(a.) Thin; fine; clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes.
(a.) Decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum.
(imp. & p. p.) of Flute
Example Sentences:
(1) The 12-fluted bur caused no clinically identifiable marks on the enamel surface.
(2) Sounds (flute and violin) and vowels (German "u" and "i") evoke a complex motion pattern on the basilar membrane.
(3) Acceptable finishing procedures for the composite materials tested include silicon carbide disks for accessible areas or 12 fluted finishing burs for more inaccessible areas.
(4) The musician group was comprised of 31 brass instrument players, and 31 reed instrument or flute players.
(5) I also love music – I taught myself Chinese traditional instruments, such as the bamboo flute, and brought them to Britain.
(6) The results showed that the high speed finishing technique by twelve and thirty fluted carbide burs and final polishing with Command Ultrafine Luster Paste produces the smoothest and flatest surface of HERCULITE XR.
(7) More than 1,000 republican dissidents, their supporters and seven flute bands marched from the nationalist Ardoyne district, through the north of the city to central Belfast.
(8) He admired a portrait of a girl playing a flute and was amused by the pictures of North Korea’s late leaders Kim Jong-il and Kim Il-sung, which hung high on the wall in the middle of the room, as is common in government buildings.
(9) Line the tin with the pastry, pressing into the fluted edges of the tin.
(10) The simplified technique of insertion, the strength of the device, and the results of this study indicate that the fluted subtrochanteric rod has several advantages over other available devices.
(11) He dropped karate lessons and started learning the flute.
(12) Debris was also recorded on the land and flute spiral surfaces with morphological changes on the dentinal walls.
(13) A series of identically matched pairs of fresh-frozen canine femora (approximating human radii in size and dimension) were used to mechanically compare pull-out strength between 4 mm predrilled, self-tapping, half-pins and 4 mm self-drilling, self-tapping half-pins with drill bit-like cutting flutes.
(14) The word still makes me blench – Orangemen marching, Gazza playing an imaginary flute to Rangers fans, sectarian hatreds.
(15) Listening to Temples' Prisms three and half decades on, to its shimmering Beach-Boys-in-66 sonics and baroque arrangement (warning: features prominent use of flutes), you might feel similarly baffled.
(16) The stepped fluted rod is designed as a single unit and has exceptional bending strength and rigidity as well as excellent torsional load-carrying capacity.
(17) I have developed a flute-pick for peeling preretinal membranes in the presence of surface or intravitreal hemorrhages.
(18) One hundred ninety-three of 196 acute nonpathologic femoral shaft fractures were treated consecutively with intramedullary nailing using the fluted rod.
(19) Penetrability of the bovine teat duct to Escherichia coli endotoxin solution was measured before and after reaming the duct with a polypropylene tube, a steel twist drill bit, or a fluted drill point.
(20) The influences of surface structures, such as threads, cuts, holes, perforations, and flutes, are demonstrated.
Fraise
Definition:
(n.) A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it.
(n.) A defense consisting of pointed stakes driven into the ramparts in a horizontal or inclined position.
(n.) A fluted reamer for enlarging holes in stone; a small milling cutter.
(v. t.) To protect, as a line of troops, against an onset of cavalry, by opposing bayonets raised obliquely forward.
Example Sentences:
(1) Histological examination showed that the diamond fraise left a smooth abraded surface and the wire brush left an uneven surface.
(2) The diamond fraise is a more exacting instrument and with the recent introduction of the extra-coarse grit diamond fraise, the instrument is as abrasive as the standard wire brush.
(3) The introduction of diamond fraises has, in the author's opinion, provided greater safety and more versatility than the wire brush.
(4) The couple had quiet, clean sex offenders as domestics; they raised and cooked vegetables, aubergines and fraises des bois besides cabbages, listened to records, read Racine, sunbathed in their tiny yard.
(5) The diamond fraise is more easily controlled by the less experienced surgeon and because of its availability in many different shapes, widths, and grits, it provides greater versatility to the surgeon than the wire brush.
(6) Significant improvement, lasting longer than three years, was achieved using both types of abrading tool: the wire brush and the diamond fraise.
(7) Excision was attempted again in 1983 using both dermatome and high-speed fraise; this time, the cosmetic outcome was excellent.
(8) Because of its severe disfigurement and resulting negative psychosocial impact, the nevus was first removed in 1980 by means of a high-speed fraise; the cosmetic results, however, were not altogether satisfactory.
(9) On the basis of our surgical experience so far we can recommend the following method: resection of the pseudarthrosis with removal of all pathologically changed tissue (also by fraising), insertion of Küntscher nails from the heel to the tibia, adequate covering of the pseudarthrosis location with spongiosa grafts from the pelvic ridge.
(10) Use of a high-speed, air-driven turbo-grinder equipped with diamond fraises that revolve at 85,000 revolutions per minute has improved results in dermabrasions on the face by, it is estimated, 50%.
(11) In seventeen cases the pedal joint was drained by means of track made by an electric fraise.
(12) Rose bits and surgical fraises of different sizes were used at 5,000-80,000 R.P.M.
(13) A patient with linear porokeratosis was successfully treated with diamond fraise dermabrasion.
(14) Radiologic, histologic, and fluorescence microscopic examinations showed that an internally cooled fraise was advantageous.
(15) Dermabrasion using a diamond fraise is a simple and fast method for removing multiple seborrheic keratoses with minimal trauma, rapid healing, and good cosmetic results.
(16) According to our experience, excochleation must be followed by drilling the cyst wall and fraising off the compact substance.
(17) Contrary to the rose bit or the surgical fraises, the DS got soiled more easily and produced definitely finer cuts.
(18) Comparisons can also be made between various brushes or fraises, as well as types and strengths of peeling chemicals.
(19) During each contact of a cutter with the bone, coarse fraises with low R.P.M.
(20) In 31 patients phenol was applied to the wall of the bone cavity after this had been carefully curetted or fraised.