What's the difference between kate and skate?

Kate


Definition:

  • (n.) The brambling finch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Kate Connolly , Ian Traynor and Siobhán Dowling cover the "guilt and resentment" Germany's savers feel over pressure to do more to end the euro crisis.
  • (2) (“The Dynasty of Bush” sounds like a terribly disparaging term for Linda Evans, Kate O’Mara and Joan Collins .
  • (3) Kate Cernik and Mandy Wearne examine the concept and its importance to health visitors and community nurses and ask what is involved in the profiling process and who should be doing it.
  • (4) Kate Garraway and Dan Lobb, currently part of the Daybreak team, could also see their roles boosted in the Daybreak reshuffle.
  • (5) Cameron will be accused of attempting to pack the Lords with reliable supporters including Kate Fall, his deputy chief of staff, James O’Shaughnessy, a former head of policy at No 10, and Simone Finn, Francis Maude’s former special adviser.
  • (6) The comedy extravaganza featured an array of TV, music and sports stars, including David Beckham, Kate Moss and Robbie Williams.
  • (7) Peter Moffat (Criminal Justice) I had a meeting at the BBC yesterday with Ben Stephenson, Kate Harwood, Manda Levin and Hilary Salmon.
  • (8) MPs including Chuka Umunna, Stephen Doughty and Kate Green won the backing of 101 MPs, including 49 Labour rebels, for their amendment to the Queen’s speech, which called for the government to abandon the idea that “no deal is better than a bad deal” in the Brexit talks.
  • (9) Kate Waters, the chief strategy officer at Now and a member of the Women in Advertising and Communications London group, said: “I’ve had comments about what I wear, that it might be appropriate to wear a shorter skirt to a meeting, for instance.” A 55-year-old account director, who used to work for Saatchi & Saatchi, said while it was mostly a good company to work for, “it was taken for granted that female execs were there to look pretty and distract clients”.
  • (10) For the second show in the Guardian’s 10-week radio series on NTS, Alexis talked to the Guide’s Kate Hutchinson about glam’s early innovators, forgotten outliers and its modern descendants: T Rex to David Bowie and Iron Virgin to Perfume Genius.
  • (11) Click here to view In The Other Woman, Cameron Diaz , Leslie Mann and Kate Upton team up to declare an all-out, scorched-earth War Of The Scorned Blondes against philandering husband Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
  • (12) The same refusal to back down characterised his dispute with Norman Mailer, whose attitudes towards women had brought rebukes from Gloria Steinem and Kate Millett.
  • (13) Only these ones didn't have big pictures of Kate and Wills, but focused on things such as their own wages and crappy working conditions .
  • (14) katE hybridized with C. freundii and K. pneumoniae DNAs and not with the other bacterial DNAs.
  • (15) A naturalised British subject, he spent most of his working life in London and was frequently seen at the most salubrious bars and restaurants, often in the company of beautiful young women such as Kate Moss, who he once painted.
  • (16) They solve it, correctly, by making him abdicate, with a bit of help from Prince William’s wife, Kate.
  • (17) The Spirit Level, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, 2009 Written in the midst of the financial crisis, The Spirit Level attempted to show how countries with wide income disparities tended to face more social problems – more crime, more violence, more drug abuse, worse education, and less social mobility.
  • (18) "So sad to hear of the loss of Nils Horner: a serious-minded, well-informed, humane reporter," said Kabul-based analyst Kate Clark.
  • (19) I was flicking through a copy of this month's Vogue and there's Kate Moss topless.
  • (20) Clearly angry and upset, Kate McCann said: "We need to make it clear to people: we took on this case because of the pain and distress that Mr Amaral has brought to us and our children.

Skate


Definition:

  • (n.) A metallic runner with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, -- made to be fastened under the foot, and used for moving rapidly on ice.
  • (v. i.) To move on skates.
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of large, flat elasmobranch fishes of the genus Raia, having a long, slender tail, terminated by a small caudal fin. The pectoral fins, which are large and broad and united to the sides of the body and head, give a somewhat rhombic form to these fishes. The skin is more or less spinose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Renal micropuncture and microdissection techniques with ultramicro fluid analysis have been applied to evaluate single nephron function in the skate, Raja erinacea.
  • (2) The present study examined whether an uptake system for GABA could be detected in isolated skate horizontal cells by means of electrophysiological methods.
  • (3) Sodium azide, a classical inhibitor of cytochrome oxidase, is an effective inhibitor of gastric acid secretion in bullfrog and skate gastric mucosae at low concentrations.
  • (4) The greatest proportion of injuries in children occur in gymnastics, figure skating and modern gymnastics.
  • (5) Biomechanical analysis of the crosscountry techniques has developed from rather simple 2-dimensional kinematic descriptions of diagonal stride to complex measurement of skating forces and 3-dimensional motion.
  • (6) Speed skating exercise can be better understood by taking account of physiological and biomechanical considerations.
  • (7) The potential cardiovascular adaptations from cross-country ski training appear to be similar for the classical and skating techniques, yet training specificity is important for optimal performance.
  • (8) The athletes were training in gymnastics, figure skating, synchronized swimming, volleyball, or track.
  • (9) Two morphologically distinct types of horizontal cell have been identified in the all-rod skate retina by light- and electron-microscopy as well as after isolation by enzymatic dissociation.
  • (10) The function of this enzyme is, in part, to modify membrane lipid composition and fluidity in response to temperature variations; therefore, this finding suggests that in situ lipid metabolizing enzymes may play a central role in the adaptation of skate basolateral liver plasma membranes to changes in the ambient temperature.
  • (11) The last time I visited they were rollerblading and after plenty of assistance managing the straps and buckles on the hefty skates, I took to the floor.
  • (12) The spiracular organ is a tube (skate) or pouch (shark) with a single pore opening into the spiracle.
  • (13) When it emerged that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had gone missing, he tweeted: "It occurs to me: All our good news on the economy is currently as submerged and lost as the Malaysian Airlines flight recorder..." The MP, whose Twitter avatar is a character from figure-skating comedy Blades Of Glory, also joked about having a relationship with a llama.
  • (14) The skate retina contains only one type of photoreceptor which has rod-like properties in the dark-adapted state.
  • (15) Princess Anne is also in evidence, currently watching the ice skating clad in a Team GB Russian-style fur hat, but I have no picture to show you.
  • (16) Both the skate and star techniques of nipple and areolar reconstruction in the hyperexpanded patient yield very acceptable results despite thinned skin and minimal subcutaneous tissue.
  • (17) "That should send out a message to my rivals I am able to skate from the back as well as from the front."
  • (18) According to a paper published in the journal Science on Thursday, large and bottom-dwelling species carry most risk, which means cod, flounder, halibut, pollock, skate and sole from the waters in question could be off limits for years, .
  • (19) The spiracular sense organs of the little skate, Raja erinacea, and the smooth dogfish, Mustelus canis, respond to movements of the hyomandibula-cranial joint.
  • (20) Intracellular fluids of marine elasmobranchs (sharks, skates and rays), holocephalans and the coelacanth contain urea at concentrations averaging 0.4m, high enough to significantly affect the structural and functional properties of many proteins.

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