(v. t.) To produce, as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or the like, by means of lines or strokes eaten in or corroded by means of some strong acid.
(v. t.) To subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as a plate of metal.
(v. t.) To sketch; to delineate.
(v. i.) To practice etching; to make etchings.
Example Sentences:
(1) After permeabilization, with attendant partial extraction, the preparation can be fixed, then viewed by either deep-etch replication, or by high-resolution scanning electron microscopy, with structure of interest revealed in deep view.
(2) The freeze-etch technique was used to study the morphology of Treponema refringens (Nichols).
(3) A thorough dental prophylaxis before acid-etching of enamel is often recommended.
(4) The results of the rapid-freeze and deep-etch procedure showed that the ridges observed by the surface replica method consisted of linear arrangements of elliptical particles on the ES face of the plasma membrane.
(5) All the summer deals in graphical, Etch-a-sketch form .
(6) When either predictability or bond strength was considered independently, several bracket systems, coupled with a particular etch time, had either high predictability or high bond strength.
(7) This demineralization was similar to enamel acid etched with 50% phosphoric acid for 2 mn.
(8) This study evaluated the bond strength between glass ionomer cements and laser-etched dentin.
(9) Acid etching smooths and cleans the dentinal surface.
(10) Examination of apposed replicas and deep-etched specimens indicated that at least some of the IMPs extend through the T. pallidum outer membrane and are exposed on the surface of the organism.
(11) Isolated appressed chloroplast membranes, highly enriched in photosystem II (PSII) activity, were examined by freeze-etch electron microscopy.
(12) The technique of freeze-etching for electron microscopy applied to isolated islets of Langerhans has permitted a successful evaluation of emiocytotic events on the cell surface.
(13) The tensile bond strengths of the bonding resin to the etched enamel surfaces were not significantly different.
(14) The etched porcelain laminate veneer is a new conservative treatment that offers a solution to fractured, discolored, and worn anterior teeth.
(15) SEM and TEM examinations suggested that dentinal collagen exposed by the etching but not entangled and impregnated by poly (4-META-co-MMA) easily deteriorated by water during the longer immersion.
(16) The performance of a commercial double-propane-jet freezer (Balzers QFD 101) has been assessed, for rapid freezing of fresh tissues in freeze-etch work.
(17) The purpose of this in vitro study was to determine the tensile bond strengths (TBS) of several orthodontic bonding systems and orthodontic brackets to enamel surfaces exposed to different etching procedures.
(18) We find that freeze-drying is the most reliable and easy method for molecules that withstand distilled water; freeze-etching can be successfully applied to transmembrane proteins (even in the presence of detergents or salt); the glycerol-spray technique provides an excellent alternative to the cryotechniques in particular for studies of single linear molecules.
(19) After acid etching, filtration produced a 32-fold increase in permeation.
(20) On the corresponding PF face of the plasma membrane, linear arrangements of the intramembrane particles (IMPs) of about 8 nm in diameter were observed by both the deep-etch and freeze-fracture methods.
Printing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Print
(n.) The act, art, or practice of impressing letters, characters, or figures on paper, cloth, or other material; the business of a printer, including typesetting and presswork, with their adjuncts; typography; also, the act of producing photographic prints.
Example Sentences:
(1) The small print revealed that Osborne claimed a fall in borrowing largely by factoring in the proceeds of a 4G telecomms auction that has not yet happened.
(2) When very large series of strains are considered, the coding can be completely done and printed out by any computer through a very simple program.
(3) A combined plot of all results from the four separate papers, which is ordered alphabetically by chemical, is available from L. S. Gold, in printed form or on computer tape or diskette.
(4) "We were very disappointed when the DH decided to suspend printing Reduce the Risk, a vital resource in the prevention of cot death in the UK", said Francine Bates, chief executive of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, which helped produce the booklet.
(5) How does it stack up against the competition – and are there any nasties in the small print?
(6) A wide range of development possibilities for the printed circuit microelectrode are discussed.
(7) Because while some of these alt-currencies show promise, many aren't worth the paper they're not printed on.
(8) This week they are wrestling with the difficult issue of how prisoners can order clothes for themselves now that clothing companies are discontinuing their printed catalogues and moving online.
(9) These letters are also written during a period when Joyce was still smarting from the publishing difficulties of his earlier works Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Gordon Bowker, Joyce’s biographer, agreed: “Joyce’s problem with the UK printers related to the fact that here in those days printers were as much at risk of prosecution on charges of publishing obscenities as were publishers, and would simply refuse to print them.
(10) In the 1980s when she began, no newspaper would even print the words 'breast cancer'.
(11) Information and titles for this bibliography were gleaned from printed indexes and university medical center libraries.
(12) Subscribers to the paper's print and digital editions also now contribute to half the volume of its total sales.
(13) A microcomputer system is described for the collection, analysis and printing of the physiological data gathered during a urodynamic investigation.
(14) Many other innovations are also being hailed as the future of food, from fake chicken to 3D printing and from algae to lab-grown meat.
(15) The four are the spoken language, the written language, the printing press and the electronic computer.
(16) Comparison of these tracks and the Hadar hominid foot fossils by Tuttle has led him to conclude that Australopithecus afarensis did not make the Tanzanian prints and that a more derived form of hominid is therefore indicated at Laetoli.
(17) The conversation between the two men, printed in Monday's edition of Wprost news magazine , reveals the extent of the fallout between Poland and the UK over Cameron's proposals to change EU migrants' access to benefits.
(18) Brand names would instead be printed in small type and feature large health warnings and gruesome, full-colour images of the consequences of smoking.
(19) An interactive image-processing workstation enables rapid image retrieval, reduces the examination repeat rate, provides for image enhancement, and rapidly sets the desired display parameters for laser-printed images.
(20) But printing money year after year to pay for things you can’t afford doesn’t work – and no good Keynesian would ever call for it.