Wear
In materials science, wear is erosion or sideways displacement of material from its "derivative" and original position on a solid surface performed by the action of another surface.
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Famous quotes containing the word wear:
“We wear the mask that grins and lies,”
—Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
“All the accumulations of life, that wear us out—clocks,
bodies, consciousness, shoe, breasts—begotten sons—your Communism—‘Paranoia’ into hospitals.”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)
“It is not those who till the fields who eat fine rice, nor those who rear the silkworms who wear fine silks.”
—Chinese proverb.