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nail
nail metal pin driven by force applied at one end into pieces of material, usually wood, to join them together. The strength of a nailed joint depends on the properties of the wood, the type and number of nails used, and the type of loads applied to the joint. When the nail is subjected to side... Read more |
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Hammer
Hammer Background A hammer is a handheld tool used to strike another object. It consists of a handle to which is attached a heavy head, usually made of metal, with one or more striking surfaces. There are dozens of different types of hammers. The most common is a claw... Read more |
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nail (anatomy)
nail in anatomy, the horny outgrowth shielding the tip of the finger and the toe in humans and most other primates. The nail consists of dead cells pushed outward by dividing cells in the root, a fold of epidermis at the base of the nail (see skin ). The hard material in nail cells is the tough... Read more |
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Onychomycosis
Onychomycosis Definition Onychomycosis is a fungal infection of the fingernails or toenails. The actual infection is of the bed of the nail and of the plate under the surface of the nail. Description Onychomycosis is the most common of all diseases of the nails in adults. In North America, the... Read more |
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Nail-patella syndrome
Nail-Patella Syndrome Definition Nail-patella syndrome, is a genetic disease of the connective tissue that produces defects in the fingernails, knee caps, and kidneys. Description Nail-patella syndrome is also known as Fong Disease, Hereditary Onycho-Osteodysplasia (H.O.O.D.), Iliac Horn... Read more |
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Nail polishes
Nail Polish Background Unlike many other cosmetics that have a history of hundreds or even thousands of years, nail polish (or lacquer, or enamel) is almost completely an invention of twentieth century technology. Nail coverings were not unknown in ancient times—the upper... Read more |
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Finger injuries
Fingertip injuries Definition Fingertip injuries include any woundsto the area at tip of the finger. They range from a simple bruise or scrape to having the fingertip taken off. Fingertip injuries occur frequently in infants and children because hands are used to ... Read more |
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obol
obol an ancient Greek coin worth one sixth of a drachma, traditionally the coin placed in the mouth of the dead as a fee for Charon to ferry them across the Styx. The word originally meant ‘spit’ or ‘nail’, and came to be used for a type of coin as in early times nails... Read more |
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Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails Rock group Nine Inch Nails (NIN), the elaborate brainchild of auteur Trent Reznor, shattered the concept of popular music by crafting songs from sounds that could easily have been heard in a metal fabrication plant. Along with the industrial nature of the music, dark,... Read more |
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scleroprotein
scleroprotein large class of protein molecules that are ordinarily insoluble in water. The scleroproteins are employed principally for architectural purposes in the living cell and are localized in the structural tissues of bone, hair, skin, wool, silk, nails, hooves, and feathers. The major... Read more |
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freaks
...pincushions, geeks (those who eat live animals and raw meat), fully-tattooed men and women, and others who can safely hammer nails up their noses, refer to themselves as novelty act performers. Few exhibiting themselves as freaks before the early... |
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Prayers of Steel
...poet represents the unformed metal as supplicating.Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike ... Let me be the great nail holding a skyscraper through blue nights into white stars. |
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nail
...to the currant jelly.’nail one's colours to the mast...lowered in defeat.on the nail immediately, at once...question.See also bed of nails, when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail, one nail drives out ... |
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hammer
...international communism.hammer and tongs with great energy...Often go at something hammer and tongs.when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail often used to comment...that has worn out many hammers at church. |
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claw hammer
claw ham·mer • n. 1. a hammer with one side of the head split and curved, used for extracting nails. 2. (clawhammer) a style of banjo playing in which the thumb and fingers strum or pluck the strings in a downward motion. |
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nail
nail • verb 1. nail the pieces togethersynonyms: pin, tack, hammer, fix, fasten, secure, join, attach. 2. nail him at the meetingsynonyms: get hold of, grab, get the attention of, make someone commit himself/herself, pin down... |
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drive
...carry. 4. the engine drives the front wheels synonyms: power, propel, move, push. 5. he drove a nail into the board synonyms: hammer, screw, ram, sink, plunge, thrust, propel, knock. 6. she drove her cattle to market synonyms... |
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stick
...work at, continue with, carry on with, not give up with, hammer away at, stay with; go the distance, stay the course; informal...struggle on; informal hang in there, soldier on, tough it out, nail one's colors to the mast. stick out 1. his front teeth stuck... |
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Soc: Hammers nail Watford to a draw
...Australia) 08-23-2006 Soc: Hammers nail Watford to a draw WATFORD, England...minutebefore Bobby Zamora equalised for the Hammers with his third in two matches...later to salvage a point for the Hammers. Paul Konchesky crossed from the... |
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Soc: Spurs blunt Blades, Hammers nail Watford to a draw
...2006 Soc: Spurs blunt Blades, Hammers nail Watford to a draw LONDON, Aug 22...minutebefore Bobby Zamora equalised for the Hammers with his third in two matches...later to salvage a point for the Hammers. Paul Konchesky crossed from the... |
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Hammers nail Metz; INTERTOTO CUP Metz 1 West Ham 3 (West Ham win 3-2 on...
...the first time in their history. The Hammers, trailing 1-0 from the home leg, were...back for Metz in the 68th minute put the Hammers were still on course for victory on away goals. And Paulo Wanchope fired the final nail in Metz's coffin 11 minutes from time... |
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Football: Hammers nail Metz INTERTOTO CUP Metz 1 West Ham 3 (West Ham win 3-2...
...the first time in their history. The Hammers, trailing 1-0 from the home leg, were...back for Metz in the 68th minute put the Hammers were still on course for victory on away goals. And Paulo Wanchope fired the final nail in Metz's coffin 11 minutes from time... |
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Soc: McDonald's volley hammers nail into Rangers title hopes
AAP Sports News (Australia) 12-28-2008 Soc: McDonald's volley hammers nail into Rangers title hopes by Alistair Watson GLASGOW, Dec 27 AFP - A sensational Scott McDonald volley was enough to secure a 1... |
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HAMMERS + NAILS = STUDENT SUCCESS.(NEWS)
...LAINE M. RUTHERFORD CORRESPONDENT True or false? Hammers + nails (times a good real estate market) = ladybugs and...aside, the answer is "true." This year alone, hammers, nails, pipes and wires used by former Virginia Beach students... |
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New Englanders Revolt Against the 'Foreigners' as Sam Adams, Hammer & Nail,...
...and Cream Stout, along with local Connecticut beers Hammer & Nail Brown Ale, and New England Yankee Amber Ale handily...Samuel Adams Summer Ale beat Corona 17 to 10 (5 ties). Hammer & Nail Brown Ale was preferred over Newcastle Brown Ale by... |
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HAMMERS, NAILS AND VIDEO TAPE HOME-IMPROVEMENT GIANTS BEAR DOWN ON LUCRATIVE...
...immediately replaced. Home Depot had, for example, 37 different hammers and 84 toilet seats. Besides building supplies, landscaping...Depot's president, who were fired by California-based hammer and nails merchant Handy Dan's in 1978. Next year they launched Home... |
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Hammer & Nail evicted. (Weekly Specialty Beer Report).(Brief Article)
Hammer & Nail Brewers of Oakville, CT, a well-regarded microbrewery, has shut down after being evicted and having its property seized by... |
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Hammers, Nails, and Afghanistan. (OP-ED).(anti-war position)
...war, and toppling governments is what warfare does best. That old saying, "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail," seems terrifyingly germane here. Why should we worry? Because a war that doesn't--indeed, probably... |
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