(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.
Grit
Definition:
(n.) Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.
(n.) The coarse part of meal.
(n.) Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in high milling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats.
(n.) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; as, millstone grit; -- called also gritrock and gritstone. The name is also applied to a finer sharp-grained sandstone; as, grindstone grit.
(n.) Structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of good grit.
(n.) Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage; fortitude.
(v. i.) To give forth a grating sound, as sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
(v. t.) To grind; to rub harshly together; to grate; as, to grit the teeth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Distribution of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in sewage wastes at a municipal sewage treatment plant was studied, showing that the great bulk of PCBs entering such a treatment plant become adsorbed onto the grit chamber solids and the sludge that is passed from the anaerobic digesters.
(2) We suggest that other functions than grinding, such as supplying minerals, may be equally important functions of the grit.
(3) A lesser amount of toxin was produced on rice, but none was detected in wheat incubated at 20 C. The amount of toxin measured in white corn grits declined as the incubation temperature was raised to 20, 25, and 32 C.
(4) The notion that Gleeson has lurched from one disaster to another, ruining everything from the Coen brothers' remake of True Grit to Richard Curtis's romcom About Time , seems a pretty unique interpretation of his burgeoning career as a versatile character actor.
(5) For that matter, mulching with bark, grit or slate will help keep the surface roots cooler and retain moisture in hot weather.
(6) The effect of different modes of the hydrothermal treatment of buckwheat and of the grit cooking on a change in the composition of sterols and phospholipids was investigated.
(7) Chrysler aired a commercial during the Super Bowl declaring its cars were “imported from Detroit,” playing upon the city’s grit and determination to sell cars we barely made.
(8) She shares her conflicted instincts, the personal frustration, the gritted teeth effort to stay afloat when the team was coming apart ... a declaration a lot of women will recognise: “I felt I could hold things together.” The eventual decision that the show could no longer stay afloat.
(9) Days when the only thing to do is to grit one’s teeth and force oneself to think different thoughts.
(10) 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.
(11) For me, Kitson is at his best when ( as the New York Times said of It's Always Right Now) "he seasons the treacle with grit".
(12) There is still a grit to the brand but it’s been refined, in a natural kind of a way, because now I’m 31, not 21, so there are things I didn’t like before that I like now; things I liked before and now want a better version of.
(13) Sixteen cured samples of each were initially finished with 600-grit paper and then abraded by medium-grit wheels for 30,000 cycles.
(14) We're told that Cameron wanted to create a highly political Thatcher-style policy unit to provide intellectual grit and better communication.
(15) I grit my teeth as the trees hunker down smaller and smaller, then finally give up entirely, leaving us alone in a barren upland area where there is one large grey house partially obscured by torn curtains of freezing rain.
(16) Immediately before being bonded, the amalgam surfaces were finished flat on 600-grit paper.
(17) As burly security men hung back and the promoters sat silently by, Chisora marched on Haye, who gritted his teeth, held on to what those close to him say was a bottle of Desperados, a pale German lager tinged with tequila, and threw an inspired right hand that cracked into the side of Chisora's jaw.
(18) Data are presented for three different grades (400, 500 and 600 grit) of commercially available emory paper and three samples of osteoarthritic femoral head articular cartilage, which were visually assessed as having smooth, intermediate and rough surfaces, respectively.
(19) Set in recession-hit small town America, Gone Girl is a mystery of grit and steel.
(20) It takes grit and it takes grace.” Placing Clinton in a lineage of great American women from Rosa Parks and Amelia Earhart to Harriet Tubman and Eleanor Roosevelt, she told the delegates: “You people have made history and you’re gonna make history again in November because Hillary Clinton will be our first woman president … she’ll be the first but she won’t be the last.” Lena Dunham, creator and star of the HBO series Girls, led a series of celebrity endorsements that joined the dots between Clinton’s breaking of glass ceilings and Trump’s dismissive comments about women.