What's the difference between pate and pater?

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.

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.