(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.
Rampart
Definition:
(n.) That which fortifies and defends from assault; that which secures safety; a defense or bulwark.
(n.) A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification.
(v. t.) To surround or protect with, or as with, a rampart or ramparts.
Example Sentences:
(1) We bartered for almonds and olives in the market, where there wasn't another tourist to be seen, and sat on the ramparts, watching the sun fall away beyond the horizon.
(2) The turbine housings, which are half-complete, resemble the jagged ramparts of a fort.
(3) How Google's antitrust headache began not from castle ramparts Read more An investigation by the Guardian into Google’s multifaceted lobbying campaign in Europe has uncovered fresh details of its activities and methods.
(4) The find is a few miles from Bredon hill, which has been a scene of human activity down the ages and still boasts the earthen ramparts of an iron age hill fort.
(5) Here, Main, Sidney Bracken, 65, Paul Radley, 52, and David Robinson, 63, are cooking an outdoor breakfast, after hanging a huge banner around the ramparts of the fort.
(6) There have been many initiatives, reports and government level strategies in recent years but few, perhaps none, have hammered at the ramparts of care for learning disabled adults with the force of BBC's Panorama expose Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed .
(7) Analysis of the errors showed that one of the focal problems of the Gilbert-McKern system was the difficulty in judging whether the ventral rampart was building up or breaking down.
(8) They have gone, instead, for the candidate who seems best placed to appeal beyond the Republican ramparts, to swing voters and independents, just as they did in 2008 by choosing John McCain.
(9) The ridged area, where sweat ducts are distributed, is constructed of grooves and ramparts.
(10) O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming” – what does it mean?
(11) Things soon get serious with a tough climb onto Shoulsbarrow Common, beneath the ramparts of an iron-age hill fort.
(12) Voters, buffeted by unemployment, dismayed by immigration, scared of terrorism, and angry at growing inequality, crave the alleged certainties of a past where the strong nation state was a rampart for its citizens.
(13) Adults £85 per day, children (aged 13-17) £60 per day, overnight kayak camping expeditions an additional £15 per person per night Eilean Donan, Dornie Photograph: Alamy Clamber around the ramparts and explore the dimly lit nooks and crannies of one of the most romantic castles in Scotland.
(14) 2 Go through the gate on the right and follow the surfaced path through the ancient ramparts of the hill fort to the summit trig point.
(15) "They seek the secret of the Grail," gasps carbuncular nobleman Bertrand, as swarms of rhubarbing crusaders prepare to storm his ramparts.
(16) They have also used their nine-month siege of the north to dig in, creating elaborate defences, including tunnels and ramparts using construction equipment abandoned by fleeing construction crews.
(17) By the break of dawn the citadel's ramparts had been draped with banners proclaiming: "Peoples of Europe rise up."
(18) Offshore, a recognisably Viking kingdom boasts a fleet of longships; Westeros itself, like dark ages England, was once a heptarchy, a realm of seven kingdoms; the massive rampart of ice which guards its northernmost frontier is recognisably inspired by Hadrian's wall.
(19) But his passion for conservation isn’t confined to the 80 acres of streets and historic buildings within the fort’s Dutch-built ramparts.
(20) On this larger project, a stronger more robust New Orleans, the progress that you have made is remarkable.” Leo Watermeier, a longtime resident of North Rampart Street in the French Quarter and community activist, told the Guardian in an email that “I agree we’re moving forward.” “The influx of new people after Katrina has brought a new energy, that’s both pushing for needed changes and respectful of our traditions,” Watermeier said.