What's the difference between leal and leat?

Leal


Definition:

  • (a.) Faithful; loyal; true.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It fills me with hope of change.” But, as local historian Eusebio Leal Spengler led the Obamas through the deserted streets, the tour also hinted at the dangers of lopsided tourist development that could leave the stunningly beautiful city centre feeling like a permanent theme park if mishandled.
  • (2) The psychopharmacological data collected in the present work leal to classify this new thienodiazepine derviative within the fram of tranquilizers of the benxodaizapine type.
  • (3) Guilherme Leal is a Brazilian business and social entrepreneur and Jochen Zeitz is director of Kering and chairman of the board’s sustainable development committee.
  • (4) Tamayo is the third Mexican referenced in Avena to be executed by Texas, following Jose Ernesto Medellin in 2008 and Humberto Leal Garcia in 2011.
  • (5) Tamayo would be the third Mexican referenced in Avena to be executed in Texas, following José Medellín and Humberto Leal García, who was put to death in 2011 despite efforts from the US and Mexican governments to stay his execution because he was denied timely consular rights.

Leat


Definition:

  • (n.) An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite " ("I told you I was ill") now reminds mourners of Spike's anarchic wit and wisdom.
  • (2) In 2004, a mother claimed that Leat had been taking pictures of her daughter with a mobile phone but he denied the accusation and no action was taken.
  • (3) The abuse went undetected at the school – where Leat taught for 15 years – until December last year when one victim told her mother that Leat had been touching her.
  • (4) Leat, 51, would swear his victims to secrecy and even write letters to them in which he would describe what he wanted to do to them and ask them to reply.
  • (5) Nicholas Gerasimidis, for Leat, said: "It might be said that had he not been in the position that he was that this interest may never have found an opportunity for expression."
  • (6) An féidir leat mé a dhíriú i dtreo sagart tuiscineach?
  • (7) Leat was also seen lifting up and touching young girls in the playground and tickling and cuddling pupils in class.
  • (8) Another member of staff saw Leat projecting an indecent image of an adult on to a wall during a lesson, warning pupils not to tell their parents what they had seen.
  • (9) He said he would support anyone else who came forward and said they had been abused by Leat.
  • (10) Nigel Leat was jailed indefinitely last year for abusing children he taught, often when other pupils were present, and sometimes filming his attacks .
  • (11) Married father of two Leat, from Bristol, admitted 36 offences involving five pupils aged between six and eight over five years.
  • (12) Concerns were not followed up and this led to children not being protected from Nigel Leat.
  • (13) The court was told Leat became interested in images of child abuse on the internet 10 years ago when his marriage became "asexual".
  • (14) Leat was only arrested in December 2010, when a schoolgirl told her mother he abused her "every day apart from when the teaching assistant was in the classroom".
  • (15) The judge told Leat: "Your manipulation of the children was clever, cunning and insidious.
  • (16) Official records show that those who reported Leat's behaviour were told they should not "insinuate things" or "accuse him of things".
  • (17) Four neutral oligosaccharides (AraXyl2, AraXyl3, Xyl2, and Xyl3), isolated by preparative paper chromatography, were shown by enzymic and methylation techniques to constitute a series of beta-(1 leats to 4)-D-xylose and O-alpha-L-arabinofuranosyl-(1 leads to 3)-O-beta-D-xylopyranosyl-(1 leads to 4)-O-beta-D-xylopyranosyl-(1 leads to 4)-D-xylose, respectively, the latter being a new compound.
  • (18) Nigel Leat, 51, a married father-of-two, groomed at least one girl a year and showered her with gifts, afforded her privileges and organised one-on-one teaching sessions.
  • (19) Ofsted carried out inspections and described the level of care afforded to children as "outstanding" during the time Leat, 51, was offending.
  • (20) About 30 parents and teachers watched at Bristol crown court as Judge Neil Ford QC, the recorder of Bristol, sentenced Leat to an indefinite term and ruled he must serve at least eight and a half years.

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