What's the difference between lite and liter?

Lite


Definition:

  • (adv., & n.) Little.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yet what has been unfolding in the past 15 months or so should make even the most ardent pro-European think about an orderly mechanism for making member states exit: the euro crisis and, less obviously, Hungary's backsliding from liberal democracy to a soft form of authoritarianism, or what an American paper recently called " Lukashenko lite ".
  • (2) Correlations with an immunoradiometric assay (Embria), using 522 samples, gave: Stratus = 0.999 (Embria) -3.3; r = 0.969, and Magic Lite = 1.225 (Embria) -3.03; r = 0.971.
  • (3) Asked how he would respond to constituents and colleagues who call the Republican bill “Obamacare-lite”, he replied: “You’re looking at some of the top conservatives in the House.
  • (4) The features that Magic Lite products offer as an immunoassay delivery system are discussed.
  • (5) He also said tax evaders using Liechtenstein had been offered "amnesty-lite" deals.
  • (6) Similarly, tumor appearance was more rapid in MITE rats consuming the low fat corn oil diet in comparison to the low fat diet-fed LITE group (57 day vs. 67 day, P = 0.046).
  • (7) Second place goes to So Sporty Barbie, a kind of Rihanna-lite in Balmain-ish mesh vest dress and open-toe shoe boots.
  • (8) This study demonstrates the safety of Plak-Lite disclosing solution when administered at exaggerated dose levels via routes simulating human use.
  • (9) DMGT executives approached News International to try to end the bitter loss-making battle the two companies have waged since launching their respective free afternoon papers, London Lite and the London Paper, which hit the streets in late August and early September 2006 , according to sources.
  • (10) For those who like verisimilitude in their faux fags there are disposables – the hefty but effective Ten Motives or the petite, feminine NJOY – and rechargeable kits complete with USB chargers and cartridges from the likes of E-Lites, Halo and Skycig.
  • (11) We will continue to assess the situation regarding London Lite," said the managing director of Associated Newspapers' free newspaper division, Steve Auckland.
  • (12) In December the London Paper distributed 495,398 copies daily and London Lite 390,353.
  • (13) In July 2006, before the free London Paper and London Lite launched, the Standard sold 300,993 copies a day.
  • (14) So far, the culture of the debate has been Scottish Enlightenment-lite: ramped-up editorial in the papers and among broadcasters, rashes of serious hustings in community halls, academics moving their heavy artillery into place.
  • (15) At the 10 August meeting, the Fed took a cautious step towards pumping extra liquidity into the financial system through an operation described as "QE lite".
  • (16) In theory, Lite should pick up more advertisers, but it depends whether or not the advertisers are there.
  • (17) DMGT is also home to a 120-strong regional newspaper division, Northcliffe – which it could have sold for £1bn in 2006 but is worth a fraction of that today – as well as TV content provider Teletext and commuter freesheets Metro and London Lite.
  • (18) A new chemiluminometric immunoassay (Magic Lite) and a direct immunofluorescence technique (MicroTrak) were compared with cell culture in the diagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis infections.
  • (19) If we do away with the notion that the personal is political, as feminism-lite is wont to do, who gets left holding the baby?
  • (20) The campaign they came up with for the diet beet which became Miller Lite (“Tastes Great, Less Filling”) was named by Ad Age as the eighth-best ad campaign of the 20th century .

Liter


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Litre

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They are just literally lying.” In August Microsoft severed its ties, saying Alec’s stance on climate change and several other issues “conflicted directly with Microsoft’s values”.
  • (2) Estimated fluid consumption dropped from 10 liters to 4 liters daily and incidents of hyponatremia decreased by 62%.
  • (3) Resting plasma epinephrine and norepinephrine levels were 13.1 and 2.1 nmol liter-1 for the marine toad (Bufo marinus).
  • (4) And we literally had hundreds of thousands of them."
  • (5) Standard additions are unnecessary; Pt concentrations are read from a calibration chart of peak heights, which is linear up to 1.6 mg per liter.
  • (6) Communication issues in obtaining organ donation consent were examined, with particular focus on what are literally life-and-death decisions.
  • (7) It could still be terrorism but it looks as if the aircraft went out of control because the controls were literally burning up.
  • (8) A novel vector was employed which permits rapid and highly efficient cleavage of the GST fusion protein yielding 10 mg of purified PurH product per liter of bacterial culture.
  • (9) You literally never see that at political rallies, though obviously at Tea Party ones they are there all the time."
  • (10) An empirical rate expression was developed from experimental data which led to a prediction that the natural rate of oxidation in the ocean is about 0.023 micromoles of As(III) per liter each year.
  • (11) A technology for preparation of purified concentrates of rabies virus has been developed permitting to use simultaneously dozens of liters of tissue culture virus-containing fluid for the preparation of a concentrate.
  • (12) The maximum effect was obtained with 10(-7) molar gibberellic acid, whereas concentrations greater than 5 x 10(-7) mole per liter were inhibitory.
  • (13) Years ahead of its time, it saw each song presented theatrically, the musicians concealed in the wings (although Bowie said that they kept creeping on to the stage, literally unable to resist the spotlight) and with Bowie performing on a cherry-picker and on a giant hand, both of which kept breaking down.
  • (14) Some women attended the protest wearing jeans and T-shirts, while others took the mission of reclaiming the word "slut" – one of the stated objectives of the movement – more literally and turned out in overtly provocative fishnets and stilettos.
  • (15) But nobody got the reference and "the next day it was literally on CNN".
  • (16) 1.57pm BST Lap 36: Punchy stuff from Jules Bianchi up to 13th, literally bumping his way through Kobayashi on the inside.
  • (17) The majority of children came from low socio-economic homes (61%) with mostly illiterate or semi-literate mothers.
  • (18) As compared with the normoglycemic patients, the patients with hypoglycemia had elevated median plasma concentrations of glucagon (44 vs. 11 pmol per liter; P = 0.001), epinephrine (3400 vs. 1500 pmol per liter; P = 0.012), norepinephrine (7500 vs. 2900 pmol per liter; P = 0.002), and lactate (3.5 vs. 2.1 mmol per liter; P = 0.020) and similar alanine and beta-hydroxybutyrate concentrations.
  • (19) Finally, poliovirus experimentally seeded in 20 liters of tape water was recovered from Johns-Manville D79-Johns-Manville D39 or Johns-Manville D79-Filterite 0.45 micron 142-mm filter combinations was a efficiencies of 86 and 85%, respectively.
  • (20) Results concerning existence and uniqueness of equilibria, stability of the equilibria, and boundedness of solutions suggest that "compensatory" systems might not be compensatory in the literal sense.