(n.) A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting.
(n.) A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc.
(n.) A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from mold.
(v. t.) To close or seal with lute; as, to lute on the cover of a crucible; to lute a joint.
(n.) A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or "sides," arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed.
(v. i.) To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats.
(v. t.) To play on a lute, or as on a lute.
Example Sentences:
(1) This could impede the flow of the luting agent at the time of cementation.
(2) Porcelain veneer restorations including preparations, impression materials, cast materials, refractory casts, handling of porcelain, the try-in, and the final luting are discussed.
(3) This in vitro study compared different methods of finishing luting composite resin spaces after insertion of composite resin inlays.
(4) These findings suggest that factors other than pulpal inflammation are contributing to the reported hypersensitivity after cementation associated with glass ionomer luting agents.
(5) The lute thickness varied between 10 microns and 90 microns, and was found to be thinnest and most uniform in the region of occlusal cavosurface margins.
(6) The standard consistency of luting cement is determined in Japanese industrial standard and American dental association's specifications.
(7) An interesting case of post-insertion sensitivity in a patient who had an etched cast metal prosthesis (Maryland Bridge) cemented with a recently marketed resin luting agent is discussed.
(8) The glass ionomer luting cement showed significantly less material loss than the zinc polycarboxylate and zinc phosphate luting cements.
(9) We also examined the effect of three adherent surface treatments--50 microns Almina blasting, hydrofluoride etching, and sodium hydroxide etching--on the adhesive strength of the two adhesive resin, Panavia EX and the tentative luting resin, to CMP.
(10) Tensile bond strength of four different luting cements to smooth dentin surfaces was measured.
(11) Luting a bone plate with PMMA decreased vascularity to the outer one third of the cortex beneath the plate at week 5, and resulted in accelerated resorption of bone.
(12) With the addition of many more acids to enhance certain characteristics and reduce the setting time, GICs have become more irritating, especially when used as luting agents in areas where the remaining dentin thickness is 0.5 mm or less.
(13) The present study used the finite element method to model the stresses generated by a composite luting cement around a class I composite restoration and a ceramic inlay.
(14) Significant prognostic factors were: preparation of abutments, surface treatment (net retention, silicoating), type of luting agent (Bis GMA) and mobility of the abutments.
(15) UDA with fluoride appears to be a significantly stronger luting agent for abutment cementation than is either UDA or DenMat (P less than .05).
(16) Increased cortical porosity and a decreased percentage of osteocyte-filled lacunae were found in the cortex beneath luted plates at week 5.
(17) Metal ceramic crowns were fabricated, luted to a master die, and loaded to failure on a mechanical testing machine.
(18) The use of CaOH, as an interim luting agent for acrylic crowns over hybrid cores compared to ZOE or NOG, should afford significantly greater retention with no adverse effect on the retention of the final casting.
(19) The inlays were made and luted with the same two composites.
(20) For a proper radiographic diagnosis of secondary caries and interproximal overhangs or undercuts, tooth colored inlays and their appropriate luting agents have to be radiopaque.
Zither
Definition:
(n.) An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.]
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to a weaving violin and a zither that sends chills down your spine, there is a solo voice - similar to the muezzin's call from the minarets - that is full of heartbreaking longing.
(2) Taarab combines violins, flutes and Arabic instruments including the zither-like kanoon and the oud, the ancestor of the lute, with a variety of African drums.
(3) Its music is a hip-hop remix of Pachelbel's Canon , juxtaposing beat boxing and traditional Korean zither: and at moments like [1.17] the dancer it works with the music to build up a looping intensifying dynamic of movement, or to concentrate a quality of stillness [1.42] that's in fascinating tension with the more traditional hard energy of the b-boy vocabulary.
(4) And then into the adjacent Renmin Park, where I sat in a bandstand with a dozen locals as an old man in a white waistcoat and a red tie played a haunting song on a zheng , a type of zither.
(5) Film director Carol Reed supervises the recording of the zither theme from The Third Man.
(6) The founder of al-Kindi, Jalaluddin Weiss, is a Frenchman whose fascination with Sufi music has led him to become a leading exponent of the oriental zither (qanun).