(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.
Luted
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Lute
Example Sentences:
(1) This could impede the flow of the luting agent at the time of cementation.
(2) Porcelain veneer restorations including preparations, impression materials, cast materials, refractory casts, handling of porcelain, the try-in, and the final luting are discussed.
(3) This in vitro study compared different methods of finishing luting composite resin spaces after insertion of composite resin inlays.
(4) These findings suggest that factors other than pulpal inflammation are contributing to the reported hypersensitivity after cementation associated with glass ionomer luting agents.
(5) The lute thickness varied between 10 microns and 90 microns, and was found to be thinnest and most uniform in the region of occlusal cavosurface margins.
(6) The standard consistency of luting cement is determined in Japanese industrial standard and American dental association's specifications.
(7) An interesting case of post-insertion sensitivity in a patient who had an etched cast metal prosthesis (Maryland Bridge) cemented with a recently marketed resin luting agent is discussed.
(8) The glass ionomer luting cement showed significantly less material loss than the zinc polycarboxylate and zinc phosphate luting cements.
(9) We also examined the effect of three adherent surface treatments--50 microns Almina blasting, hydrofluoride etching, and sodium hydroxide etching--on the adhesive strength of the two adhesive resin, Panavia EX and the tentative luting resin, to CMP.
(10) Tensile bond strength of four different luting cements to smooth dentin surfaces was measured.
(11) Luting a bone plate with PMMA decreased vascularity to the outer one third of the cortex beneath the plate at week 5, and resulted in accelerated resorption of bone.
(12) With the addition of many more acids to enhance certain characteristics and reduce the setting time, GICs have become more irritating, especially when used as luting agents in areas where the remaining dentin thickness is 0.5 mm or less.
(13) The present study used the finite element method to model the stresses generated by a composite luting cement around a class I composite restoration and a ceramic inlay.
(14) Significant prognostic factors were: preparation of abutments, surface treatment (net retention, silicoating), type of luting agent (Bis GMA) and mobility of the abutments.
(15) UDA with fluoride appears to be a significantly stronger luting agent for abutment cementation than is either UDA or DenMat (P less than .05).
(16) Increased cortical porosity and a decreased percentage of osteocyte-filled lacunae were found in the cortex beneath luted plates at week 5.
(17) Metal ceramic crowns were fabricated, luted to a master die, and loaded to failure on a mechanical testing machine.
(18) The use of CaOH, as an interim luting agent for acrylic crowns over hybrid cores compared to ZOE or NOG, should afford significantly greater retention with no adverse effect on the retention of the final casting.
(19) The inlays were made and luted with the same two composites.
(20) For a proper radiographic diagnosis of secondary caries and interproximal overhangs or undercuts, tooth colored inlays and their appropriate luting agents have to be radiopaque.