(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.
Sheet
Definition:
(v. t.) In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.
(v. t.) A broad piece of cloth, usually linen or cotton, used for wrapping the body or for a covering; especially, one used as an article of bedding next to the body.
(v. t.) A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc.
(v. t.) A single signature of a book or a pamphlet;
(v. t.) the book itself.
(v. t.) A broad, thinly expanded portion of metal or other substance; as, a sheet of copper, of glass, or the like; a plate; a leaf.
(v. t.) A broad expanse of water, or the like.
(v. t.) A sail.
(v. t.) An extensive bed of an eruptive rock intruded between, or overlying, other strata.
(v. t.) A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; -- usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom.
(v. t.) The space in the forward or the after part of a boat where there are no rowers; as, fore sheets; stern sheets.
(v. t.) To furnish with a sheet or sheets; to wrap in, or cover with, a sheet, or as with a sheet.
(v. t.) To expand, as a sheet.
Example Sentences:
(1) The popularly used procedure in Great Britain is that in which a sheet of Ivalon sponge is sutured to the sacrum and wrapped around the rectum thus anchoring it in place.
(2) Some dental applications of the pressure measuring sheet, such as the measurement of biting pressure and balance during normal and unilateral biting, were examined.
(3) An accurate and reproducible method is described for generating a map of the cobalt sheet source from images of it made in multiple positions with the scintillation camera.
(4) Dose distributions were evaluated under thin sheet lead used as surface bolus for 4- and 10-MV photons and 6- and 9-MeV electrons using a parallel-plate ion chamber and film.
(5) The compromised ice sheet tilts and he sinks into the Arctic Sea on the back of his faltering white Icelandic pony.
(6) Expansion of the cell sheet following attachment, and the fusion of epiblasts advancing toward each other, does not require the presence of mineralocorticoid.
(7) The type I cells are squamous and give off attenuated sheets of cytoplasm which spread widely over the septal surface; these sheets contain few organelles.
(8) The frequency spectra of transmission coefficients for ultrasound passing through a sheet of gas-filled micropores have been measured using incident waves with amplitudes up to 2.4 x 10(4) Pa.
(9) Both types of molecules are compact and globular in shape and apparently contain beta-pleated sheet conformation.
(10) In the high-grade component, the blasts occurred in clusters or sheets, and often possessed plasmacytoid cytoplasm; glandular invasion was a rare event.
(11) A template showing typical histograms from commonly occurring CLPD was also produced on an acetate sheet.
(12) These findings suggest that the presence of features such as large prominent nucleoli, tumor growth in sheets, individual-cell necrosis, and nuclear pleomorphism may be used to predict recurrence of subtotally resected meningiomas that would not be classified as malignant by traditional criteria.
(13) The conformational similarity between tubules, sheets, and the dry powder is corroborated by calorimetry, which reveals a cooling exotherm at the same temperature where tubules form upon cooling hydrated sheets.
(14) The cortical vitreous of the normal (control) eye appeared to be a lamellar structure composed of sheets of collagen mesh.
(15) A central eight-stranded beta-pleated sheet is the main feature of the polypeptide backbone folding in dihydrofolate reductase.
(16) In order to clarify the role of dialyzer geometry, the effect of hollow-fiber versus flat-sheet dialyzers and of different surface areas on C3a generation and leukocyte degranulation was investigated.
(17) The simultaneous binding of the polypeptidic molecules to two opposing bilayers appears to be required in order to preserve the beta-sheet structure at pressures over approximately 9 kbar: a small proportion of the polypeptide, most likely the molecules at the surface of the aggregated bilayers, was found to convert to unordered and eventually to alpha-helical conformations in the pressure range 9-19 kbar.
(18) Pterygia, triangular sheets of fibrovascular tissue that invade the cornea, have recurrence rates of 30% to 50% with currently available surgical procedures.
(19) Cells containing A-layer and isolated A-layer sheets specifically bound laminin and fibronectin with high affinity.
(20) Under fluoroscopic control a lower polar calix was punctured with 18 G sheathed needle; a guide wire was introduced through the sheet.