What's the difference between dab and daub?

Dab


Definition:

  • (n.) A skillful hand; a dabster; an expert.
  • (n.) A name given to several species of flounders, esp. to the European species, Pleuronectes limanda. The American rough dab is Hippoglossoides platessoides.
  • (v. i.) To strike or touch gently, as with a soft or moist substance; to tap; hence, to besmear with a dabber.
  • (v. i.) To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust.
  • (n.) A gentle blow with the hand or some soft substance; a sudden blow or hit; a peck.
  • (n.) A small mass of anything soft or moist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The dynamic changes of fibronectin (FN) content and nuclear features (DNA content, morphological parameters) during the development of hepatoma induced by 3'-Me-DAB were studied via computer-assisted image analysis.
  • (2) But DAB radio, the likely broadcast replacement for analogue AM and FM in the digital-only age, saw its share of listening drop, to 15.3% from 15.8% in the second quarter of 2010.
  • (3) Thus it is clear that DAB induced hepatoma exhibits retrogressive change in hepatic differentiation in its isozyme profile.
  • (4) The number of DAB positive organelles per surface area decreased steadily with culture age, and significantly on day 2 (p less than 0.01) to become drastically low on day 5 and negligible on day 7.
  • (5) 4.58pm BST First-set tie-break: Kyrgios 6-4 Nadal* (*denotes server): Kyrgios dabs a backhand wide.
  • (6) The lecithins of the primary hepatoma induced by 3'-methyl-4-dimethylaminoazobenzene (DAB) and host liver of rat were isolated, and the individual molecular species were estimated quantitatively by combined thin-layer and gaschromatographic analysis and specific enzymic hydrolysis.
  • (7) This is unlike DAB-1 and DAB-2 which showed poorly differentiated trabecular or anaplastic carcinomatous patterns.
  • (8) Oral administration of 1,2-DEB (75 or 100 mg kg-1 once a day, 4 days a week, for 8 weeks) and intraperitoneal injection of 1,2-DAB (10 or 15 mg kg-1 once a day, 4 days a week, for 8 weeks) produced time- and dose-dependent increases in the peak latencies of all BAEP components as well as in interpeak (I-V) differences, and a decrease in the amplitudes of all the components.
  • (9) Regional stations and AM services would be upgraded to quasi-national networks, provided they are available to at least 65% of the UK population on digital audio broadcasting (DAB) radio, and commit to broadcasting to the whole of the UK by 2015.
  • (10) You can buy this from Dabs for £30.96 , plus 99p P&P if you opt for standard delivery.
  • (11) We selected retrospectively 18 rejectors and 18 nonrejectors by clinical criteria and assayed for anti-Dab (by fluorescence-activated flow cytometry) and CMV antibody (by complement fixation and Western blot for IgG and IgM) over a 3-6-month period after transplantation.
  • (12) The inner and outer hair cells are degenerating between 12 and 24 DAB and are gone by 45 DAB.
  • (13) It was one of the fake tongue extensions from The Exorcist, with a note saying, 'Just stick a dab of peanut butter on the end and put it on.'
  • (14) The use of H2PtCl6 is proposed for the selective visualization of the poly-DAB reaction product created, in aldehyde-fixed tissue, with the cytochemical reaction according to Graham and Karnovsky (1966) or to Hoefsmit (1975).
  • (15) The roles of gonads in tumorigenesis induced in mouse liver by 3'-methyl-4-dimethylaminoazobenzene (3'-Me-DAB) were investigated.
  • (16) But this is the first year it will be offering non-stop, round-the-clock coverage on one service, in a move aimed at trying to boost the profile of digital audio broadcasting – DAB.
  • (17) A chromophoric hydrazide, 4'-N,N-dimethylamino-4-azobenzene sulfonyl hydrazide (DABS-hydrazide), was prepared from 4'-N,N-dimethylamino-4-azobenzene sulfonyl chloride by reaction with hydrazine.
  • (18) It is concluded that DAB is oxidized in the rice coleoptile tissue by a cytochrome system, and the development of this system is inhibited by anaerobiosis, but the oxidation cannot be claimed to represent cytochrome oxidase activity exclusively.
  • (19) In our experimental studies, LDH4 increased in AH 66 F metastatic hepatic cancer, but DAB hepatic cancer showed a significant increase of LDH5.
  • (20) The best result was obtained using nickel-modified DAB at pH 6.0 to develop the peroxidase enzyme, with further enhancement in cobalt chloride at neutral pH.

Daub


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.
  • (v. t.) To paint in a coarse or unskillful manner.
  • (v. t.) To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
  • (v. t.) To flatter excessively or glossy.
  • (v. t.) To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.
  • (v. i.) To smear; to play the flatterer.
  • (n.) A viscous, sticky application; a spot smeared or dabed; a smear.
  • (n.) A picture coarsely executed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
  • (2) Marc Lanza has been cooking all morning a Provençal daube, in one of Olney's favourite red-wine reductions, and its rich flavour fills the farmhouse kitchen that has been preserved just as Olney created it.
  • (3) To underline the semi-communal vibe, the phrase "We're all in this together" has been daubed in various locations, and there are yurts for massages near the herb garden.
  • (4) The health debate in the US is taking an ugly turn with Barack Obama and other Democrats pushing reform being compared with Nazis and one congressman having a swastika daubed outside his office.
  • (5) More often than not in Perlman's career it has been swaddled, daubed, be-horned, encrusted and variously garlanded with the work of the great pioneering makeup technicians of the last 30 years, including Rick Baker, Dick Smith and Stan Winston (Perlman is, all else apart, a crucial figure in the history of movie makeup).
  • (6) I congratulated him on the upsurge in his fortunes, such as his sideways move from squeezing, baking and daubing his filthy and infantile clay urns into broadcasting on the prestigious Channel 4 network.
  • (7) Around this mere handful of works by its hero – which do at least include his sumptuous The Garden of Love (c 1635) and his vulnerable, shivering nude the Venus Frigida (1614) – the curators have strung together a fragile daisy chain of prints, copies and daubs of dubious relevance, and sometimes very poor quality.
  • (8) The graffiti here says: ‘Homeland is racist.’ Photograph: Courtesy of the artists In the second episode of the fifth season, which aired in the US and Australia earlier this week, and will be shown in the UK on Sunday, lead character Carrie Mathison, played by Claire Danes, can be seen striding past a wall daubed with Arabic script reading: “Homeland is racist.” Other slogans painted on the walls of the fictional Syrian refugee camp included “Homeland is a joke, and it didn’t make us laugh” and “#blacklivesmatter”, the artists – Heba Amin, Caram Kapp and Stone – said in a statement published online.
  • (9) You can’t treat us like this.” Graffiti denouncing Ahok – as he is known to friend and foe alike – is daubed across the walls here.
  • (10) Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe for the Guardian When she was a child living in a Tudor cottage in rural Cheshire, the walls were lumpy, and badly painted, wattle and daub.
  • (11) As we talk at the Posk centre, which has been cleaned of the graffiti daubed on it last week, journalists from around the world inspect the vases of flowers from local well-wishers and the memorials in the lobby to fallen Polish heroes from the second world war, during which 2,408 Polish airmen alone were killed.
  • (12) The Arabic letter "N" for Nasrani (Christians) was daubed on the doors of houses – to show that they had been seized as the property of the Islamic state declared by Isis.
  • (13) By the second page of A Dragon Apparent, one already knows that his reputation as a stylist is safe: "On the morning of the fourth day the dawn light daubed our faces as we came down the skies of Cochin-China .
  • (14) Many of the windows were smashed and "Revolution HQ" was daubed in black paint on its stone Stalinist facade.
  • (15) "May the Lord keep you in good health for a long time, with love," stated a typical, anonymous, message addressed to Messina Denaro, daubed last year in large letters on a wall by a road heading out of town.
  • (16) On the hill above Christ Church, for example, the pretty little Mount Zion Primitive Methodist church is a graffiti-daubed mess, its windows bricked up, its doors barred.
  • (17) It always has been for Abbado: as a child during the war in Milan, he daubed the motto "Viva Bartók!"
  • (18) Norman says the one she uses most often is the daube de boeuf, "which works for everybody and is so good".
  • (19) Several other countries are now planning to introduce plain packaging, following Australia – legislation last week in Ireland, and now the UK,” its president, Mike Daube, said.
  • (20) An Ann Summers' shop window was smashed on Wardour Street, with "Fuck the police" graffiti daubed on its walls.

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