(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.
Teen
Definition:
(n.) Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain.
(n.) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure.
(v. t.) To hedge or fence in; to inclose.
Example Sentences:
(1) Proving that not all teens are content with being part of a purely digital community, Adele Mayr attended a YouTube meet-up in London’s Hyde Park.
(2) The Black pregnant teen is a microcosm of the impact of society on the most vulnerable.
(3) I first saw them live at the location of the terror attack, Manchester Arena – then the MEN – aged 15, a teen at a gig with my friends, as many of the Grande’s fans were.
(4) Effects on pre-LDA teens, adolescents targeted by LDA, initiation at LDA, and post-LDA drinking experience were assessed.
(5) Counselors who serve pregnant US teens face a number of obstacles in communicating adoption as a positive alternative.
(6) The media's image of a "gamer" might still be of a man in his teens or 20s sitting in front of Call of Duty for six-hour stretches, but that stereotype is now more inaccurate than ever.
(7) The most difficult problem is education of teen-age girls in the use of contraceptives.
(8) It's not a great stretch to see parallels between the movie's set-up and the film industry in 2012: disposable teens are manipulated into behaving in certain ways, before being degraded and dispatched, all the while being remotely observed by middle-aged men, gambling on their fates.
(9) Roche, 30, was born in High Wycombe, but moved with her British parents to Germany as a young child, and has been a national celebrity there since her teens, presenting music and culture shows.
(10) For a writer barely out of his teens when it was published, in 1946, the book was an unusual achievement.
(11) Acquaintance with a teenaged girl of roughly qualifying age is not essential, but probably helpful, when it comes to appreciating the degree to which Uncle Rupert's views on women, as still reflected in Page 3 , have not progressed since his executives started perving over snaps of their favourite teens.
(12) Three of the women here today are in their late teens or early 20s, travelling alone.
(13) The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards didn’t achieve the same degree of controversy as last year’s celebration of tongues, twerking and teddy bears , but between a speech by a homeless teen, an ill-timed wardrobe malfunction, and Beyoncé’s spectacular, epic, show-stopping finale, there were nevertheless a few moments worth watching.
(14) A total of 95% of new patients who attended the university's teen pregnancy clinic between May 8, 1989, and December 8, 1990, were interviewed.
(15) Even if Ian and I were still double dating as we did in our teens then the prospect of a reunion wouldn't interest me at all."
(16) In teens, however, birth weight was 200-400 g lower than in the adults in all weight-for-height categories except at 140% or more of standard.
(17) The physician who cares for adolescents has the responsibility of helping parenting teens to find needed support so that they will be able to overcome this significant hurdle.
(18) 62% of the teens--58% of those who delivered (the D group) and 65% of those who chose abortions (the A group)--indicated that their pregnancies were unwanted.
(19) "I had spent my teen years listening to Germaine Greer and Susie Orbach talking about female intellect," she says, and cheers all round.
(20) The aim of this work is to investigate the anti-comedo activity of 20% azelaic acid cream topically applied in a group of teen-agers affected by acne.