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 a face of joy, because
We have been glad of yore.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“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)
“Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never, ever be permitted around a Little League field. And then one day your best friend from college, the one your kids adore, comes out to you.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)