What's the difference between aerate and berate?

Aerate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air.
  • (v. t.) To supply or impregnate with common air; as, to aerate soil; to aerate water.
  • (v. t.) To expose to the chemical action of air; to oxygenate (the blood) by respiration; to arterialize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A theory for the neural control of middle ear aeration is proposed.
  • (2) It is suggested that lung ventilation takes place in the avian embryo in three distinct stages: the major air-ways become aerated, then respiratory movements begin and lastly the tertiary bronchi are slowly aerated.
  • (3) We therefore investigated the influence of different carbon dioxide tensions and bicarbonate concentrations on directly measured pH of organ baths aerated with mass-spectrometric analyzed O2-CO2 gases.
  • (4) The test organism, grown under anaerobic conditions in Trypticase soy broth, was diluted in buffered salt solution, and about 2 x 10(4) cells were suspended in 10 ml of an aerated broth.
  • (5) On the other hand, maintaining constant DO levels at 50 or 10% raised exoprotein levels higher than those achieved in a culture grown at the optimal aeration rate.
  • (6) None of the mutants are oxygen sensitive; they grow as well as wild bacteria, even when aerated.
  • (7) In helical strips of dog cerebral arteries contracted with K+ or prostaglandin F2 alpha, the increase in CO2 from 5 to 15% in the gas aerating the bathing media produced a persistent relaxation in association with a rise of PCO2 and a fall of pH and PO2.
  • (8) Although X-ray studies in many of the patients revealed mucosal swelling four weeks after surgery, the maxillary sinuses were well aerated 8 weeks after operation.
  • (9) One problem remains: permanent aeration of the new tympanic cavity.
  • (10) The time of the sporulating forms appearance depended on the aeration rate which defined the quantitative composition of the population during the phase of the culture active growth and the stationary phase.
  • (11) Azotobacter chroococcum (ATCC 7493) was grown in continuous culture with intense vortex aeration (stirring rate 1750 rpm) with up to 50% O2 in the gas phase.
  • (12) Assays on the Rm nifA-m RNA produced by the constitutive Rm nifA in E. coli under aerobic and microaerobic conditions with the cloned nifA as a probe for dot blot hybridization showed a marked decrease of Rm nifA mRNA when the bacteria were grown under aeration.
  • (13) Acute anoxia was induced by aerating a muscle chamber with a gas mixture of 95% nitrogen and 5% carbon dioxide.
  • (14) Amylase production by a Bacillus subtilis strain can occur without aeration after reaching the stationary phase of growth, provided the pH is controlled.
  • (15) The photosynthetically-incompetent mutant V-2 of Rhodopseudomonas spheroides which is incapable of synthesising bacteriochlorophyll was grown aerobically under conditions of both high and low aeration.
  • (16) The fim(+) bacteria did not show selective outgrowth in mixed cultures grown in broth aerated by continuous shaking, in static broth incubated anaerobically in hydrogen, and on aerobic agar plates, i.e., under conditions not allowing an advantage from pellicle formation.
  • (17) The rate of alpha-keto acid biosynthesis, on the contrary, decreased in the conditions of low aeration.
  • (18) Pyruvate-dependent glutamine aminotransferase activity is not regulated directly by O2 itself since a rho- strain showed a high activity regardless of the extent of aeration of cultures.
  • (19) Bacteriorhodopsin formation was negligible when washed suspensions of cells from dark, limited aeration or light, adequate aeration cultures were incubated in the light with limited aeration.
  • (20) Seventy two left anterior descending and circumflex coronary artery rings were removed in twelve dogs and mounted in organ chambers filled with Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate solution and aerated with 95% O2-5% CO2.

Berate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) David Cameron was accused of revealing his ill-suppressed Bullingdon Club instincts when he shouted at the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
  • (2) The history of events at the end of 2010, from the moment on 4 November when Cable called in the regulators, shows how relentlessly James Murdoch and his PR man Frédéric Michel lobbied and berated the politicians who were trying to stand in their way.
  • (3) Europe has always been there as a fault line, but now it’s front and centre.” (We meet, incidentally, on the day that John Major berates the government for its misleading optimism in the matter of Brexit and the next morning, at my request, she calls me to discuss it.
  • (4) To cap it all, the shadow foreign secretary and Unionist tub-thumper Douglas Alexander hijacked the row to berate the independence camp for lowering the debate's tone.
  • (5) Early in the film, a journalist comes to interview him about his defunct literary career; he berates her for caring (intellectually, Jep is a closet puritan).
  • (6) The appointment of Sir David Walker as chairman failed to prevent a string of shareholders berating the board about pay.
  • (7) The two jostled over who was the closest to Israel, with Romney berating Obama for failing to visit Israel during a Middle East tour.
  • (8) Sir Alex Ferguson berates the fourth official as Nani is sent off.
  • (9) The field is large enough for both kinds of studies and there is no reason to berate investigators as Meiselman does for not investigating the problem he happens to be studying.
  • (10) Billed as an exclusive, the story told how Prince Harry had received a joke phone message from Prince William pretending to be the younger man's then girlfriend, Chelsy Davy, and berating him over his antics in a lap dancing club.
  • (11) The sight of stuffy, bespectacled greying men berating films aimed primarily at teenage girls is as farcical as it is depressing.
  • (12) She was also seen berating a gang vandalising a building.
  • (13) At the education department, for example, he accepted a measure of responsibility when Michael Gove, the secretary of state, left himself open to legal challenge over axeing school building projects and, on his watch at Ofsted , the inspectorate was berated for issuing a number of flawed reports.
  • (14) Naturally I confronted them about it, halting their child's progress with a foot on the front bumper, loudly berating their crass behaviour while impressed pedestrians looked on, cheering and punching the air and chanting my name until Audi boy's parents fell to the ground, clutching pitifully at my trouser-legs and sobbing for forgiveness.
  • (15) Regular readers have been berating me 'below the line' for the lack of coverage of the eurozone debt crisis today.
  • (16) Guest stars included David Beckham, Kate Moss, Robbie Williams and Gavin and Stacey actor James Corden, who in one sketch berated England's footballers for missing out on qualification for Euro 2008.
  • (17) With the SNP poised to win a majority of Scotland’s 59 Commons seats and play an influential role at Westminster, the Conservatives have released a series of attack ads berating the Labour leader, Ed Miliband , for failing to explicitly rule out any sort of post-election deal with the SNP.
  • (18) And this would seem to be the most plausible explanation for why Murdoch the younger, the chairman and chief executive News Corporation Europe and Asia, caused a media sensation on Wednesday by striding across the editorial floor at the Independent newspaper to berate its editor-in-chief, Simon Kelner.
  • (19) While contact was made, Mourinho was incensed on the bench and strode down the touchline to berate the visiting striker as he complained to the officials.
  • (20) Last week my friend and onetime colleague, the UK government's former climate adviser John Ashton, berated the BBC for giving Australian climate sceptic Bob Carter undue airtime in its reporting of the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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