What's the difference between blatter and blotter?
Blatter
Definition:
(v. i.) To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blatter requires a two-thirds majority of the 209 voters to triumph in the opening round, with a simple majority required if it goes to a second round.
(2) For a start, why on earth was Platini being paid in February 2011 for work he did at Fifa, as Blatter’s special advisor, which finished nine years earlier?
(3) Blatter’s spokesman, Klaus Stöhlker, told Press Association on Thursday: “Before the decision was taken, in the case of Russia and the USA there were ‘behind-the-curtain’ talks.
(4) Nonetheless, Blatter was investigated by Swiss police over his attempts in secret to repay more than £1m worth of bribes pocketed by football officials.
(5) Blatter announced his decision to resign during a hastily scheduled press conference, stating he will leave Fifa after 17 years at the helm.
(6) But it is the presence of Webb on the list that is potentially most troubling for Blatter, who has been at Fifa for 40 years since moving from watchmaker Longines to become the protege of his now disgraced predecessor João Havelange.
(7) The South Korean sat on Fifa’s executive committee for 17 years until 2011 but claims he was a lone voice of criticism against Blatter for much of that time.
(8) Each was accused of giving Caribbean officials $40,000 in cash to gain support for Bin Hammam's presidential campaign against Blatter last summer.
(9) And this naturally provokes envy and jealousy.” Asked when they fell out, Blatter said: “It was after he was elected Uefa president in 2007.
(10) The FA board has hosted both Blatter and Bin Hammam, and is expected to discuss the issue at its board meeting on 19 May.
(11) Vincent Kompany, the Manchester City and Belgium captain, wrote on Twitter: “Blatter wasn’t sole responsible, more have to follow.
(12) Meanwhile, Sepp Blatter will continue to plan his campaign to be re-elected for a fifth term as Fifa president in April next year despite having earlier insisted this would be his last.
(13) Mr Platini, the FA’s choice of candidate for Fifa president on the grounds that he isn’t quite as hostile to the British media as Mr Blatter, is also temporarily suspended from football.
(14) In a statement this week, Fifa insisted that neither Blatter nor Valcke initiated the payment but a letter quickly emerged that showed the Fifa general secretary was aware of the detail in 2008.
(15) Blatter revealed he wants to see TV replays used in a domestic league and at the Under-20 World Cup in New Zealand in 2015, saying that managers could question the referee’s decision, once or twice a half, adding: “We could test such challenge calls”.
(16) "I was deeply moved by the tragedy," says Sepp Blatter.
(17) Blatter said the tournament was now “anchored” and could not be withdrawn.
(18) Keane claims the Fifa president, Sepp Blatter, and his Uefa counterpart, Michel Platini, got the result they would have wanted last night.
(19) President Sepp Blatter has run the "Fifa family" – as insiders are prone to call it – as its mafia-don-in-chief since 1998, and he absolutely needs to go.
(20) To those digesting the latest allegations levelled at Qatar's successful bid to host the 2022 World Cup , Blatter's rallying of support from the 209 Fifa members will appear extraordinary.
Blotter
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink.
(n.) A wastebook, in which entries of transactions are made as they take place.
Example Sentences:
(1) Specimens were obtained with a nitrocellulose membrane, used as a blotter of immunoblotting test.
(2) The apparatus is drawn so that plastic sheets serve as substitutes for the elaborate, but cumbersome and unnecessary, locking systems mounted on all the commercial blotters.
(3) One suction manifold, the 'Minifold II slot-blotter', creates small, rectangular slots of bound DNA which can be probed using immunoenzymatic techniques and then evaluated with quantitative scanning densitometry.
(4) "In reality, it gets reported but only as part of the generally muck and mire of grease-blotter journalism."
(5) The results agreed completely between these three sample types, demonstrating the feasibility of molecular genetic confirmation of the delta F508 mutation from the neonatal screening blotter among those with positive CF screening results.
(6) Additionally, intact 4-mm-diameter punched discs from blotters containing dried blood specimen were used in the amplification reactions and analyzed by electrophoresis.
(7) Lysates of blood cells in the solution or immobilized on the nylon membrane filters and dried blood spots on the filter paper blotters were used directly in amplification permitting one to solve the problems of adapting the method of polymerase chain reaction in clinical practice, for instance, in massive screening of genome mutations, viral infections etc.
(8) Molecular confirmation of genotype from the original blotter would reduce the personnel costs associated with obtaining follow-up liquid blood specimens and would provide information to the family in a more timely and less equivocal manner.
(9) An electroelution device that is based on a semidry blotter and that allows the simultaneous elution of proteins or other charged macromolecules from one-dimensional gels is described.
(10) Direct genotypic analysis for the common Caucasian cystic fibrosis mutation (delta F508) was performed using dried blood specimens in a filter paper matrix (neonatal screening blotter).
(11) These new drugs don't work if taken orally, so users dilute and spray them using nasal sprays or inhalers; or they drip the liquid on to patterned and perforated blotter paper, passing it off as LSD.
(12) We have developed a strategy for rapid and specific genotypic diagnosis using DNA extracted from a dried blood spot on the filter paper blotter used to screen newborns.
(13) The plate is placed between the electrodes of a semidry blotter and the wells are sealed by a dialysis membrane resting on polyacrylamide gel block, prior to being filled with transfer buffer.
(14) Here we describe a simple way--EcoRI mapping of the amplified beta-globin DNA sampling from dried blood spots on filter paper blotters--of identifying the Hb D-Punjab gene.
(15) The stories are often short crime blotter articles.
(16) They offer increased sensitivity of 2-10 times over conventional blotter medium.
(17) IT 825-2246-4 at various temperature regimes: 25 degrees C, 30 degrees C, 35 degrees C and 40 degrees C were investigated using the Standard Blotter Method.
(18) We have used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to detect HIV proviral sequences in minute amounts of peripheral blood collected onto newborn screening blotters.
(19) Residue levels of azinphosmethyl and captan were determined from blotter paper patches attached to the clothing of personnel participating in an orchard spray program.
(20) We describe a method using a semi-dry gel electro-blotter to transfer RNA from standard agarose-formaldehyde denaturing gels in less than 30 min.