Wear

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:

    Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are; Hermes, Cadmus, Columbus, Newton, Bonaparte, are the mind’s ministers.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    For something is amiss or out of place
    When mice with wings can wear a human face.
    Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

    O I forbid you, maidens a’
    That wear gowd on your hair,
    To come, or gae by Carterhaugh,
    For young Tom-lin is there.
    Unknown. Tam Lin (l. 1–4)