How To Use Surface In A Sentence

The aircraft descended into a wetland area and had since been forgotten about as it sank below the surface. Times, Sunday Times
Unless the radar signal is normal to some surface (extremely low probability) the radar receives no return.
The material you choose for surfaces including counters, backsplashes and floors can also account for variations in price.
Such football titbits always float to the surface on third-round day which remains the best, most hectic, interesting and fun day of the season - and this one was even more frenetic than usual.
The abrupt facies shift, bioturbation and cemented nature of the surfaces suggests that they represent marine flooding surfaces, formed during a rapid rise in relative sea level and/or a reduction in sediment supply.

Assemble the table on a level surface, turn the top wheel upside down and place the seat wheel on top of it.
Of course, it was snuffed out because Mars is tectonically dead, so the recycling of chemicals that you get on Earth which keeps things going and supplies the surface biosphere would have actually ceased on Mars a lot earlier.
The dyes are in the form of a suspension of particles which, for reasons not fully understood, are adsorbed onto the surface of ligno-cellulosic fibres such as sisal, abaca and fique. Chapter 8
The altitudinal distribution of Earth-surface processes is controlled by all these factors.
To reduce the wing trim drag, the fuselage was fitted with lateral surfaces called chines, which actually converted the forward fuselage into a fixed canard which developed lift.
But, fortunately, there were cavities in the two teeth on either side of the gap -- one in the first molar and one in the palatine surface of the cuspid; might he not drill a socket in the remaining root and sockets in the molar and cuspid, and, partly by bridging, partly by crowning, fill in the gap? McTeague
The rounded flakes, with less surface area to reflect light, lose brilliance.
I can find no legitimate references to the use of metallic, inorganic, or organic silver compounds as a sanitizer, disinfectant, or sterilizing agent. quaternary ammonium chloride compounds - Mixtures of compounds such as alkyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride, didecyl dimethyl ammonium chloride, dioctyl dimethyl ammonium chloride, and octyl decyl dimethyl ammonium chloride are very commonly used as surface sanitizer; if you look at your household cleaners that claim disinfecting properties, there's a high percentage chance that you'll find a "quat". Question ;Microdyne
You must avoid applying concentrated materials to the tree at gallonages that allow the material to dribble to the lower surface of the fruit.
Karam also highlighted the authority's implementation of surface-to-surface communications applications and upgrading from Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunication Network (AFTN) system to Aeronautical Message Handling System (AMHS). AME Info Latest News
The invention concerns a cable drum having a non-cylindrical profile of its outer surface and the use of this cable drum in a window regulator system, particularly in a vehicle.
Ribs are straight or slightly biconcave and fade on the ventral surface where they merge into the lateral keel.
This inversion technique takes into account atmospheric effects on the radiation and spatial variations in the surface emissivity and backscatter.
The highly textured surface of these poems does not, however, obscure the continuous emotional undercurrent.
I have also used * toothpaste* to clean the screen; if you work at it, the toothpaste abrasives will get rid of hairline scratches on the screen surface. CIS Threads #1: Interesting Threads from the TRS Model 100 Forum Messages by Phil Wheeler
Close to the mangroves a big hawksbill turtle surfaced then lay motionless in the sunshine, no doubt sunbathing.
The attractive forces between molecules in a liquid are called surface tension forces and are what hold the liquid together.
The black and white images suggested a lunar surface with bright elevated land masses, grooved by sloping drainage channels and seemingly surrounded by dark, still pools of oily liquid.
I hit the water and surfaced, looking back to see Scott pointing west.
In the research the hand was linked to the amputee's arm only by wire and actually lay on a nearby surface. Times, Sunday Times
Ozone forms a protective layer between 12 and 30 miles above the Earth's surface.
Mineral filled, toughened, lubricated polybutylene terephthalate resin for injection moldingsurface aesthetics.
A separable reinforced concrete numerical model and fluid-solid interconnection method were used to predict the development of surface bulge in LS-DYNA.
The _router-plane_, Figs. 121 and 122, is used to lower a certain part of a surface and yet keep it parallel with the surrounding part, and it is particularly useful in cutting panels, dadoes, and grooves. Handwork in Wood
My knife slips off the screw and with a grating screech marks the white surface of the machine.
In my scenario, the Senator tells the drowning person that it was the flailing non-swimmer's fault for falling in and not learning how to swim, not the Senator's doing, just before the erratic splasher goes under the surface for the last time. Norman Cressy: Musings II
The cup-marked stone shown below, in the Sma’ Glen, near Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, is situated in a large man-made concave-shaped amphitheatre in the hills, and has a prominent dumb-bell shaped cup-mark on its surface.
In times like these, to stroke the orb's gentle surface was a comfort, yet I fought the urge to wake it from its resting place.
Another argument that rates will rise is that inflation, long thought dead, has recently resurfaced.
At the age of ten years the black matter makes its appearance in the outer surface of the lungs, and in the interlobular spaces. An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners
Moisture blisters usually include all paint coats down to the wood surface.
The sea was its usual calm blue, a glassy liquid surface stretching till it fused with the horizon in a spectacle of colour.
No certainty there of a fast surface. The Sun
Flat lawns are formed into an abstract pattern that recalls tectonic fractures and fissures in the earth's surface, their edges defined by dark grey concrete retaining walls.
Rub the surface with sandpaper before painting.
Science finds that a surface tension on the water can draw the boats together, like toy boats in a bathtub.
Copper is known to be taken into solution as copper sulphate at the surface, and to be redeposited as chalcocite where these sulphate solutions come in contact with chalcopyrite or pyrite below. The Economic Aspect of Geology
Surfaces painted with semi-gloss or eggshell finish paints are easier to clean than flat-finish paints.
It caused differential melting and sublimation on the surface, according to the patterns it happened to fall in and the mixes of ices it clung to, until it was washed away or encysted. The Clique
Beneath the splenium of the corpus callosum, the dentate gyrus becomes flattened and smooth and continues on to the dorsal surface of the corpus callosum as the thin gyrus fasciolaris.
Although the softest condition is obtained when the large globules of cementite are embedded in the ferrite, a smooth machined surface is difficult to obtain due to tearing.
I was studying a phenomenon known since 1908 as the phototaxy of chloroplasts: the property of some algae living at the surface of ponds to orient their large unique chloroplast according to the intensity of light; if the light was too intense, the chloroplast turned inside the tubular cell to present its edge. Luc Montagnier - Autobiography
A non-conductor can be charged by induction by exposure to an electrostatic field that is present on a surface charged with static electricity.
Use stochastic simulation, create the plainness sequence of the stable stochastic road surface for the target road spectrums with programming, and use logistic test to verify.
These aetherial lines of force stretch out into space on every side of the sun, and in fact form concentric magnetic shells around the sun; which magnetic shells coincide with the equipotential surfaces of the Aether and Gravitation
The first, innocuous shower stroked the lake's surface but, when the wind came up, the loons began to call madly.
The space, surfaces, and materials were coordinated to deliver clear and vibrant sound from unamplified individual instruments and voices.
The planet Jupiter may have no solid surface at all.
Now stadium officials have decided to turf out the rye grass surface and lay a fresh pitch. The Sun
The shell surface is distinctly annulated along its sides, with broad annulae that are separated by deep narrow grooves.
She levelled the surface of the cake mixture with a metal spatula.
Its robotic arm dug a trench and sensationally discovered ice beneath the surface. The Sun
While a radiator has one relatively small hot area, the underfloor pipes range the full span of the floor, and this greater surface area mean that the pipes don't need to be as hot and the heat is more evenly spread.
The missing man suddenly resurfaced in New York
After our eyes adjust, we find the walls to be a gorgeous translucent blue, the surface scalloped into smooth, symmetrical wavelets.
When I resurfaced, Jordan was treading water next to me with a huge grin.
But this was a perfectly placid surface, so the constant coming and going calls for some explanation. Times, Sunday Times
Heavy equipment or materials such as pallets of payers can squash a tree's shallow surface roots.
Wipe the surface with a damp cloth.
Defying all laws of buoyancy, he continued walking into the water until the surface was a good five feet above him.
Man, the surface of the skull is comparatively smooth, and the supraciliary ridges or brow prominences usually project but little — while, in the Gorilla, vast crests are developed upon the skull, and the brow ridges overhang, the cavernous orbits, like great penthouses. Essays
The numerous rivers heart surface, threads a needle the line to suture sadly.
This brushpot typifies the pictorial quality characteristic of so many later vessels, which were often worked as if the surface of the jade were a sheet of paper or a scroll to be unrolled.
Traced downward, it covers the antero-superior surface of the stomach and the commencement of the duodenum, and is carried down into a large free fold, known as the gastrocolic ligament or greater omentum. XI. Splanchnology. 2e. The Abdomen
However, they do not form extensive precipitates on the bacterial surface.
If they dethaw in an uncontrolled manner, they could send a flood of natural gas to the top of the ocean surface and potentially ignite. Reuters: Top News
Above this peptide concentration, surface pressures are effectively constant.
Roasting in a convection oven, which circulates hot air over the surface of the food, works beautifully.
Lay the shade on a flat surface with the lining side up, and mark the placement for the plastic rings along the dowel casing lines, aligning them with the screw eyes in the mounting board.
He scratched imprecisely with his right hand, though insensible of prurition, various points and surfaces of his partly exposed, wholly abluted skin. Ulysses
In paint programs, by contrast, he can only add previously created images to the surfaces, which is not as effective.
Since air has weight, it must press down on the surface of the earth.
There are three distinct types of spiric surfaces depending whether the axis of revolution cuts the circle, it a tangent to the circle, or is outside the circle.
One of the most interesting novelties of the volume was the so-called ‘moving trihedrals’ for twisted curves as well as surfaces so freely used in writings of Darboux and others.
It provides a powerful method in laser assessment and alignment, and provides a diagnostic tool for measuring optical surfaces and transmissive components.
In a number of orchid species, the outer tangential walls of short cells have numerous wall ingrowths that greatly expand the surface area of the plasma membrane and, thus, resemble transfer cells.
The fracture surface is a fibrous slant fracture.
To begin with the surface is coherent – now and again she smiles sadly at the charm he manages to bestow on that foul-smelling tannery – but as she turns the pages she sees it start to break down. Rachel Cusk | Portraits
Then the mixture is applied to a cleaned device surface and activated by ultraviolet light.
Areas on the surface of the Sun called coronal holes, where the magnetic field is quite open and highly energetic charged particles stream out and hit the earth's magnetic field and interact with it.
The researchers studied how contaminants move through the vadose zone, which is the area between the soil surface and the groundwater zone. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
Despite their fishlike exteriors, ichthyosaurs had to surface to breathe air and they gave birth to live young.
Normally, asphalt road surfaces are built on top of a bed of concrete, which is itself built atop a bed of gravel.
With the floor of the channel shallowing from 200 metres to 60 metres and at the same time a rock pinnacle, like a finger, rising up from the sea bed to 29 metres from the surface, there is no surprise that the whirlpool was once described as a 'conflux so dreadful that it spurns all description. Found While Looking for Something Else
The smooth surface of the lake reflected back the brilliant moonlight.
Previous data support a significant relationship between sea-surface temperature and the breeding success of krill-loving gentoo penguins.
Again borrowing heavily from the Ghosd examples/animation.c file, the main loop creates a 400x400 alpha-blended surface area.
Neither the normal stress nor the frictional shear stress acting on the cone tip surface is uniformly distributed.
A 1D heat conduction is solved numerically for fluxes in and out of surfaces. Archive 2008-10-01
All architectural projections and rusticated surfaces are of reconstituted stone.
I meant painted in the sense of a pigmented cementitious finish that is applied to the surface of the brick before firing. Green Building Elements: Brick
You mask passion with a calm surface and casual behavior.
On the surface, it seems the radio babblers have been unceremoniously shushed.
To all outward appearances everything was fine, but under the surface the marriage was very shaky.
On the surface, Annie Powerss life in a wealthy Floridian suburb is happy and idyllic. Black Out by Lisa Unger: Book summary
Oil the inside of the metal rings and the surface of the griddle. Times, Sunday Times
As well, some new sewers will be laid in the town and there will be greater separation of surface water from foul sewer to create more capacity in the treatment plant.
These ideas resurfaced again in the American civil rights movement.
Scientists say its surface was non-reflective, making it hard to spot. The Sun
Unpleasant weather conditions prevailed and the players slithering on the greasy surface was a common occurrence.
When canals dropped the water table below the surface, and the sawgrass was cleared, the peat dried, shrank and blew away, or burnt like a cigar, smoldering for months and years, filling the sky with smoke.
Generally, surface compaction only affects one crop year if the field is plowed before the next crop.
The oil is trapped in minuscule cells of porous subsurface rocks in so-called sedimentary basins. What Lies Below?
The surface weather which is experienced is but an indicator of the considerable flux and resultant turbulence which occurs in the range of atmosphere from the surface to high above.
Mr. Danley, when I say 'surface at nine nine five', I mean _surface_! Anchorite
Nitrogen may be introduced into the surface of the steel by nitriding.
Below are the results for each food dropped on floor surfaces containing 17million bacteria. The Sun
To start, pour a small amount of dry pigment forming a mound onto a nonporous slab surface, such as glass or marble; then, make an impression in the center of the mound and, into that, pour a small amount of linseed or other oil. Daniel Grant: Some Artists Make Their Own Paints
But, fortunately, there were cavities in the two teeth on either side of the gap -- one in the first molar and one in the palatine surface of the cuspid; might he not drill McTeague
This exercise involves the assembly of a glucose biosensor with the glucose oxidase immobilised within a membrane at the surface of polarographic oxygen electrode. Archive 2004-12-01
Avoid installing directly under trees where leaves will clutter the surface of the pond.
For example, many shorefaces - the dynamic zones between the continental shelf and the beach - are not simply surfaces of sand but rather are underlain by rock or mud.
The flat surfaces are then applied to the snake bite. JOSIAH THE GREAT: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King
The surface of the nails were smooth and without any defects.
The surface of the land is scattered with fragments of white silex and fine red jasper, banded with black oligistic iron: this rock, close, hard, and fine enough to bear cutting, appears everywhere in scatters and amongst the conglomerates. The Land of Midian
Smear the cut surfaces with olive oil and season with salt. Times, Sunday Times
The scanner takes more than 90 measurements of the hand in terms of length, width, thickness and surface area in the span of one second.
Some positive news surfaced yesterday: Mexican scientists said the contagiousness of the swine flu is no greater than that of the seasonal flu that circulates every year.
The ring slowly sank beneath the surface of the mud pool.
The young leaves of my magnolia look tattered and some have pale spots on the surface.
In particular, light measurements are performed at sunset because increased prey and predator interactions occur at twilight, when animals previously hidden in the deep, aphotic (without light) zone migrate vertically up to the surface. Scientific American
We'll need a flat surface to play the game on.
Steam condenses / is condensed into water when it touches a cold surface.
Turn onto a clean surface dusted with flour. Times, Sunday Times
Our first protein target was cytochrome c because it contains a positively charged surface made up of several lysine and arginine residues.
Reduce the heat and simmer for about 8 minutes, skimming the froth from the surface. Times, Sunday Times
The apoprotein B molecule moors the LDL to specific receptors on the cell surface - the LDL-receptor. Physiology or Medicine 1985 - Press Release
It is located in a layer at an average height of 12 kilometres above the Earth's surface.
And in this scrutiny and disapproval my issues with class and otherness have resurfaced, again in relation to an academic environment.
Cirrus clouds indicated the distant approach of a trough, both in the surface and upper air.
Like a diner spearing a morsel of food with the tine of a fork, researchers have used the tip of a microscopic needle to lift a single atom from a surface and then replace it.
The inner surface can be scraped off, sliced thin and used as an inlay for jewellery items.
Rub the surface smooth.
The map gone!" and he seized the candle from Bud's hand, and, holding it so that its light illuminated the whole bunk, stared wildly down on the rumpled surface of the rude bedtick, which now, the blankets having been thrown off, showed its entire surface to the light of the candle. The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49
He has become so good on surfaces other than clay that he's a real threat anywhere. Times, Sunday Times
ICE hasn't listed any native Filipino on its "gangbanger" watchlist or detention cells in the past few years, although insignificant remnants of Pinoy street gangs like Akrho and Bahala Na Gang sporadically surface in known Filipino communities here and in Carson, Glendale, Eagle Rock, San Fernando Valley, Rowland Heights, West Covina and Hawthorne. Undefined
I dropped the bottle into the sea and watched it bob up to the surface a moment later.
The videos were projected onto two screens built to replicate the gnomonic and ‘Robinson projections’ of representing the globe on a two dimensional surface.
a nonslip surface
Apply a thin coating of glue to the surface.
Unlike a moving fibroblast, however, the extending axon also grows in size, with an accompanying increase in the total surface area of the neuron's plasma membrane.
The metal's surface tension is great enough to permit a steel needle to be floated on its surface.
The surface material reflected the light and they became luminous.
A fracture dislocation occurs across a joint and involves abnormal displacement of the joint surfaces from one another.
The ambatch float remained perfectly stationary upon the surface.
As the various ingredients begin to solidify, their surface properties change, weakening the emulsion so that the fat droplets can coalesce still further during the freezing phase.
Fat crystals with high melting points ‘dissolve’ in this liquid fat and are taken along to the surface where they can recrystallise as spiky crystals.
For similar reasons, deep rips in the crust often accompany the arrival of plumes at the surface.
A strong breeze ruffles the surface of the lake.
Remove the dough from the bowl and put it on a floured surface.
Nearly 10 percent of the Earth's surface is covered by ice.
She did an almost perfect dive into the water as well and surfaced next to him.
It can be sprayed directly onto a surface for extreme malodors, or diluted with water and sprayed.
The use of statistics to understand voting patterns only scratches the surface of the possible uses of statistical information by historians. A Short Guide to Writing About History
They also feed visually by capturing prey from the surface of mud or water, by plunging their heads into water, and by snatching insects from the air.
Finally she burst through the surface and took the oils and scrubs and lathered her body with them.
Drawings are produced by scraping away the ink to expose the china clay surface.
Especially as the oil was spewing out from a reservoir 18,000 feet below the surface. The Sun
Life on patrol means months permanently beneath the surface of the sea to avoid detection. Times, Sunday Times
A plain surface of benty turf lay before him, bright in the moonlight, dangerous to cross, upon which a few sheep came and went. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
Devices called lysimeters are sometimes inserted into the ground to collect subsurface water, called leachate.
The lake seemed to breathe, expanding and contracting, rising and falling, its surface level changing several feet in a matter of minutes, spectacular and terrifying at once.
Because of opposition to a catenary system, the surface system uses busses powered by compressed natural gas.
Sold by the roll, these products are made of layered neoprene rubber, often with a granular surface bonded to the top side.
No coseismic offset in the position of the glacier surface is observed; instead, modest tsunamis associated with the glacial earthquakes implicate glacier calving in the seismogenic process. RealClimate
Thereby, in the absence of other myocyte structures as well as the absence of endogenous Cav1. 2, ectopic expression of BIN1 is sufficient to concentrate surface Cav1. 2. PLoS Biology: New Articles
Longitudinal striations are accentuated ridges in the nail surface that can occur as a normal part of the aging process.
K. Sakthivel of the Astronomy Club said that the group of observers used a 60 mm refractor to project the image of the sun upon a flat surface where it could be viewed comfortably.
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On the surface, the report could appear alarming.
Today's all-weather surface is likely to bring out the best in him. The Sun
It's a strange -- looking creature we see emerging from the pupa and abovewater's surface.
He sliced through the canvas to show that a painting was more than just a surface. Times, Sunday Times
We have made certain that the reason of the splined spindle rapture is fatigue failure, its crack initiation lies in the minimal knuckle curvature radius surface region of the spline dedendum bottom.
Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door. Jerry Seinfeld
An unexpected sharp vibration can cause the head to crash onto the surface of the disk, gouging it like a phonograph needle can scratch a record.
This is all on the surface, but beneath and better than this is a kindness which leaves no stranger to a sense of loneliness, no want uncared for, and no sorrow unalleviated. The Hawaiian Archipelago
Without the protection of the eyelid, the inside of the eyelid and the surface of your eye may become dry, irritated and inflamed.
Where a surface was unlikely to be seen but nonetheless required a finish, it was tinned.
exfoliated" surface sheets which here, too, gave it an inhuman, primeval look; in the higher sun the vast expanse looked, I suppose, more blindingly white; and nowhere did buildings or thickets seem to emerge. Over Prairie Trails
A spongy, Dijon-colored city of algae and microscopic creatures that floats on the surface, periphyton cleanses the Everglades of excess nutrients and pollutants.
He and my mother fought often, either when his cruelty surfaced or when his behaviour failed to meet her standards of propriety.
Ocker Hill Power Station with two prominent chimneys, a sewage works and a canal surface with oil and floating debris.
Our second piece of equipment was an infrared thermal camera, which shows differences in temperature across the surface of an animal as a false-color image.
A collimator is a simple device that uses a reflective surface and lenses to replicate a target at infinity. Undefined
All but two of the transactions will be for easements, meaning the city will buy permission to use land beneath the surface. Gazette.com :
Its flaws are like blemishes on the surface of a pearl: you wish they weren't there so that you could enjoy a perfect treasure.
Surface dirt, when liquified by chemical application, soaks into the fabric causing staining.
In its original sense enamel is glass or vitreous paste fused to a prepared surface, usually of metal, by means of intense heat.
An occasional wipe with a soft cloth will keep the surface shiny.
First of all, under the flail of the incessant wind, a crust would form on the surface of the snow of the type we knew as "piecrust," when out sledging. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
His fingers had left marks on the table's polished surface.
Apple packing houses currently rely on digital camera imagery to sort apples by surface appearance only, flagging those that are visibly defective or the wrong size or color.
And we have studies looking at organisms from sponges to sharks, looking at the food chain, both on the bottom of the ocean and also on the extreme layer of - a very thin layer called the neuston, the very surface of the ocean. Assessing The BP Spill's Impact
If the wood is thicker than three-fourths of an inch, you can either substitute longer screws or counterbore the interior surface of the door or drawer so that the screw head is recessed into the wood.

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