What's the difference between matin and satin?

Matin


Definition:

  • (n.) Morning.
  • (n.) Morning worship or service; morning prayers or songs.
  • (n.) Time of morning service; the first canonical hour in the Roman Catholic Church.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the morning, or to matins; used in the morning; matutinal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A freshwater Spirillum sp., which apparently belongs to a niche of low nutritional status (Matin & Veldkamp, 1978), accumulated poly-beta-hydroxybutyric acid (PHB) during lactate-limited growth in continuous culture.
  • (2) Asked about an opinion poll that indicated that a majority of Swiss would support legal assistance for foreign authorities seeking tax evaders, Grübel told Le Matin Dimanche: "I share that view."
  • (3) In sportsmen-throwers the matinal exchange of rest in conditions of sport gatherings is found to be fairly high.
  • (4) Prediction may be made from a regression line of saliva versus serum concentration or from an equation proposed by Matin et al.
  • (5) Moreover, the plasma mexiletine levels calculated by the equation of Matin et al (1974) employing the observed values for the saliva drug level, saliva pH and free fraction of mexiletine in plasma were significantly higher than the observed drug levels.
  • (6) I went to Marlborough College in Wiltshire, and they had a beautiful chapel where we had matins most days.
  • (7) "The secondary effects of it are very bad for the health," Hostettmann told Le Matin newspaper last year.
  • (8) There were a dozen bodies around us.” Nice-Matin journalist Damien Allemand, who was on the waterfront, saw the vehicle swerve, smashing into people “at a crazy speed”.
  • (9) He told the local paper, Nice Matin , that a woman in a veil was less dangerous than someone who had "double or triple parked".
  • (10) Starvation proteins synthesized by Escherichia coli at the onset of carbon starvation (R. G. Groat and A. Matin, J. Indust.
  • (11) To bring about repression of a family fo genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae called the a-specific genes, two transcriptional regulatory proteins, alpha 2 and GRM (general regulator of matin type), bind cooperatively to an operator found upstream of each a-specific gene.
  • (12) The concept of a relative probability of matin between two phenotypes is used, and this variable can take into account factors such as different propensities for assortment in the various phenotypes and so forth.
  • (13) The precision and bias of prediction from linear regression and the equation of Matin et al.
  • (14) The attacker’s computer records showed a “sure and recent interest for radical jihadist movements”, Molins said, adding that Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had also consulted articles on fatal accidents including a report from Nice-Matin newspaper headlined: “Man drives his car into a restaurant terrace.” “Investigators have established the premeditated nature of this act,” Molins told journalists.
  • (15) The only significant difference observed at the 5% level was an increased frequency of matins in which the mother was Lu (a+) and had a karyotypically abnormal abortus.
  • (16) Matin Durrani Editor, Physics World • Aditya Chakrabortty is right that government should be looking to science and innovation to improve our prospects for growth.
  • (17) In an interview with the Swiss paper Le Matin, Delon said: "For years Le Pen father and daughter have fought, but they've fought somewhat alone.
  • (18) However, Matin's equation [S. B. Matin et al., Clin.
  • (19) which appears to belong to relatively richer environments (Matin & Veldkamp, 1978) and does not accumulate PHB.
  • (20) There were three psychologists there to meet us,” a close friend, Hamadi, told Nice Matin.

Satin


Definition:

  • (n.) A silk cloth, of a thick, close texture, and overshot woof, which has a glossy surface.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When I first met her around Camden she was just some twit in a pink satin jacket shuffling round bars with mutual friends, most of whom were in cool indie bands or peripheral Camden figures Withnail-ing their way through life on impotent charisma.
  • (2) George will be christened in a replica of the intricate lace and satin christening gown made for Queen Victoria's eldest daughter, Victoria, the princess royal, in 1841.
  • (3) There is no mention of the "shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather" of the Velvet Underground song, but Wanda's clothes are recorded precisely, the satins, the linens – above all, the furs.
  • (4) Non-coated specimens having a satin surface finish were also embedded in bone cement and tested.
  • (5) Charles's sombre but still-beautiful features, the waterfall of black curls, the exquisite lace at his throat, the satin and velvet of the royal vestments inspired the artists of the day to some memorable work.
  • (6) Lactation records (n = 86) from 60 does of four breeds (Californian, New Zealand White, Palomino and White Satin) were analyzed to assess the effects of breed, parity, day of lactation and number of kits on milk production.
  • (7) And the evening dresses in slippery satin, ruched and clasped with crystal reimaginings of the metal clips used in school dissection seemed vaguely sinister in origin – although, in true contradictory Kane signature style, these dresses were among the most elegant and desirable on the catwalk.
  • (8) A reproduction of a christening gown worn by royal babies since 1841, it's appropriately luxurious for its royal occupant – long and made of ivory satin and yards of delicate lace, it has little puffed sleeves.
  • (9) At Tony Soprano's Bada-Bing – used as a location in the series though actually named Satin Dolls – bored-looking Russian women in bikinis clustered around heavy-set Italian-American men to the sound of 70s rock.
  • (10) A sequel to The Stud, The Bitch continues the story of Fontaine Khaled, who has "an Arab millionaire among her yesterdays and hard-gambling Nico for all her tomorrows", as she "calls the shots from her plush limos and black satin sheets".
  • (11) I held up that first puppy, who I called Patient Zero,” she told me, “and I said, ‘I don’t know what this is gonna do to you, but you will live on a satin pillow the rest of your days.” The injection made the dogs infertile, but left them otherwise happy and healthy.
  • (12) In fashion, we have the mainstream fashion line and the modest fashion line,” says Malaysian designer Hazizul Abd Aziz of Aidijuma who favors cool satins and cottons.
  • (13) Do they also have black satin sheets, R Kelly playing on low volume and mirrors on the ceiling?
  • (14) Instead of Elsie Tanner in a too-tight skirt, it had everybody in satin-sheeted beds with everybody else (by 1985, there must have been more chlamydia than oil in them thar fields).
  • (15) The cover displayed a logo patch sewn on to a black satin jacket, while the inner sleeve depicted a desk cluttered with adolescent artefacts, including a 1976 KISS poster and a Chic single sleeve.
  • (16) Freddie's wearing tight oyster-grey satin pants, an antique market cream satin blouse and a scarlet velvet Victorian bed jacket.
  • (17) From the first look – a black satin knee-length dress worn with scarlet boots – it felt late night and louche, ready for Berlin's nightclubs.
  • (18) The kidnappers' demands were ably investigated by the bride, imperturbable in ivory satin, though the list of suspects (a brisk resumé of all the Braithwaites' aggrieved lovers) made her reconsider matrimony.
  • (19) Or just, not coral satin pants with suspenders, like the ones Sam Cooke, 28, from Manchester, was wearing in the Sun last Friday?
  • (20) There can be few who stop and look at his 1880-81 Little Dancer Aged 14 , the bronze sculpture of the adolescent dancer who wears a gauzy fabric tutu and a satin ribbon tied to the cue of her bronze hair and not feel in the presence of a great and mysterious thing.

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