What's the difference between char and chat?

Char


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Charr
  • (n.) A car; a chariot.
  • (n.) Work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore.
  • (v. t.) Alt. of Chare
  • (v. i.) Alt. of Chare
  • (n.) To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.
  • (n.) To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Angioscopy provided cross-sectional topographic views of thrombosed lumen and showed charring and shrinkage of thrombus following laser angioplasty.
  • (2) After spraying the plates with phosphoric acid and heating, the amount of carbon from the charred compounds is measured densitometrically.
  • (3) The frontal cortex, hippocampus, and basal ganglia were dissected at -15 degrees C. The lipids were separated by column and high-performance thin-layer chromatography and quantified by charring and densitometry.
  • (4) The body of one of the men was reportedly found charred and lying on a cot.
  • (5) It posted photos on its website of what it said was Thargyal's charred body covered in ceremonial yellow silk scarves and hundreds of people marching up a hill to a cremation site where his remains were burned.
  • (6) The activity of germination factor was resistant to boiling, but was lost on charring and dialysis.
  • (7) St Pancras himself, of whom precious little is known, is buried in Rome, a long way from the charred and soiled remains of the 19th-century slums of Agar Town that were demolished to make way for the Midland Railway's steamy entrance into London.
  • (8) When the RF probe approached perpendicularly to the cadaver arterial wall, a crater with charring and coagulating necrosis was formed.
  • (9) The buzz won Charli a deal with Asylum, a subsidiary of major label Atlantic, but she didn't release another thing until 2011.
  • (10) The percent reductions were 61 in one rabbit fed cholestyramine, 61 and 67 in two rabbits fed 1% Super Char, and 90 in one rabbit fed 2% Super Char.
  • (11) Wounds in group CS were "sterilized" (0.5-mm spot size, 25 W, CW) by gently heating the wound without causing blanching or charring.
  • (12) Histologic examination confirmed that this thrombogenicity was associated with greater charring and coagulation necrosis of the media.
  • (13) Charly Rexach played for Barcelona between 1965 and 1981 and talks about winning the cup, "their cup", as a way of "really pissing [Real Madrid] off."
  • (14) We investigated the capacity of bone char to remove fluoride from water and its effects on selected bio-indicator organisms.
  • (15) The charred surface of fish and beef showed strong mutagenic activity in Salmonella typhimurium test strains when activated by S-9 mix of rat liver.
  • (16) Lased root surfaces revealed craters with a superficial charred layer closely associated with new cementum-like matrix.
  • (17) The pH of distilled water following contact with bone char rose to 11.5 for white bone-char, 8.3 for grey bone-char, and 7.8 for black bone-char.
  • (18) Estrogen-binding activity was investigated in liver nuclear and cytosolic preparations of sexually mature female brook char, Salvelinus fontinalis.
  • (19) Grilled onion salad with pomegranates Serves 4 1kg new season's onions with tops on (or red and spring onions), roots trimmed and washed 1 large pomegranate, or 100g picked pomegranate seeds 1 tbs finely chopped fresh mint For the dressing: 1 large pomegranate, or 100g picked pomegranate seeds 1 small garlic clove, crushed to a paste with salt 6 tbs extra virgin olive oil sea salt and black pepper Place the onions whole over a hot barbecue, directly on the naked flame of a gas hob or under the grill until the skin is charred and crispy all over and the flesh is very soft, for about 15-40 minutes depending on the size of the onions.
  • (20) Basically, our welfare state has created a beautiful society but we need to keep it that way.” Over a drink in Charly’s, Lone Lincoln Steffensen, the DPP’s regional vice-president, repeats the sentiments of Ragna from Västerås.

Chat


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip.
  • (v. t.) To talk of.
  • (n.) Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip.
  • (n.) A bird of the genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yellow-breasted chat (I. viridis), and the long-tailed chat (I. longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidae, as the stonechat, and whinchat.
  • (n.) A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.
  • (n.) Small stones with ore.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The cDNA insert, which contained a 728-amino acid coding region for ChAT, was used for immunizing rabbits.
  • (2) The Ca2+ agonist Bay K 8644 (1 microM) potentiated the effects of elevated K+ on both ChAT and TOH.
  • (3) You could also chat to local estate agents to get an idea of what kind of extension, if any, would appeal to buyers in your area.
  • (4) The intermediolateral (IML) nucleus contained numerous rostrocaudally oriented ChAT-IR dendrites.
  • (5) ChAT activities of the iris, adrenal gland, and superior cervical ganglion were similar in all groups.
  • (6) Vladimir Putin brushed off complaints of election fixing during his annual televised live chat with the nation on Thursday , but behind the scenes his lieutenants are anxiously plotting how to quell rising discontent.
  • (7) I tweet, check Facebook, chat with friends, keep in touch with colleagues, check in using Foursquare, use it to check work emails from home and organise notes using Evernote.
  • (8) In an interview on Jonathan Ross's chat show on ITV1 in September 2011, Adele had said: "I'm going back in the studio in November, fingers crossed.
  • (9) Since the striatal response began to be detectable at a similar concentration as that required for the full maintenance or restoration of ChAT and NGF receptor positivity it could be seen as an unwanted side-effect.
  • (10) In the ganglion cell layer, 40% of the cells were immunoreactive for choline acetyltransferase (ChAT); these cells were very homogeneous in size, had an average diameter of 12.6 microns, and appeared to represent a single class of cholinergic amacrine.
  • (11) There was also local reduction in choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) activity and significant losses of 55-kDa protein in the soluble fraction and of 50-kDa protein in myelin and synaptosomal fractions in the hippocampi of colchicine-lesioned rats.
  • (12) Cholinergic expression, as assessed by activity of choline acetyltransferase (ChAT), responded differentially to neuropeptide treatment.
  • (13) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
  • (14) Frankly, an unconfrontational, off-the-high-horse chat is in order but it's not coming soon.
  • (15) Intraocular injections of colchicine did not result in the appearance of a population of ChAT-immunoreactive neurons in the ganglion cell layer.
  • (16) In addition, ChAT activity was enhanced by anti-Met, and TH activity by both anti-Met and naloxone.
  • (17) In both species, ChAT-IR somata in the GCL outnumbered those in the INL at all retinal locations.
  • (18) The neuropil of this nucleus was free from any distinctly ChAT-positive structures.
  • (19) On the train journey to court I will usually chat to the family to try and help them remain calm before the day ahead.
  • (20) Since arriving in Moscow, Snowden has been keeping late and solitary hours – effectively living on US time, tapping away on one of his three computers (three to be safe; he uses encrypted chat, too).