Sentence examples for block of wax from inspiring English sources

Socrates describes memory "as a block of wax".

Below, in the sculpture court, local art students laid the rails for Svayambh, a work that would drag a vast block of wax on a freight car through the court's too-small main arch.

Still eight years since, even as our relationship and marriage have collapsed, I find it hard to remember more than what she wore for my grand sendoff and maybe it is O.K. that that day an image of her face was not imprinted on my block of wax.

Her literary perambulation encompasses ovine love life (the block of wax crayon attached to rams in order to denote which ewes have been tupped is called a "ruddle"), bracken ("an ancient enemy… colonises land at hideous speed") and Thomas Hardy's self-designed house in Dorchester ("staggeringly ugly").

At this point in the Theaetetus, Socrates proposes a model for how false belief can occur, based on an analogy with a block of wax into which signet rings can be impressed and leave a sealing; in a similar way, our thoughts and perceptions make an impression on our memory, leaving behind traces which are signs or representations of the original objects thought about or perceived (191c-d; 194c-d).

Put their on switched it reaches 100 °C (212 °F) less and press against the block of wax to melt and let as tea cross the insole.

Because the wax is broken up into flakes, it will melt faster and more evenly than a solid block of paraffin wax.

To start, they embedded the entire brain in a block of paraffin wax.

defer.add img); Clean off debris from the side and rub a block of paraffin wax on the side.

Immersion of wax-printed paper in water during autoclaving at 120°C blocked the spreading of wax, and the 96-zone pattern was preserved.

A different class of machines works negatively, guiding a milling machine to cut the model from a block of raw plastic, wax or metal.