(n.) Extra pay; esp. an extra allowance to an English officer serving in India.
(n.) Rate of exchange; also, the discount on uncurrent coins.
Example Sentences:
(1) That’s what they do.” Additional reporting by Zach Stafford and Phillipp Batta in Chicago and the Guardian US interactive team
Tatta
Definition:
(n.) A bamboo frame or trellis hung at a door or window of a house, over which water is suffered to trickle, in order to moisten and cool the air as it enters.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the early stages of T-cell activation by mitogens or antigens, strong promoter induction was exhibited with the proximal 43 bp of the DRA promoter which contains a TATTA motif.
(2) Mutation of the TATTA motif or substitution with a functional but different TATA element produced errant initiation and greatly reduced gene expression.
(3) A sequence similar to the Goldberg-Hogness promoter ("TATA" box), TATTA, is located 32 base pairs upstream from the transcription initiation site.