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Meanings of turps in English
Volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin; used as paint thinner and solvent and medicinally.
Usage of turps in English
1
Moistening the rag slightly with turps he carefully removed the paint from Sweater's sleeve.
2
Sloshing around in those vats were many, many litres of cleaning products, isopropyl alcohol, turps and ethers.
3
He had a piece of clean rag in his tool bag, and there was a can of turps in the room.
4
Just days out from his final -an event he's spent more than 12 years trying to reach -he hit the turps.
5
They began the process by first wiping down the old, white fridge with turps before rinsing it with water and sanding it down.
6
'The smell of the turps will go away in about a hour's time.'
7
"I rubbed it out with turps and the knife," faltered Bessie.
8
Turps, we must go-o.
9
'Yes, sir,' said Newman, who came into the room just then to get the turps.
10
"So now fork out the blunt for the turps."
11
"Fancy Mrs. Dane bolting with old Turps!"
12
"Lot of turps and paint-thinner in there," he said, "so think it over before you try to smoke."
13
LUTS was the most common indication for TURP in recent years.
14
The clinical efficacy of PK-TURP is long-lasting and comparable with M-TURP.
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Also, bipolar-TURP costs in patients with large-volume prostates had rather similar costs to RASP.
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The annual cases of TURP increased over the study period.
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