What's the difference between lite and rite?

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 .

Rite


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of performing divine or solemn service, as established by law, precept, or custom; a formal act of religion or other solemn duty; a solemn observance; a ceremony; as, the rites of freemasonry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Vatican's spokesman Federico Lombardi insisted the rite took place in "a specific situation in which excluding the girls would have been inopportune in light of the simple aim of communicating a message of love to all".
  • (2) If that is not possible, they should issue visas on an urgent basis for their families so that they can travel to the US and perform the last rites."
  • (3) The challenge of eliminating the practice in a culture that sees it as a rite of passage is huge, but the stakes couldn't be higher.
  • (4) Annually thousands of teenage boys from the Xhosa tribe embark on a secretive rite of passage in Eastern Cape province, spending up to a month in seclusion where they study, undergo circumcision by a traditional surgeon, and apply white clay to their bodies.
  • (5) Chinese authorities in Aba refused to allow locals to carry out traditional funeral rites for Gepey so as not to provide an opportunity for Tibetans to gather and protest, Free Tibet said.
  • (6) At the same time, only half of millennials have a driver’s licence, a rite of passage for prior generations.
  • (7) It is devastating that jail is seen as a rite of passage for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, part of the natural order of things.” Indigenous prisoner who killed himself wasn't in a 'safe' cell despite being at risk Read more He said a Labor government would fund three trials – in a city, a regional town and a remote community – of “justice reinvestment” programs, “redirecting funds spent on justice system to prevention and diversionary programs to address underlying causes of offending with disproportionately high levels of incarceration”.
  • (8) The authors present their experience with 28 patients who had incurred unstable thoracic or lumbar spine fractures and who were intraoperatively stabilized with the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital (TSRH) universal instrumentation system.
  • (9) Rigorous training Mentors receive rigorous training and use a "rites of passage" approach where mentees are encouraged to form strong and enduring bonds to the older men who guide them.
  • (10) He may also have been giving the last rites, but he picked up the rifle."
  • (11) You need to go through rites of passage that only a man can do.
  • (12) For young people in Hartlepool, one of the most deprived parts of the country, going to university is more than just a rite of passage.
  • (13) In the summer of 1982, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.) sponsored a camp for paraplegic adolescents.
  • (14) The "teenager" has proved a highly workable rite of passage for the past 70 years.
  • (15) Are we talking about a religious rite--or about child abuse?
  • (16) His life reads like a blockbuster of its own – after Tribal Rites he continued writing, true stories mostly, and in 1983 was arrested for conspiring to import millions of dollars worth of heroin and cocaine into the US.
  • (17) Child marriage: we must urge action to stop girls' initiation rites | Persilia Muianga Read more The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, promised to end child marriage of under-15s by 2021 and reduce by more than one-third the number of girls married between the ages of 15 and 18, with the ultimate goal of eliminating the practice by 2041.
  • (18) All patients were treated by bracing at the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital from 1970 to 1980.
  • (19) While Respond is supportive of people with learning disabilities who are able to give consent and do make the decision to get married freely, Khan is keen to stress the importance of providing support for those who may be pressured into doing so: “Through our referral service, we aim to work towards removing labels which further victimise people, taking each case on its own merit and working with people to fully understand what is actually happening within each situation.” She explains how nuanced some of the cases can be: Within many families there can be a belief that marriage is a rite of passage and some families may even perhaps wish or hope that it will “cure” the person of learning disabilities.
  • (20) It has long been a painful rite of passage for German schoolchildren – learning "die Schreibschrift", a fiddly form of joined-up handwriting all pupils are expected to have mastered by the time they leave primary school.

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