What's the difference between plait and plat?

Plait


Definition:

  • (n.) A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait.
  • (n.) A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.
  • (v. t.) To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat; as, to plait a ruffle.
  • (v. t.) To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid; to plat; as, to plait hair; to plait rope.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Wearing an open denim shirt, with her hair pulled into two plaits, she looks like the rebel she has always been.
  • (2) Add spices, stud the dough with candied peel, chocolate chips, nuts or dried fruit, layer or plait it, roll it up or just drizzle it with water icing.
  • (3) Investigation on fixation of muscular tendons to the skeleton has demonstrated that in some cases tendinous filaments plait into the periosteum and terminate in it, while in other cases not all the tendinous filaments terminate at the level of the periosteum, but some of them penetrate into the bone.
  • (4) The cytoskeleton, marked by antibodies to desmin and filamin is composed of a mainly longitudinal, meandering and branched system of fibrils that contrasts with the plait-like, interdigitating arrangement of linear fibrils of the contractile apparatus, labeled with antibodies to myosin and tropomyosin.
  • (5) As I had very long hair in plaits, I would roll them up into two buns and play Leia .
  • (6) The census shows hundreds of different occupational titles for women, including married women working in agriculture, artificial flower-making, chemical working, cigar-making, warehouse supervising, the lithograph trade, meat preserving, straw plaiting, manufacturing of food and drink, printing, rabbit fur pulling and even medical galvanising.
  • (7) The story of Noah is written by two sources – the "J" writer, older and more folkloric, and the "Priestly writer" most interested in getting Judaism into a regular religious shape – both of which have been plaited together as best they could by later editors.
  • (8) It was made of a shield of plaited material strapped to the animal's body to "cover the genital parts without interfering with the animal's excretions".
  • (9) Around the world, hair plaited in unusual ways, we poured our glasses of wine and settled in for the opening episode of season four.
  • (10) Her mother carefully undid Liang Jieyun's plaits, combed out the strands and pinned them into a bun.
  • (11) Girl in Bath, the nude teenager crouching in the bath tub, in a pose both homely and potentially erotic; Hair Combing, the girl standing, body plumply outlined against the long cascade of hair; The Plait, which catches the moment when the daughter is almost a woman but not quite.
  • (12) "As an oral poet, he has a different way of putting clauses together: where a literary poet would strap them all to one finite verb, and make a line that's all plaited and twisted and controlled, an oral poet will grow the clauses out of each other.
  • (13) This is achieved by providing the pumping assembly with articulated lock bolts and locating grips diametrically on the faceplate of the pump over which, to temporarily fix the cover with distributing valves and the pump's diaphragms, a rubber plait is hooked on.
  • (14) Implants of carbon fibre, made by plaiting a tow of 10,000 filaments of Grafil type HT-S, were used to treat strains and ruptures of digital flexor tendons in 46 horses.
  • (15) The longitudinal fibrils do not run only parallel but also cross each other forming spirals (plaits).
  • (16) Hamleys dropped the egregiously prescriptive pink and blue colour scheme; the beauty parlour remains – and why the hell not when you can rinse a tenner out of parents for a French plait while educating girls in the idea that "pampering" is an end in itself?
  • (17) "My best moment was the plaited loaf in week three, because everything went so well.
  • (18) The established religion and the state are tightly plaited together.
  • (19) 8.40pm BST I've only just noticed Mel's special plaits for the final.
  • (20) And, in the same breath, she talks about Deepak Chopra's concept of synchrodestiny (there is a new age strand to her plait of enthusiasms).

Plat


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To form by interlaying interweaving; to braid; to plait.
  • (n.) Work done by platting or braiding; a plait.
  • (n.) A small piece or plot of ground laid out with some design, or for a special use; usually, a portion of flat, even ground.
  • (v. t.) To lay out in plats or plots, as ground.
  • (n.) Plain; flat; level.
  • (adv.) Plainly; flatly; downright.
  • (adv.) Flatly; smoothly; evenly.
  • (n.) The flat or broad side of a sword.
  • (n.) A plot; a plan; a design; a diagram; a map; a chart.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To understand the mechanism of hemorrhage, coagulation and fibrinolysis in epidemic hemorrhagic fever (EHF), thrombin time (TT), prothrombin time (PT), fibrinogen (FIG), the platelet count (PLAT), plasminogen (PLG), antithrombin-III (AT-III), fibrin-fibrinogen degraded products (FDP) and platelet functions of aggregation and release were studied dynamically with advanced methods in 134 EHF patients.
  • (2) Another new spot, Victor (11 rue Victor Massé), offers a good deal for lunch, with a tasty €12 plat du jour that includes dishes such as tender veal sautéed with baby leeks and hazelnuts, and crisp rocket salad and roasted new potatoes.
  • (3) Four other loci mapping to the human chromosome 8 short arm have been mapped to mouse chromosome 8; two of these (PLAT, GSR) lie proximal to LHRH, and two (LPL, DEF1) lie distal to LHRH.
  • (4) Here we describe promoter ligation and transcript sequencing (PLATS), a direct method for rapidly obtaining novel sequences that utilizes generic primers and only requires knowledge of the sequence on one side of a region.
  • (5) I'm talking with a local called Brigitte in Le Plat à Oreilles, a popular husband-and-wife-run restaurant in the city centre that serves traditional country food.
  • (6) These cells have a number of altered phenotypic characteristics: a) morphology; b) growth behavior and adherence to culture substrate (they required 3 h for 90% attachment and only presented a flattened morphology 40 h after platting); and c) collagen metabolism.
  • (7) The markers, their maximum lod scores, and recombination distances were ANK1 (ankyrin)--2.0 at 16%; D8S5 (TL11)--5.3 at 17%; D8S87 [a(CA)n repeat]--7.2 at 14%; LPL (lipoprotein lipase)--1.5 at 26%; and PLAT (plasminigen activator, tissue)--10.6 at 7%.
  • (8) A total of 215 subjects comprising 95 Chinese, 66 Malays and 54 Indians were investigated for restriction fragment length polymorphisms of the tissue-type plasminogen activator (PLAT) gene at an EcoRI site using the probe ptPA-4352.
  • (9) Double reciprocal plats indicate a competitive inhibition for alpha-ketoglutarate-glutamate by folic acid and methotrexate and a complex or mixed type for NAD-NADH site.
  • (10) Cyproheptadine-HCl raised the pain thresholds during hot plat test and writhing test in mice and tail flick test in rats, strengthened the hypnotic action by subthreshold dosage of sodium pentobarbital and chloral hydrate.
  • (11) Café Branly, plat du jour €17, +33 01 47 53 68 01, quaibranly.fr , open Tues, Wed, Sun 9.30am-6pm, Thurs, Fri, Sat 9.30am-8pm.
  • (12) Total calories and amino acid nitrogen (N) administered were not different in the two groups (t-test) and q 8 h (347 study periods) amino acid clearances, urinary urea nitrogen excretion, muscle proteolysis from 3-methyl-histidine (3-MH) excretion, and standard indices of sepsis severity and hepatic function were measured, as well as platelets (PLAT), leucocytes (WBC), albumin (ALB), and six acute-phase proteins: C-reactive protein (CRP), alpha-1-antitrypsin (A1TRIP), fibrinogen (FIBRIN), alpha-2-macroglobulin (AMACRO), ceruloplasmin (CERUL), and transferrin (TRANS).
  • (13) The possible amplifications of five sequences, MOS (8q1), LHRH (8p21.1), POLB (8p11.2), PLAT (8p12), and D8Z2 (8c) were investigated in three tumors with HSR on the short arm of chromosome 8.
  • (14) Inside there is the health food self-service Le Smack, where soups and salads cost €4-€6, while the funky Tokyo Eat (plat du jour €13) is a striking industrial-style diner with psychedelic orange lamps, bar, and open kitchen.
  • (15) The examination showed that such special treatment would be required only for the target (main material: platinum) and the Platness-filter (chief constituent: lead) of the decommissioned electron accelerator.
  • (16) Based on linkage data from the CEPH (Paris) reference families and physical mapping information from a somatic cell hybrid panel of chromosome 8 fragments, the most likely order for four of these five loci and the diseases locus is 8pter-LPL-D8S5-D8S87-PLAT-RP1.
  • (17) The plat castable ceramic crown was made with investment material prepared in our college with our own casting technique by a Chinese-made casting machine.
  • (18) However, in four patients who developed alveolitis sicca (dry socket), a significant rise of activity on all the fibrin plats was seen (P less than 0.01) when compared with the variations measured in patients with normal healing.
  • (19) Platelet (PLAT), and neutrophil (WBC) counts were also done and plasma elastase was measured.
  • (20) Using PLATS, sequence has been obtained from a 1.1-kb segment in Achlya ambisexualis, which cross-hybridizes to the DNA-binding region of the chicken and Xenopus estrogen receptors.