(n.) The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.
(n.) That which is impressed; stamp; mark; indentation; sensible result of an influence exerted from without.
(n.) That which impresses, or exercises an effect, action, or agency; appearance; phenomenon.
(n.) Influence or effect on the senses or the intellect hence, interest, concern.
(n.) An indistinct notion, remembrance, or belief.
(n.) Impressiveness; emphasis of delivery.
(n.) The pressure of the type on the paper, or the result of such pressure, as regards its appearance; as, a heavy impression; a clear, or a poor, impression; also, a single copy as the result of printing, or the whole edition printed at a given time.
(n.) In painting, the first coat of color, as the priming in house painting and the like.
(n.) A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, the guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate accumulation response was less impressive in glomeruli than the guanylate cyclase response in IMCD tissue.
(2) Of all materials evaluated, Xantopren Blue and Silene silicone impression materials provided the best results in vivo.
(3) During the interview process, nurse applicants frequently inquire about the availability of such a program and have been very favorably impressed when we have been able to offer them this approach to orientation.
(4) Nwakali, an attacking midfielder, was the player of the Under-17 World Cup in Chile last year, which Nigeria won, and at which his team-mate Chukwueze, a winger, also impressed.
(5) Ketazolam was found to be significantly better than placebo in alleviating anxiety and its concomitant symptomatology as measured by the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale, three Physician's Global Impressions, two Patient's Global Impressions, and three Target Symptoms.
(6) Personal experience is recorded with two cases and the positive impressions of this operation.
(7) His words surprised some because of an impression that the US was unwilling to talk about these issues.
(8) It’s the small margins that have cost us.” There is more to it than that, of course, and Rooney gave the impression he had been hard on himself since the Uruguay game.
(9) The most reproducible instrument was the combination of Regisil, an elastic impression material, and a Rinn XCP bite block.
(10) (4) Electrical stimulation by cutaneous devices or implants can give much benefit to some patients in whom other methods have failed and there are indications, not only from anecdote and clinical impression but also now from experimental physiology, that it may benefit by mechanisms of interaction at the first sensory synapse.
(11) This is what we hope is the best golf tournament in the world, one of the greatest sporting events, and I think we will have a very impressive audience and have another great champion to crown this year."
(12) The orchestrated round of warnings from the Obama administration did not impress a coterie of senior Republicans who were similarly paraded on the talk shows, blaming the White House for having brought the country to the brink of yet another "manufactured crisis".
(13) Systolic time intervals measured after profuse sweating can give a false impression of cardiac function.
(14) Watford’s front two have impressed with their hard work, their technical quality and their interplay – a classic strike duo.
(15) The author differentiates between two modes of perception, one is the "expressive" mode, stabilizing and aiming at constancy, the other is the "impressive" mode, penetrating the self and aiming at identification with the percept.
(16) The results obtained by combined superficial freezing and intralesional stibogluconate injection were much more impressive than those obtained by each of the two modalities when used alone.
(17) Findings and impressions of a member of a British medical support group who toured the health services in newly independent Mozambique in September 1975.
(18) Forty impressions were poured with the disinfectant dental stone and a similar number were poured with a comparable, nondisinfectant stone.
(19) Our older population is the most impressive, self-sacrificing and imaginative part of our entire community.
(20) Two recently reported large scale clinical surveys support the impression that the new non-ionic low osmolality iodinated radiographic contrast media are indeed significantly safer for intravascular use than conventional agents.
Platen
Definition:
(n.) The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.
(n.) Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression.
(n.) The movable table of a machine tool, as a planer, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool; -- also called table.
Example Sentences:
(1) The incidence of damage immediately after freeze-drying was greater for cells dried at the higher platen temperature and was influenced by the composition of the menstruum in which the cells were dried.
(2) These modifications involve the use of a radiused edge on the dimpling tool, a rubber O-ring on the polishing tool, and not rotating the sample platen during polishing.
(3) The material was cured in certain thicknesses in the heat platen press and by boiling without porosity.
(4) This dependency on cross-sectional area is probably due to friction-induced stress inhomogeneity at the platen-specimen interface.
(5) Salmonella typhimurium survived freeze-drying at a platen temperature of 120 F (48.9 C) and also, though to a much lesser degree, at 160 F (82.6 C).
(6) The coupling DC amplifier provides a DC offset voltage at all gain settings of the pantograph which is sufficient to reposition the pen of the X-Y plotter in the center of the plotter's platen, regardless of the location of the specimen on the microscope slide.
(7) A finite element analysis is used to study a previously unresolved issue of the effects of platen-specimen friction on the response of the unconfined compression test; effects of platen permeability are also determined.
(8) This enhancement of material properties at the highest strain rate was due primarily to the restricted viscous flow of marrow through the platen rather than the flow through the pores of the trabecular bone.
(9) Trousers-shaped specimens were prepared between two platens.
(10) An increase in trabecular orientation toward the loaded platens was observed, and a statistically significant decrease in connectivity was documented.
(11) This model utilized an implantable hydraulic device incorporating five loading cylinders and platens in direct contact with an exposed plane of trabecular bone.
(12) After freeze-drying for 8 hr at a platen temperature of 49 C and rehydration with a mineral salts medium, survival of the cells was 0.6%.
(13) The value of the heat platen press as a time-saving device and its applications in a maxillofacial laboratory were discussed.
(14) Control thicknesses of impression material were first formed between the measuring platens of a micrometer, and light transmission values (relative reflections) were measured through these control thicknesses of impression material held against air-abraded, noncast gold alloy.
(15) According to Drouzy, the key inspiration for Gertrud, based on a play by Hjalmar Söderberg, was Dreyer's discovery at 73 that Maria von Platen, Gertrud's real-life counterpart, spent the last years of her life in a house only 10 miles from the site of his own conception.
(16) A porous platen above the specimens allowed the escape of marrow during testing.
(17) In a second experimental condition, a platen-fixed LED matrix fixation target was illuminated 0.91 m vertically above the subject.
(18) An investigation was designed and carried out to compare methyl acrylic resin processed by three methods--boiling, in the heat platen press, and a 9 hour, 75 degrees C cure.
(19) The modifications to the dimpling and polishing tools allow more control of the geometry of the dimple, while not rotating the sample platen allows a thinner sample to be produced and permits the use of the sample translation micrometers to shift the location of the thinned area during polishing.