(n.) A tool, variously shaped or grooved on the end or face, used by blacksmiths and other workers in metals, for shaping their work, whether sheet metal or forging, by holding the swage upon the work, or the work upon the swage, and striking with a sledge.
(v. t.) To shape by means of a swage; to fashion, as a piece of iron, by forcing it into a groove or mold having the required shape.
Example Sentences:
(1) The best processing schedule is casting small ingots while avoiding oxidation, followed by swaging, drawing, and homogenization.
(2) The swaged metal matrix provides a method for rapidly making a metal substructure for ceramic crowns.
(3) Those differences between swaged and cast specimens were seemed to depend on the casting porosities.
(4) 4 wt.% Si were chosen for this study because they have Curie temperatures in the desired range of 45-60 degrees C. The thermoseeds were prepared by using either a special casting technique or casting and swaging followed by homogenization.
(5) 1) The tensile strength and elongation of swaged specimen showed highest value at 30 wt% Au but in case of casted specimen, tensile strength was highest as 20 wt% and elongation was minimum at 30 wt% Au.
(6) A new double-armed microsuture using 70-mu micro-edge taper-point (M.E.T., Sharpoint, Reading, PA) needles swaged onto 10-0 (22 mu) monofilament nylon has been developed by us primarily to allow precision intraluminal suture placement.
(7) The purpose of this study is to evaluate the biomechanical performance of laser-drilled and channel needle swages.
(8) In this experiment, an uniform-moment bending load method was employed to simulate the occlusal situation, and the distribution of strain in epoxy resin, stainless swaged and Co-Cr alloy cast dentures were measured and analyzed.
(9) Malleting or swaging a beveled margin is a more sucessful technique of adapting cast gold to the cavosurface angles.
(10) This study determined the vertical and horizontal marginal fidelity of swaged metal substrate crowns made with four methods.
(11) The anastomoses were performed with an operating microscope with monofilament nylon 10-0 (Ethilon) and polyglactin 910 (Vicryl) 10-0 (0.2 m) swaged to a BV-6 taper-point needle.
(12) These benefits of laser-drilled swages indicate that they should replace all channel needles.
(13) Parham bands and swage-lock titanium cables were found to exhibit the greatest fixation potential and highest ultimate strengths.
(14) The laser-drilled swages have a more uniform circumference that encounters lower drag forces than the channel needle swages.
(15) Microsurgical ureteroureterostomy was performed in 100 rats with Nylon and Vicryl 10-0 and 11-0 swaged on a BV-6 and BV-8 needle.
(16) Swaged PVC foil used for packing pharmaceuticals, also known here as strip packing or press-through packing for pills and dragees was employed as plates for the cultures.
Swale
Definition:
(n.) A valley or low place; a tract of low, and usually wet, land; a moor; a fen.
(v. i. & t.) To melt and waste away; to singe. See Sweal, v.
(n.) A gutter in a candle.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is an excruciating fly-on-the-wall witness to Allison's vainglory, Swales's self-regard for his own leadership qualities and the poor young players' overpromoted helplessness.
(2) We had hounded Swales out, in an unforgiving public humiliation, for a childhood hero we believed would make us happy again.
(3) Previously he was chief executive of Amicus Group and Swale Housing Association.
(4) Ian Swales MP, a member of the Commons public acccounts committee, said of the BBC's refusal to say how much DMI has cost"this type of secrecy is inappropriate".
(5) He said 13 were pledged to vote against: Tim Farron, Charles Kennedy, Sir Menzies Campbell, Mike Hancock, Bob Russell, Greg Mulholland, John Pugh, Mark Williams, Roger Williams, Martin Horwood, Julian Huppert, Ian Swales and John Leech.
(6) The overspending on new players by Allison and Swales is still legendary.
(7) Quinn Swales was taking guests on a photographic walking safari in Hwange national park at dawn on Monday when he was charged by the male, according to the Camp Hwange lodge.
(8) Boats were used for surveying areas of the Medway and Swale estuaries, while researchers on foot were able to get to spots the boats could not reach.
(9) The letter in Wednesday's Guardian is signed by Huppert, Annette Brooke, Malcolm Bruce, Mike Crockart, Andrew George, Mike Hancock, John Leech, Greg Mulholland, John Pugh, Alan Reid, Adrian Sanders, Ian Swales, David Ward, Mark Williams, Stephen Gilbert and Roger Williams.
(10) The signatories of the letter are Huppert, Annette Brooke, Malcolm Bruce, Mike Crockart, Andrew George, Mike Hancock, John Leech, Greg Mulholland, John Pugh, Alan Reid, Adrian Sanders, Ian Swales, David Ward, Mark Williams, Stephen Gilbert and Roger Williams.
(11) In the week of that final match, Peter Swales had died aged 62, a broken man shattered by his ousting.
(12) They were: Gordon Birtwistle (Burnley) Michael Crockart (Edinburgh West) Andrew George (St Ives) Julian Huppert (Cambridge) Dan Rogerson (Cornwall North) Andrew Stunell (Hazel Grove) Ian Swales (Redcar) Sarah Teather (Brent Central) Roger Williams (Brecon & Radnorshire).
(13) Gateshead and Tamworth have 30.7% adult obesity, while two other districts, Swale and Medway in Kent, have also for the first time nudged over the 30% line.
(14) Brown works for Swale borough council as an apprentice within the commissioning and open spaces department.
(15) He resigned the day after being named by Cable as the senior party figure who had commissioned the surveys from pollsters ICM that showed Clegg in Sheffield Hallam, Munt in Wells, Swales in Redcar and Cable in Twickenham were likely to lose their seats under the current leadership.
(16) Swales had not, in fact, been extracted out of Maine Road; he still owned 10% of the club.
(17) Ian Swales, a Liberal Democrat member of the PAC, asked: "All the schemes you have marketed are now illegal, so you are now looking for the next loophole – is that a fair description of your business?"
(18) We can confirm that Quinn did everything he could to successfully protect his guests and ensure their safety, and that no guests were injured in the incident.” The safari industry paid tribute to Swales.
(19) Ian Swales, the Redcar MP whose constituency Oakeshott also polled, told his local Gazette that the results suggesting he would lose his seat were "based on a small sample and look very amateurish".
(20) The global popularity of the English Premier League, shown and watched in 200 countries around the world, means that Manchester City, Peter Swales's cocked-up football club I grew up supporting, is a huge media phenomenon.