(v. t.) To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel.
(n.) A blow with a cudgel; a thump.
Example Sentences:
(1) This drubbing exposed not only the team's inadequacy on the day in the face of a rampant United side who sensed miserable resistance almost from the kick-off, but also Arsène Wenger's tepid commitment to the FA Cup, whatever his ready-made complaints of depleted resources before and after.
(2) Brown spoke out after seven cabinet attendees quit government and Labour suffered a drubbing in the local elections.
(3) It's the drubbing he's received from sections of the British press for The Wind That Shakes the Barley, his Palme d'Or-winning film about the Irish war of independence, starring Cillian Murphy.
(4) The British men have been through an "I get knocked down but I get up again" tournament, coming back miraculously on a couple of occasions – including in an earlier match against the Aussies – to make it out of the group before suffering a proper drubbing in the semi-final, 9-2 against the brilliant orange Dutch.
(5) However, a 4-0 drubbing at home to Bournemouth on the opening day of the campaign led to the manager and his players being jeered by fans.
(6) Despite England's Ashes drubbing by the Australians, Test Match Special, which airs on Radio 4 long wave and the digital station 5 Live Sports Extra, accounted for 19 of the top 20 requested radio shows.
(7) Philippe Coutinho’s brilliantly taken winner, struck from fully 30 yards, will not expel the memories of that 6-1 drubbing when Steven Gerrard’s final match for the club turned into the kind of harrowing ordeal a man with his history could scarcely have thought plausible.
(8) What's certain, though, is that nothing could have been worse than keeping the spineless Ayrault at his side after last weekend's drubbing at the local elections and the loss of 175 municipalities.
(9) A bath” – for the uninitiated – is a Spanish way of saying a drubbing, or a whitewash; a real beating.
(10) Wenger lamented again how the campaign had been scarred by the high-profile away-day drubbings, most gruesomely the 6-0 at Stamford Bridge, which reignited all of those questions about Arsenal's knowhow.
(11) The turnaround was even more amazing given that Scotland had won the previous year's match 7-2, a score that remained England's worst drubbing until they popped over to Budapest in 1954 for their 7-1 humiliation at the hands of the Hungarians.
(12) A training ground set-to following September’s drubbing by Celtic led to a classic Barton apology, laced with the qualifier: “I cannot apologise for caring deeply about winning.” His suspension, then his departure, followed swiftly.
(13) Look at the history of byelections throughout the ages - midterm governments tend to get a drubbing".
(14) They also show that entrapment in liposomes can reduce metabolic degradation of a drub, maintain high plasma levels and reduce its renal excretion.
(15) There are three separate satirical programmes on Geo, the country’s biggest and most watched independent television channel, where politicians come in for a regular drubbing.
(16) However, the serotonin depleting drub para-chlorophenylalanine produced a marked increase in decremental bar pressing compared to saline-injected controls.
(17) I'm tempted as I think Liverpool might bottle it against Newcastle, Chelsea should see off an awful Cardiff team and even though plucky little City will probably get a drubbing against Big Sam's claret and blue army they'll still finish first.
(18) Walker’s last appearance at Stamford Bridge was the 4-0 drubbing in March 2014 , after which the Spurs manager at the time, Tim Sherwood, questioned the character of his players .
(19) They had fluffed their lines in the 4-0 Boxing Day drubbing at Southampton but there was reassurance here against a Bournemouth team that looked tidy enough but lacked ruthlessness at both ends.
(20) For Cook, considering another drubbing by the analysts, that might have to do.
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.