(n.) Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, -- used for smoothing and polishing.
(v. t.) To smooth or polish with sandpaper; as, to sandpaper a door.
Example Sentences:
(1) A model of an irregular anterior corneal surface was developed in deepithelialized calf eyes using grade 8-0 sandpaper.
(2) The sapphire home button of the iPhone 5S resisted all scratches from both sandpapers.
(3) The searing aftermath, as your throat rages as though sandpapered and your anus screams like a scalded button.
(4) A softer garnet sandpaper, which is about six on the Mohs scale, and emery, which is about eight on the Mohs scale, were used on the two screens.
(5) The remaining scapha is straightened and the superior crus and antihelical fold are formed by scratching and sandpaper abrasion of the lateral surface.
(6) Two years ago Steve Jobs, then Apple chief executive, dismissed the idea of a 7in tablet "unless your tablet also includes sandpaper, so that the user can sand down their fingers to around one-quarter of the present size" to use the smaller touchscreen.
(7) In Experiment 1, rats were trained on a discrimination between rubber- and sandpaper-covered arms of a maze after one group had been pre-exposed to these intra-maze cues.
(8) Stress in the longitudinal direction was radiographically calculated in the cast specimens (6 mm X 18 mm) after casting, sandpaper polishing, oxidation, and each firing process.
(9) Sections of 15 microns are obtained by cutting the trimmed and sandpapered polyester blocks with an LKB multirange microtome.
(10) Sections 10 microns thick are obtained by cutting the trimmed and sandpapered acrylic blocks on an LKB multirange microtome.
(11) Sandpaper wrapped around a motor-driven cylinder is effective in broad, flat areas but is difficult to use around the eyes and nose.
(12) Up to 12 different conditions defined by different combinations of object weights (15, 65, and 115 g) and four surface textures (oiled metal, smooth metal, fine and coarse sandpaper) were used.
(13) "; "Very, very good, thank you" – Johnson went downhill at an alarming pace until by the interview's close, admitting he had "sandpapered" quotes as a Times journalist, failing to deny he lied to the party leader at the time, Michael Howard, about an extramarital affair and conceding that he had humoured an old friend when he asked for a phone number in the knowledge that the friend intended to beat up the owner of it.
(14) The new video shows Marques Brownlee scratch both an iPhone 5S screen – which uses the third generation of Gorilla Glass – and the alleged iPhone 6 4.7in screen with two different types of sandpaper.
(15) The output of Third Man Records is wilfully unconventional: White recently produced a new album with Neil Young – A Letter Home , acoustic versions of Young's favourite songs – but they recorded it in a 1947 Voice-o-Graph booth that imbues the tracks with a sandpaper crackle.
(16) Cameron is a smooth old Etonian; Thatcher was a grammar school girl made from sandpaper.
(17) If conditions permitted, the cell discharge was also recorded during lifting of objects of various weights (15, 65, or 115 g) or different surface textures (sandpaper or polished metal), and when possible the cutaneous or proprioceptive fields of the neurons were characterized with the use of natural stimulation.
(18) And the hypothetical 7-inch iPad would easily fit in a 5.5" -wide jacket pocket: Lastly, there's another reason for Apple to forget the sandpaper and, instead, throw sand into Amazon's and Google's (purported) 7" tablet gears.
(19) Down the crackly phone line, it sounds like sandpaper being scraped against a pebbledash wall.
(20) In the first experiment, dentin specimens were divided into following three groups: dentin surface polished with carborundum-point, carborundum-point and #150 sandpaper and carborundum-point, #150 sandpaper and #240 sandpaper.
Sandpiper
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringidae.
(n.) A small lamprey eel; the pride.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fifty western sandpipers, Calidris mauri, from El Paso and Hudspeth counties, Texas, were collected and examined for helminth parasites.
(2) Among the rareties: ivory gull, sharp-tailed sandpiper, lark sparrow and warblers from every corner of the western hemisphere.
(3) It may look a silly, over-talkative film now – and there are Taylor pictures where the sheer visual glory has dated comically – until you let the story melt away and just gaze at her: in Ivanhoe, say, or Beau Brummell, or The Sandpiper or The Last Time I Saw Paris.
(4) The number of grey partridges in the UK sank by 50% since 1970 due to the intensification of farming, while curlew sandpipers in Australia lost 80% of their number in the 20 years to 2005.
(5) The tail-end of hurricane Katia brought in many buff-breasted sandpipers from North America to Somerset and Pembrokeshire, and a single vagrant monarch butterfly arrived at Ringstead Bay in Dorset.
(6) In the Scolopacidae, which includes the sandpipers and snipe, there is a significant enlargement of the neural apparatus subserving the behaviour of probing which is the preferred feeding strategy of this family of birds.
(7) The spotted sandpiper (Actitis macularia) is characterized by intense female intrasexual competition and predominantly male parental care.
(8) It’s now packed at weekends – but retains its quirky, homely feel – with people converging from far and wide for pre-ordered paella, and the heartily recommended house speciality, cuajadera , a saffron-rich seafood stew (intriguingly, erroneously translated as “junket of sandpiper” on the menu).
(9) Third-stage spiruroid larvae were found encapsulated on the serosa of the small and large intestines and in the mesentery of one of 15 adult upland sandpipers (Bartramia longicauda) from Manitoba, Canada, and three of 18 adult long-billed curlews (Numenius americanus) from Alberta, Canada.
(10) Plasma samples collected from spotted sandpipers during the reproductive season were analyzed for testosterone, dihydrotestosterone (DHT), estradiol-17 beta and progesterone.
(11) Unfortunately, their reputations as serious actors were not much enhanced by the next film they made together, the limp soap opera The Sandpiper (1965).
(12) Later on in the year the Indian summer, plus some wild winds, resulted in unusual feathered visitors such as the buff-breasted sandpiper, which blew in from North America, and the desert wheatear, thought to have drifted in from north Africa.
(13) The polyandrous spotted sandpiper (Actitis macularia) is a species characterized by female dominance over males and predominant male parental care.
(14) Yersinia frederiksenii was isolated from two specimens of the gray-rumped sandpiper (Heteroscelus brevipes).
(15) We examined the relationship between circulating levels of gonadal steroids (testosterone, progesterone, and estradiol) and breeding behavior in semipalmated sandpipers (Calidris pusilla) and red-necked phalaropes (Phalaropus lobatus) breeding sympatrically at La Pérouse Bay, 40 km east of Churchill, Manitoba.
(16) More than 15 species of migratory shorebirds use the wetland, including the red-necked stint and the sharp-tailed sandpiper, which are both endangered.
(17) Semipalmated sandpipers are territorial and monogamous.
(18) Viable seeds of Celtis, Convolvulus, Malva, and Rhus were regurgitated from the digestive tract of kill-deer (Charadrius vociferus) after 160, 144, 152, and 340 hours, respectively; seeds were recovered in the same way, after long-time retention, from least sandpipers (Erolia minutilla).