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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.

Patter


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet.
  • (v. i.) To mutter; to mumble; as, to patter with the lips.
  • (v. i.) To talk glibly; to chatter; to harangue.
  • (v. t.) To spatter; to sprinkle.
  • (v. i.) To mutter; as prayers.
  • (n.) A quick succession of slight sounds; as, the patter of rain; the patter of little feet.
  • (n.) Glib and rapid speech; a voluble harangue.
  • (n.) The cant of a class; patois; as, thieves's patter; gypsies' patter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A light rain pattered the rooftops of Los Mochis in Friday’s pre-dawn darkness, the town silent and still as the Sea of Cortez lapped its shore.
  • (2) When the effects of clonidine on food-reinforced operant responding were investigated it was observed that SD and SH rats differed with regard to rate and temporal pattering of IRT greater than 20 sec responding.
  • (3) However, despite the visibility of some Russians in the capital, Cameron's 2011 sales patter did not turn Russia into a major destination for British exporters: German machine tools and French military aircraft are worth far more to Russia than British goods.
  • (4) The actor Steven Berkoff, who had met Biggs in 1987, when making a film about him that both agreed was "a load of cobblers", praised his "most terrific patter".
  • (5) This raised the possibility that some selection or strengthening of this unspecific patter is involved in the evolution of the specific membrane patterns of the individual cells of higher organisms.
  • (6) The polypeptide patter of SMRV as determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis was distinct from the reported polypeptide patterns of known retraviruses.
  • (7) As for Boris Johnson, the Labour MP Rupa Huc reminded Radio 4 listeners that the London mayor has a line of patter in “ flag-waving piccaninnies ” and “watermelon smiles”.
  • (8) Little hands pattered on the walls, and little voices outside persisted: "Do you speak English?
  • (9) And when they emerge into the daylight, the chancellor could, once again, be left looking like a salesman who can’t resist overdoing the patter.
  • (10) Blackburn's transatlantic DJ's patter is currently one of the prolific voices on Audioboo.
  • (11) The fascinating pitter-patter of stomach contents against the back of your teeth as a fearsome torrent of spew erupts from within like a liquid poltergeist fleeing an exorcism.
  • (12) Although total weight loss during starvation was never greater for HFD rats than for chow-fed rats, the former group showed a clear patter of increasing loss of body fat and total energy and conservation of fat-free tissues with periods of starvation later in life.
  • (13) The main psychiatric findings are diminished intelligence, retardation in development of secondary sexual characteristics, and poor emotional control leading to inadequate social adaptive patters which are described and discussed.
  • (14) The normal patter of joint incongruity in the rabbit's hip having first been established, three groups of experimental animals underwent operative procedures designed to reduce the joint pressure to a level unrealistic in normal life.
  • (15) The following constellations proved to be useful in assessing the effect of secretolytic drugs: (1) change in deposition patter; (2) clearance rate, if no change in deposition takes place; (3) clearance rate from a peripheral area of the lung.
  • (16) Next week the directors are heading to the US, to give the same sales patter to investors who have asked to see them in New York, Denver, Chicago, California and Boston.
  • (17) His well-rehearsed patter about his record does not mention the toll on jobs.
  • (18) The blotting patters obtained were correlated with the clinical findings, with particular reference to prodromal itching, lesion morphology and severity, mucosal involvement, presence of milia, dapsone responsiveness and disease duration.
  • (19) The rain was falling on the canvas with a pattering sound.
  • (20) Bill’s weary patter last night on the subjects of working families, and something something community-and-something-something-renewable-energy targets may be carefully constructed verbiage to target we-share-your-concerns to swinging voters, but Labor’s present strategy wholly avoids speaking to those that Labor crucially needs to deliver both an election win and a majority large enough to ensure space for policy implementation and future planning.

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