(1) So-and-so smells.” “So-and-so wears gutties [plimsolls] instead of shoes.” “So-and-so’s Bugsy.” With some encouragement from their neat, scrubbed peers, these remorseless critics would tease and bully the Bugsy kids.
Putty
Definition:
(n.) A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes.
(v. t.) To cement, or stop, with putty.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors discuss 34 cases of pseudarthrosis of the neck of the femur that were subjected to two different types of osteotomy, namely the support osteotomy of Putti and the valgising osteotomy of Pauwels.
(2) "Dreaming only of sleep and a sip of tea, the exhausted, harassed and dirty convict becomes obedient putty in the hands of the administration, which sees us solely as a free work force.
(3) Often times light-body wash (LB) cannot be added to the heavy-body putty (HB) within 30 minutes when utilizing the two-step reline impression technique.
(4) On anatomic specimens in which the classic Putti-Platt technique was used, lateral rotation could not reach neutral without disruption of the lateral stump from the labrum.
(5) This study was concerned with the adhesion of a light-bodied silicone to a putty silicone in a putty-wash impression technique when the preliminary putty impression was contaminated with human saliva or residues from acrylic resins used in the fabrication of provisional restorations by direct technique.
(6) Its colour reminds one of lightly tanned Caucasian flesh, or putty.
(7) Washing the latex gloves decreased the effect of inhibition of setting on the putty but did not eliminate it.
(8) This patient was later on stabilized with a Putti-Platt procedure.
(9) This technique is a controlled process in which the thickness of the obturator can be easily modified by adding to or shaving off the dimensionally stable silicone putty.
(10) The impression material was a putty-wash polyvinyl siloxane material.
(11) In ten patients (eleven shoulders), disabling pain in the shoulder began an average of 13.2 years after a Putti-Platt repair that had been done for recurrent anterior unidirectional instability.
(12) A stable occlusal record was made using an addition curing silicone rubber putty and was placed on a light source onto which a video camera was focused.
(13) A routine Bankart procedure was performed in 20 shoulders (in two of which a Connolly procedure was added), a Putti-Platt procedure in four, and capsulorrhaphies in four shoulders.
(14) Thus, latex gloves should not be worn while mixing or handling vinyl polysiloxane putties.
(15) With the material tested, this study indicates that the laminated and putty wash plus spacer techniques both give accurate impressions and that only two accurate models can be poured.
(16) The working models, which differed in the size of cervical spillway (2mm and 9mm) and the impression techniques applied (the two-phase technique and the wash technique), were produced by using putty-type impression materials with three different strain levels (Reprosil, Express and Exaflex) following the metal master model of mandibular denture in an abutment form.
(17) If the glenoidal labrum is detached from the rim, the Bankart technique must be combined with the Putti-Platt.
(18) Nadya's evolution over the three months after our visit to the penal colony, when she claimed to wish only for monotony, went something like this: she tried to reconcile herself to the life of the inmate as putty, to dream only of living to see the end of her term.
(19) The polyvinylsiloxane putty did not adhere to its impression adhesive.
(20) Some brands of latex gloves as received from the distributor caused severe retardation or complete inhibition of setting in most vinyl polysiloxane putties; other brands of latex gloves affected the setting in the vinyl polysiloxane putties to varying degrees.