(a.) Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The usefulness of porous tarflen materials (tarflen--Polish name of teflon produced by Zakłady Azotowe in Tarnów, Poland) for this application was evaluated by comparing their properties with those of American porous teflon membranes used in membrane oxygenators.
(2) The accident on 10 April 2010, killed the president, first lady and dozens of senior officials, in the worst Polish air disaster since the second world war.
(3) 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.
(4) Since 1930 Dr. Rakowiecki has started as self-taught astronomy studies becoming soon one of seven most eminent Polish astronomers.
(5) There is a picture, drawn by Polish cartoonist Marek Raczkowski: a crowd of people demonstrating in the street, carrying aloft a big banner that simply reads "FUUUCK!''.
(6) This in turn meant frantic investment in German coal and lignite – 10 new plants are said to be opening – and a surge in Polish coal output.
(7) Romanians making Polish wages go down.” Then he adds: “The Romanian, he not the worst.
(8) Many ceramists advocate polishing, rather than glazing, to control the surface luster of metal ceramic restorations.
(9) The results were compared to controls and children with JRA in Polish populations (where amyloidosis is a frequent complication of JRA) as well as to American children with JRA (where amyloidosis in JRA has been observed only sporadically) and American control children.
(10) Below-zero temperatures crowned the top of the US from Idaho to Minnesota, where many roads still had an inch-thick plate of ice, polished smooth by traffic and impervious to ice-melting chemicals.
(11) Polish foreign affairs minister Radoslaw Sikorski has opposed the ships being handed over.
(12) Obama spoke on the phone with Merkel, the British prime minister, David Cameron , and the Polish president, Bronisław Komorowski.
(13) Russia is Europe's second largest market for food and drink and has been an important consumer of Polish pig meat and Dutch fruit and vegetables.
(14) This cross-sectional study was undertaken after the discovery of cobalt-related fibrosing alveolitis and bronchial asthma in diamond polishers occupationally exposed to cobalt.
(15) Polished rice samples harvested in 1985 were collected from 25 prefectures throughout Japan.
(16) She is very sophisticated, she is polished, and she can speak to the issues.
(17) The leakage of the dye that was observed in each of the groups might have been caused by the ineffectiveness of, or the ineffective use of, the nail polish or cyanoacrylate used to coat all but the apically sealed tips of the endodonticalled prepared teeth.
(18) Early corrosion phenomena required re-polishing every three months.
(19) The remaining incisor was carefully polished and served as an enamel surface.
(20) Cobalt-60, Polish-made BK-10,000 cobalt bombs, and Canadian-made Gammacell were placed in the irradiation chamber to provide irradiation.
Unpolished
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Example Sentences:
(1) The unpolished surfaces were analyzed with the Taylor-Hobson Talysurf 10 surface texture measuring instrument.
(2) Measurements were made on both the unpolished matrix-rich surface and the polished filler-rich surface.
(3) We studied the anterior surfaces of 30 soft contact lenses (10 lathe cut [polished]; 10 spin cast [unpolished], and 10 cast molded [unpolished]) of the same polymer and water content.
(4) Silicon and phosphorus contents in polished and unpolished rice planted in a district of high incidence of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) have been determined by neutron activation and X-ray fluorescence methods, and compared with those from control areas.
(5) The average hardness of the polished surface was higher than that of the unpolished surface.
(6) This study indicates that, composite restorative materials and unpolished surfaces tend to be more highly colonized by S. mutans, than metallic and polished surfaces.
(7) The dissolution of mercury, silver, and copper from polished and unpolished surfaces of low- and high-copper amalgams into saline was investigated with respect to time via atomic absorption spectrophotometry.
(8) The unpolished surfaces also show small rounded units, which aggregate into rods of mineral approximately 100 nm across.
(9) Average recoveries ranged from 74.7% for disulfoton to 97.4% for malathion in unpolished rice and from 68.1% for disulfoton to 108.3% for malathion in other crops.
(10) They were then divided into two groups, polished and unpolished, in an effort to determine the total influence of the polishing procedure on clasp behavior.
(11) After immersion of unpolished and polished high copper amalgam in saliva with different pH values for up to 12 weeks, the elements mercury, tin, copper, silver and antimony were analysed in the solution.
(12) Collaborative analytical studies on the elemental composition of the rice flour-unpolished reference material were conducted using various analytical techniques which lead to the certification.
(13) To confirm their result, seven unpolished rice samples obtained just after harvesting were analyzed for 3H.
(14) The much-missed Entourage, currently set for a big screen revival in 2015, is about a young "it" actor from the wrong side of New York who moves to Los Angeles with a group of equally unpolished friends after hitting it big in Hollywood.
(15) For patients less than 80 years old (390 patients), the cumulative capsulotomy rate in the polished capsule group was 9.2% (36 eyes); in the unpolished capsule group the rate was 12.0% (47 eyes) for the same follow-up time (average 30 months).
(16) The buffering capacity of some Nigerian local food substances was investigated using a modification of Toveys method (1974), Beans (red, and white), maize, rice (unprocessed with hull) and rice (unpolished) appeared to have high buffering capacity while yam, cassava and polished rice all showed weak buffering capacity.
(17) The effect of the sealing material employed (polished red stopper and unpolished black stopper) was observed, as well as time of contact between the solutions and rubber stoppers and latex slides, and the method of bottle conditioning (vertical or horizontal position) which permits contact of the solutions with the rubber stoppers.
(18) Greater amounts of mercury and silver were released from unpolished than from polished surfaces.
(19) The unpolished rice was pulverized, oven-dried, homogenized and finally packaged into 1000 glass bottles.
(20) The surface texture of restorations of composite resin with porous strontium glass filler was nearly as smooth as that of enamel and was significantly smoother than that of the restorations of composite resin with zinc glass filler or of unpolished amalgam.