(n.) A mixture of snow and water; half-melted snow.
(n.) A soft mixture of grease and other materials, used for lubrication.
(n.) The refuse grease and fat collected in cooking, especially on shipboard.
(n.) A mixture of white lead and lime, with which the bright parts of machines, such as the connecting rods of steamboats, are painted to be preserved from oxidation.
(v. t.) To smear with slush or grease; as, to slush a mast.
(v. t.) To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime.
Example Sentences:
(1) Der Spiegel magazine reported on Friday that Germany’s bid committee had tapped into a slush fund of €6.7m to buy votes at world football’s governing body Fifa.
(2) The development of postoperative CD was related to topical cooling with slushed ice and lower myocardial temperature of the left ventricle, but not to kinds of diseases, duration of aortic cross-clamp, or the distribution of RC-CBCP evaluated from myocardial temperature at the end of initial infusion of cold cardioplegic solution.
(3) Bárcenas denies any wrongdoing and when allegations about the slush fund first surfaced, in January 2013, he received a text message of support.
(4) Cold air storage appears to provide better lung preservation than hypothermic immersion in ice slush.
(5) Still, as the crisp white stuff beloved of children turns into freezing grey slush, it's worth another laugh at the old British Rail " wrong type of snow " excuse.
(6) The prime minister announced on Monday the establishment of the inquiry to be headed by the former High Court judge John Dyson Heydon with a focus on union slush funds, bribery and improper fundraising.
(7) He said Jackson used $284,000 in the National Health Development Account, a slush fund she set up in 2003, without authorisation.
(8) The fiber-dimensional hygrometer yielded mean aw values and precision estimates that did not differ significantly from those obtained with the electrical hygrometers for (NH4)2SO4slush, KNO3 slush, sweetened condensed milk, pancake syrup, and cheese spread.
(9) This latest saga has left Territorians with questions about the integrity of the Territory’s decision makers,” she told media in Darwin, citing a recent scandal around an alleged Country-Liberal party slush fund as well as the police troubles.
(10) Earlier: The Pentagon’s slush fund is arming a War Zone on Main Street – let’s end the local-cop addiction to backyard battle
(11) Berlusconi's remarks, combined with allegations at the weekend of a colossal slush fund at a bank traditionally close to the left, looked set to electrify a hitherto lacklustre campaign.
(12) What Bárcenas claims is that the People's party has been running a slush fund for nearly two decades.
(13) Luis Bárcenas, the PP’s former treasurer, is accused of organising a slush fund for senior party members, allegedly raised through the handing out of dodgy public sector contracts.
(14) But the latest scandal has added to longstanding fears that the company is treated as a tool for politicians to reward loyalists and generate slush funds to buy off potential opponents.
(15) One witness who gave evidence to the SFO, Peter Gardiner, a director of a travel agent used to make alleged slush fund payments, said last night: "It's an interesting signal that this gives to industry and the world I am thinking of the hundreds of hours I have wasted and all the personal problems this has caused me."
(16) Coronary artery bypass surgery was performed on a 58-year-old female under cold cardioplegia with topical ice slush cooling.
(17) Spiegel said that both Franz Beckenbauer, who headed the bidding committee, and Wolfgang Niersbach, the current president of the German football federation (DFB), as well as other high-ranking football officials were aware of the slush fund by 2005 at the latest.
(18) There was talk of Josef Ackermann, the head of Deutsche Bank, taking over, but Ackermann's hopes have been dented somewhat by recent accusations of an involvement in dirty slush funds .
(19) This is a get-out-of-jail card for councils that were using the money as a social care slush-fund.
(20) Last Thursday the CLP shut down an inquiry into the past two decades of political donations in the NT, as well as the nature of the Foundation 51 organisation – alleged to be a CLP slush fund – claiming it would be “unwieldy” and overly costly for the territory.
Smear
Definition:
(n.) To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.
(n.) To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy.
(n.) A fat, oily substance; oinment.
(n.) Hence, a spot made by, or as by, an unctuous or adhesive substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain.
Example Sentences:
(1) From these results it was concluded that FITC-Con A staining method applied to smear specimens is more advantageous in the rapidity and the simplicity for tumor cell diagnosis than section specimen method.
(2) The other 3 groups all had smear patterns similar to controls.
(3) The relationship between technique of obtaining Papanicolaou smears, presence of endocervical cells, and rate of cervical neoplasia was studied by comparing an endocervical and ectocervical nylon brush (Bayne brush), Ayre spatula plus endocervical brush, and spatula plus cotton-tipped swab in a randomized, prospective trial involving 11,061 patients.
(4) Four study groups were investigated using the Kato faecal smear method.
(5) Distribution of cells in these smears was found to be random.
(6) Subsequently, the inflammatory reaction diminishes, as can be seen on smears from tympanic effusions.
(7) All cases of MCT were correctly diagnosed on cytology, and amyloid could be demonstrated in the cytologic smears in three cases.
(8) Hosts showed vaginal opening within 5 days and cornified vaginal smears by 9 days.
(9) The absence of hemorrhagic manifestations with persisting low platelets counts led to a re-examination of peripheral blood smear and to the diagnosis of pseudothrombocytopenia.
(10) At diagnosis 25% showed malignant cells in the bone marrow smears.
(11) Slide smears revealed the rosette-shaped pattern characteristic of malignant neuroblastoma, many of which were fitted with dendritic plasmatic processes.
(12) The mean age of gravidae with doubtful smears is about 6 years beyond the mean age of gravidae with positive smears.
(13) Tissue imprints of rabbit liver and spleen and smears of human venous blood were stained and controlled microscopically.
(14) The unsatisfactory smear showed atypical spindle cells.
(15) An infectious etiology should be suspected in cases of necrotizing scleritis associated with a purulent discharge, and appropriate smears and cultures should be obtained.
(16) Using control blood smears, we compared the results of the Fetaldex kit with those results obtained by the Betke-Kleihauer technique.
(17) Fever was also associated with a higher incidence of lymphopenia, hyponatraemia, hypoalbuminaemia and many acid-fast bacilli on sputum smear.
(18) At necropsy 1 of the 21 animals exhibited tuberculous lesions, and acid-fast microorganisms were identified on direct smears of lymphatic tissue of a second animal.
(19) T lymphocyte subsets were identified with monoclonal antibodies and pattern of alpha-naphthyl-acetate esterase (ANAE) staining pattern in the case of peripheral blood and ANAE staining pattern with thyroid aspirate smears.
(20) Both patients had high levels of circulating capsular polysaccharide, and one patient had visible diplococci on a smear of the peripheral blood.