What's the difference between doughnut and fritter?

Doughnut


Definition:

  • (n.) A small cake (usually sweetened) fried in a kettle of boiling lard.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A combination of the leaky-patch and doughnut models may represent the most likely mechanism.
  • (2) Integrity of the anastomosis was assessed intraoperatively by the air test and examination of doughnuts for completeness.
  • (3) Late complications developed in all patients with the doughnut pattern of uptake compared with 43 percent of patients with the focal pattern and 12 percent of patients with the diffuse pattern.
  • (4) The doughnut pattern of technetium-99m pyrophosphate myocardial uptake in patients with acute myocardial infarction appears to identify a subgroup of patients with a very poor long-term prognosis.
  • (5) Three patient groups were identified from the pattern of radioactive uptake in the scintigram: Group I, 16 patients with focal uptake (anterior in 7, lateral in 2, posterior in 3 and inferior in 4); Group II, 6 patients with anterior myocardial infarction and a doughnut pattern of uptake; Group III, 8 patients with nontransmural myocardial infarction and a diffuse pattern of uptake.
  • (6) Licence fee payers will soon be able to watch, listen, and live in BBC Television Centre in west London after plans were unveiled to turn the famous doughnut-shaped inner ring of the complex into executive apartments.
  • (7) Boston cream doughnuts Thick vanilla custard and a chocolate glaze: these are the foundations of the Boston Cream pie.
  • (8) The doughnuts were then examined histologically; all were tumor free.
  • (9) Bone lesions with a ring-shaped appearance (the doughnut sign) have been encountered during routine reporting of bone scintigrams performed on patients with multiple myeloma.
  • (10) doughnut-like cell with one or more blebs] was used at a cut-off of 1%, sensitivity and specificity were 89.0% and 95.0% respectively.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Downtown Clifton motel, Tucson Among recent openings are Batch Café & Bar , which majors on the surprising pairing of whiskey and doughnuts; Carriage House , which offers dim sum brunches and cooking classes by chef Janos Wilder; Elviras , an upscale Mexican (with the border so close, Tucson’s food is multicultural), and Charro Steak , a ranch-to-table grill with a Sonoran twist.
  • (12) It was composed of doughnut-shaped particles 5-6 nm in diameter, with stalks, arranged in a hexagonal array.
  • (13) But you don't respond to it by stealing trainers and burning down fucking doughnut shops."
  • (14) LMWA contents of coatings from codfish and of doughnuts and their volatiles that codistill with steam are monitored by trapping the vapors and distillate from the food matrix in a 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine solution.
  • (15) The data suggest that the air test is useful since absence of air leakage in cases with an incomplete doughnut was followed by sound anastomotic healing.
  • (16) The budding particles contained a doughnut-shaped nucleoid, although the nucleoids decreased in size as compared with intracytoplasmic type A particles.
  • (17) At Melao Bakery, a classic Puerto Rican restaurant that serves quesitos, cream-filled doughnuts and a popular dish of fried green plantain called mofongo, several of the customers were also still wavering between the candidates.
  • (18) When the serum prolactin increases after child birth or renal insufficiency, the image from the accumulation of Ga-67 citrate in the breast may have a "doughnut" pattern.
  • (19) The particles were from 70 to 75 nm in diameter, with a central doughnut-shaped nucleoid 50 to 55 nm in diameter; numerous spikelike projections extended from their envelopes.
  • (20) It has inspired its own language: Timbits (the bits of doughnut pushed out to make the holes), a double-double (coffee with two creams and two sugars), a Timmy’s run (a coffee run).

Fritter


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan. Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter; as, apple fritters, clam fritters, oyster fritters.
  • (v. t.) A fragment; a shred; a small piece.
  • (v. t.) To cut, as meat, into small pieces, for frying.
  • (v. t.) To break into small pieces or fragments.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In an interview with the Qingdao Morning Post, one man lamented how in recent years his wife had frittered away 130,000 yuan (£13,500) of their hard-earned savings on Double Eleven purchases – thus dashing their dreams of buying a new home.
  • (2) Start with pasteis de bacalhau , Portugal’s legendary cod fritters.
  • (3) Three convenience products--frozen, precooked chicken apple fritters, chicken breast fillets, and chicken patties--provided by one processor were subjectively evaluated by two taste panels of older adults, ranging in age from the sixties to middle eighties.
  • (4) Just as at Newcastle United last month , points had been frittered away.
  • (5) When a lost boy meets a rusty child who teaches him to chomp iron bars, or a disgruntled crowd is distracted by beancurd fritters, Mo insists that everything lags behind the belly.
  • (6) There's a stall devoted to petits farcis (stuffed vegetables) and another selling fresh courgette fritters.
  • (7) Like many women, when I had my first child I frittered it away on nappies, food and school trips.
  • (8) Later, he would fritter away a large part of his fortune on never-realised projects such as a theme park dedicated to racial harmony.
  • (9) Their candidate, Mike Thornton, presented the authority with an "invoice for wasteful spending", claiming it had frittered away millions on advertising, office furniture and consultancy fees.
  • (10) Skivers, on the other hand, are lazy, unreliable and manipulative, choosing to live at others' expense so that they can sleep, watch television, abuse various substances and fritter away their time.
  • (11) The Tap Room restaurant next door serves robust Irish dishes such as rolled pork belly with Clonakilty black pudding fritters, champ, kale and Armagh cider jus.
  • (12) While the president stuffs his bank accounts and his spendthrift son fritters away a fortune on flash cars, more than half his people lack access to safe water, child survival rates are reportedly falling and numbers of children receiving primary education dropping.
  • (13) Instead of frittering away billions of dollars on $5 a week tax cuts for above average income earners, we should use that money for schools, hospitals and infrastructure.
  • (14) Noélia is a seriously good chef who serves updated Portuguese classics such as octopus fritters with coriander rice.
  • (15) Grey loves her way with courgettes (grated, to be made into fritters) and her gratin dauphinois.
  • (16) As is was already in the past, the society is nowadays again a place of scientific meeting and postgraduate medical training, whereby it has retained its traditional progressive and interdisciplinary character and will be understood as the uniting tie for the whole medicine which now tends to frittering.
  • (17) Science has demonstrated that each skylark needs to find the equivalent of 200 grains of wheat a day to survive cold weather, but here they were apparently frittering away their energy.
  • (18) He frittered away shots with successive three-putts on 10 and 11 before failing to take advantage, unlike Scott, on the two par fives that followed.
  • (19) 2 Heat a frying pan on a medium heat, pour a little oil into it and, when hot, spoon in small fritters.
  • (20) But they are just frittering it away on Flame Towers and Eurovision and the European Games.” If the Olympics and the World Cup are the top targets for ambitious rulers looking to make their mark, then beneath them sit cascading tiers of other sporting events that are increasingly sold either as an opportunity to put a country on the map or a stepping stone to landing one of the bigger fish.

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