What's the difference between slaughter and trouncing?
Slaughter
Definition:
(v. t.) The act of killing.
(v. t.) The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage.
(v. t.) The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.
(v. t.) To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle.
(v. t.) To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scanned rump fat measurements were consistently approximately 20% higher than on the chilled, hanging carcass 24 h after slaughter; after applying the standard correction factor of 1.17, LMA measurements were similar.
(2) At its centre was the Holocaust, the industrialised slaughter of 6 million Jews by the Nazis: an attempt at the annihilation of an entire people.
(3) 10 data are presented from the results of slaughtering.
(4) The results do not favour the possibility that transient motor reactions exhibited by swine during pre-slaughter CO2-exposure are manifestations of emotional stress.
(5) Australia is hoping to put a permanent end to Japan's annual slaughter of hundreds of whales in the Southern Ocean, in a landmark legal challenge that begins this week.
(6) In spite of small corpora lutea and increased follicular activity, none of the prednisolone treated heifers showed signs of oestrogen influence, and the two animals slaughtered 26 days after the start of treatment, did not ovulate or show signs of oestrus.
(7) In the 46 herds in which only the adult stock were slaughtered, 11 herds suffered breakdowns.
(8) Carcasses were subjected to low voltage electrical stimulation at slaughter.
(9) Chartainvilliers) given either chopped (CL) or ground (1.96 mm screen) and pelleted (PL), was measured in a comparative slaughter experiment.
(10) A total of 855 pig lungs were collected at slaughter and evaluated macroscopically.
(11) The simple method of retrograde flushing of spermatozoa from the epididymal cauda of slaughter bulls yielded an average of 2 x 10(9) spermatozoa from one cauda.
(12) It was demonstrated that Salmonella could survive in the slaughter hall, whereas Campylobacter died off, probably due to its vulnerability to drying conditions and its inability to grow at temperatures below 30 degrees C. Campylobacter was not isolated from the carcasses after cooling.
(13) Hopefully it could be just a week 7.03pm Michel texts Adam Smith thanks for your patience today 9.31pm Michel texts Adam Smith are you publishing the Slaughters and May opinion tomorrow?
(14) Increasing slaughter weight from 60 to 90% was associated with an increase in panel tenderness scores for loin steaks.
(15) In general, as far as the investigated blood variables are concerned, there were distinct and significant differences in the mean values between farm and slaughter blood-samples.
(16) Campbell said that if all signatories to the convention killed as many minke whales as Japan does, then more than 83,000 would be slaughtered in the Southern Ocean every year.
(17) More than 28,000 cattle were slaughtered in 2012 at a cost of £100m to taxpayers.
(18) A survey of gastrointestinal nematodes in Georgia cattle was conducted from 1968 through 1973 from actual worm counts from viscera of 145 slaughtered beef cattle or from egg counts made from fecal samples from 3,273 beef and 100 dairy cattle.
(19) In order to assess the extent of environmental pollution by Pb, Cd and Zn in the industrial area of Portoscuso (Southwestern Sardinia-Italy), anatomohistopathological, histochemical and chemical tests were carried out on the heart, liver, kidneys and bones of sheep slaughtered in the local abattoir.
(20) A comparison was made of the effect of providing or denying water to steers during the last 20 h before slaughter on carcase weight, bruising, muscle pH, and during the dressing process on the numbers of rumens from which ingesta was split and the number of heads and tongues condemned because of contamination with ingesta.
Trouncing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trounce
Example Sentences:
(1) By breaking ICM’s data into four different categories of seat, Curtice reveals Labour’s decline is sharpest in those supposedly heartland seats where it previously trounced the SNP by more than 25 points.
(2) True, he has trounced them so thoroughly that any mutterings of future challenges are an empty blast of sour breath.
(3) The NFC's top-ranked Seahawks trounced the Saints in Seattle just a few weeks ago.
(4) They need not have worried: Lucas trounced the Labour hopeful, Purna Sen, eventually winning almost 42% of the vote.
(5) In reaction to Roma’s 5-1 trouncing of CSKA, Hart said: “Roma won 5-1?
(6) She trounced her Republican rivals on the promise that as a “mother, soldier, conservative” she would fight abortion right and strive to tame big government, putting the Affordable Care Act, the EPA, the Clean Water Act, minimum wage and the department of education, among other things, in her sights.
(7) Even at home, commercial rivals often trounce state offerings and there is widespread cynicism about news content.
(8) Defeating the holders, Manchester City, after that 6-1 trouncing by them in the league at Old Trafford is to be relished.
(9) And so Ségolène Royal, the former presidential candidate – who failed to become leader of the Socialists, was trounced in her attempt to become the party's 2012 presidential candidate and failed to gain a seat in parliament at the last election – emerged last week from almost a year of seclusion to publicise her new book (and let it be known she is looking for a government job).
(10) City’s trouncing of Villa aside, their league form since announcing Guardiola’s ETA and Manuel Pellegrini exit is similarly awful: one win, three defeats.
(11) Remember: in 2005, Labour under the supposedly wizard-like Tony Blair managed to get only 35% of the vote, and at the last election, the Tories could not even trounce Gordon Brown.
(12) guide found that budget gins – some selling at less than a tenner a bottle – trounced their more expensive and established rivals in a consumer taste test.
(13) The certainty of a large Conservative majority and knowing that the remainers have been trounced, will see Ukip voters coming home.
(14) Barcelona, after years of dishing out this kind of trouncing, were now being subjected to Bavarian "olés".
(15) Even to casual observers the message was clear: had the Know Nothings and Republicans joined forces, they would have trounced Buchanan.
(16) Yet the previously obscure one-term state senator trounced her fancied Democratic rival, Bruce Braley, in what was supposed to be a purple state.
(17) Maradona's Argentina are also out after Germany trounced the South Americans 4-0 yesterday afternoon.
(18) Hawthorn trounce Adelaide by 74 points to reach AFL preliminary final Read more Brad Scott’s team were harder at the contest and powered by Jack Ziebell, Shaun Higgins and Ben Cunnington.
(19) This trouncing of Bournemouth was the first of seven games the lethal marksman may miss for Manchester City.
(20) The Louis van Gaal show is up and running and in the brightest of lights after a 7-0 trouncing of Los Angeles Galaxy in front of an 86,432 crowd at the Rose Bowl.