(a.) Of or pertaining to the machinery of a poem; acting or used as a machine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
(2) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
(3) This survey reviews three-dimensional (3D) medical imaging machines and 3D medical imaging operations.
(4) These views are very practical for inferior synovial cavity arthrograms performed in the dental operatory since panoramic radiographic machines have become common in modern dental practices.
(5) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
(6) Various forms of inactive data storage and archiving in machine-readable form are available to address this dilemma, yet these solutions can create even more difficult problems.
(7) Among the dead were two young young officers, Major Mujahid Ali and Captain Usman, whose life stories the media seized upon, helped by the military's public relations machine.
(8) said Wanis Kilani, a uniformed rebel driving a pickup truck with a machine-gun mounted on the back.
(9) "I wanted it to have a romantic feel," says Wilson, "recalling Donald Campbell and his Bluebird machines and that spirit of awe-inspiring adventure."
(10) Placing the collection bag at the base of the machine provided excellent plasma removal rates with only minimal blood flows.
(11) Best Buy – it says the machine "churns excellent ice cream quickly and without too much noise".
(12) In this vision, people will go to polling stations on 18 September with a mindset somewhere between that of a lobby correspondent and a desiccated calculating machine.
(13) This algorithm is not only efficient for the recognition of order and disorder in "machine vision", but also plausible in biological visual perception.
(14) Flat surfaces could be machined on the originally cylindrical surface to reduce the severity of these aberrations.
(15) Photograph: Polish Government Despite his clear-eyed approach to the looted artworks, Wächter maintains that his father was an unwilling cog in the Nazi killing machine, a position that has won him many critics.
(16) We compared the time taken to obtain clear airway, when patients were receiving 4.5 or 6 l.min-1 fresh flow by anesthetic machines.
(17) Results of the determinations indicated that protective leather gloves contained considerable content of chromium, and chromium-free machine oils and lubricants were polluted with chromium's minute quantities as the oils and lubrications were being used.
(18) Bleeps, pagers and fax machines are still used for communicating vital information.
(19) A new technique is described, in which a copy machine (Rank-Xerox) is used for instantaneous reproduction of biological assays.
(20) Can consoles still survive in a rapidly changing business where smartphones, tablets and smart TVs, and now Steam Machines, are threatening?
Mandrel
Definition:
(n.) A bar of metal inserted in the work to shape it, or to hold it, as in a lathe, during the process of manufacture; an arbor.
(n.) The live spindle of a turning lathe; the revolving arbor of a circular saw. It is usually driven by a pulley.
Example Sentences:
(1) These characteristics were correlated with graft fabrication variables: mandrel rpm, horizontal speed of the spray nozzle, gas and polymer solution flow rates.
(2) Subsequently, the mandrel can be removed, living the drain in situ for aspiration.
(3) In this study, Pellethane 2363-80A tubing containing conductor coils or mandrels of various metals or controls were implanted in rabbits.
(4) Four brass mandrels with a total of 46 test diameters ranging from 3.5 to 60.0 mm were used in this study.
(5) The prefabricated attachment system presented uses a matching component cast directly against the precast metal rest-mandrel.
(6) For urethrocystoscopy it represents a safe introductory rod (mandrel) introduced under visual control.
(7) It consists of an electric motor with a mandrel bearing a carborundum sectioning disk centered within a Plexiglas enclosure.
(8) The Omniflow biosynthetic prosthesis is made by a polyester net set on a silicon mandrel and planted on the sheep's back in order to from a tube of collagen that is fixed by glutaraldehyde at the moment of removing.
(9) With the larger mandrel, stroke work consistently exceeded normal canine stroke work at physiologic filling pressures.
(10) The authors describe a rare complication following total gastrectomy or reconstruction using a Roux-en-Y loop: the presence of a metal mandrel used to insert the nasogastric tube in the end tract was discovered during esophagojejunal anastomosis.
(11) The method is based on the spray application of a fine mixture of polymer solution and nitrogen gas bubbles onto a lathe-mounted mandrel.
(12) Antibody binding to the serotype-specific class 2 protein was dependent on renaturation of the antigen by a dipolar ionic detergent (R. E. Mandrell and W. D. Zollinger, J. Immunol.
(13) The catheters were introduced, either on the day preceding the operation or at the end of it, above or below T6-T7, after localization of the peridural space by the hanging drop technique or by loss of resistance to a liquid mandrel; 5 mg of preservative-free morphine diluted in 3 ml isotonic saline were injected.
(14) The mandrel cross section required to produce a predetermined amount of deformation (2 mm arc height for a 5 cm chord) was defined as the yield diameter for that particular wire.
(15) Signs and symptoms of gonorrhea began with the appearance of variants making 4,700-dalton LOS that are immunochemically similar to glycosphingolipids of human hematopoietic cells (Mandrell, R.E., J.M.
(16) In one group of dogs (n = 7) the skeletal muscle ventricles were constructed around a 17 ml Teflon mandrel, and in the other group (n = 5) a 45 ml mandrel was used.
(17) This idea comes from the experience made in using glutaraldehyde as biologic fixative employed for the first time in the fixation of the cardiac valves by Carpentier in 1976 and in using nets of synthetic material set on a mandrel in man by Sparks in 1986, to form a tube of collagen to be used as a vascular prosthesis.
(18) An alternative method for defining the range of orthodontic wires proposed by Waters (1981) is to wrap wire sections around mandrels of varying diameters and measure the deformation imparted after unwrapping.
(19) It involves spraying a polymer solution (generated by mixing polymer solution and nitrogen gas in a spray nozzle) onto the surface of a flowing nonsolvent liquid (water): polymer fibers form during precipitation of the spray drops as they travel on the water surface, until picked up by a partially submerged rotating mandrel.
(20) Several polymer coats are applied in a semiautomated process, at the end of which the polymer coating is dried and the tube is slipped off the mandrel.