mark Ellis at the plate - can he win it here?
(19) Pitching coach Rick Honeycutt is out to stall for time as the lefty, J.P. Howell, warms up in the bullpen.
(20) The 18 patients with folic acid deficiency had a significantly higher rate of megaloblasts, binucleate erythropoietic precursors, Howell-Jolly bodies, giant myelocytes, and giant metamyelocytes in bone marrow smears than the remaining 23 patients (P less than 0.05).