Sentence examples similar to abrade against from inspiring English sources

These included, adhesive (continuous sliding against metal); abrasive (abrading in single pass and multi pass against silicon carbide abrasive paper), and three-body abrasion (abrading against rubber wheel), fretting, and erosive wear modes.

The paper deals with the abrasive wear investigations on various composites of phenolic resin filled with alumina powder and abraded against silicon carbide paper under dry and single pass condition.

The tester developed is similar to the existing tester in that it allows samples of wall material to be abraded against real life wear media such as iron ore, bauxite, gravel, sand, etc.

It was discovered that the fibres are abraded against each other and the loom machinery during weaving, and the resulting abrasion damage and removal of sizing agent causes a reduction in yarn strength of between 30 and 50% depending on the type of yarn.

The sound of heavy breathing abraded against the silence between us.

(Chinen) RUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA, MARK DRESSER, GERRY HEMINGWAY (Tonight) This is strenuous experimentalism, but not without a point: Mr. Mahanthappa's flinty alto saxophone tone should abrade effectively against Mr. Dresser's probing bass playing and Mr. Hemingway's textural percussion.

This kind of comedy needs rough edges to abrade as it should.

Gently rub against the nail to abrade it.

These spikes abrade the female cat's vagina, triggering ovulation.

Milling machines have rotating cutting surfaces that abrade substances with which they come into contact.

If microcrystals work when dermatologists use them to abrade skin, why shouldn't they work in Dermapolish?