What's the difference between hatter and patter?

Hatter


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To tire or worry; -- out.
  • (n.) One who makes or sells hats.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The idea that hatters were "mad" stemmed from popular perceptions more than from medical knowledge.
  • (2) Donald Trump’s mad hatter ramblings are outside the conservative reform movement and we will continue onward to deny him the nomination.” Kasich did not compete in Indiana as a result of a pact with Cruz and has so far only won his home state of Ohio.
  • (3) You can watch as "the Mad Hatter gets even madder", and throw pepper at the Duchess.
  • (4) Its ground floor is decorated only in yellow, its first floor only in red; there’s Cole Porter on the gramophone and the Hatter himself serving in full costume.
  • (5) To our left sat a stolid middle-aged black couple in the Mad Hatter attire that has become part of the South African football fan's kit.
  • (6) Conventional wisdom holds that the "Mad Hatter" of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland earned his name because he exhibited psychotic behavior from mercury poisoning.
  • (7) The reviewer gave me two stars, the same day I got a tweet off the rabbit asking if he could bring the Mad Hatter and the Dormouse to my show.
  • (8) Discussed are coal miners' nystagmus, scrotal cancer in chimney sweeps, phossy jaw, hatters' shakes, painters' colic, potters' rot, chauffeurs' knee, glanders, caisson disease, and others.
  • (9) Many of those attending wore costumes depicting the Mad Hatter, Wonder Woman or the scary rabbit character from the cult movie Donnie Darko .
  • (10) Depp, who only last week agreed to play Charlie Mortdecai in a film based on Kyril Bonfiglioli's books about the eccentric and debonair English art dealer, will once again portray the Mad Hatter in Hollywood's latest riff on the classic Lewis Carroll tale.
  • (11) I can’t really see the terrific Cabinet Battle #1 (“Madison, you’re mad as a hatter, son, take your medicine.
  • (12) The hatters' occupational disease was curbed only in 1941 when mercury was required for the manufacture of detonators in World War II.
  • (13) The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party The choreographer Kate Prince has drawn on fairy tales, Shakespeare and the musical theatre of Stephen Sondheim in her crusade to mine the theatrical and family friendship possibilities of hip-hop.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Royal Ballet’s Steven McRae, left, and Turbo from ZooNation join forces for The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party.
  • (15) From Edward Scissorhands' gothic pallor to Jack Sparrow's guyliner-friendly swashbuckling, his rose-tinted Mad Hatter to his dazzle-painted Tonto, Johnny Depp has always been partial to a bit of greasepaint.
  • (16) The hatters of New Jersey were not only not mad, but neither were they, the physicians, nor the public of the period sufficiently angry to control the conditions under which the hatters worked.
  • (17) Baron Cohen is also preparing to play the villain, Time, in the forthcoming sequel to Alice in Wonderland, with Johnny Depp reprising his Mad Hatter role alongside Helena Bonham Carter and Mia Wasikowska.
  • (18) Nearby is the eccentric Mad Hatter’s Tea Rooms (9 Lombard Street), a shrine to vintage.
  • (19) And then there’s returns for his Mad Hatter and Jack Sparrow, a pair of cast-iron hits.
  • (20) The pathologic shyness of mercurialism, however, was not noted in New Jersey hatters until 1912.

Patter


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet.
  • (v. i.) To mutter; to mumble; as, to patter with the lips.
  • (v. i.) To talk glibly; to chatter; to harangue.
  • (v. t.) To spatter; to sprinkle.
  • (v. i.) To mutter; as prayers.
  • (n.) A quick succession of slight sounds; as, the patter of rain; the patter of little feet.
  • (n.) Glib and rapid speech; a voluble harangue.
  • (n.) The cant of a class; patois; as, thieves's patter; gypsies' patter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A light rain pattered the rooftops of Los Mochis in Friday’s pre-dawn darkness, the town silent and still as the Sea of Cortez lapped its shore.
  • (2) When the effects of clonidine on food-reinforced operant responding were investigated it was observed that SD and SH rats differed with regard to rate and temporal pattering of IRT greater than 20 sec responding.
  • (3) However, despite the visibility of some Russians in the capital, Cameron's 2011 sales patter did not turn Russia into a major destination for British exporters: German machine tools and French military aircraft are worth far more to Russia than British goods.
  • (4) The actor Steven Berkoff, who had met Biggs in 1987, when making a film about him that both agreed was "a load of cobblers", praised his "most terrific patter".
  • (5) This raised the possibility that some selection or strengthening of this unspecific patter is involved in the evolution of the specific membrane patterns of the individual cells of higher organisms.
  • (6) The polypeptide patter of SMRV as determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis was distinct from the reported polypeptide patterns of known retraviruses.
  • (7) As for Boris Johnson, the Labour MP Rupa Huc reminded Radio 4 listeners that the London mayor has a line of patter in “ flag-waving piccaninnies ” and “watermelon smiles”.
  • (8) Little hands pattered on the walls, and little voices outside persisted: "Do you speak English?
  • (9) And when they emerge into the daylight, the chancellor could, once again, be left looking like a salesman who can’t resist overdoing the patter.
  • (10) Blackburn's transatlantic DJ's patter is currently one of the prolific voices on Audioboo.
  • (11) The fascinating pitter-patter of stomach contents against the back of your teeth as a fearsome torrent of spew erupts from within like a liquid poltergeist fleeing an exorcism.
  • (12) Although total weight loss during starvation was never greater for HFD rats than for chow-fed rats, the former group showed a clear patter of increasing loss of body fat and total energy and conservation of fat-free tissues with periods of starvation later in life.
  • (13) The main psychiatric findings are diminished intelligence, retardation in development of secondary sexual characteristics, and poor emotional control leading to inadequate social adaptive patters which are described and discussed.
  • (14) The normal patter of joint incongruity in the rabbit's hip having first been established, three groups of experimental animals underwent operative procedures designed to reduce the joint pressure to a level unrealistic in normal life.
  • (15) The following constellations proved to be useful in assessing the effect of secretolytic drugs: (1) change in deposition patter; (2) clearance rate, if no change in deposition takes place; (3) clearance rate from a peripheral area of the lung.
  • (16) Next week the directors are heading to the US, to give the same sales patter to investors who have asked to see them in New York, Denver, Chicago, California and Boston.
  • (17) His well-rehearsed patter about his record does not mention the toll on jobs.
  • (18) The blotting patters obtained were correlated with the clinical findings, with particular reference to prodromal itching, lesion morphology and severity, mucosal involvement, presence of milia, dapsone responsiveness and disease duration.
  • (19) The rain was falling on the canvas with a pattering sound.
  • (20) Bill’s weary patter last night on the subjects of working families, and something something community-and-something-something-renewable-energy targets may be carefully constructed verbiage to target we-share-your-concerns to swinging voters, but Labor’s present strategy wholly avoids speaking to those that Labor crucially needs to deliver both an election win and a majority large enough to ensure space for policy implementation and future planning.