What's the difference between foundry and squeezer?

Foundry


Definition:

  • (n.) The act, process, or art of casting metals.
  • (n.) The buildings and works for casting metals.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The general methodology of the Finnish foundry project is presented.
  • (2) A survey was carried out in response to complaints of increased respiratory symptoms in children at schools near a foundry in Walsall, West Midlands.
  • (3) The prevalence of functional impairment and chronic bronchitis was higher in the foundry workers than in the group of non-exposed workers.
  • (4) Two occupational categories were extracted--"mining, tunneling, and quarrying" (n = 284) and "iron and steel foundries" (n = 428), respectively.
  • (5) Eight foundries using the "Ashland" process for the production of cores were surveyed to assess the occupational exposure to carcinogenic volatile nitrosamines.
  • (6) No pretreatment of the samples was necessary, and no interfering substances from the air in the foundries affected the analysis.
  • (7) The research has been conducted in two steps: in the first, we selected a sample of 100 subjects, all working in the iron foundry, who were affected only by small airway obstruction.
  • (8) Valid analyses of cause specific mortality among non-whites could be conducted for the foundry plant only.
  • (9) A cross-sectional evaluation was performed of workers in a steel foundry in which methylene diphenyldiisocyanate (MDI) was used as a component of a binder system used to make cores and molds.
  • (10) The same was true for smoking controls and foundry workers (9.10, 95% CI 8.00-10.20 and 8.69, 95% CI 7.37-10.01).
  • (11) Workers in the following job categories experienced the highest annual mean PbB levels: paste machine operators (battery plants), solder-grinders (assembly plants), and crane operators (foundries).
  • (12) Blood samples were obtained from volunteers who were occupationally exposed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in a Finnish iron foundry and from referents not known to be occupationally exposed to this class of chemical carcinogens.
  • (13) An estimation is made that 24,889 workers employed in ferrous and nonferrous foundries are at risk of silica-related pulmonary effects.
  • (14) A significant hearing threshold shift was observed at 4 kHz among the foundry workers when compared with non-exposed controls.
  • (15) The major gases evolved from foundry molds have been determined in the laboratory.
  • (16) The subjects were 3,425 workers with at least one year's employment in an iron foundry sometime between 1918 and December 31, 1972.
  • (17) For decades hand-held instruments have been widely used in foundries for material densening and cast after treatment, which introduce a vibration into the hand-arm-system.
  • (18) The prevalence of sensitization was studied in a group of 76 foundry workers with occupational exposure to diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI).
  • (19) The results of the noise measurements obtained in three foundries, two of cast-iron and one of aluminium, are reported.
  • (20) High concentrations of most metals were found in areas close to the local steel foundry.

Squeezer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, squeezes; as, a lemon squeezer.
  • (n.) A machine like a large pair of pliers, for shingling, or squeezing, the balls of metal when puddled; -- used only in the plural.
  • (n.) A machine of several forms for the same purpose; -- used in the singular.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Though Serco claims to be an expert squeezer of public spending, between 2010 and 2011, Hyman's package went up by 18%.

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