What's the difference between sat and slat?

Sat


Definition:

  • () imp. of Sit.
  • (imp.) of Sit
  • (p. p.) of Sit

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Prior to joining JOE Media, Will was chief commercial officer at Dazed Group, where he also sat on the board of directors.
  • (2) Several selling VCs were also Google investors; one sat on Google's board.
  • (3) Oscar Pistorius ‘to be released in August’ as appeal date is set for November Read more But the parole board at his prison overruled an emotional plea from the 29-year-old victim’s parents when it sat last week.
  • (4) There are men who have been here for 15, 20 years or more who have never even sat in the cars because no one on the floor can afford to buy one.
  • (5) She said that in February 2013 she was asked to assist Pistorius in his first court appearance when applying for bail and sat with him in the cells, where he vomited twice.
  • (6) Salmonella typhi O and H antibody titres were determined by the Standard Agglutination Test (SAT) in 85 patients with bacteriologically proven typhoid, 102 patients with non-typhoidal febrile illnesses (control group 1), and 170 healthy subjects (control group 2).
  • (7) The ball sat up; gravity would bring it down again and, when it did, he would score.
  • (8) Lord Thomson of Monifieth , the now deceased chairman of the political honours scrutiny committee, was a former Labour minister but then sat in the Lords as a Liberal Democrat peer.
  • (9) I went for a walk, had a locally made sandwich and sat in the dark drinking a glass of wine.
  • (10) I still feel that I am standing behind the chair and it is someone else sat there, and I’m just reading over their shoulder.” He hopes life becomes a little more comfortable.
  • (11) But some wise old heads sniff into their handkerchiefs because they have sat through too many costly "happy ever after" ceremonies that ended in acrimony.
  • (12) The 85-year-old ex-president, who has been on the verge of death according to his lawyer, sat in a wheelchair next to his two sons, who are being tried in a separate corruption-related case.
  • (13) A former senior CIA official said the secretary of state at the time, Colin Powell, eventually was informed about the program and sat in meetings in which harsh interrogation techniques were discussed.
  • (14) Tess Daly tells us on TV Greats: Our Favourites From The North ( Sat, 8.15pm, BBC2 ).
  • (15) I sat there thinking that in Canton we never had time to sleep, much less dream.” The late Edward Kennedy called it “the great aria of the civil rights movement”.
  • (16) Nick Stafford, adaptor I hadn't read War Horse before I was approached to adapt it, so I got a copy and sat down with it.
  • (17) It’s especially not appropriate for a citizen seeking election to this house or selection to the ministry canvassing for money and support to seek to damage individuals’ reputation by commencing court actions for what could only be an improper purpose.” Palmer said the former treasurer, Joe Hockey, had been staying at the resort at the time and “walked past the table” where they were sitting and “merely sat down to have a coffee”.
  • (18) Open Mon-Sat 10am-10pm • Brian Donaldson is books editor of Scottish arts magazine The List
  • (19) In front of her, sat the "centre of government": Kerslake, Macpherson, Heywood and Heaton.
  • (20) The lowest doses which initiated infection were 12.5 TCID50 of O1 BFS virus and 25 TCID50 of SAT 2 virus, infectivity having been assayed in primary bovine thyroid cell cultures.

Slat


Definition:

  • (n.) A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood or metal; as, the slats of a window blind.
  • (v. t.) To slap; to strike; to beat; to throw down violently.
  • (v. t.) To split; to crack.
  • (v. t.) To set on; to incite. See 3d Slate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Calves were fed milk replacer twice daily while housed indoors in wooden-slatted floor box crates (metabolism cages).
  • (2) In a second experiment, 32 litters of pigs were farrowed in crates equipped with either solid, vertically slatted, horizontally slatted or diamond mesh creep partitions.
  • (3) For the fattening farm the following elements of confinement management were negatively correlated with pulmonary function: fully slatted floor, an automatic feeding system, natural ventilation, and the use of dust masks.
  • (4) The Grade II-listed scenic railway, devastated by an arson attack in 2008, has been rebuilt, wooden slat by wooden slat, back to its rickety, grinding glory.
  • (5) Feed and water were provided on the lower level only and lambs could move freely between levels by means of a slatted ramp.
  • (6) During lay, hens were housed in pens with partly-littered partly-slatted floors.
  • (7) Effects of N-alkyl-N,N,N-trimethylammonium ions with different alkyl substituents (hexyl, nonyl, dodecyl, and octadecyl) on the lateral packing of lipids in dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) dispersions in H2O was investigated by Raman spectroscopy in a spectral region of 2800--3100 cm-1 at temperatures between 22--70 degrees C. The lateral order parameter Slat calculated by empirical equation reveals that the addition of the ions decreases the lateral ordering of lipid hydrocarbon chains in the gel phase, while in the liquid crystalline state the lateral ordering is increased.
  • (8) Higher slat concentrations (50 mM KCl or 200 mM NaCl) provided partial protection from lysis.
  • (9) Slatted fattening systems are the easiest to adapt to weekly modules of production which limits disease spread between batches and reduces the requirement for medication.
  • (10) Twenty cattle with induced infestations were randomly allocated to five groups of equal size based on the numbers of engorged female ticks which fell through the slatted floor of individual pens during the 3 days prior to treatments.
  • (11) The production results were significantly poorer (with the exception of carcass classification) and the number of culled animals was significantly larger in both slatted floor systems compared with the D-system.
  • (12) A questionnaire sent to 78 producers revealed that tail tip necrosis was seen only in units with fattening bulls housed on slatted floors.
  • (13) Keeping of piglets on slatted metal floor, without complementary iron supply, caused anaemia within seven days from parturition.
  • (14) At weaning, 162 sows were assigned randomly to six groups and housed in individual cages fitted on a slatted floor.
  • (15) There were marked rises in the glomerular filtration rate and calcium excretion but no significant change in slat and water excretion was observed with verapamil.
  • (16) What else is architecture if not a ray of light on a wall?” Below him, a tilted facade of wooden slats sweeps out in a broad arc, forming a streamlined front to the building, before colliding with another curving wall clad with gold-anodised aluminium.
  • (17) A second form of prothrombin is also described, which is not adsorbed into barium slats, and has less than 1% the activity of the normal protein, contains only four gamma-carboxy glutamic acid residues.
  • (18) It has been demonstrated that after experimental infection of pig slurry from the space under the slatted floor (infection dose of 10(6)PFU per ml), the Aujeszky's disease virus (ADV) survived for 72 hours at the temperature of 15 degrees C and at pH 6.5, but was inactivated after 96 hours.
  • (19) The evaporative cooling system, with its open shades and sand bedding, enhanced reproductive performance and milk production compared with that of cows cooled with a spray and fan system with slatted flooring in this hot climate.
  • (20) We then observed that although the number of organisms decreased by 99.8%, their number on slatted floors still ranged between 0.02 x 10(4) and 3 x 10(4) per cm2.

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