(n.) A small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as in garments, sails, etc.
(n.) A metal ring or grommet, or short metallic tube, the ends of which can be bent outward and over to fasten it in place; -- used to line an eyelet hole.
Example Sentences:
(1) In order to assure reproducibility of the applicator positioning, the plaque suture eyelets had to be placed on locating pins.
(2) Five GIC's (Intact, Fuji II, Orthocem B, ChemFil II, and Ketac Fil[capsulated]) and one composite resin (Concise) were tested by bonding GAC eyelets, with a curved photo-etched base, to the buccal surface of human premolars.
(3) The active length is not symmetric with respect to the source center because one source end contains an eyelet.
(4) A reference position was established for the tibial eyelet so that, after the Gore-Tex ligament was implanted, the total anterior-posterior laxity of the knee (at 200 newtons of applied tibial force) matched that of the intact knee (that is, before the anterior cruciate ligament had been cut) at 20 degrees of flexion.
(5) The real attraction is the amazing Song of the Sea eyelet rock arch.
(6) The femoral eyelet was screwed into bone and the tibial eyelet was attached to a force-transducer, which was positioned and locked on a tibial slider track to record forces in the ligament as the tibia was externally loaded.
(7) With an applied extension moment of ten newton-meters, section of the anterior cruciate ligament increased hyperextension of the knee by 2.3 degrees; implantation of the Gore-Tex ligament did not restore full extension, even when the ligament was over-tightened by using a distal location for the tibial eyelet.
(8) Mechanical complications occurred: rupture of the head of the screw (1 case), sliding of the rod in the eyelet with loss of correction (2 cases), fractures of the rod (1 case) or screws (5 cases).
(9) This apparent stretch-out of the ligament could be worked out of the knee by manually flexing and extending the knee thirty times between zero and 90 degrees of flexion while a constant 200-newton force was applied to the tibial eyelet.
(10) It has open circular loops with an eyelet at each loop end.
(11) When the eyelet was in the reference position, the ligament forces ranged from three to 319 newtons when the knee was in full extension, they rose dramatically as the knee was hyperextended, and they decreased to zero in most specimens as the knee was flexed more than 15 degrees.
(12) Osaka brand Roggykei and Tokyo-grown FEAR make some of the edgiest pieces around, such as a vest made of vinyl and eyelet lace, oversized metallic leather clutches and wrist bands slathered in studs and zips.
(13) The lens diameter can be reduced to 7 mm by grasping the eyelets at both open loop ends with a specially designed holding forceps.
(14) It has all the advantages of eyelet wiring while simplifying some of the difficulties connected with that technique.
(15) Any specialized guide wire can be converted to an exchange guide wire by the addition of an eyelet on its stiff end to which an extension guide wire may be hooked.
(16) Button wiring has been used as an alternative to eyelet wiring in the Department of Oral and Dental Surgery of Birmingham General Hospital since 1977.
(17) The fibers were then placed horizontally between two steel hooks inserted in eyelets of the tendon clasps.
(18) For each millimeter that the tibial eyelet was moved distally, the total anterior-posterior laxity decreased by the same amount.
(19) The method uses a modified type of ligation chain that enables the oral surgeon to lasso the tooth with ease and affords the orthodontist large, successively placed eyelets to which he can easily tie elastic thread in order to keep continuous heavy force pulling the tooth toward the oral cavity.
Hole
Definition:
(a.) Whole.
(n.) A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.
(n.) An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation.
(n.) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.
(n.) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.
(v. i.) To go or get into a hole.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the wounding charge in 2010 has become Brown's creation of a structural hole in the budget, more serious than the cyclical hit which the recession made in tax receipts, at least 4% of GDP.
(2) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(3) The speed of visiting holes and the development of a preferred pattern of hole-visits did not influence spatial discrimination performance.
(4) Macular holes, formerly believed to be rare in these injuries, were found in two of the five patients.
(5) Jane's life clearly still has a massive Spike-shaped hole in it.
(6) It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in transaction costs, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments, it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt.
(7) Bar manager Joe Mattheisen, 66, who has worked at the hole-in-the-wall bar since 1997, said the bar has attracted younger, straighter crowds in recent years.
(8) Guzmán was sent to Altiplano high-security prison, 56 miles outside Mexico City, but in July 2015, he absconded again, squeezing through a hole in his shower floor then fleeing on a modified motorbike through a mile-long tunnel fitted with lights and a ventilation system.
(9) If the attacker's plan was to make important ideas disappear down the memory hole, it looks as if it has backfired spectacularly.
(10) In contrast, eyes with macular holes had a greater reduction in the steady-state VEP amplitude than eyes with optic neuritis.
(11) An 8-French right Judkins guiding catheter with a single side hole (USCI), a 3.0 mm balloon dilatation catheter (ACS), and a 0.018 high torque floppy guide wire (ACS) were used.
(12) Four hours p.i., a clustering of the p60 antigen and, 12 h p.i., a formation of finger-like holes, penetrating the nucleus, occurred.
(13) Campbell, Ann E. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass.
(14) We don't whip homeless vagrants out of town any more, or burn big holes in their ears, as in the brutish 16th century.
(15) The chancellor deliberately made cautious assumptions for the deficit in the budget, but the 5.6% contraction in the economy has blown an even bigger hole in the public finances than feared in April.
(16) He avoided everyone he didn't want to see when he was in Hong Kong, the first place he escaped to, and for several weeks he remained beyond the reach of the world's media, and doubtless a small army of spies, while holed up in a hotel room in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.
(17) There were no thromboses among infants with long end-hole catheters while infants with short end-hole catheters had thrombosis in 26%, long side-hole catheters in 33% and short side-hole catheters in 64%.
(18) The animal model was induced by left frontal burr hole opening and inoculation of a small piece of G-XII glioma tissue to 6- to 8-week-old rats.
(19) In February last year the BBC was forced to apologise to the Mexican ambassador after a joke made by the three presenters that the nation's cars were like the people "lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat".
(20) Thus, VP2 and VP5 together form a continuous layer around the inner shell except for holes on the 5-fold axis.