burnished

English translation: Rubbed with a tool that serves especially to smooth or to polish

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English term or phrase:	burnished
Selected answer:	Rubbed with a tool that serves especially to smooth or to polish
Entered by:	Anna Maria Augustine (X)

14:31 Aug 22, 2006

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Medical - Medical: Dentistry

English term or phrase: burnished

For relevant context please see http://www.garrisondental.com/pdf/CT_Silver_Plus.pdf

(Be patient, the page loads with the speed of a geriatric snail! - Look for "Burnished tips", page 2, left! Note: The page is not searchable, one has to read!)

Sven Petersson KudoZ activity Questions: 741 (none open) (16 closed without grading) Answers: 17354 Sweden
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Rubbed with a tool that serves especially to smooth or to polish

Explanation:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com burnished
Encyclopedia

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Note added at 17 mins (2006-08-22 14:48:54 GMT)
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I would go for smoothed, polished tips although it may not be necessary to use polished as this is the effect created.

Strange looking object....

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Anna Maria Augustine (X)
France
Local time: 03:02

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Rubbed with a tool that serves especially to smooth or to polish

Anna Maria Augustine (X)

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juvera

Discussion entries: 7

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peer agreement (net): +4

Rubbed with a tool that serves especially to smooth or to polish

Anna Maria Augustine (X)
France
Local time: 03:02
Native speaker of:

English,

French
PRO pts in category: 6

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Suzan Hamer: Yes, rubbed or polished smooth; good lord! Talk about slow! I would have been first to answer had I not downloaded that pdf. As it was I had time to wash the dishes, cook dinner and vacuum the whole house while waiting for it to load!

4 mins

-> And I flew to New York and back while I was waiting for the download! Thank you.

agree

Veronica Prpic Uhing: this one is faster http://www.garrisondental.com/products/ct_works.cfm

9 mins

-> Thank you

agree

Caryl Swift: Yes,'polished by friction with something smooth and hard'(Webster's).Also agree with Susan-and then the only way I could get rid of it was to close my computer down.Susan burnished her house and I had my nerves burnished! :-)

27 mins

agree

Romanian Translator (X)

7 hrs

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

not for points

Explanation:
The sentence in question is not very well written.

It seems, that "burnished tips and convergent lines" should be two separate statements.

The burnished tips make it smooth and comfortable, while the convergent lines and the not mentioned, but clearly visible edges to the tips make it stay in place.
The lower end is tighter, and the edge grips at one point, and as teeth are usually narrowing towards the gum, it cannot slip off.

The difference between polished and burnished is that burnishing is done with a hard tool, applying some force.
It only works with semi-hard materials, where the rubbing of the harder tool "polishes" the surface, but doesn't cause shape deformation.
Most metallic compounds, pottery and plastic materials, even some wood suitable for handcraft is burnishable.
The easiest way to describe it: when a clay pot is about a day old, "leather dry", you can use a hard and very smooth tool to make the surface of the pot shiny by rubbing the surface if you would rub with a file, but because of the smooth tool, the result is smoothness and a certain amount of shine. The tool compacts the surface and smoothes out particles invisible to the naked eye.

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Note added at 1 hr (2006-08-22 15:53:54 GMT)
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I just saw Kenneth's note, also referring to that ridge where the whole thing grips. However, the burnished adjective is valid, if it is separated from the notion of gripping.
I am sure the tips themselves are burnished.

juvera
Local time: 02:02
Native speaker of:

Hungarian
PRO pts in category: 8

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