What's the difference between overlate and overrate?
Overlate
Definition:
(a.) Too late; exceedingly late.
Example Sentences:
(1) In particular, the insistence by policymakers, fearing a public backlash against using taxpayers' money to make whole banks who have overlent to peripheral economies, that creditors should shoulder a "fair" share of the burden, has been the oil on which the flames of the crisis have fed and spread.
(2) Pre- and postsynaptic components contribute to their overll postsynaptic effec in actively transmitting synapses.
(3) Resection of the overling dome is the usual treatment of exteriorised biliary cysts.
(4) The overlability of WHO IRP's has not allowed yet to achieve an optimal standardization of the immunochemical methods for measurement of plasma proteins.
Overrate
Definition:
(v. t.) To rate or value too highly.
(n.) An excessive rate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most widely used source of drug information for doctors is the industry-sponsored Physicians' Desk Reference, which overrates the therapeutic value of Valium and Librium as compared to disinterested medical sources.
(2) Focal infection, although in general overrated in its importance for the general organism, may pose some problems before heart surgery and antibiotic therapy previously may seem necessary.
(3) The histological data are thus consistent with the electrophysiological data, which indicate that present standards for impulse noise exposure may overrate the hazard of low-frequency impulses relative to impulses in the midrange.
(4) Consistent with previous research, overrating children showed higher self-esteem on self- and teacher ratings than underraters.
(5) Robert Southey thought it entirely overrated and “by no means deserving of the encomiums which are passed upon it”.
(6) While levels of inhalant use are comparatively high, the tendency to overrate this use and to label all Indian youth as inhalant abusers must be avoided.
(7) The ability of a manager to be the driving force of a team is overrated, even when you associate historic teams (think the 1950s Yankees) with great managers (think Casey Stengel).
(8) The results correlated with the chick-growth assays (r 0.99 for DBL, P less than 0.001; 0.85 for Tetrahymena, P less than 0.01) but both methods overrated the poorer-quality samples.
(9) The danger of overrating the therapeutic potential of antibiotics is emphasized, and despite major advances in chemotherapy the discrimination between pathologies preferably treated surgically or conservatively has by no means changes.
(10) For the others, it’s about understanding that credibility and taste can be overrated concepts when genuine belly laughs are on offer.
(11) The average duration of time spent in a standing position was considerably underrated by the workers, while the duration of sitting was strongly overrated when compared with the ratings obtained with the observational method.
(12) (Fry, incidentally, contends that his influence through Twitter is vastly overrated, because his followers – doubtless soon to number a round a million – have independent minds of their own.
(13) Therefore Meryl Streep is “one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood”, and “Crooked Hillary’s brainpower is highly over-rated”, and Republican Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is “overrated”, and NBC anchor Megyn Kelly is “highly overrated”.
(14) 8.46pm GMT 39 mins I know goals are overrated but ... yeah, this game could do with one.
(15) However, black Caribbean girls tended to be underrated in both reading and maths, while teachers were prone to underrate Pakistani girls in reading and overrate Bangladeshi boys in maths.
(16) The need for vancomycin as therapy for extensive soft tissue infections with MRSA may be overrated and probably contributes to the development of increasing antibiotic resistance.
(17) Donald Trump has responded on Twitter to Meryl Streep’s Golden Globes speech, calling her an “overrated actress” and a “Hillary flunky”.
(18) All we now know about the cold war shows that western (and, of course, Soviet) intelligence services persistently overrated their enemies' capabilities, and sometimes also their intentions.
(19) Discrepancies were found between the expected utilization and actual utilization, and a tendency was noted to overrate self-reported utilization in relation to actual utilization.
(20) It is the same, incidentally, whenever the planning minister, Nick Boles, says fields are overrated and the green belt should be built on.