What's the difference between atter and curdle?

Atter


Definition:

  • (n.) Poison; venom; corrupt matter from a sore.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After 2 days of complete fasting in animals sacrificed 3 and 24 hours following introduction of the tagged vitamin the incorporation of the atter in the organs drastically decreased by comparison with controls.
  • (2) Atter 15 min virtually no thrombi or platelet aggregates could be detected.
  • (3) The exchange of a longer stretch of DNA leading to atteration of three amino acids of the protein compared with the original sequence of SK1 is required to obtain a temperature-sensitive DNA ligase in this strain, while in strain A364A a single amino acid change is sufficient for expression of a temperature-sensitive protein.
  • (4) Pointing out that they had been transparent about their workings, KPMG's Lewis Atter said it was a "reasonable, probably conservative approach".

Curdle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To change into curd; to coagulate; as, rennet causes milk to curdle.
  • (v. i.) To thicken; to congeal.
  • (v. t.) To change into curd; to cause to coagulate.
  • (v. t.) To congeal or thicken.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In The Girl, the relationship moves from Pygmalion to Beauty and the Beast, before curdling into something more mutually destructive, if not downright abusive.
  • (2) With both kinds of meals, cortisol evolutions were similar though peak values were higher with the curdled milk.
  • (3) The self-preservation act of leaving is curdled by a sense of desertion for letting the status quo stand.
  • (4) Page four 10 More blood-curdling clauses about the secrecy of the proceedings.
  • (5) The biological value of the soya curdle, obtained by the traditional technology, and of the cedar curdle was much lower than that of the initial products.
  • (6) It was found that significant sanitary failures are present during th whole goat cheese process, although the highest bacteria contamination occurred at the milking, curdling and filling stages.
  • (7) – wiped out Jack Colback with a blood-curdling tackle which ended his one time team-mate’s afternoon and was rather fortunate not to collect a slightly overdue yellow card.
  • (8) Preruminant calves bearing indwelling catheters in the hepatic artery, the portal and the hepatic veins were fed with two kinds of diets, a conventional curdled milk diet and a milk diet which was uncurdled in the abomasum.
  • (9) It has been difficult for Defoe ever since and all the excitement surrounding his signing, which Toronto had trumpeted as “ a bloody big deal ”, has curdled.
  • (10) The FA’s culture had narrowed and curdled through that decade, which ended in 96 people being unlawfully killed at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final which the governing body itself had commissioned at Hillsborough.
  • (11) At the end of Black's three-hour presentation, his opposite number at MI6, Mark Allen , commented drily that it all sounded "rather blood-curdling".
  • (12) Then pour the boiling cream on to the mix, whisking constantly to prevent curdling.
  • (13) In spontaneously curdled cheese coliform bacteria vanish during the third month of storage.
  • (14) Self-evidently, this was not Conservatism as anyone had previously understood it – but up until the poll tax saw boldness curdling into hubris, the party and its wider constituency were in almost full support.
  • (15) But, over a period of months, I was given some blood curdling learned opinions on what might happen to the Guardian – and me personally – if we persisted in our intended course of publishing.
  • (16) But the joke curdles really badly when the film tries to bring gay characters on screen to back it up.
  • (17) George Osborne has, however, given an added twist to the downward spiral, both by taking money out of the economy this year and by his blood-curdling warnings that cuts of at least 25% in Whitehall spending will have to be announced in next month's comprehensive spending review in order to tackle Britain's deficit.
  • (18) In comparison with a conventional curdled milk diet, the intake of uncurdled milk diet did not modify mean portal vein (47 to 49 ml.mn-1.kg live weight-1) or hepatic arterial (5.6 to 5.7 ml.mn-1.kg live weight-1) blood flows but did influence nycthemeral variations in portal blood flow rates, especially during the second part of the night.
  • (19) Lightly beat together the egg and 5 egg yolks, then add them to the mix, a little at a time, in order to prevent curdling.
  • (20) Some on the left were once drawn to blood-curdling eugenics for breeding away inherited disadvantage.