What's the difference between pater and payer?

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.

Payer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.
  • (2) One mortgage payer, writing on the MoneySavingExpert forum, said: "They are asking for an extra £200 per month for the remaining nine years of our mortgage.
  • (3) Indeed, the BBC’s own recent Digital Media Initiative was closed by Tony Hall, having lost £100m.” The document is entitled “BBC3: An Alternative Strategy – Realising Value for the Licence Payer”.
  • (4) "Hints that the license fee payer will be hit are the closest the Tories come to explaining how they intend to pay for this."
  • (5) Meanwhile, we need to show that the recent changes to how we work with the BBC Executive are allowing us to be more focused, more rigorous and more transparent in the work that we do, so that licence fee payers can get a better BBC.
  • (6) Speaking before details about Thompson's evidence to the committee had been made public, Hodge said she had seen evidence of "total chaos" at an organisation more concerned with its public image than licence fee payers' money.
  • (7) Economic pressures, technology, and third-party payers are contributing to this trend.
  • (8) The chancellor failed to cut pension contribution tax relief on pensions for higher-rate tax payers – a move that was widely speculated before the budget.
  • (9) Such estimates are difficult to obtain because most cost data for nursing homes are available from Medicare or Medicaid cost reports, which provide only average values per patient-day across all patients (or all of a particular payer's patients).
  • (10) Miliband says he does not want union levy payers disenfranchised from the Labour party elections, but is happy to look at how the relationship could be reformed.
  • (11) He's said that the government will abolish child benefit for all higher-rate tax payers from 2013.
  • (12) The BBC has spent more than £5m of licence fee payers' money so far on internal investigations and inquiries relating to the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal.
  • (13) She suggests that the doctrine of 'bad faith breach of contract' might appropriately be extended into this new area to provide a powerful means by which aggrieved patients and payers can hold physicians personally accountable for abusive self-referrals.
  • (14) Consumers, payers, and policymakers are demanding to know more about the quality of the services they are purchasing or might purchase.
  • (15) The BBC Trust said it "would be unacceptable for licence-fee payers to pick up a bill for what is a universal benefit".
  • (16) Although it is difficult to identify any single policymaker in the United States who can alter the aggregate effect of the millions (or billions) of individual clinical decisions, there are many potential users of policy models: payers, providers, state and local health departments, the National Institutes of Health, professional organizations, hospitals and producers of medical devices, among others.
  • (17) Paul use fewer hospital resources relative to conventional payers?
  • (18) Areas of greatest stress focus on time pressures and realities of medical practice, i.e., being reimbursed by third-party payers and meeting the need for certainty when medical knowledge only allows for approximation.
  • (19) Implementation of the system is discussed in relation to the calculation of fees; comparisons with alternate charging methods; approval of special clinical service charges; computer billing; information about pharmacy charges for patients; and third-party payers.
  • (20) Overnight, banking debt in six Irish banks (including the four bailed out on Thursday) was converted into state debt, payable by tax-payers.