By scraping the wart with a mild abrasive, you essentially "file" the dead wart tissue away, a process called "debriding" (removing dead material).
He used a file and abrasive paper to make the piece fit properly, but over all the project was not much of a technical challenge.
For example, many methods of producing a surface on a manufactured object depend on abrasive wear, among them filing, sanding, lapping, and polishing.
Never rub sore lips with harsh abrasives, such as a nail file or a stiff brush.
Similar effects have been sought by those who illegally scar the surface of the ball with a sharp object such as a belt buckle or tack or with an abrasive tool such as a file or emery board.
This can be done with a file, belt sander or other abrasive.
Critics complained of an abrasive style; still, his popularity with the rank and file was unquestioned.
The Amope Pedi Perfect Electronic Foot File comes with a roller head covered with micro-abrasive particles that smooth away rough skin on feet.
The file was unknown in early antiquity, during which time smoothing was done with abrasive stone or powder or with sharkskin, the granular surface of which approximates sandpaper.
"Marlene," Spenser says, after one of her abrasive lectures on how to do his job, "I think I'm going to have to file you under Life's Too Short".
Piercing, chipping, nicking or filing the testa of individual seeds with a mounted needle, knife, handfile or abrasive paper is a technique especially suitable for small quantities of seed.
