shellac in English

noun
1
lac resin melted into thin flakes, used for making varnish.
However, the wax used is derived from natural sources like food-grade shellac , which comes from the secretion of a lac bug, it is pointed out.
verb
1
varnish (something) with shellac.
You have to be involved on a daily basis with the intimate details of it - down to cleaning the bathrooms and shellacking the floor.
2
defeat or beat (someone) decisively.
they were shellacked in the 1982 election
noun
    shellac varnish
verb
    shellack

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1. None of these unbreakable records succeeded in displacing shellac.

2. Shellac also happened to be an effective electrical insulator.

3. Wax-free bleached shellac — light yellow, amorphous, granular resin

4. Bulls eye® Shellac is easy to use and dries quickly.

5. Conqueror Records was a United States-based shellac record label, active from about 1926 through 1942

6. He uses mastic, juniper gum, shellac, putty made by bees, other resins, alcohol and color.

7. If you were to spray shellac, the layers will be very thin and would not amalgamate.

8. The Mighty Panther* With The Jamaican Calypsonians - The Talking Parrot / Cinemascope ‎ (Shellac, 10") Kalypso, Kalypso

9. ChemCorp 100% Pure Aceton - Strongest remover for Natural, Gel, Shellac Nails and Dip Nails - Gallon 128 Oz

10. Bulls eye® Shellac is an alcohol-based solution of lac available in Clear and Amber tones

11. 25 Conventional shellac records were very brittle; only a few ounces of shear stress would crack them in half.

12. 25 This is particularly so with Sennelier ink, which has a binder of acrylic, resins and shellac which dries hard.

13. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the Shellac release of "Tu Scendi Dalle, Stelle / Acclamationes" on Discogs.

14. Shellac also played a Halloween show as Sex Pistols, featuring former Jesus Lizard and Scratch Acid singer David Yow as Johnny Rotten.

15. Puccini*, Mlle Yvonne Brothier* Puccini*, Mlle Yvonne Brothier* - Madame Butterfly : Sur La Mer Calmée / Toutes Les Fleurs ‎ (Shellac, 10") Disque Gramophone: …

16. The invention provides an enteric film coating comprising a salt of alginic acid and aqueous shellac, wherein the enteric film coating is alcohol resistant.

17. Bonded abrasives include wheels, segments, bricks and sticks, where the abrasive grains are held together by a bonding material, usually glass-based vitrified bonds, resin, shellac, or rubber.

18. The said highly volatile organic solvents are selected from ether, ethylacetate, anhydrous ethanol, acetone etc.; the said film formers are artificial or natural materials such as cellulose, polyvinyl acetal, coumarone indene resin, shellac and the like.

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20. ‘A heavy shellac gives an overall luminescence to the work and the only Congruously identifying factor is his intricate use of linearity.’ ‘The importance of the housing market in Florida is Congruously affected by the growing mortgage business in the state presently.’

21. When I’m using shellac or another film finish that needs to be applied to surfaces that will be inaccessible to finish after the workpiece is together, I put some wax around the closed joints, wherever squeeze-out might appear on the finished parts.

22. Burnish: 1 v polish and make shiny Synonyms: buff , furbish Type of: polish , shine , smooth , smoothen make (a surface) shine n the property of being smooth and shiny Synonyms: gloss , glossiness , polish Types: French polish the glaze produced by repeated applications of French polish shellac glaze a glossy finish on a fabric Type of: