What's the difference between laster and latter?

Laster


Definition:

  • (n.) A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts; a tool for stretching leather on a last.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Whereas the native CryIC toxin is completely protease resistant, the CryIA(b) toxin, earlier described as consisting of two structural domains [Convents, D., Houssier, C., Lasters, I.
  • (2) Etidocaine hydrochloride 1% plain caused a slower onset of block, laster longer and produced more profound analgesia over the caudal dermatomes than did 2% lignocaine hydrochloride.
  • (3) On histologic examination, the excimer laster created a single round lumen or multiple lumens ("Swiss-cheese" like appearance) with no evidence of thermal injury at the perimeter of the lumen.
  • (4) We didn’t even see them coming,” said Laster, the clinic’s administrator.
  • (5) The effect of nicotine laster 3-5 hr, while the effect of carbachol lasted up to 6 hr.
  • (6) On the other hand, the increments concerning SS-PS episodes occurred earlier, were more pronounced and laster longer in L rats.
  • (7) The local stimulation and inhibition of haemostatic plug formation was studied by local infusion and superfusion of different agents - ADP, thrombin, adenosine, heparin, prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) and laster injury.

Latter


Definition:

  • (a.) Later; more recent; coming or happening after something else; -- opposed to former; as, the former and latter rain.
  • (a.) Of two things, the one mentioned second.
  • (a.) Recent; modern.
  • (a.) Last; latest; final.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
  • (2) Along the spectrum of loyalties lie multiple loyalties and ambiguous loyalties, and the latter, if unresolved, create moral ambiguities.
  • (3) The latter result indicates that the dexamethasone block is upstream from release of esterified arachidonic acid.
  • (4) Comparison of developmental series of D. merriami and T. bottae revealed that the decline of the artery in the latter species is preceded by a greater degree of arterial coarctation, or narrowing, as it passes though the developing stapes.
  • (5) Uptake could be supported either by substrate oxidation or by adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP), and was inhibited in the former case by antimycin or cyanide, in the latter case by oligomycin, and in both cases by 2,4-dinitrophenol.
  • (6) This suggests that the latter group does not possess the genetic equipment (Ir genes) to recognize the antigenic determinants and to synthesize the corresponding antibodies.
  • (7) If the latter is not readily correctable or if the patient is bleeding actively, anticoagulation with intermittent administration of heparin by the intravenous route is indicated.
  • (8) Only IgG2a and IgG2b myeloma proteins bound readily to IC-21 Fc-receptors, the former in nonaggregated as well as aggregated form, the latter only as aggregated complexes.
  • (9) An efficient numerical algorithm based on the cyclic coordinate search method to solve the latter is explained.
  • (10) The authors consider the latter mechanism preferable.
  • (11) F pili could be seen on cells of the latter strain but not on those of the parental strain or the strain bearing pColVF54 luminal diameter r. Pili other than F pili were not seen on cells of the strains bearing pF54 in either form.
  • (12) In the latter case, a sensitivity of 0.2 pCi l-1 is obtainable for 24-hr exposures.
  • (13) The corticotectal cells in the motor cortex differed from those in the premotor cortex in their size distribution; the former being small, the latter both small and large.
  • (14) In the case of the latter, it show either a more or less typical appearance of radicolography only or, more rarely, a picture which combines opacification of the epidural space with the subarachnoid passage of the contrast medium.
  • (15) Preventive care is closely linked with curative care, the latter must in future be mainly in the home rather than in hospital.
  • (16) TLC showed that the latter contained 2 components which had characteristics similar to TBOH and its metabolites, and thus were at least partly drug-related metabolites.
  • (17) The latter appears to reflect methodological problems since both fat-free determinations depend upon TBW rather than somatic proteins.
  • (18) However, our theory differs in several important respects from the latter efforts.
  • (19) These two latter techniques were developed in an attempt to restore normal left ventricular geometry.
  • (20) In the latter groups, specimens were taken from both polyp tissue and adjacent nasal mucosa.