(n.) A thin, coarse mortar, used for pouring into the joints of masonry and brickwork; also, a finer material, used in finishing the best ceilings. Gwilt.
(v. t.) To fill up or finish with grout, as the joints between stones.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two factors prevent the widespread use of the bipolar prosthesis at present: the need for femoral grouting which carries a well-documented risk of hemodynamic complications, and the higher cost of the device.
(2) That elusive must-see aura – a combination in 1993 of Hollywood’s most starred director Steven Spielberg and Industrial Light & Magic’s then-unique special-effects prowess – was what made Jurassic Park the first $1bn film; 22 years later though, Spielberg is only executive-producing, and CGI is very much the bog-standard grouting of the blockbuster industry.
(3) Javier Martin-Artajo and Julien Grout were charged in the southern district court of New York with four counts of falsification of books, wire fraud and making false statements to the US regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission .
(4) Acrylamide, widely used for the production of polymers and as a grouting agent, causes neurotoxic effects in humans and neurotoxic, genotoxic, reproductive, and carcinogenic effects in laboratory animals.
(5) A decade ago Unesco authorised archaeologists and engineers to consolidate the two niches, with props and grouting.
(6) Grout started his petition after his sons, now aged seven and nine, saw a TV promotion offering free Lego toys to Sun readers.
(7) ; (b) passive or interference mechanical fixation where the implants are allowed to move or merely positioned onto the tissue surfaces; (c) bone cement fixation which is actually a grouting material; (d) biological fixation by allowing tissues to grow into the interstices of pores or textured surfaces of implants; (e) direct chemical bonding between implant and tissues; or (f) any combination of the above techniques.
(8) They are also barred from possessing "any spray paint, marker pens, any grout pen, etching equipment, or unset paint".
(9) Grout II organisms showed a much higher induction frequency anaerobically than aerobically.
(10) Histologically, bone was seen to bond directly to the plasma-HA coating and the crystalline-HA grouting.
(11) The patients' daily record cards showed that the number of patients whose paine cleared in less than seven days was statistically significantly greater in the naproxen grout (P = 0.03).
(12) Grout's lawyers are also reported to have said he has not committed any wrongdoing.
(13) Grout took his online campaign offline, appearing with a supersized Lego imitation of a Page 3 girl outside the Sun's headquarters in Wapping, east London, and the Legoland theme park near Windsor.
(14) It is believed that this is the first such case to be recorded in the medical literature.Acrylamide is widely used as a "chemical grout".
(15) Methyl methacrylate, used as a grout during hip arthroplasty, can inadvertently become lodged between acetabular and femoral components during surgery.
(16) Grout, 48, oversaw police operations at Nice’s airport, French media reported.
(17) Alternatives include the search for other grouting materials and the development of prostheses with satisfactory surfaces for either press-fit or biologic ingrowth.
(18) Grout's petition started on 22 February, but took off after a Lego promotion appeared next to a spread featuring the nakedbreasts of 12 Hollywood actors, including Kate Winslet and Penelope Cruz.
(19) At both 6 and 12 weeks, bone ingrowth was greatly enhanced by the presence of the plasma-HA coating or the crystalline-HA grouting as compared to the uncoated titanium channels.
(20) Six intra-operative deaths and two episodes of near-fatal hypotension occurred in 52 consecutive Hastings procedures (insertion of metal prosthesis grouted in acrylic cement) for subcapital fracture of the femoral neck.
Gruel
Definition:
(n.) A light, liquid food, made by boiling meal of maize, oatmeal, or fiour in water or milk; thin porridge.
Example Sentences:
(1) The processes of germination and gruel preparation of germinated materials contributed to the digestibility of weaning foods prepared from cereals and legumes.
(2) RDE: I wouldn't expect the head of Oxfam to subsist on gruel, but I'd like charity workers to see their jobs as vocations rather than a well-paid career providing both generous financial rewards and the opportunity to pontificate from the moral high ground.
(3) GCSE results are a thin gruel to feed developing minds when what is needed is a rich stew Jeremy Cushing We won’t see real progress until politicians treat education more like medicine, supporting a coherent programme of gradual research-based improvements, creatively designed and carefully developed until they work well.
(4) The SNL gig turned out to be a grueling experience, and she walked away after just one season.
(5) A suggestion to overcome this has been to develop a tablet for addition to the rice gruel.
(6) Jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky urged a judge in Moscow today to end his days "slurping gruel" in prison, saying the fate of every Russian was tied up with his own.
(7) Since rice is far more available in rural homes (95%) than any type of sugar (30%) and rice gruel is a widely accepted food during illness, a field trial was conducted in three areas (total population, 68,345) to compare the acceptability and use of rice-based ORT with that of sugar-based ORT.
(8) Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Tory MP for North East Somerset, told the prime minister: “The thin gruel has been further watered down.
(9) The survival of strains of Campylobacter jejuni and enteropathogenic and enterotoxigenic (LT) Escherichia coli was investigated in mahewu, a traditional fermented cereal gruel.
(10) During culinary treatment these changes are levelled out, but in the end the level of virtually all types of sugar is higher in the gruel cooked with hydrothermally treated grit than in that prepared with initial, untreated grit.
(11) Another effective process to improve protein and energy digestibilities is fermentation (souring) of cereal gruels.
(12) Consumption of millet gruel was associated positively with EC, in a dose-response relationship.
(13) US investigators are unlikely to visit the scene of the destruction, which has been the setting for a grueling fight between Isis and the US’s Syrian Arab and Kurdish proxy forces since 21 May.
(14) All birds were fasted for 24 hr on days 4-5, another blood sample taken, and then refed the usual gruel.
(15) Freshly prepared commercial baby milks were compared to the freshly prepared local gruel and were found similar.
(16) Almost all gruel samples stimulated peroxidation of rat liver microsomes, and this was usually inhibited by the iron-ion chelator desferrioxamine.
(17) The results obtained by a radioisotope dilution (RID) method for the determination of vitamin B12 in gruel were compared with those obtained by a standard microbiological assay with Lactobacillus leichmannii.
(18) This will be a classic "are they rusty or rested" game, as Miami return from vacation to face a Nets team that just finished a grueling seven-game series against the Toronto Raptors on Sunday, winning 104-103 only after Pierce blocked Kyle Lowry's attempted game-winner.
(19) Though breast feeding was universal and of adequate duration, milk production was mostly inadequate because of too early supplementation with low-energy cereal gruels with little or no protein-enrichment.
(20) Timing of announcements for a potential transition team was unclear, but the aide was willing to indulge an exhausted press corps and speculate on when they might finally be safe taking a break from a grueling schedule that for some had spanned more than two years trailing Clinton.