(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.
Ween
Definition:
(v. i.) To think; to imagine; to fancy.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Western blots, mAb 449, directed against the cytoplasmic epitope of the alpha-subunit, identified a 23-kDa protein; and mAb 48, raised against the large (beta) subunit of cytochrome b558 of human neutrophils (Verhoeven, A. J., Bolscher, B. G. J. M., Meerhof, L. J., van Zwieten, R., Keijer, J., Weening, R. S., and Roos, D. (1989) Blood 73, 1686-1694), detected a smear between 75 and 100 kDa in denatured HMC membrane protein.
(2) On Day 109 of gestation animals were moved to farrowing crates until 10 days postpartu m and then to wooden units until weening at 8 weeks.
(3) Improvement was ween in 8 out of 11 patients with cerebral spasticity, 3 out of 5 patients with spinal spasticity and 3 out of 4 cases who had sustained perinatal damage.
(4) There is no definite relationship bet ween the 2, though several studies have indicated that thrombosis is more common among oral contraceptive users.
(5) Cortical calcifications, ween on X-ray in the brain of achild suffering from leukaemia, were submitted to morphological and chemical analysis.
(6) Previously we (Bolscher, B. G. J. M., Van Zwieten, R., Kramer, I. J. M., Weening, R. S., Verhoeven, A. J., and Roos, D. (1989) J. Clin.
(7) Experience may also allow the child to accurately distinguish bet ween stressful and nonstressful procedures.
(8) However, he stressed that the tensions in the money markets should not affect the bank's own funding needs as it weens itself off the government support that has kept it afloat since the crisis.
(9) But the way it’s affected Hallo-fricking-ween has, I admit, surprised me.
(10) In elections across the country, more progressive district attorneys are increasingly winning elections, and a number of state legislatures have embraced “smart on crime” legislation that ween law enforcement off of incarceration as a typical answer to punishing non-violent offenses.
(11) The BBC1 maternity drama starring Miranda Hart has already been commissioned for a second series but if this keeps up they'll order a third and a fourth before the first one has started weening.