What's the difference between berate and cerate?

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).

Cerate


Definition:

  • (n.) An unctuous preparation for external application, of a consistence intermediate between that of an ointment and a plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The complete amino acid sequence of cytochrome c from the Dipterous Ceratitis capitata (serie Acalypterae) has been determined by combining automatic and manual methods of sequence analysis.
  • (2) Ceratitis capitata brain appears to have octopamine receptors as unique aminergic receptors coupled to adenylate cyclase.
  • (3) Drosophila melanogaster and Ceratitis capitata are insensitive to mannose and have excess of mannosephosphate isomerase over hexokinase.
  • (4) Alcohol dehydrogenase null mutants have been induced with X rays in Ceratitis capitata, for use in a genetic sexing system.
  • (5) Kinetics of incorporation of labelled fatty acids into the sn-positions points to a non-random distribution with respect to the major saturated and unsaturated fatty acids in triacylglycerols of larvae of Ceratitis capitata.
  • (6) Cuticle proteins of an insect pest, the Medfly Ceratitis capitata, were resolved in polyacrylamide gels and partially characterized.
  • (7) This phenomenon was particularly related to the subgroup melanogaster and in the dipteron Ceratitis capitata.
  • (8) Dual monitoring by UV absorption and fluorescence produced by cerate oxidation provides both sensitive and wide-ranging detection capability.
  • (9) DNA sequences that are enriched or specific to the genome of the male medfly, Ceratitis capitata, have been isolated using a differential hybridization approach.
  • (10) DNA fingerprinting has been used to detect genetic variation in the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata.
  • (11) Serum protein-bound carbohydrates, L-fucose, sialic acid, D-galactose, and D-mannose, were measured as potential biologic markers in patients with breast cancer with the use of high-resolution anion exchange separation in combination with a sensitive cerate oxidimetric fluorescence detector system.
  • (12) During the intervening 10 million years, the Drosophila lineage lost the second intron and evolved distinct codon-preferences: the G + C use in the third coding positions is increased by 69% in Drosophila relative to Chymomyza or Ceratitis.
  • (13) The coding sequence has the same length as in Drosophila species and in Ceratitis capitata.
  • (14) The Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), the melon fly, Dacus cucurbitae Coquillett, and the oriental fruit fly, D. dorsalis Hendel, three Hawaiian tephritids of economic importance, were exposed to traps each containing one of 232 ethyl ether extracts of air-dried botanicals.
  • (15) The autosomal recessive allele v wing (v) in the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), produces flies that when reared at 30 degrees C have stubby wings.
  • (16) The nucleotide or amino acid distances support a phylogeny in which Ceratitis first branches off the common stem, then Chymomyza splits before the divergence of the two major Drosophila subgenera.
  • (17) A concerted effort is under way to analyze, at the genetic, biochemical, and molecular level, the Adh gene system in the medfly Ceratitis capitata, an important agricultural pest.
  • (18) Membrane preparations from immature stages of the fruit fly Ceratitis capitata catalyze the transfer of mannose from GDP-[14C]mannose into lipid-linked oligosaccharides.
  • (19) Electrophoretic study of haemolymphatic proteins in Ceratitis capitata has allowed to establish a proteic sexual dimorphism in this insect.
  • (20) The methylating activity of (methyl-14C)-S-adenosylmethionine by microsomes from different stages of development of the insect Ceratitis capitata was studied in a series of in vitro experiments.

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