What's the difference between contrate and contrite?
Contrate
Definition:
(a.) Having cogs or teeth projecting parallel to the axis, instead of radiating from it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Le champ solaire d’une valeur de 23,7 millions de dollars était opérationnel à peine un an après la signature du contrat, n’en déplaise aux sceptiques qui remettaient en cause la capacité des Africains à mener à bien un projet rapidement.
(2) The substitution of sucrose for starch depressed the contration and total activity per liver of biphenyl 4-hydroxylase and the concentration, but not the total amount, of cytochrome P-450 in weanling rats.
(3) Isometric contrations lasted longer at the lower temperature.
(4) A final section on Evolving Information considers etiologic concepts, the nature of left ventricular contration abnormalities, the cause of chest pain, the relationship to Marfan's syndrome and ostium secundum atrial septal defect, and the effect of aging and sex differences on leaflet chordal redundancy.
(5) They both relaxed extracellular calcium-dependent contrations.
(6) It is shown that the dynamics of myocardial contration following restoration of the sinus rhythm cannot serve for the prognostication of the remote results of electroimpulsive therapy.
(7) Previous studies of saliva from engorged female cattle ticks revealed a component which induced contration of some isolated smooth muscles.
(8) Verapamil and papaverine were also effective in attenuating the Ca2+-induced contrations in cerebral and peripheral arteries: susceptibility to verapamil was in the order, cerebral greater than coronary greater than mesenteric, while that to papaverine was in the order, cerebral=coronary greater than mesenteric.
(9) The polypeptide apamin caused a small depolarization of the muscle cell membrane of the guinea-pig taenia coli accompanied by enhancement of spike activity and a concomitant muscle contration.
(10) Treatment of smooth muscle with local anaesthetics (procaine, trimecaine, QX-572) removed hystamine- and bradikynin-induced contrations and only decreased off-responses.
(11) Two cases of Gilbert's syndrome and three cases of other diseases showed abnormally low plasma indocyanine green (ICG) clearance as contrated with normal or nearly normal plasma sulfobromphthalein (BSP) clearance.
(12) In 11 cases, the same material was used as a convenient stent to maintain the pressure over a graft and to maintain socket size after the reconstruction of a contrated socket, by filling the socket with RTV silicone which surrounded a Kirschner wire drilled through the lateral orbital rim.
(13) Both the on- and off-responses to the hyperpolarizing current recorded before, during and after hystamine (or bradikynin)-induced contration were, as a rule, very similar.
(14) Catecholamine-induced vascular smooth muscle contration is enhanced in female animals and in presence of emale sex hormones in vitro.
(15) This feature contrats with the size selectivity of the sheep placenta which exclude molecules of 0.45 nm radius.
(16) In contrats, Kennedy (4) found in estrogen-pretreated rats that both 5alpha-DHT and testosterone induced vaginal mucification as indicated by increased vaginal sialic acid concentration.
(17) A common occurrence in the more severely toxic patients was a phenomenon called "burst suppression," which revealed an inability of the patient to sustain a normal consistent firing of motor units upon muscle contration; the significance of this phenomenon is not thoroughly understood.
(18) The effects of various environmental conditions on the synthesis and excretion of tyrosine led to the conclusion that metabolic controls governing end product contrations exist which are completely independent of regulation by feedback inhibition and repression.
(19) Responses began with a brief contraction and then became a series of fast powerful contrations which continued for 30-60 minutes.
(20) When progesterone was administered in addition to oestradiol, spontaneous uterine motility became irregular with low amplitude contrations; the sensitivity and reactivity to oxytocin was significantly depressed.
Contrite
Definition:
(a.) Thoroughly bruised or broken.
(a.) Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent.
(n.) A contrite person.
(v.) In a contrite manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) This sends the dangerous message that the citizens of the debtor countries need to suffer badly to signal their contrition.
(2) "I take complete responsibility and offer nothing but love and contrition and I hope that now Jonathan and the BBC will endure less forensic wrath.
(3) Ken Livingstone has delivered a rare public display of contrition, following a backlash over leaked remarks made by him in a private meeting which were interpreted as saying that Jewish voters would not vote for him because they were rich.
(4) It's no surprise, then, that displays of contrition over his defeat by Boris Johnson in 2008 have not been a feature of the start of his campaign to take back the mayoralty in 2012.
(5) With Oldham Athletic pulling out of a deal to sign the player in the face of pressure from the public and sponsors, Evans’s statement via the Professional Footballers’ Association marks his first act of contrition towards the victim since he walked from prison on licence 83 days ago.
(6) It's the first interview he's done since his marriage and divorce and the split-up of the Ordinary Boys, and it all comes rushing out in a spate, a tangle of chronological confusions and jokes, and groans when I quote some of his old interviews back at him, and statements of contrition, and digressions about Dawkins or whatever, and here's the confounding thing - he's really nothing like I was expecting, not indie-boy sulky, or attempting to play it cool, he's just talkative and engaging, and he has a sense of humour about himself that, from reading his previous interviews, I wouldn't have even guessed at.
(7) The quartet wrestles its way to the end of Shostakovich's unquiet masterpiece, the reprised Largo with its complex contrition and very adult fears.
(8) "He was an unreliable witness and showed little contrition by pointing the finger at many of his former executives.
(9) 'Show contrition' said George Osborne's notes – but what did that mean?
(10) But Lind will have to decide whether she believes Manning is really contrite, and not merely apologising as a pragmatic bid for a shorter sentence.
(11) [Modi's] lack of contrition is outweighed by his rising profile as a possible ministerial candidate.
(12) So would anyone looking for an expression of contrition or regret.
(13) In a statement that contained little contrition for putting investors, staff and customers through a fruitless two weeks, Duch-Pedersen insisted that shareholders were continuing to "express their overwhelming support for the standalone G4S business and its management".
(14) Labour's Margaret Hodge , chair of the public accounts committee said Barlow "might want to show a bit of contrition by giving back his OBE".
(15) But Burnham, who has been publicly contrite about the frontbench’s ill-judged refusal to vote against the second reading of the government’s welfare bill at the start of the summer, could now reach out to the left by campaigning vigorously against this legislation.
(16) Any settlement should include a formal apology, but contrition alone would not be enough, he said.
(17) Donald Trump, on his Republican critics Whether Trump will be capable of showing genuine contrition when he faces Hillary Clinton on the debate stage at Washington University in St Louis on Sunday night remains in doubt.
(18) You can see when you speak to him how sorry he is about it and he's certainly shown quite a lot of contrition to us and as part of that, he's also asked we donate the fine to the Hillsborough Family Support Group.
(19) Hari is also handing back the George Orwell prize he won as "an act of contrition for the errors I made elsewhere, in my interviews" and will undertake "a programme of journalism training" during his leave of absence.
(20) "Despite some of the ways in which things come out as arrogant there are people at the top who are contrite and want to do the right thing," he said.