What's the difference between grinding and wearing?

Grinding


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grind
  • (a. & n.) from Grind.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The contents of hexavalent chromium, Cr(VI), in grinding dust were undetectable.
  • (2) In EastEnders , the mystery surrounding the identity of Kat's secret squeeze continues amid the grinding of narrative levers and the death rattle of overflogged script-horses.
  • (3) We suggest that other functions than grinding, such as supplying minerals, may be equally important functions of the grit.
  • (4) While exposure of root surface dentin alone (negative control) produced no alterations, grinding the surface (positive control) caused noticeable changes in dentin, odontoblasts, and pulp.
  • (5) But he denied having an axe to grind against Riordan, now a Fair Work Commissioner.
  • (6) Nancy Curtin, the chief investment officer of Close Brothers Asset Management said: "The US economy didn't just grind to a halt in the first quarter – it hit reverse as the polar vortex took its toll.
  • (7) On the other hand, grinding the glossy ridge-lap surface, painting the teeth with monomer or a solvent, preparing retention grooves on the ridge-lap portion of the teeth effectively lock the teeth to the denture base.
  • (8) Sporulating cells of Bacillus sphaericus 9602 containing fully engulfed forespores at different stages of maturity were broken by ultrasonic disruption, followed by grinding with alumina.
  • (9) Achieving efficiency on this scale will be complicated and a long, hard grind.
  • (10) Lord Mitchell, who helped to lead Movement for Change's rally of activists this summer and who tabled yesterday's amendment, has said that the change will help "those who live in the hell-hole of grinding debt.
  • (11) In Java 81.1% of the males and 99.2% of the females showed dental mutilations in the form of grinding the incisal and vestibular surfaces of the maxillary incisors and canines.
  • (12) The experimental carborundum wheels exhibited much the same performance as the marketed carborundum wheel under a less grinding pressure that 100 gf.
  • (13) The anterior teeth can often be coupled to the posterior controls by modifying contours with selective grinding, full or partial coverage restorations, or composite.
  • (14) The combination of various possibilities for sample preparation and investigation--the tinting penetration method, the ion beam slope cutting, the light and scanning electron microscopy--allow statements at the grind after different drying of the preparation mainly to the bond but also surface and filler shape of glass-ionomer cements.
  • (15) Printers have come a long way since 1984 when Hewlett Packard introduced the ThinkJet , the firm's first personal inkjet printer grinding at a snail's pace of two pages a minute and priced at a whopping $495.
  • (16) Pyralgin (metamizole sodium) usefulness was tested in premedication of 90 patients subjected to processing of hard tooth tissues by grinding or drilling.
  • (17) Mercury vapor levels associated with grinding amalgam models and mulling amalgams in the palm of the hand following trituration have been measured in a dental laboratory in inhalation position.
  • (18) Gap changes which resulted during porcelain firing cycles were relatively small, but larger marginal discrepancies developed in crowns prepared with a compatible porcelain during grinding and abrasive blasting procedures.
  • (19) Cases were no more likely than well controls to report ever-grinding, but were actually significantly less likely than well controls to report current grinding.
  • (20) After functional analysis and diagnostic grinding-in in the Dentatus articulator, the teeth of 10 patients were ground in directly in the mouth using a list of corrections.

Wearing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wear
  • (n.) The act of one who wears; the manner in which a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption.
  • (n.) That which is worn; clothes; garments.
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or designed for, wear; as, wearing apparel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
  • (2) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
  • (3) Today, she wears an elegant salmon-pink blouse with white trousers and a long, pale pink coat.
  • (4) The third patient was using an extended-wear soft contact lens for correction of residual myopia.
  • (5) A man wearing a badge that says "property team" quietly parries some of her points, but chooses not to engage with others.
  • (6) Scott was born in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, the youngest of the three sons of Colonel Francis Percy Scott, who served in the Royal Engineers, and his wife, Elizabeth.
  • (7) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
  • (8) Clearly, therefore, image is everything, especially in a world that can still be unkind to geeky people venturing out in public wearing their latest invention.
  • (9) Cabrera, wearing a bulletproof vest, was paraded before the news media in what has become a common practice for law enforcement authorities following major arrests.
  • (10) Excessive poppet wear has also been noted in the aortic position; poppet embolization has occurred on 2 occasions, and a third patient was found, at the time of reoperation for periprosthetic leak, to have opppet wear sufficient to permit embolization.
  • (11) Higher rates are reported by individual clinicians, and our recent in vitro wear tests of Proplast II Teflon interpositional implants suggest an in vivo service life of only 3 years.
  • (12) Then there were the mini-dress-wearing Barclaycard girls whose job was “to help educate and change people’s minds”.
  • (13) Wearing down women’s resistance has become eroticised – and, worse, normalised.
  • (14) Problems associated with cloth wear and the unexpectedly slow rate, in man, of tissue ingrowth into the fabric of the Braunwald-Cutter aortic valve prosthesis have been discouraging, although this prosthesis has been associated with a very low thromboembolic rate in patients receiving anticoagulant therapy.
  • (15) A foretaste of discontent came when Florian Thauvin, the underachieving £13m winger signed from Marseille last summer , was serenaded with chants of ‘You’re not fit to wear the shirt” from away fans during Saturday’s FA Cup defeat at Watford .
  • (16) Increased wear-resistance of microsurgical instruments by facing, electric spark alloying and vacuum surfacing increases the working life of the instruments by 1.5-3 times.
  • (17) Bone cement particles promote polyethylene wear, which in turn promotes granuloma formation, bone resorption, and subsequent bone cement disintegration.
  • (18) An actor dressed like one of the polar bears that figure in Coke ads limped up, wearing a prosthesis on one paw, a dialysis bag and tubing.
  • (19) Song appeared to give Bolt a good luck charm to wear around his wrist.
  • (20) Wearing a brown leather fedora and dark sunglasses, the 69-year-old was ushered into a waiting van shortly after dawn and taken to the western port city of Kobe, the headquarters of the Yamaguchi-gumi.