(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).
Plater
Definition:
(n.) One who plates or coats articles with gold or silver; as, a silver plater.
(n.) A machine for calendering paper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Personnel records of over 1000 welders and electricians but only 235 caulkers and 557 platers employed at a shipyard in NE England between 1940 and 1968 were obtained and the mortality followed up to December 1982.
(2) 14 (38%) of 37 chrome platers in 17 chrome electroplating factories surveyed had occupational contact dermatitis, chrome ulcers, or both.
(3) For the SGE method, a spiral plater was used to set up a concentration gradient of an antimicrobial agent within an agar plate across which bacterial strains were inoculated as radial streaks.
(4) Car painters and car platers were compared to car mechanics on Monday before work.
(5) Among specific causes of death, only lung cancer was found to be significantly higher than expected for all platers (16 observed, 8.9 expected; SMR 179; 95% CI 102-290).
(6) This study investigated the effect of HDI and HDI-BT on lung function and included two control groups: (1) car platers, exposed to the same solvents and grinding dust as car painters, but not to isocyanates, and (2) car mechanics (controls), not exposed to the mentioned agents.
(7) The study was limited by the lack of accurate job exposure details, and there was no record of smoking habits, but welders and caulkers showed a higher standardised mortality ratio for all causes, lung cancer, ischaemic heart disease, pneumonia, and accidents than platers and electricians.
(8) Plater and two pals then marched on to the stage in string vests, baggy shorts and false moustaches.
(9) The jazz-loving, heroically cigarette-smoking, Hull City-supporting Plater was a populist all-rounder with more than 300 assorted credits in radio, television, theatre and films (his screenplay for DH Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gypsy, directed by Christopher Miles in 1970, is probably his best) as well as journalism, six novels, broadcasting and teaching.
(10) Platers reported the highest fatigue rates in the shoulder regions during the test.
(11) When asked to define his nationality, Plater's stock response was: "Geordie by birth, Yorkshire by upbringing and now a metropolitan sophisticate."
(12) The SMR for lung cancer of the chromium plater subgroup was highest among those exposed for the shortest period and among those exposed in the most remote calendar years.
(13) Irritant factors are therefore important in the aetiology of contact dermatitis in these chrome platers.
(14) The project was then quickly taken up by the BBC, attracting quality scriptwriters such as Alan Plater and Malcolm Bradbury and the actors Warren Clarke and Colin Buchanan in the lead roles.
(15) plumbers, fitters and platers, 'a' was 0.4, 0.6 and 0.2 respectively.
(16) Plater's agent for many years was the terrifying Peggy Ramsay, whom he memorialised in his Hampstead theatre play, Peggy for You (1999), with Maureen Lipman giving one of her greatest performances, ruling the roost in her St Martin's Lane eyrie with the eccentric hauteur of a mad Russian empress.
(17) The MN frequency in nasal mucosa was not altered in chromium platers, whereas a significant increase (p less than 0.01) in MN was found in 2 out of 3 subjects involved in the accidental EtO leakage and a non-significant increase in MN was found in the group chronically exposed to EtO.
(18) Excessive urinary excretion of beta 2-microglobulin, a specific proximal tubule brush border protein, and retinol-binding protein has been reported among chrome platers and welders.
(19) "This place lives and breathes stories," says Plater.
(20) The point prevalence of white fingers was 42% for the plater category currently exposed with an odds ratio of 85.