What's the difference between pean and peen?

Pean


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the furs, the ground being sable, and the spots or tufts or.
  • (n.) A song of praise and triumph. See Paean.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Leading 59,999 of his disciples to the island of Pean in the Aegean Sea, he grafted a new race from the germs of black people.
  • (2) Clinical indications, operative findings, technical details and pathological studies in 228 Billroth-I-Pean gastrict resections for gastric ulcer, are represented in detail.
  • (3) The thoracic aorta was clamped by a Pean's clamp in the 1st group (11 animals).
  • (4) The paper reports the results of a follow-up of 25 patients who underwent gastric resection using Roux's technique, 15 patients undergoing reconstructive surgery according to Pean-Billroth and 15 who underwent Billroth II operations.
  • (5) The lace was protracted around an intestine, both ends were threaded through 7-10 cm long rubber tube and fixed by Pean's forceps.

Peen


Definition:

  • (n.) A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation.
  • (n.) The sharp-edged end of the head of a mason's hammer.
  • (v. t.) To draw, bend, or straighten, as metal, by blows with the peen of a hammer or sledge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This could be shown in the shot peened plates as well as in the polished plates.
  • (2) A 1.6-kilobase internal fragment contains an open reading frame of 927 bases coding for an immunoreactive peptide of 34,349 daltons, which corresponds in size with an observed cytoplasmic form of fimbrial peptide (P. M. Fives-Taylor, F. L. Macrina, T. J. Pritchard, and S. J. Peene, Infect.
  • (3) This effect was especially marked after a shot-peening of alloys and a very high polishing of resin.
  • (4) Shot peening of surgical implants thus means an improvement in quality.
  • (5) The hardening achieved by shot peening is not reduced by bending.
  • (6) Shot peening can increase the fatigue strength of commercially available surgical plates made of 1.4435 alloy by 40% even in a corrosive environment.
  • (7) Up to now we implanted 37 shot peened osteosynthesis plates for fixation of intertrochanteric osteotomies.
  • (8) Our investigations show that residual stresses resulting from shot peening are reduced by additional bending of the plates.
  • (9) Metallurgic specimens showed not so many pittings at the shot peened plates in the region of the screw hole as were seen at the polished plates after the same period of implantation.
  • (10) The year before the Meyer-Lindenberg study was published, the existence of that link had been established still more firmly by a group of Dutch researchers led by Dr Jaap Peen.
  • (11) Shot peening is a cold-working process to increase the fatigue life of osteosynthesis plates.

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