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Fibrous vein structures, often with curved fibres and selvages on vein walls, suggest a diffusion mass transport mechanism from the rock into veins during deformation.
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Cryptoendolithic microorganisms can bioerode fractures in the glassy selvages of pillow lavas leaving behind traces of microbial life as microtubules.
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Federal stamps prior to 1959 plus the 1964 issue are collected in blocks of six and must have theselvageon two sides.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.When the weft is floating on the back, this is known as a continuous brocade; the supplementary weft runs fromselvagetoselvage.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As for wax prints, producer, product name and registration number of the design are printed on theselvage.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Historically, the termselvageapplied only to loom woven fabric, though now can be applied to flat-knitted fabric.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This method of weaving theselvageis possible only when using a shuttle loom.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Booklets are often made from sheets especially printed for this purpose, with a narrowselvageat one side of the booklet pane for binding.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Double-width fabric is woven so that the pattern exactly matches on theselvage.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The weave used to construct theselvagemay be the same or different from the weave of the body of the fabric cloth.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.To prevent fraying, variousselvagemotions (or styles) are used to bind the warp into the body of the cloth.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Souvenir sheets typically include additional artwork or information printed on theselvage, the border surrounding the stamps.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Theselvagemay be considered finished; it may also be used in seaming garments, or finished and reinforced using crochet or other techniques.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.One might also argue that cutting down on wasted by-productselvagemakes complete garment better for the environment.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The type or motion ofselvagedepends on the weaving technique or loom used.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Comendite flows, which commonly have a glassyselvageat the base, account for 75% of the lavas in the flank zone.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Most books on fabric define aselvageas the edge of a woven cloth, however the term is coming into usage for hand-knitted objects.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The ribs run across the fabric fromselvagetoselvage.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is printed in theselvageor border of a pane of postage stamps.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.