(n.) Formerly, a part or division of a county among the Anglo-Saxons. At present it consists of four or five hundreds, and is confined to the county of Kent.
(n.) A granary; a barn.
(n.) A machine for turning, that is, for shaping articles of wood, metal, or other material, by causing them to revolve while acted upon by a cutting tool.
(n.) The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; -- called also lay and batten.
Example Sentences:
(1) One had been attached to the first cutting lathe that Optimal had acquired.
(2) Through combination with a spherical disc face perpendicular to the axis of rotation, which protrudes only slightly from the hemispherical catheter tip, with a maximum at the center and minimum at the lateral borders, the lathing head has only a slight risk of perforation and no undesired sheering forces (Figures 2a to 2d).
(3) Machinable ceramics that can be cut and even lathed have recently been developed in industry.
(4) We studied the anterior surfaces of 30 soft contact lenses (10 lathe cut [polished]; 10 spin cast [unpolished], and 10 cast molded [unpolished]) of the same polymer and water content.
(5) The results indicate that when dental amalgam alloy is added to the glass ionomer, lathe-cut particles are to be preferred but only in an amount up to 20% by weight.
(6) Changes in corneal curvature and subjective refraction were found to occur in some wearers of N & N lathe-cut soft contact lenses.
(7) Peripheral swelling was less than central for both lathe cut- and spun cast-type lenses.
(8) For clinical application the initial intumescence should be taken into consideration, as well as the donor tissue thickening during its freezing for working on a lathe.
(9) Data is presented in respect of 256 restorations of Occlusin and 69 restorations of a conventional lathe cut amalgam.
(10) The lenses studied were lathe-cut polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA), injection-molded non-UV PMMA, injection-molded UV PMMA, and cast-molded UV PMMA.
(11) Measurement of the corrosion rates of three distinctive amalgam alloys (lathe-cut, spherical and dispersed-phase) when immersed in three different electrolytes, including saliva, is reported.
(12) The results indicated that early microleakage from alloys of lathe-cut particles was lower than that from alloys of spherical particles in both low-copper and high-copper amalgam restorations.
(13) Precise lathing of epikeratoplasty lenticules is difficult to achieve with the cryolathe due to unpredictable expansion of the lathing tools and the corneal tissue during the freezing process.
(14) Like, ‘Don’t send us a CD master of the loudest techno music and expect that to be cuttable on a lacquer.’ (The high and low frequencies associated with this type of music can overheat the cutting lathe and cause the mastering machinery to shut down; pushing the process to its limits is the origin of some records being called “hot cuts”.)
(15) Often overlooked is the dental laboratory of which particular interest focuses on the lathes used in preparing prosthetic appliances, castings, orthodontic appliances, and surgical stents.
(16) A method was developed for lathing corneal tissue without freezing.
(17) This paper describes in detail the geometry of the first lathe-cut hydrophilic lens approved by the Federal Drug Administration, the fitting methods utilizing trial lenses, and the results of 100 patients successfully fitted.
(18) We adapted a lathe to the production of keratolenses.
(19) USA 69, 3643-3647) and the HLP-1 protein (Lathe, R. et al.
(20) Three out of 10 eyes (30%) in which injection molded anterior chamber lenses from McGhan were used developed cystoid macular edema, compared to a much lower incidence with the use of lathe-cut anterior chamber lenses from Rayner.
Lather
Definition:
(n.) Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.
(n.) Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.
(n.) To spread over with lather; as, to lather the face.
(v. i.) To form lather, or a froth like lather; to accumulate foam from profuse sweating, as a horse.
(v. t.) To beat severely with a thong, strap, or the like; to flog.
Example Sentences:
(1) From the beginning of time, man has had the instinct to pour things in wounds to kill microorganisms and enhance healing, and..... "wounds are still lathered, bathed, and sprayed with various notions, potions, and lotions".
(2) He has also moved towards building up a sense of culture shock through withholding information rather than lathering on baroque descriptions.
(3) In the Commons and in the media, commentators and politicians got themselves in a lather about matters that were undoubtedly important, but not exactly uppermost in the public mind.
(4) And Twitter must get into a lather about something.
(5) The American people would probably even take a good court case over mortgage-backed securities, though it has been at least a year since anyone got in a good lather about derivatives.
(6) In training ground car parks where the football stars of the 1970s were doing well to park a Cortina, it is common now to see Bentleys and Porsches being lathered and valeted by young lads, ready for when the top players finish training and come back out.
(7) In a two-part series, Claire Lathers and colleagues highlight some of the current questions in this field.
(8) The employment rights and financial speculation tax plans that get the British chauvinistic press in such a lather are the kind of things people in Britain mostly like about the EU.
(9) That is where this all ends up.” Clegg said the Conservatives are in such “a total lather about Ukip” that they are even “bizarrely tearing up their own homework” as their own former prime minister Margaret Thatcher oversaw the formation of the common market.
(10) Lather, as a result of fusion of cleavage vesicles, curvature of the plasma membrane in the spore initials returns to their original state.
(11) Aside from being a hermit, you can reduce your infection rate by ensuring you – and your family – wash your hands regularly and properly (lathering both sides with soap for at least 20 seconds).
(12) In this second article in the two-part series on pharmacology in space, Claire Lathers and colleagues discuss the pharmacology of drugs used to control motion sickness in space and note that the pharmacology of the 'ideal' agent has yet to be worked out.
(13) Subjects took a single shower employing a whole body lather with approximately 7 gm of soap containing 2% 14C-triclocarban on a soap basis.
(14) For detailed review articles, the reader is referred to the following references: Gillis et al; Gillis and Quest; Roberts et al; Lathers and Roberts; Farah and Alousi; Benthe; Levitt et al; Smith and Haber; Somberg; Lee and Klaus; Mason; Schwartz.
(15) Murdoch, rambling away to Sun journalists off the record , probably lathered on the soft soap too hard.
(16) Lathers and Schraeder (1) have shown that autonomic dysfunction is associated with epileptogenic activity induced by pentylenetetrazol while Vindrola et al (2) found increased D-ALA2 methionine-enkephalinamide (DAME) levels in the rat brain after pentylenetetrazol-induced epileptogenic activity.
(17) "I'm just as comfortable with a chapati in my hand as a bag of chips," says the characteristically subdued headline, leading into text that celebrates Yousaf as "the motorbike-riding, kilt-wearing nationalist who also cooks a mean curry", and gets in a lather about his "'united colours of Benetton' family home".
(18) But next month they may be getting in a lather about the slow growth caused by the austerity programmes they themselves have necessitated.
(19) Puttnam denied that the BSkyB outcry was a case of the "liberal chattering class getting itself into a lather over its favourite straw man".
(20) And what thrills lay in store – each week, a pig was seized from the fields and brought to the pub, where it had its tail lathered in soap.