(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).
Walter
Definition:
(v. i.) To roll or wallow; to welter.
Example Sentences:
(1) 53 outpatients with HIV-infection classified according to the Walter Reed staging system (WR1 to WR6).
(2) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
(3) Natasha Walter, the feminist author, was struck by the supportive atmosphere of Mumsnet when she was writing Living Dolls: the Return of Sexism , a few years ago.
(4) Walter has been speaking at events around the country, and says the feedback has been phenomenal.
(5) The ball struck him, rather than the other way round, but the Dutch official, Bjorn Kuipers, ruled in favour of Ireland and that left Walters placing the ball on the penalty spot and looking up to see his former Stoke colleague Asmir Begovic in the goal.
(6) Ever since the ex-PD leader Walter Veltroni started praising President Kennedy as a way to jettison communism, this has been an abiding theme, manifesting itself institutionally in the desperate attempt to engineer a US-style two-party system through breathtakingly inept electoral reforms – the latest one, the " Porcellum " (after porcello, swine), was behind the impasse earlier this year.
(7) Mr Graham's play deals with the dramatic years of the 1974-9 Labour government, when Labour's whipping operation, masterminded by the fabled Walter Harrison, involved life or death decisions to fend off Margaret Thatcher's Tories.
(8) Growing up in Walters Way – and knowing that my parents built our house – taught me that there is an alternative to buying on the open market, and that houses don’t need to be made from bricks and mortar.
(9) As Broome describes: “Walter reinvented building from first principles and reduced it to its simplest terms which led to the post and beam frame.
(10) At one point, Walters speculates that “she looks the same weight as the Duchess – about 8st”; later, he disingenuously asks her to discuss “the cruel comments about being a ‘childless spinster’”, neither telling readers who made those “cruel comments” in the first place, or where.
(11) Like Walter Mondale in 1984, Iran's mullahs will be the first to cry "Where's the beef?"
(12) It does not need outside advice to tell it what to do.” Germany’s foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said the criticism of Nato had caused concern in the political and military alliance.
(13) The trial of the former police officer who shot dead Walter Scott, an unarmed African American , in an incident that was caught on cellphone video and reignited the debate on race and policing in the US, has ended in a mistrial.
(14) It is pointed out (yet again) that Sir Walter Ralegh did not bring back the poison to Europe in 1595 and that it was Keymis who first came across the word ourari when exploring the lower reaches of the Orinoco in 1596.
(15) In Cecil the lion fallout, hunters defend Walter Palmer and fear big game bans Read more The move comes after an American dentist killed a well-known lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe last month in an allegedly illegal hunt, setting off a worldwide uproar.
(16) True, they had qualified without difficulty, and had beaten Switzerland 5-3 the previous April, with Walter, at inside-left, scoring two goals.
(17) 252, 955-962; Walter, P., and Blobel, G. (1980) Proc.
(18) But police described him as a "Walter Mitty character", a "Del Boy" who had eye-watering debts when arrested – he owed £8,000 in electricity bills alone.
(19) To bail themselves out of the NBA's worst crisis of credibility since the Tim Donaghy officiating scandal, the easy part for the NBA will be enlisting the eagerness and financial muscle of Magic Johnson and Mark Walter of the Guggenheim Partners – owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers .
(20) The coupling of ion channels to receptors by G proteins is the subject of this American Physiological Society Walter B. Cannon Memorial "Physiology in Perspective" Lecture.