(n.) One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling.
(n.) A thill horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The filler did not absorb water, so the effect of the filler content on the diffusion coefficients of the water sorption was to be associated with of the law of mixture.
(2) The clindamycin capsules used in this preparation contained insoluble fillers that may be removed by filtration without loss of in vitro antibacterial activity.
(3) The fracture behavior was dependent on the filler concentration and the presence of absorbed water.
(4) Lung diseases in farmers attributable to their occupation include (a) farmer's lung, caused by exposure to mouldy hay, (b) the asthma caused by exposure to grain dust and (c) silo-filler's disease.
(5) A liquid chromatographic method for the quantitative determination of propyl paraben in cigarette tobacco filler has been developed.
(6) Calcium-phosphate ceramic particulates are often used as filler material for enhanced repair of dental bone defects.
(7) As the war on sugar debate rages in the UK, Hotel Chocolat has more to offer customers whose tastes are changing, he says, with its “less sugar, more cocoa” approach setting it apart from the cheaper alternatives which tend to use sugar, and not the more costly cocoa, as the filler ingredient.
(8) pipette fillers and latex gloves, were found to be the source of these and other compounds in the reagent blank profile.
(9) Measurements were made on both the unpolished matrix-rich surface and the polished filler-rich surface.
(10) Taber said: "Unless we get this sorted out, dermal fillers will be the next disaster."
(11) Microscopic protection against resin matrix wear is provided by filler particles that are close together.
(12) Valeant raised $1.4bn by selling the North American rights to a range of cosmetic and medical skin fillers to Nestlé, the Swiss firm famous for Nescafé and KitKats, and immediately put the money into its offer for Allergan, raising its bid to $49.4bn.
(13) Both series were prepared by incorporating a silanated barium borosilicate filler into a visible-light-activated polyphenylene polymethacrylate resin matrix.
(14) The combination of various possibilities for sample preparation and investigation--the tinting penetration method, the ion beam slope cutting, the light and scanning electron microscopy--allow statements at the grind after different drying of the preparation mainly to the bond but also surface and filler shape of glass-ionomer cements.
(15) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
(16) Two series of dental composites, along with the unfilled resin matrix, were examined to determine the effects of filler level and size on selected properties.
(17) Because of its low filler particle percentage, microfilled composite resins--traditionally recommended for anterior restorations--are extremely translucent.
(18) Two layers of Dacron fabric were laid together, stitched to the rib with nylon thread, and the resulting tubular cavity packed with HAP filler to create an artificial rib.
(19) According to the classification proposed by Hosoda, six core resins could be divided into two categories on the basis of the elemental composition and size distribution of filler particles by SEM observation and EDX analysis.
(20) The tendency of composites to leach filler elements almost linearly with time, could be used to generate a constant release rate of such therapeutic elements over time.
Putty
Definition:
(n.) A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes.
(v. t.) To cement, or stop, with putty.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors discuss 34 cases of pseudarthrosis of the neck of the femur that were subjected to two different types of osteotomy, namely the support osteotomy of Putti and the valgising osteotomy of Pauwels.
(2) "Dreaming only of sleep and a sip of tea, the exhausted, harassed and dirty convict becomes obedient putty in the hands of the administration, which sees us solely as a free work force.
(3) Often times light-body wash (LB) cannot be added to the heavy-body putty (HB) within 30 minutes when utilizing the two-step reline impression technique.
(4) On anatomic specimens in which the classic Putti-Platt technique was used, lateral rotation could not reach neutral without disruption of the lateral stump from the labrum.
(5) This study was concerned with the adhesion of a light-bodied silicone to a putty silicone in a putty-wash impression technique when the preliminary putty impression was contaminated with human saliva or residues from acrylic resins used in the fabrication of provisional restorations by direct technique.
(6) Its colour reminds one of lightly tanned Caucasian flesh, or putty.
(7) Washing the latex gloves decreased the effect of inhibition of setting on the putty but did not eliminate it.
(8) This patient was later on stabilized with a Putti-Platt procedure.
(9) This technique is a controlled process in which the thickness of the obturator can be easily modified by adding to or shaving off the dimensionally stable silicone putty.
(10) The impression material was a putty-wash polyvinyl siloxane material.
(11) In ten patients (eleven shoulders), disabling pain in the shoulder began an average of 13.2 years after a Putti-Platt repair that had been done for recurrent anterior unidirectional instability.
(12) A stable occlusal record was made using an addition curing silicone rubber putty and was placed on a light source onto which a video camera was focused.
(13) A routine Bankart procedure was performed in 20 shoulders (in two of which a Connolly procedure was added), a Putti-Platt procedure in four, and capsulorrhaphies in four shoulders.
(14) Thus, latex gloves should not be worn while mixing or handling vinyl polysiloxane putties.
(15) With the material tested, this study indicates that the laminated and putty wash plus spacer techniques both give accurate impressions and that only two accurate models can be poured.
(16) The working models, which differed in the size of cervical spillway (2mm and 9mm) and the impression techniques applied (the two-phase technique and the wash technique), were produced by using putty-type impression materials with three different strain levels (Reprosil, Express and Exaflex) following the metal master model of mandibular denture in an abutment form.
(17) If the glenoidal labrum is detached from the rim, the Bankart technique must be combined with the Putti-Platt.
(18) Nadya's evolution over the three months after our visit to the penal colony, when she claimed to wish only for monotony, went something like this: she tried to reconcile herself to the life of the inmate as putty, to dream only of living to see the end of her term.
(19) The polyvinylsiloxane putty did not adhere to its impression adhesive.
(20) Some brands of latex gloves as received from the distributor caused severe retardation or complete inhibition of setting in most vinyl polysiloxane putties; other brands of latex gloves affected the setting in the vinyl polysiloxane putties to varying degrees.