What's the difference between blah and blat?

Blah


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He went over to win a penalty against Mexico the other day, and blah blether blah.
  • (2) Long Word... Long Word... Blah Blah Blah... I’m So Clever is at the Pleasance Courtyard, to 30 August JOE LYCETT Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joe Lycett.
  • (3) Yes, yes, Richard Gere in American Gigolo, Cary Grant in North by Northwest, Steve McQueen in Bullitt, Colin Firth and Daniel Craig in whatever, blah blah freaking blah.
  • (4) but during a very dark period of my life, tapes I made of Peter Green era Fleetwod Mac (the best blues player in the history of ever...) and Free (best band in history of blah blah...) virtually saved me from an early exit...." Katewashere : "My Dad bought me a walkman in 1984.
  • (5) So I could fret about the fact that my dog has a capsule wardrobe and worry about being a crazy dog lady and blah blah blah.
  • (6) Not from tax increases, says Mitt, and blahs along about how all those new jobs he's going to create will increase revenue.
  • (7) You could be run over tomorrow, blah, blah …" Oh, thank you, just before I drive across London to visit another chum.
  • (8) It contained blah about “smart cities” and equity funds, even a rupee-denominated bond.
  • (9) [Police say:] 'Oh, you know, loads of these cars get stolen, so we just need to check you are who you say you are, blah blah blah.'
  • (10) This contained a lot of false and frothy promises to “initiate an inclusive process of national debate …” blah, blah, blah.
  • (11) "Guardian readers are all like: 'Oh but you have to work for your money, blah blah blah and all that.'
  • (12) En route we've had Rick Santorum insisting that he does not equate homosexuality with bestiality – or, as he memorably phrased it, " man on dog " – and that when he had appeared to make a disobliging reference to black people , he had in fact been speaking of "blah" people.
  • (13) He says: ‘Right, this club has just called me – blah-blah-blah.
  • (14) It was frightening at first, but she preferred it to being in a band, where 'You're not going to do anything unless you're onstage with your specific people and your lights and your songs and... blah .'
  • (15) All the cliches – not taking life for granted, blah, blah, blah.
  • (16) Semi-autobiographical in focus, the album was a dog of monumental proportions, weak songs failing to carry a catastrophically weak concept (girl from wrong side of the tracks makes it in the big, wide blah blah blah).
  • (17) How much more interesting and revealing this show would have been if all of the liberal blah-blah here and the Ivy League newsroom nebbishes had been replaced by more current conservative agitprop and rightwing message enforcers.
  • (18) But out in The Real World, leopard print still has ridiculous connotations, such as the ones I mentioned above: Bet Lynch, untrustworthy temptresses, blah blah blah.
  • (19) The latest jobs report had the unemployment rate at 7.7%, the lowest level since December 2008 but still blah, and inflation at 1.6.
  • (20) "I didn't fall for the trick of Jonathan, 'I had no shoes, blah, blah,' all that stuff he was saying when he was campaigning," Kuti said.

Blat


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat; to make a senseless noise; to talk inconsiderately.
  • (v. t.) To utter inconsiderately.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We then demonstrated that this factor was an IGF-binding protein (Blat et al., 1989b).
  • (2) We have determined the nucleotide sequence of the plasmid genes blaT-4 and blaT-5 which encode the broad-substrate-range beta-lactamases TEM-4 and TEM-5, respectively.
  • (3) In the present studies, a 2.5-kilobase BamHI plasmid DNA fragment encoding TEM-3 was cloned in E. coli, and the entire nucleotide sequence of blaT-3 was determined.
  • (4) Oligotyping indicating that beta-lactam resistance in these strains was encoded by blaT-3 and synthesis of TEM-3 was confirmed by isoelectric focusing.
  • (5) 8.38pm BST His overall concept seems to be - blat the judges into a sugar coma and hope for the best.
  • (6) Using oligonucleotide probes, we found that the plasmid gene blaT-9 encoding TEM-9 differs from characterized blaT genes by a new combination of already known mutations.
  • (7) DNA-DNA hybridization analysis with a probe specific for TEM-1 indicated that the corresponding genes blaT-3 to blaT-7 were variants of the structural genes for TEM-type beta-lactamases.
  • (8) Gene blaT-9 was further studied by direct sequencing of an amplified 1.1-kb DNA fragment which contained the open reading frame and its promoter.
  • (9) We purified to homogeneity a growth inhibiting diffusible factor (IDF45) secreted by dense cultures of mouse 3T3 cells and which was able to inhibit 100% of DNA synthesis stimulated by serum in chick embryo fibroblasts (CEF) (Blat et al., 1989a).
  • (10) Strains BM2657 and BM2658 had identical resistance phenotypes, to beta-lactams, aminoglycosides and tetracycline, due to the presence of the same genes, blaT, aacA4 and tetC, respectively.
  • (11) Southern hybridization of plasmid DNA of these strains with probes pCFFO4, the prototype plasmid encoding TEM-3, genes blaT, aacA4 and tetC gave identical patterns.
  • (12) We have completed the nucleotide sequence of the genes blaT-1B from transposon Tn2, and blaT-2 from Tn1, which encode the penicillinases TEM-1 and TEM-2, respectively.
  • (13) • Some homes near the centre of the blat have been "levelled".