What's the difference between fattened and flattened?
Fattened
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Fatten
Example Sentences:
(1) Its director, Susanne Logstrup, warned that replacing glucose and sucrose with "healthier" fructose might make people think a drink or food was less fattening.
(2) While out of 2,394 pigs raised in small private farms, 1.67% were positive with high infection rates, none of the pigs raised on a modern breeding and fattening farm were seropositive.
(3) Ulcers developed during all seasons and all stages of fattening, but were more common during the first 45 days of winter-initiated fattening than during other times.
(4) Salmonella contamination of swine and morbidity rates among the workers of swine-breeding complexes and the members of their families, as well as among the population inhabiting the zone of possible influence rendered by such complexes on the environment, have been studied as exemplified by 4 complexes for large-scale swine breeding, differing in their technology of swine raising and fattening, their systems of the purification and utilization of manure-containing sewage.
(5) Recently the disease in sheep and goats is marked by increased incidence and severe cases which cause many losses especially among lambs in fattening farms.
(6) Eight variants of recipes for mixtures of straw and concentrated feed with 10 to 60 per cent straw more or less finely ground (86 to 314 g crude fibre per kg dry matter) and fattening feed for lambs (50 g crude fibre per kg dry matter) were checked concerning the digestibility of crude nutrients for fullgrown wethers and 60 to 80-, 80 to 100-and 100 to 120-day-old lambs which had been ablactated at an age of 60 days.
(7) The effect of 100 ppm of Fe in milk replacer on some hematological and tissue Fe variables was studied during the first 7 wk of the fattening period in two groups of eight calves with low or high initial blood hemoglobin concentrations.
(8) As the concentrations of contaminants in the stable microclimate decrease, papular dermatitis starts declining and the susceptible part of the population of fattened pigs remains latently (free of symptoms) hidden in the population.
(9) Marked increases in hepatic malic enzyme and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activities were associated in birds with premigratory fattening.
(10) The effect of different iron concentrations in the milk replacer on the development of iron deficiency anaemia during a fattening period of 28 weeks was studied in three groups of 14 calves.
(11) In this field trial, the repercussions of 2 administration forms of oxfendazole, namely a single administration of a front-loaded device (group 1; n = 18) and a repeated administration of a 90.6 per cent oral suspension (group 2; n = 18), were compared in first season-grazing double-muscled fattening bulls.
(12) To determine whether degree of weight gain, diet composition, or some special mechanism militating against adipocyte hyperplasia may underlie the absence of adipocyte hyperplasia in hibernators, male Richardson's ground squirrels, Spermophilus richardsonii, were fed a fattening high-fat diet for either 5 mo or 1 yr.
(13) Five fattening rounds were completed and a total number of 2,400 fattening pigs took part in this study.
(14) The efficiency of utilization of the ME of the dried lucerne for growth and fattening was higher (P less than 0.01) when given in the ground pelleted form (0.533), than in the chopped form (0.284).
(15) Let’s begin just after the second world war, when Liverpool took a pre-season trip to the good ol’ US of A to gorge on meat, veg, malted milks and ice creams, working on the theory that by fattening themselves up, they’d have a season’s worth of energy stored when they got back to ration-book Britain.
(16) In the subtropical finch, spotted munia (Lonchura punctulata), circanual rhythms (of gonads, fattening, feeding) have been demonstrated in an information-free environment of continuous illumination (LL), rendering it an ideal model for research on the physiology of the circannual clock.
(17) The "recovery" so far consists primarily of vaporous paper money – inflated stock prices and bounding home prices that provide a "wealth effect" but don't actually fatten anyone's bank accounts or pay anyone's bills.
(18) The content of free amino acids in the three proofed tissues of fattening hybrids with a high demand of amino acids and a high protein synthesis performance was considerably above the values for rats as they are given in technical literature.
(19) For the fattening farm the following elements of confinement management were negatively correlated with pulmonary function: fully slatted floor, an automatic feeding system, natural ventilation, and the use of dust masks.
(20) Thus fattened for market, a basket-case operation became an investment proposition which – in the words of one London stockbroker – promises " a royal return on your money ".
Flattened
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Flatten
Example Sentences:
(1) In 22 cases (63%), retinal detachment was at least partially flattened in the area of the posterior pole of the eye.
(2) Opsin becomes incorporated into the disk membrane by a process of membrane expansion and fusion to form the flattened disks of the outer segment.
(3) The cells are predominantly monopolar, tightly packed, and are flattened at the outer border of the ring.
(4) Six patients, two of whom developed sciatic neuropathy, demonstrated complete flattening of the SSEP.
(5) A radical rearrangement of the organism occurred gradually: initially oval in shape, the parasite became round, then elongated, flattened, and underwent cytokinesis.
(6) The changes included swelling, blunting, and flattening of epithelial foot processes, were accompanied by decreased stainability of glomerular anionic sites, and were largely reversed by subsequent perfusion with the polyanion heparin.
(7) In an effort to decrease the treatment time for this technique, the flattening filter has been removed from an AECL Therac-6 linear accelerator and the characteristics of the resulting beam have been measured.
(8) In the cis-trans axis of the Golgi apparatus the following compartments were observed: (a) On the cis face there was a continuous osmiophilic tubular network referred to as the cis element; (b) a cis compartment composed of 3 or 4 NADPase-positive saccules perforated with pores in register forming wells that contained small vesicles; (c) a trans compartment composed of 1 or 2 TPPAse-positive elements underlying the NADPase ones, followed by 1 or 2 CMPase-positive elements that showed a flattened saccular part continuous with a network of anastomotic tubules.
(9) The flattening of neutrophils occurred soon after settling, and was not followed by extension.
(10) The streets of Jiegu are now littered with concrete remnants of modern structures and the flattened mud and painted wood of traditional Tibetan buildings.
(11) The EWRGP group showed a mean flattening in corneal curvature of 0.11 and 0.15 mm in the flattest and steepest corneal meridians, respectively.
(12) The lining epithelium was a single layer of flattened or cuboidal endocervical cells.
(13) The first eigenvector, when represented by grey scale maps depicting a pair of eyes, reveals that, as average threshold increases, the visual field rises and flattens, like an umbrella that, initially closed, is simultaneously opened and thrust upwards.
(14) In older children, there were a low vertebral signal and disappearance of the disc-vertebra borders on T1-weighted images and a high vertebral signal with a decreased and flattened disc signal on T2-weighted images.
(15) Poorly-differentiated tissue produced a more haphazard out-growth of pleomorphic cells with few processes and flattened pseudopodia.
(16) In the past, ovarian cancer was more common in higher social classes, but sociocultural differences seem to have flattened off over recent decades.
(17) In the SEM three corresponding types were identified, a relatively smooth spherical type, a highly ruffled type and a fairly smooth flattened type.
(18) This change in shape varied from a slight flattening of the LV and IVS during diastole to total reversal of the normal direction of septal curvature such that the IVS became concave toward the RV and convex toward the LV.
(19) By phase-contrast microscopy of living cells and in more detail by scanning electron microscopy, the megakaryocytes showed a nonreversible adherence, an extensive formation of filopodia around the periphery like the rays of the sun, and a tendency toward flattening.
(20) The nerve bundles, encircled by basal lamina, were enclosed by a thin connective tissue layer and by flattened fibroblast-like cells.