(v. t.) The material of which glass is made, after having been calcined or partly fused in a furnace, but before vitrification. It is a composition of silex and alkali, occasionally with other ingredients.
(v. t.) The material for glaze of pottery.
(v. t.) To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially.
(v. t.) To fritter; -- with away.
Example Sentences:
(1) The electrode consisted of a glass column in which the polymer was packed and where the end frits constituted the electrodes.
(2) Two means are described for achieving hydrodynamic relaxation and thus avoiding the stopflow injection procedure in field-flow fractionation (FFF): split flow injection and frit inlet injection.
(3) A Millipore filter was used in place of the ordinary fritted disc to facilitate rapid achievement of steady state in the diaphragm.
(4) He knew that if he backed away from calling an election, he'd be accused of turning 'frit' - to use that quaint old Lincolnshire word of Margaret Thatcher's - in the face of the opinion polls and a resurgent Conservative party.
(5) The generator column is a borosilicate glass tube with 30 microns fused glass frit containing 0.75 ml AG1X8 anion exchange resin.
(6) The pressurized gas exited through the pores of the glass frit and shattered the thin liquid film flowing on the surface of the thimble-shaped device to form small droplets.
(7) was inserted against the end-frit of the column and brought through a mixing tee, in which the solutions of TCPO and hydrogen peroxide were added.
(8) It’s not for one party to grandly tell everybody else what’s going to happen.” He offered to stand in for the prime minister in a head-to-head with Miliband: “If David Cameron is too busy and too important to defend he record of this government, then I offer myself.” The former Liberal Democrat leader and chair of the party’s election campaign, Paddy Ashdown, accused Cameron of being “frit” and pointed out that the debate proposed by Downing Street would be held before the Conservative party had published its election manifesto.
(9) The apparatus, designed for solid-phase peptide synthesis, consists of a round-bottom flask, rocked on a wrist-shaker, and fitted with a special dropping funnel and a fritted filter disc embedded within the flask.
(10) A spokesman for Community said: “The delegation from Community led by Roy Rickhuss, general secretary, along with Stephen Kinnock, MP for Aberavon, and Frits van Wieringen, chairman of the Tata Steel European Works Council, met in Mumbai with senior representatives of Tata Steel in advance of the board meeting.
(11) Atmospheric air samples are collected in fritted midget bubblers containing aqueous sodium carbonate solution; wastewater samples are treated directly with sodium carbonate.
(12) In addition, the frits have specifically been found to be a significant contributor to irreversible protein loss--particularly when protein sample sizes are on the order of 1 microgram or less.
(13) Varley, who handed the top job to Bob Diamond in January 2011, had an executive committee of six colleagues which did "not develop a cohesive team at the top", putting Diamond in charge of the investment bank and Frits Seegers – who left in 2009 – in charge of the retail bank where he instilled a "culture of fear".
(14) Four types of hydrosol filters, two reusable (diatomaceous cylinder and fritted-glass funnel) and two disposable (asbestos pad and membrane filter) were challenged with a heavy bacterial suspension to assess their ability to produce sterile filtrates.
(15) A resolution of this dilemma may possibly be found in the recent observations of Dr. Frits Orskov [20] and others discussed elsewhere at this meeting that the K and O serotypes appear to be interrelated.
(16) A thimble-shaped glass frit nebulizer has been developed for atomic spectrometry.
(17) In order to separate and identify microcystins, a new analytical method was developed using a frit probe as an interface for fast atom bombardment mass spectral analysis of high performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) effluents.
(18) Use of an on-column frit structure, constructed by sintering a mixture of glass powders, makes it possible to ground a fused-silica capillary on its side prior to its outlet.
(19) Several miniaturized glass-frit nebulizers are investigated as interfaces between the output of the microbore column and the ICP torch.
(20) Sequence-specific ions observed in the Frit-FAB mass spectra of these tryptic peptides were identical with those commonly observed in high-energy collision-induced dissociation (CID) spectra and included side-chain fragment ions that differentiated leucine from isoleucine.
Frith
Definition:
(n.) A narrow arm of the sea; an estuary; the opening of a river into the sea; as, the Frith of Forth.
(n.) A kind of weir for catching fish.
(a.) A forest; a woody place.
(a.) A small field taken out of a common, by inclosing it; an inclosure.
Example Sentences:
(1) At Chapel-le-Frith in 1786, for instance, Wesley recorded a kind of punk festival riot: "The terror and confusion was inexpressible.
(2) The Celeb Diaries will be published this autumn and is one of the publisher's priority titles for Christmas 2008 Frith began his journalism career at Emap's Smash Hits in 1990, and in 1994, at the age of just 23, was appointed editor before leaving for Sky Magazine in 1996.
(3) Frith, the former editor of Heat magazine, has not been appointed as the permanent editor of Time Out, but he is understood to have turned down the Radio Times job.
(4) Frith, who took over Heat in 2000, previously edited Smash Hits and Sky magazine.
(5) The Heat editor-in-chief, Mark Frith, is leaving Bauer Consumer Media after more than 10 years developing and overseeing the celebrity magazine phenomenon.
(6) One of his idols was the critic and essayist Max Beerbohm, whose biography his father had written and whose work Jonathan, with the aid of Roger Frith , turned into a one-man show, The Incomparable Max.
(7) Frith has won every major British publishing award, including PPA editor of the year twice and, in 2005, the BSME Mark Boxer Award for special achievement in UK magazine publishing.
(8) The patient response sequences were similar to those seen in an earlier study by Frith and Done (Psychol Med, 13, 779-786, 1983), but some control group differences emerged.
(9) Frith is joining Love along with other new arrivals including Francesca Burns, who is to be senior fashion editor-at-large.
(10) Good spellers were equally able to identify matched and mismatched pairs, while poor spellers showed greater difficulty in identifying mismatches than matches, supporting Frith's (1980) "partial cues" explanation of poor spelling performance.
(11) Commenting on the shortlist - whittled down from 170 entries - chair of the judges Simon Frith said: "The renaissance in British music continues with the emergence of a wealth of new talents, demonstrated by the presence of eight debut albums.
(12) The results suggest important differences in the temporal evolution of inhibitory processes, and are discussed in terms of Hemsley's (1977) and Frith's (1979) theories.
(13) This finding is seen as providing some support for Frith's (1979) theory that the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia are due to awareness of processes that normally occur preconsciously.
(14) The claim that impaired metarepresentational ability underlies the social, communicative and imaginative deficits of autism (see paper by Uta Frith in this issue) is discussed.
(15) In human subjects the drug increased the number of alternation responses, which can be interpreted as an increase in stereotyped switching and which is similar to the response pattern produced by some groups of psychotic patients on the same task (Frith and Done 1983; Lyon et al.
(16) Time Out, which announced last month that the former Heat magazine editor Mark Frith would become its new editor, fell 15.2% year on year to 64,712 copies a week.
(17) Frith joined Heat in December 1997 as deputy editor when it was still in development and known as Project J.
(18) In February Frith announced that he was leaving Heat, which he had edited for more than 10 years, to write a book about his years at the celebrity magazine.
(19) Frith is understood to still be in talks with Time Out about his long term future at the London listings magazine.
(20) In addition to the consultancy, next year Frith will write a second book and take up a regular slot on BBC Radio 2's Steve Wright Show.