What's the difference between palter and paster?

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).

Paster


Definition:

  • (n.) One who pastes; as, a paster in a government department.
  • (n.) A slip of paper, usually bearing a name, intended to be pasted by the voter, as a substitute, over another name on a printed ballot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The characteristic immunoglobulin G has a unique property of activating glycolysis and inhibiting oxygen uptake as well as of removing the Paster reaction.