(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).
Panter
Definition:
(n.) One who pants.
(n.) A keeper of the pantry; a pantler.
(n.) A net; a noose.
Example Sentences:
(1) University of East Anglia researcher Chris Panter said that if ash trees suffer large scale declines, 60 of the country's rarest insect species could be at risk of being lost from Britain.
(2) Yes you do, Beca but in the context of a tent full of nervous, aproned panters, you look quite normal.
(3) Some 80 common insects and 60 of the rarest beetles and flies have an association with ash trees, according to Chris Panter at the University of East Anglia.
(4) Examination of two-dimensional gels showed hypohaptoglobinemia in several seizure patients [Panter et al, 1984].