What's the difference between palter and palterer?
Palter
Definition:
(v. i.) To haggle.
(v. i.) To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.
(v. i.) To babble; to chatter.
(v. t.) To trifle with; to waste; to squander in paltry ways or on worthless things.
Example Sentences:
(1) [Weintraub, H., Palter, K., and Van Lente, F. (1975), Cell 6, 68-110] on the patterns of tryptic digest products of histones strongly suggest that in 2 M NaCl the histones exist in conformations very similar to their conformations when bound to DNA.
(2) Using histones reconstituted with RNA and DNA celluloses, we have shown elsewhere that histones elute identically with salt from single- and double-stranded DNA, but differently from RNA (Palter and Alberts, 1979).
Palterer
Definition:
(n.) One who palters.
Example Sentences:
(1) [Weintraub, H., Palter, K., and Van Lente, F. (1975), Cell 6, 68-110] on the patterns of tryptic digest products of histones strongly suggest that in 2 M NaCl the histones exist in conformations very similar to their conformations when bound to DNA.
(2) Using histones reconstituted with RNA and DNA celluloses, we have shown elsewhere that histones elute identically with salt from single- and double-stranded DNA, but differently from RNA (Palter and Alberts, 1979).