(v. t.) To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise, shatter, or demolish; as, to batter a wall or rampart.
(v. t.) To wear or impair as if by beating or by hard usage.
(v. t.) To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.
(v. t.) A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc., beaten together and used in cookery.
(v. t.) Paste of clay or loam.
(v. t.) A bruise on the face of a plate or of type in the form.
(n.) A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.
(v. i.) To slope gently backward.
(n.) One who wields a bat; a batsman.
Example Sentences:
(1) They broke in with a battering ram: an armoured vehicle known as a Bearcat.
(2) The physical effects of chlorination as demonstrated by experiments with batters and cakes and by physicochemical observations of flour and its fractions are also considered.
(3) Forty-nine women who attended a surgical emergency department after being battered are the subjects of this prospective study.
(4) Autopsy findings were consistent with a severely chronically battered child.
(5) Two years later, the Guardian could point to reforms that owed much to what Ashley called his "bloody-mindedness" in five areas: non-disclosure of victims' names in rape cases; the rights of battered wives; the ending of fuel disconnections for elderly people; a royal commission on the legal profession; and civil liability for damages such as those due to thalidomide victims.
(6) Fatally "battered" children, the victims of multiple, metasynchronous traumata, represent a significant fraction (22%) of the overall pedicide population and constitute a segment of the victims with a potential for being saved by intervention.
(7) Finally, what do you do if you are the director of an Australian ad agency and you want to sell your old, battered 1999 hatchback?
(8) A new, terrible curse that comes on top of the bleaching, the battering, the poisoning and the pollution.
(9) The announcements included a message from the Chief of Police regarding the seriousness of battering, and the referral numbers.
(10) The mother and stepfather of a four-year-old boy who was battered to death after being subjected to a six-month regime of starvation and physical torture will be jailed for life on Friday after being found guilty of murdering the boy, whose body was so emaciated that one experienced health worker compared it to that of a concentration camp victim.
(11) He has opinions on everything, and he hurls them at you so enthusiastically, so ferociously, that before long you feel battered.
(12) Cards pile on the runs, and here comes Hurdle to get Burnett, about three batters too late.
(13) They can expect to be swamped more often by tidal surges, battered by ever stronger typhoons and storms, and hit by deeper droughts.
(14) As described above, the nature of this series with Chicago means the Kings will be battered and probably somewhat exhausted.
(15) Among the 1,142 girls and boys aged 9 to 11 years, 8.2% were seriously battered, 58% were mildly battered and 33.8% were unbattered during the past year.
(16) Assessment and interventions for sexual abuse are necessary in all women's health settings, especially if a woman is battered.
(17) Child abuse or battered child syndrome is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in childhood in the United States and is not uncommon in our country.
(18) 32 min: Tiki-taka has taken a real battering in recent weeks.
(19) Chelsea, racism and the Premier League’s role | Letters Read more Mighty Manchester United had just been humbled by lowly Leicester City, battered 5-3.
(20) Recidivism is an associated feature.The risk of battering possibly diminishes with time.
Shellac
Definition:
(n.) See the Note under 2d Lac.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mad rush to reissue everything Elvis had ever recorded led to a worldwide shortage of the shellac needed for vinyl records, and Lust for Life was doomed by it.
(2) The antiseptic solutions were sodium chloride 10%, alcohol 75%, Cidex and Sterile pack fluid, whereas the dental materials were dental modelling wax, impression compound, shellac base plate and zinc-oxide eugenol paste.
(3) Side B is given a matte finish so it resembles a shellac 78rpm record.
(4) 850 gold), were processed for light microscopy (LM) in the conventional way, then covered with celloxin shellac and examined in the LM by using the upper illuminating source.
(5) 3 There was considerable inter-subject variation in plasma prednisolone levels after administration of shellac based enteric-coated tablets.
(6) Artificial "calculus", consisting of a mixture of shellac, umbra, pumice and plaster dissolved in ethanol, was painted on the root surfaces.
(7) Various shellac derivatives such as with succinic anhydride, phthalic anhydride, ethylenediamine and myristic acid were prepared.
(8) In place of conventional record blocks, shellac-based wax replicas of the existing dentures are used.
(9) After removal of the shellac from the surface of the sample by immersion in acetone, the sections were air-dried, coated with a copper layer in a vacuum evaporator and examined in a scanning electron microscope (SEM).
(10) Steve Albini with his Shellac bandmates, Todd Trainer and Bob Weston On that trip we established contacts with local promoters and arts organisations and audiences developed an appetite for our music and we have since sold quite a few records into the region.
(11) The training instrument consists of a shellac record base connected with string to an extraoral spring balance scale.
(12) I can personally vouch for two sites: the largely underrated Vouchercloud , which offers meagre but worthwhile discounts off meals and toasters, and Groupon, because it understands that most people are vain and want to shellac their nails for a song.
(13) Individual trays of plastic and shellac-bases which could be softened by heating, and a cold-curing tray material were then also examined: (1) for their distortion by slight loads upon the tray walls; (2) for their ability to retain their shape when stored, and (3) their distortion when temporarily warmed to body temperature.
(14) Where career professionals would not have been seen dead with a set of "falsies" a decade ago, these days the semi-permanent nails such as gel or Shellac are perfect for busy workers who don't have time to be tending to a chipped manicure every couple of days.
(15) Self-curing acrylic, thermoplastic acrylic and shellac were measured at fixed intervals with the aid of a measuring microscope.
(16) At the time he was doing what he continues to do today: playing in bands (such as Shellac ) and producing the music of other bands – although he prefers to call himself a recording engineer.
(17) The pathogenicity of virulent cyclic peptide toxins of the cyanobacterium, Microcystis aeruginosa, and the mushroom, Amanita phalloides, was prevented in mice by pretreatment with a variety of chemically unrelated agents including hydrocortisone, shellac, certain diazo and triazine dyes and cyclosporine.
(18) Shellac; Eudragit E and L, hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) and HPMC-Eudragit E mixture were used as film-forming materials.
(19) The outer layer was a swellable membrane layer containing mainly polyvinyl acetate and purified shellac.
(20) Visio-Gem, cyanoacrylate, and shellac were the adhesives tested.