What's the difference between pat and pate?

Pat


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog.
  • (n.) A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a tap.
  • (n.) A small mass, as of butter, shaped by pats.
  • (a.) Exactly suitable; fit; convenient; timely.
  • (adv.) In a pat manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The causes of death were interstitial pneumonitis (CMV-associated, 2 pats.
  • (2) Eager to show I was a good student, the next time we had sex, I noticed that one of my hands was, indeed, lying idle – and started to pat him on the back, absently, as if trying to wind a baby.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Daniel Radcliffe, centre, with Sarah Greene and Pat Shortt in The Cripple Of Inishmaan at the Cort Theatre in New York.
  • (4) They ended up exceeding that margin comfortably, surging to a 14-0 lead inside the first 19 minutes and then withstanding the inevitable Samoan fightback, with the Wigan wing Pat Richards kicking four penalties to punish their growing indiscipline.
  • (5) Both paroxysmal atrial tachycardia (PAT) and left ventricular dysfunction were reversed with administration of digoxin and propranolol hydrochloride.
  • (6) "It's ludicrous that Caroline should be Pat's boss", a rival agent tells me.
  • (7) Recently the company had to agree to a sales target with banks as part of a refinancing of its debt burden, which had come down to less than £1bn after the sale of Branston Pickle to Japanese Mizkan Group and the sale of Hartley's jams and Sun-Pat peanut butter to US company Hain Celestial.
  • (8) ), Botryodiplodia theobromae, Pat., Rhizopus arrhizus Fischer., Phomopsis psidii Nag Raj and Ponnappa apud Ponnappa and Nag Raj, and Pestalotiopsis versicolor (Speg.)
  • (9) In this photometric platelet aggregation test (PAT III) a small amount (0.6 ml) of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is being rotated in a disc-shaped cuvette at 20 rpm, at 37% C. Changes in optical density of PRP which are induced by the formation of platelet aggregates are continuously registered using a chart recorder.
  • (10) At that time the herbage larval infectivity around inoculated cow pats deposited in May, June and July was subject to a reduction of 48%, 89% and 46%, respectively, compared with fungus-free control cow pats.
  • (11) The efficiency of NEA (norethisteronacetate) as an adjuvant hormone therapy in 196 pat.
  • (12) Anyone who can make one of these games deserves a pat on the back – or to be locked up.
  • (13) The Pat smear was introduced to clinical medicine 35 years ago.
  • (14) Crucially, the commonest wild bees are the most important, which gives us the ‘win-win’ situation where relatively cheap and easy conservation measures can support these and give maximum benefit for the crops,” said Pat Willmer, a professor of biology at Scotland’s University of St Andrews.
  • (15) Pat McSweeney – content manager, Movember UK @PatMcSw3ney @MovemberUK Pat curates content for Movember.com, specifically the news section and homepage.
  • (16) It’s just tokenistic crap so they can get more back pats from the broader community,” he said.
  • (17) A slightly lower but statistically significant rate of repeated tests was found among patients who performed PAT by AMHTS compared with those who performed the tests via the conventional ambulatory system.
  • (18) Development in faeces and transmission to grass of C. oncophora larvae were disturbed by the disintegration of cow pats.
  • (19) The direction group also includes the heads of the BBC in the nations as well as BBC North director Peter Salmon, creative director Alan Yentob, chief creative officer Pat Younge and director of communications Paul Mylrea.
  • (20) We conclude that extrathoracic tracheal external pressure is not Pat because this pressure is probably affected by transmission of pleural pressure to the cervical interstitial tissue as well as by the contraction of cervical accessory inspiratory muscles.

Pate


Definition:

  • (a.) See Patte.
  • (n.) A pie. See Patty.
  • (n.) A kind of platform with a parapet, usually of an oval form, and generally erected in marshy grounds to cover a gate of a fortified place.
  • (n.) The head of a person; the top, or crown, of the head.
  • (n.) The skin of a calf's head.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 3 For the smoked mackerel pate, peel the sweet potato and chop into cubes.
  • (2) The cosedimentation of PATE with LPSLC was remarkably affected by pH or ionic strength.
  • (3) The cosedimentation was diminished by acetylation of the free amino groups of PATE.
  • (4) It was found that the PATE was produced extracellularly during the negative logarithmic death phase of the organism.
  • (5) One area she offers an opinion on is the Prince of Wales’s pate.
  • (6) Each ingested a 300-g meal containing 99mTc-labeled liver pate.
  • (7) The crackers have a flavour not unlike rye – try them with this dairy-free smoked mackerel pate, which is, made using sweet potato as a base instead of butter or cream.
  • (8) PATE was isolated from the precipitate by gel chromatography.
  • (9) Endo-pectate lyase (PATE) from Erwinia carotovora was selectively cosedimented with extracellularly produced lipopolysaccharide-lipid complex (LPSLC) through dialysis of the cell free culture broth.
  • (10) The technique employs homograft tympanic membrane with ossicles en bloc for the middle ear reconstruction and a homograft dura form and autogenous bone pate is used to recreate the bony posterior ear canal wall.
  • (11) Accusing citizens of Iowa of a ‘voting violation’ based on Iowa caucus participation, or lack thereof, is false representation of an official act,” Pate said in a statement.
  • (12) At a congress in Prague, he suddenly donned the keffiyeh, or traditional chequered head-dress, which, as well as hiding his entirely bald pate, became his emblem.
  • (13) Approximating Hitch's walrus-like features took four hours in makeup every day: the prosthetic jowls and nose, the balding pate, the trademark underbite, the fat suit.
  • (14) Last month Bishop Richard Pates, chair of the committee on international justice and peace for the US conference of Catholic bishops, wrote to the defence secretary Chuck Hagel noting the opposition of the International Committee of the Red Cross to force-feeding.
  • (15) The initial rate of PATE activity increased up to 60 C, about 16-fold higher than that observed at room temperature.
  • (16) Foods examined included soft cheeses, fermented meat sausages, pates and salads.
  • (17) He recently joined a host of celebrities – including Joanna Lumley, Roger Moore and Ricky Gervais – in backing a campaign to stop Fortnum and Mason selling pate de foie gras.
  • (18) Paper chromatographic studies and viscosity measurements disclosed the random cleaving nature of the enzyme an endo-PATE.
  • (19) The cosedimentation of the PATE with LPSLC was initiated by decreasing conductivity of the solution and terminated at approx 1 m siemens (mScm-1).
  • (20) A recent newspaper columnist suspected that the average football fan was unable to 'relate to' the average foreign import, but ask anyone at Highbury whether they could 'relate to' Jimmy Carter, Steve Morrow, David Hillier, Vince Bartram, Eddie McGoldrick, Ian Selley, Andy Linighan, Colin Pates, John Hartson and Chris Kiwomya I personally couldn't relate to any of them, but a relationship was foisted on me anyway, through George Graham's side of the family, and they embarrassed me frequently, at weddings, parties and home games.

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