surface - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • scratch: Summary I've barely begun to scratch the surface of Perl here.
  • flour: Roll the puff pastry onto a floured surface until it is about 1cm thick.

Adjective modifier

  • smooth: Easy to paint - smooth surface Any kind of effect can be achieved on our products.
  • flat: Place slices of smoked salmon on a flat clean surface, cut slices into rectangles.
  • uneven: Hard going, as was very warm and uneven surfaces... .
  • outer: Often the coating is placed on the outer surface of the inner pane.
  • upper: The sky was very clear and blue, and the object was light on the ' upper surface ' on dark ' underneath ' .
  • textured: It is pounded with an ivory or wood mallet which may be incised with cross-hatch or linear grooves to produce a subtle textured surface.

Modifies a noun

  • temperature: The THC is also a major forcing of hurricanes, which feed off warm surface sea temperatures.
  • tension: The absence of surfactant, which normally reduces the surface tension in the lungs, leads to collapse.
  • coating: Learning Pathways - Certificate in Coatings Technology Flexible training in surface coatings technology Learning Pathways - finding the right modules for you.
  • roughness: Abrasive Wear Wear between two surfaces in relative motion due to particles ( three body ) or surface roughness ( two body ).
  • layer: The effective diameter of the fiber is also reduced through leaching of minerals from the surface layer.
  • water: Liquid surface water isn't essential to form most of the younger water features.

Noun used with modifier

  • playing: An all-weather playing surface, climbing wall and golf range are just some of the possible uses for this area.
  • soil: Plant with the top of the bulb just breaking the soil surface.
  • sea: The NODC holds data from the ocean water column extending from the sea surface to the sea floor.
  • ocean: Contribute to the development and evaluation of new processing methods for retrieved ocean surface vector wind data.

Possessives

  • earth: They would even put an air hole up from the casket to the earth's surface.

Preposition: of

  • earth: The metaphor of a corrupt word is that of a rotten tree, uprooted on the surface of the earth.

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