(v. i.) To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging.
(v. i.) To drudge; to do menial work.
(v. t.) To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; -- followed by up; as, to grub up trees, rushes, or sedge.
(v. t.) To supply with food.
(n.) The larva of an insect, especially of a beetle; -- called also grubworm. See Illust. of Goldsmith beetle, under Goldsmith.
(n.) A short, thick man; a dwarf.
(n.) Victuals; food.
Example Sentences:
(1) Instagram is breaking under the weight of Peaches' love for her little grub – and, seeing as she's up the duff again, it will have to migrate to new servers when she has the second.
(2) Western blot analysis at the time of maximum grub counts demonstrated that immunized calves responded to hypodermin A, B and C while those receiving only MPL or infested controls responded only to hypodermin B and C. The antigen-specific antibody response as measured by ELISA at maximum grub count was significantly higher in vaccinated calves than in infested controls while the response in calves receiving only immunostimulator was also significantly elevated.
(3) The variance of estimates of mean grubs per animal based on the regression model and uncertainty due to using p0e as an estimate of p0 was examined.
(4) Cattle exposed to their third consecutive warble (Hypoderma lineatum and H. bovis) infestation had significantly reduced apparent and accumulative grub populations and produced significantly fewer grubs than animals exposed to their first infestation.
(5) The tiny wasps lay their eggs in the aphids, which are then eaten by the hatching grubs.
(6) Three years later, the couple had a son, Hugo, who was raised at Gombe where he known simply as "Grub".
(7) Instead, we are vilified and made out to be money-grubbing if we complain about our working conditions.
(8) The oxidation of 3,5-di-tert.-butylphenyl N-methylcarbamate (Butacarb) has been studied in the flies Musca domestica and Lucilia sericata, grass grubs Costelytra zealandica and the mouse.
(9) Grub appearance in the backs of both of the immunized groups was found to be 50% of that in the control groups.
(10) Pictures of racehorses adorn the cream and pink walls, a flatscreen TV plays songs by Oasis and Kylie Minogue, and laminated menus offer English-style pub grub such as a full breakfast or fish and chips.
(11) Survival to pupariation of more mature grubs was similar in the jar and culture plate techniques.
(12) Examples of formulations currently available for dermal application contain diverse chemicals and are intended for a variety of purposes, such as crufomate against cattle grubs, fenthion against cattle lice, levamisole against gastrointestinal nematodes, nitroglycerine for angina pectoris, and scopolamine for motion sickness.
(13) Enzymes catalysing the reaction between GSH and methylparathion (dimethyl p-nitrophenyl phosphorothionate), 1-chloro-2,4-dinitrobenzene and S-crotonyl-N-acetylcysteamine were separated by (NH(4))(2)SO(4) precipitation from homogenates of sheep, rat and mouse livers and from homogenates of cockroaches, houseflies and grass grubs.
(14) Serratia entomophila UC9 (A1MO2), which causes amber disease in the New Zealand grass grub Costelytra zealandica, was subjected to transposon (TnphoA)-induced mutagenesis.
(15) Jamie Oliver's attempt to revive traditional British grub in his unashamedly nostalgic Union Jacks restaurants appears to have foundered with the announcement that three of the four outlets are closing.
(16) In 2008, when George Osborne, as a private individual, hangs out in Corfu with a Russian oligarch (Oleg Deripaska), Nat Rothschild and Peter Mandelson, the British press has a field day with the gossip – Mandelson "dripping poison" about Osborne, and allegations that Osborne was grubbing around for party funds.
(17) The name was inspired by a friend who teased her for cycling and insisting on animal-free grub.
(18) Countries such as Britain, which depend heavily on food grown abroad, may be able to grow fruit that farmers only ever dreamed about, but there will be less land on which to grow and imported grub will be much more expensive because other climate-affected countries will keep their smaller harvests for themselves.
(19) I imagine most of these are educators, academics, healthcare professionals etc, on public sector pay, while his putatively intelligent rich are either born into indolent wealth or spend their time money-grubbing because that represents both the zenith of their skills and the full extent of their one-dimensional personalities.
(20) Thousands of miles of hedgerow were grubbed up, farming was increasingly industrialised, quantity replaced quality.
Tucker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, tucks; specifically, an instrument with which tuck are made.
(n.) A narrow piece of linen or the like, folded across the breast, or attached to the gown at the neck, forming a part of a woman's dress in the 17th century and later.
(v. t.) A fuller.
(v. t.) To tire; to weary; -- usually with out.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tucker confirmed that the concerns had been raised with him by the then No 10 permanent secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, rather than ministers.
(2) Bob Diamond did not believe he received an instruction from Paul Tucker or that he gave an instruction to Jerry del Missier.
(3) If Italy becomes another domino after a Spanish bailout the anger could be uncontainable (to use a word adopted by Bank of England deputy Paul Tucker in relation to another banking crisis).
(4) Police launch hate-crime investigation over Tyson Fury comments Read more “It’s true he’s been stripped of his IBF belt,” the IBF’s championships chairman, Lindsey Tucker, told the BBC.
(5) The first edition of the novel to appear under Plath's name, published in 1967, featured a cover designed by Shirley Tucker, with a bold type face and urgent concentric circles.
(6) The predictive values of gain or output may be inferred from current research and the Powell & Tucker paper confirms the previous work rather than repudiates it.
(7) As mentioned, the Ravens were able to defeat the Broncos last year in overtime with a 47 yard field goal by Tucker.
(8) Tucker remains one of the lowest paid kickers in the league with a $480,000 salary, which is good for 27th among kickers.
(9) 24, 505-517 (1979)] and recently by Tucker, Barnes, and Chakraborty [Med.
(10) MAMAs were higher for a 3000-Hz tone than for tones of lower or higher frequencies, as has been previously reported [D. R. Perrott and J. Tucker, J. Acoust.
(11) Crowley, the chief political correspondent at CNN, was variously accused of having "committed an act of journalistic terror" (Rush Limbaugh) to having committed an act similar to John Wilkes Booth assassinating Abraham Lincoln (the Daily Caller's Tucker Carlson) when she fact-checked Romney in Tuesday's debate.
(12) The remarks by Tucker blew apart a campaign by Osborne to prove that Balls was one of a series of senior Labour figures who tried to "fiddle Libor".
(13) Most lost incomes, saw their retirement savings shrink, or tried to open new businesses or take out loans but were unable to find cash," said Nick Tucker, UK and Ireland market leader at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, which has been compiling the report with Capgemini for more than 20 years.
(14) Indeed, we wonder if Mr Tucker would call an investigation to see if the GCA is investigating the supermarkets to the food industry’s benefit; it has the makings of a classic edition of the Thick of It!
(15) Tucker, 53, helped build Prudential's Asian franchise in the 1990s and was chief executive of the company from early 2005 until September 2009.
(16) Tucker told Radio 4's Today programme that while no managers had been dismissed, senior staff were having to undergo rigorous training and assessment.
(17) The BBC said its investigations added to evidence that the Bank of England had put pressure on commercial banks to push their Libor rates down and that the transcript of the phone conversation at Barclays called into question evidence to the Treasury select committee given in 2012 by the former Barclays boss Bob Diamond and Paul Tucker, former deputy governor of the Bank of England.
(18) We feast like kings on simple tucker cooked on a primitive fire.
(19) But Tucker said: "It is not a sufficient replacement at all.
(20) Diamond's appearance before MPs was followed by those of Agius and Jerry del Missier , the top Barclays banker who quit after issuing an instruction to cut the bank's Libor submissions in October 2008, as well as those of King and his deputy, Paul Tucker.