What's the difference between brait and trait?

Brait


Definition:

  • (n.) A rough diamond.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Wiese’s Brait investment vehicle upped its stake in Iceland to 57% from about 20% in October last year.
  • (2) Additional reporting by Ben Jacobs in Washington and Ellen Brait in New York.
  • (3) The Home Retail board will also have to consider if they think, because of the synergies Sainsbury’s can offer, if Argos will be more secure there.” The bid for Home Retail marks the latest move into the UK by Wiese, the South African entrepreneur who already owns fashion chain New Look and a majority stake in grocery chain Iceland in the UK via his Brait investment vehicle.
  • (4) The bid for Home Retail marks the latest move into the UK by Christo Wiese, the South African entrepreneur who owns a 17% stake in Steinhoff and already controls New Look and grocery chain Iceland in the UK via his Brait investment vehicle.

Trait


Definition:

  • (v.) A stroke; a touch.
  • (v.) A distinguishing or marked feature; a peculiarity; as, a trait of character.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Phenotypic relationships were examined between final score and 13 type appraisal traits and first lactation milk yield from 2935 Ayrshire, 3154 Brown Swiss, 13,110 Guernsey, 50,422 Jersey, and 924 Milking Shorthorn records.
  • (2) These results provide evidence that trait selection can change gonadotrophin receptor concentration and the dynamics of hormone secretion during the oestrous cycle of the mouse.
  • (3) There was no significant heterotic effect for any trait measured.
  • (4) The association of these defects of teeth and bone was found to be transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait over four generations.
  • (5) The group studied scored within the normal range on the traits assessed by the EPQ, STAIX, and STAI.
  • (6) However, two methodologic factors might account for the covariation of these 'schizophrenia spectrum' personality traits and measures of brain function.
  • (7) The initial screening failed to detect sickle cell anemia in 4 infants, but the hemoglobinopathy in 3 of these infants was diagnosed correctly by routine retesting of those with suspected sickle cell trait.
  • (8) However, these proskinetic symptoms appeared to be a character trait of an infantile personality rather than a condition following as a consequence of psychosis.
  • (9) It thus appears to determine all the traits associated with M protein.
  • (10) It may be assumed that this trait in the evaluation of mimics is due to a constitutional and morbid process.
  • (11) The results of pathohistologic investigations are objectively demonstrated through a chart of morphological traits, thus facilitating the identification of the diagnostical morphological traits caused by different industrial dusts.
  • (12) The disorder illustrates the problem of variable expressivity of a trait which makes it difficult to predict the risk of having an affected child when only one feature of a syndrome is present in a relative of a fully affected patient.
  • (13) We interpret our results as bearing on state and trait issues in chronic schizophrenics.
  • (14) This gives us the foundations to consider the method of evaluation of phenetic distances between natural groups of animals for the set of non-metric threshold skeletal traits more suitable for detection of genetical differentiation of wild populations.
  • (15) The authors present a schema for conceptualizing psychiatric illness in terms of state and trait disorders.
  • (16) Genetic parameters were estimated from sire components of variance and covariance obtained from a multiple-trait restricted maximum likelihood procedure.
  • (17) When the effect of apo E polymorphism on serum lipid traits was estimated in boys and girls separately, variation at the apo E gene locus explained 10.4, 13.3, 13.3, and 13.5% of the phenotypic variance in serum total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, apo B, and HDL-E levels, respectively, in boys, while in girls only the effect on HDL-E levels (19.3%) reached statistical significance.
  • (18) We found that the mean G-6PD values were statistically reduced in G-6PD heterozygous females; on the contrary the measurement of true G-6PD activity alone is not a good tool for discriminating heterozygous subjects with and without thalassemic trait.
  • (19) The following sources of evidence are discussed in order to examine the component parts-in terms of primary traits-of Eysenck's psychoticism scale, which he refers to as a 'superfactor' but which is here viewed as a composite or complex of primary traits.
  • (20) Although the clinical students compared to preclinical students attributed more positive personality traits to psychiatrists, students interested in taking up careers in psychiatry were few in both groups.

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