(n.) The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used.
(n.) A washing.
(n.) The process of breaking up or pulverizing ores.
Example Sentences:
(1) A few days later he tweeted : "People don't usually wanna kill me for one of my movies until after they've paid 12 bucks for it.
(2) He laughs: "I've had a few guys buck up against me, but that's all right because some of us enjoy the bucking."
(3) Social prescribing schemes, by their nature, vary considerably but generally provide a way for GPs and other primary care professionals to offer or signpost to non-clinical referral options instead of, or alongside, clinical ones,” says the report’s author, David Buck.
(4) The dispersion pattern of ticks on deer was aggregated, with twice and three times as many ticks collected from bucks as from does and from fawns, respectively.
(5) Others bucked, including a Dallas County clerk who bluntly remarked that Paxton’s office “does not trump the highest court in the land”.
(6) However, our airports are unable to serve the young bucks that are set to drive the world forward.
(7) For too long the profession has been locked into a ritualistic, buck-passing processing frequently resulting in unorganized efforts on behalf of objects rather than subjects.
(8) He said to me that he would not grow old, both in discussions of his paper on senescence ("I feel bucked when anyone refers to that paper") and discussions touching on personal safety.
(9) The ETU whistleblower who drew the whole matter to the ETU and Turc’s attention said he did so, in part, because he had “always had a concern [the union] didn’t get much bang for our buck”.
(10) The subsequent post-rut profiles of treated bucks were characterized by lower basal plasma LH concentrations, and reduced frequency and amplitude of plasma testosterone surges.
(11) Sexual behavior of the buck, onset of puberty, techniques for semen collection and evaluation, the production of teaser animals, and methods of castration are also discussed.
(12) People moved in who wanted to make a buck out of it all, especially the drugs.
(13) As Buck is not challenging his guilt, the most he could hope for is life without parole, said Radelet.
(14) There’s just inertia and a lack of looking into ourselves to find the solutions.” Recently, Buck had told her brother about fuel money for ambulances being diverted.
(15) The Harris County district court is now considering whether or not to grant Buck a new sentencing hearing.
(16) As Fox caller Joe Buck just said to new viewers "we know where you've been"."
(17) Pratchett left school one year into his A-levels, after he was offered a job on the local paper, the Bucks Free Press , aged 17.
(18) But the buck does not stop with the commission, and it is not an invention of the US trade deal.
(19) It is concluded that Buck screw fixation is a safe and reliable method of treatment for painful Grade I spondylolisthesis due to isthmic spondylolysis in the young active adult with a low complication rate.
(20) Bevan was equally unimpressed and told BBC Radio 5 Live's Sportsweek programme: "The buck stops with Alan.
Sucking
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suck
(a.) Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said: "This is a wonderful town but Tesco will suck the life out of the greengrocers, butchers, off-licence, and then it is only a matter of time for us too.
(2) The referendum shows that democracy really sucks – that democracy does not deliver stability, prosperity [or] responsible government,” Tsang said.
(3) The ratio of the intrapleural pressure shift to magnitude of phasic changes of the blood flow in the posterior v. cava (the pumping coefficient) is suggested for estimation of effect of the chest sucking function upon the venous outflow and for relative estimation of rigidity of the vascular bed's venous portion.
(4) The umpires allow them a different one, perhaps because the previous incumbent was wet - it landed in a puddle, where the water-sucking thing had egested, apparently.
(5) Clinically the word vampirism should be used to name all sexual or agressive acts, whether blood-sucking happens or not, committed on a dead or dying person.
(6) To examine this proposal VIP concentrations in plasma from arterial, gastric venous and intestinal venous blood were measured in healthy conscious lambs before, during and after teasing with, and sucking of milk.
(7) In spite of this fact, it has not been possible in this study to establish a significant correlation between previous dummy-sucking and the development of cross-bite in the permanent dentition.
(8) Indications for surgery were haemorrhage from a major systemic or pulmonary vessel or the heart, cardiac tamponade, diaphragmatic penetration, oesophageal and bronchial tears, and sucking chest wounds.
(9) The Peppers like to be jerks (at Dingwalls Swan dedicated a song to “all you whiney Britishers who can suck my American cock”), but don’t let the surface attitude fool you.
(10) Getting a divorce really sucks,” she says, adding that she still doesn’t view their nine-year marriage as a failure.
(11) The present study investigated the way that sucking of a pacifier influences gastric secretory and motor functions in connection with tube feeding.
(12) To isolate single spores from adhesive ascospores and the mycelium, the suspension was sucked through a combination of sintered-glass plates with different pore sizes.
(13) Additionally Group I received fluoride tablets (FLUDENT) for daily sucking twice a day plus a placebo dentifrice free of fluoride.
(14) To stop the arteriolar flow and allow perfusion pressure, as set by a mercury manometer, to be built up in the lumen of the vessel, the glomerulus was sucked into a constriction pipette.
(15) Receptors for epidermal growth factor (EGF) were characterized on the intestinal membranes of newborn, sucking and weaned pigs.
(16) Charles said the drive to make food cheaper for consumers and to earn companies bigger profits was sucking real value out of the food production system – value that was critical to its sustainability.
(17) A few minutes after sucking a lozenge for a sore throat a 68-year-old man developed an anaphylactic shock.
(18) The changes are so typical that the manner and even the object of sucking can often be inferred from them with considerable certitude.
(19) "He's given the ball away four or five times when there were easier options available and he is arguably at fault for the goal for getting sucked in and failing to track Pedro.
(20) UN troops have been sucked into the latest violence, using helicopter gunships against the rebels.