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Parter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or which, parts or separates.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The four-parter, starring Max Beesley as a radio shock jock who has a crisis in his personal life, had 5.5 million viewers and a 22% share last night between 9pm and 10pm.
  • (2) The Channel 4 series, which will air next month, is his third three-parter for the broadcaster, following 2012’s All in the Best Possible Taste , which looked at different concepts of taste across social classes, and the 2015 Bafta-winning Who are You?
  • (3) "I've watched The Hour and Page Eight , and an extremely good two-parter called Field of Blood , which was spectacularly well-acted.
  • (4) On BBC2 in the 9pm hour, new documentary two-parter Ewan McGregor: Cold Chain Mission launched with 1.9 million and 7.4%, including 119,000 (0.47%) on BBC HD.
  • (5) This three-parter scrubs up what co-star Mark Gatiss calls Benson’s “sly, funny and waspishly brilliant stories”.
  • (6) The fact that many of the actors have been signed on contracts for two films has also encouraged the rumours that it could be the first Bond two-parter, which Gant said might be a natural step for the franchise.
  • (7) For one thing, Alan Yentob's programme is a two-parter.
  • (8) ITV have already paid their dramatic respects, as it were, with last year's garlanded five-parter, Mrs Biggs, based on his long-suffering wife, Charmian.
  • (9) Partners have own projects : As we've detailed here, the equity parters already have numerous efforts under way.
  • (10) The Top Gear Africa special, the first instalment of a two-parter to round off the current series, averaged 5.7 million viewers and a 19.6% audience share in the 8pm hour.
  • (11) Lisa Cholodenko, who directed The Kids Are All Right, has created this eight-parter starring Thandie Newton and Uma Thurman, with Zachary Quinto as the dad who does the slapping.
  • (12) The Great Fire Tom Bradby, currently best known as an ITN reporter and a close friend of Prince William, dramatises a key event of the reign of King Charles II in this four-parter about the great fire of London of 1666.
  • (13) The first part of BBC1's James Nesbitt two-parter, Passer By, had 6.9 million viewers or three in 10 of the audience at 9pm last night.
  • (14) Happy Valley showcases the rich lives of ‘older women’ | Penny Anderson Read more Wainwright started to be known as the person who writes “strong female characters” after Unforgiven, an award-winning 2009 three-parter about a woman emerging from prison after serving a sentence for a murder she committed in her teens.
  • (15) The seven-parter opened with an average of 7.685 million viewers and a 30% audience share from 9pm on ITV1 and ITV1 HD.
  • (16) So this week will see the release of The Hobbit: the Desolation of Smaug and, thankfully, early reviews are saying it's a considerable improvement on Peter Jackson's dreary first-parter last year .
  • (17) Other commissions include Beyond Human, a natural history series looking at animal senses, and War in Afghanistan, a two-parter analysing Britain's role in the conflict.
  • (18) Photograph: Channel 4 Billions The anger at the behaviour of the financial establishment that surges in US and UK politics should ensure a receptive audience for this 12-parter, which also has an enticing cast.
  • (19) Over on ITV1 from 9pm, three-parter The Last Weekend concluded with a disappointing 2.2 million viewers and an 8.9% audience share.
  • (20) Victims of domestic violence will have more support in taking abusive former parters to court after the court of appeal quashed restrictions on obtaining legal aid in family court cases.

Pater


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pater Daniel laughs, then holds up five fingers: there are five priests in Piraeus, and soon there will only be one.
  • (2) The establishment of transformation of primary rodent cells by human papillomavirus (HPV) type 16 DNA requires glucocorticoid hormones (Pater et al., Nature 335, 832-835, 1988).
  • (3) The study design used the single Pro-Pater Sao Paulo clinic and a single intervention, i.e., the mass media promotional campaign.
  • (4) However, it has been shown (Willan and Pater, 1986, Biometrics 42, 593-599) that the crossover analysis is more powerful than the parallel analysis if the residual carryover, expressed as a proportion of treatment effect, is less than 2- square root of 2(1 - rho), where rho is the intrasubject correlation coefficient.
  • (5) Other heroes of his are Shelley and Blake, Samuel Johnson and Walter Pater, Yeats, DH Lawrence and Joyce, and, among more recent figures, James Merrill, Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery.
  • (6) These children grew up with that atmosphere ... 'You must be worthy of grand-pater'."
  • (7) Inside, Pater Daniel, the head priest, says that he's noticed a lot more "well-dressed, clean" people taking free meals from the church.
  • (8) We have previously reported (Pater et al., Nature 335, 832-835, 1988) the glucocorticoid hormone-dependent oncogenic transformation of primary baby rat kidney (BRK) cells by a combination of human papillomavirus (HPV) type 16 DNA and the activated form of the human Ha-ras-1 (ras) oncogene.
  • (9) The programmers seemed to group themes in batches this year, so the early days of the festival had female film-makers, then we moved through a couple of days of sex and paedophilia (bordello movie The House of Tolerance , Austrian film Michael ), before fathers and sons took over ( Tree of Life , Le Gamin au Vélo , Footnote ), then French politics ( La Conquête , Pater ), then depression ( The Beaver , Melancholia ), antisemitism ( The Beaver , Melancholia ) and, eventually, sexual politics (Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In , The Source ).
  • (10) I'm sure their parents have brought them up to namecheck much posher stuff than that – it must have been a dagger to Mater and Pater's hearts that the Harvey Nicks food hall wasn't mentioned even once.
  • (11) Transformation of primary human embryonic kidney (HEK) cells as selected by either focus assay or growth in soft agar after their transfection with BK virus (BKV) DNA alone or BKV DNA plus the activated form of human Ha-ras oncogene has been previously reported (A. Pater and M. M. Pater, J. Virol.

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