What's the difference between pate and prate?

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.

Prate


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.
  • (v. t.) To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to chatter, or babble.
  • (n.) Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Most difficult record Peterson has bought: Tam Tam Tam by José Prates.