What's the difference between cater and crater?

Cater


Definition:

  • (n.) A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.
  • (n.) To provide food; to buy, procure, or prepare provisions.
  • (n.) By extension: To supply what is needed or desired, at theatrical or musical entertainments; -- followed by for or to.
  • (n.) The four of cards or dice.
  • (v. t.) To cut diagonally.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Norwich Ownership Delia Smith and her husband Michael Wynn Jones own 53.1% of the club’s shares; deputy chairman Michael Foulger owns approximately 16% Gate receipts £12m Broadcasting and media £70m Catering £4m Commercial & other income £12m Net debt Not stated; £2.7m bank overdraft, no directors’ loans.
  • (2) Kurdish officials on Thursday demanded more help in catering for refugees.
  • (3) Many shops are now catering to these high spenders.
  • (4) Twenty years ago, before the reign of Charlie Mayfield, the present CEO, the company's cleaners and caterers were all outsourced to save money.
  • (5) The truth was that he had failed his maths O-level at his local school and completed a City and Guilds in catering at Glasgow College of Food Technology.
  • (6) It is suggested that a transcultural approach be adopted in managing cases in which the parents feel particularly anxious and uncomfortable about prematurely erupted teeth in order to cater for the social well-being of the child and family.
  • (7) This family-run stables genuinely caters for all abilities and you get to ride straight out on to Dartmoor.
  • (8) Quantitative observations were made of 200 groups in bars catering for young adults.
  • (9) The Royal School for Deaf Children, Margate, caters for children with a wide range of needs; screening involving a single-assessment structure for all pupils is felt to be inappropriate.
  • (10) "I thought the Korean burger was quite good," the hipster goes on, without much kimchi-fired enthusiasm, "but I think a lot of people don't make their food with enough shbang … They kind of cater to the middle of the road."
  • (11) And the letters themselves are detailed to a fault, telling ministers far more than they need to know about the importance of the Patagonian toothfish, the single farm payment and the recent report of the Local Authority Caterers Association on school meals.
  • (12) Turner Contemporary, which opened in 2011, has helped transform Margate into an emerging destination for the arts , while new hotels, such as the Albion House in nearby Ramsgate , cater for visitors looking for boutique-style accommodation.
  • (13) Some can't afford their own uniforms or pencil tins and we have to teach them the most basic things, like how to queue up for dinner,” said Cater-Whitham.
  • (14) British commuters to mainland Europe and short-term contractors who work on the continent say the British proposal does not cater for them.
  • (15) PHE will continue to support local authorities to provide effective weight management services, to influence the regulation of fast food outlets and provide healthier catering in hospitals and schools, which will all help people to lose weight.
  • (16) A study was undertaken to determine the incidence of systemic postoperative complications and the operative mortality of patients undergoing elective aortic surgery in a hospital that caters to a homogeneous population group.
  • (17) They weren't aware that MSG was what they'd liked in Japan - but the US Army catering staff noticed that their men enjoyed the leftover ration packs of the demobilised Japanese Army much more than they did their own, and began to ask why.
  • (18) Our agreement with the LLDC will see West Ham make a substantial capital contribution towards the conversion works of a stadium on top of a multimillion-pound annual usage fee, a share of food and catering sales, plus provide extra value to the naming rights agreement.
  • (19) Viravaidya maintains that the tourist sex industry (catering to Americans, Europeans and Japanese) is only a contributory factor of the epidemic.
  • (20) During Mr Thompson's big speech in Banff three years ago, after which he was marked out by many as a DG in waiting, he laid out a vision of a multichannel age in which the BBC would move from mixed genre, high audience channels to a range of digital services catering for niche audiences.

Crater


Definition:

  • (n.) The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.
  • (n.) The pit left by the explosion of a mine.
  • (n.) A constellation of the southen hemisphere; -- called also the Cup.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Acoustic" craters were produced by two laser pulses delivered into a saline-filled metal fiber cap, which was placed in a mechanically drilled crater.
  • (2) Combined SEM and TEM examination of the endothelium of compressed segments revealed "craters" and "balloons", blebs and vacuoles, swollen mitochondria, dilated granular endoplasmic reticulum, and subendothelial edema.
  • (3) If overloaded, these areas are subject to "cervical cratering," a common prelude to implant failure.
  • (4) It's brown, crusty and cratered, like somewhere Hubble may have sent back a photo of.
  • (5) The country’s other attractions include a burning pit at “the door to hell” in the Darvaza crater, and rarely seen stretches of the silk road, the region’s ancient trade route.
  • (6) The only reminder of what happened is a small, blackened, crater near the northern part of town, where a rocket laced with a nerve agent fell, killing more than 70 people in one of the worst mass casualty chemical attacks in the six-year war in Syria .
  • (7) Following one or more hours of ischaemia crater-like depressions and blebs appeared on the luminal surfaces of ventricular endothelial cells, with margination and clumping of nuclear chromatin, loss of glycogen granules, swelling of mitochondria, and the development of subendothelial membrane-bound dilatations of myocytes.
  • (8) Invagination-like craters were observed in the plasmalemma.
  • (9) Histology for the 213-nm ablation showed a clean ablation crater with minimal collagen lamellae disruption and a damage zone less than 1 micron.
  • (10) Irradiation directly on the left endocardial and epicardial walls lasted for 10 seconds and was repeated 3 times, creating 3 craters.
  • (11) Efficacy parameters included daytime and nocturnal symptom relief and duodenal ulcer healing, documented by endoscopy, and defined as complete reepithelization of the ulcer crater.
  • (12) Patients in groups I (45 patients) y II (28 patients), were submitted to a vaporization crater of the whole transformation zone because of having the cervical canal free of lesion.
  • (13) Fibrin and exposed collagen fibers were seen at the crater base.
  • (14) When the RF probe approached perpendicularly to the cadaver arterial wall, a crater with charring and coagulating necrosis was formed.
  • (15) Residents of Aden’s central Crater district told Reuters that Houthi fighters and their allies were in control of the area by midday on Thursday, deploying tanks and foot patrols through its otherwise empty streets after heavy fighting in the morning.
  • (16) A rough surface of epitheliocytes has deep craters and irregular protrusions, microvilli, cilia and spherical bodies.
  • (17) the esophageal lesion revealed a variety of macroscopic manifestations including giant rugae, submucosal nodules, multiple erosions, and craters.
  • (18) Those differences can be summarized as follows: (1) the occurrence of pronounced, highly curved hackle marks, which could in many instances be mistaken for conchoidal marks;(2)the appearance of the beveled edges bordering the cratering on the side opposite origin of force; and (3) a more apparent tendency toward an inverse relationship of muzzle velocity and energy to radial fracture length and degree of curving along crater boundaries.
  • (19) None of these suggest a bumper year for the high street, since the jobless total is going up, house prices are going down, consumer confidence has cratered and real disposable income in 2011 saw its biggest fall since 1977.
  • (20) Photoablation was continued until aqueous appeared percolating through the juxtacanalicular tissue at the bottom of the crater; a water-tight closure of conjunctiva was then performed.