What's the difference between sate and slate?

Sate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To satisfy the desire or appetite of; to satiate; to glut; to surfeit.
  • () imp. of Sit.
  • () of Sit

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thus, in experiment 1 there were no differences between the groups when sated or during extinction and in experiment 2 the increased responding was restricted to the lever providing CR.
  • (2) Khao Soi Khun Yai, Sri Poom Road, next to Wat Kuan Kama, Old City, North Moat; meal for two £1.60-£3 Warorot evening market Facebook Twitter Pinterest You could pick other food markets (Sompet, Thanin, Chiang Mai Gate, Chang Phuak Gate) and be as deliriously sated, but the night-time street food at Warorot remains special to me.
  • (3) Mouse killing induced by septal lesions, olfactory bulb lesions, or parachlorophenylalanine (PCPA) injections was compared with that of sated or food-deprived spontaneous mouse-killing rats in order to evaluate whether the experimentally induced killing corresponds to killing that occurs spontaneously, which tends to be viewed as predatory.
  • (4) One interpretation of these results is that naloxone attenuated the reward experienced by castrated and sexually sated males in the presence of an estrous female, thereby disrupting males' coital performance.
  • (5) Furthermore, neuroleptic-induced blockade of food-related motivational effects in food-deprived, but not in food-sated (non-food-deprived), animals suggests that the neural substrates of motivational events do not dissociate along the line between different rewarding stimuli but along the line between deprivation and nondeprivation.
  • (6) But, in truth, this was a victory fashioned outside the system, rather than because of it, and born of the grit, determination and talent of one man with a restless appetite for winning that is unlikely to be sated by his historic New York title.
  • (7) A burgeoning “No Palm Oil” movement is seeing some brands ditch palm oil altogether and state that on their packets, to sate the public mood.
  • (8) Our investigation seeks to establish a means to return sated leeches to their previous unfed, hungry state for reuse.
  • (9) Conversely, at sites of perfusion in the LH, insulin evoked the release of [3H]-NE when the rat was fasted, whereas 2-DG tended to induce mixed effects on the release of [3H]-NE under both sated and fasted conditions.
  • (10) They provide a solution to the age-old dilemma of what to buy your grandad once his need for socks and whisky is truly sated and provide an easy gift fix for long-distance friends and family.
  • (11) Their transfer lust will be sated by the £23m Dynamo Kyiv winger Andriy Yarmolenko , though that move won’t happen until the summer, by which time it’ll be far too late.
  • (12) The neuronal pattern of activity was studied during sated and fasted conditions as well as during a local glucoprivic challenge to the LH.
  • (13) Seven anatomically-defineD SFO subregions were discerned having metabolic activities that differed from one another by as much as 29% in water-sated Brattleboro rats.
  • (14) Yellow titles How visually sated are you right now?
  • (15) Measurements of glucose metabolism in individual components of the DVC, compared with those in Long-Evans rats, revealed that the area postrema was activated selectively both in water-sated and water-deprived Brattleboro rats, which have high circulating levels of angiotensin II.
  • (16) Here we report that the main compound in the SATES solution is a monosuccinyl ester of TES (MST).
  • (17) Sated by three years of Special One pyrotechnics, the British press might be ready to be charmed by Ramos' brand of quietly pithy humour.
  • (18) In contrast, binding in neural lobe sections of water-deprived, saline-treated, and water-sated homozygous Brattleboro rats was lower by 50%, 35% and 37%, respectively.
  • (19) Food-deprived decerebrate rats, like intact ones, ingested a taste substance they had rejected when sated.
  • (20) Also, it is suggested that our operations for eliciting stimulus-induced eating in sated subjects may be useful for future examinations of the psychological properties of craving.

Slate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist.
  • (v. t.) Any rock or stone having a slaty structure.
  • (v. t.) A prepared piece of such stone.
  • (v. t.) A thin, flat piece, for roofing or covering houses, etc.
  • (v. t.) A tablet for writing upon.
  • (v. t.) An artificial material, resembling slate, and used for the above purposes.
  • (v. t.) A thin plate of any material; a flake.
  • (v. t.) A list of candidates, prepared for nomination or for election; a list of candidates, or a programme of action, devised beforehand.
  • (v. t.) To cover with slate, or with a substance resembling slate; as, to slate a roof; to slate a globe.
  • (v. t.) To register (as on a slate and subject to revision), for an appointment.
  • (v. t.) To set a dog upon; to bait; to slat. See 2d Slat, 3.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The slate was wiped clean “as far as I am concerned”, Corbyn added, before taking a swipe at the alleged purge of some of his supporters over comments made on Twitter.
  • (2) For that matter, mulching with bark, grit or slate will help keep the surface roots cooler and retain moisture in hot weather.
  • (3) Joe Muto, Slate The Newsroom can be read as Sorkin's attempt to cure what's ailing the news industry, but he's misdiagnosing the patient.
  • (4) They were apparently trying to promote a healthy lifestyle to the Russian public, but Muscle and Fitness magazine slated the president’s technique: “his cable crossover form is crap”.
  • (5) The Hill reports : Senate Republicans elected a slate of white men to their top five leadership positions on Wednesday, and some GOP lawmakers feared the House would follow suit at a time when Republicans have said they need to find ways to reach out to women and minorities.
  • (6) Some establishment party figures have blamed the event for prematurely narrowing the field and forcing candidates to compete in what top GOP strategist David Kochel (now slated to be Jeb Bush’s national campaign manager) once called “a goat rodeo”.
  • (7) While we do expect some significant strength in the top two to three spots in 2015,” he wrote, “we are not convinced that the overall slate is going to drive performance that is significantly better than what we have generally seen over the past four years.” He also fears that the rise in superhero blockbusters is going to lead to disaster for some studios, in the same way that a wider pool of animated films has led to some casualties, with underwhelming receipts for Penguins of Madagascar and Mr Peabody & Sherman most recently.
  • (8) For now, we can't tell, but the Moritz-Heyman scholarships will help us find out by creating a group of graduates who will start on the career ladder with a near-clean slate.
  • (9) The conviction was subsequently wiped from his record under German clean-slate legislation.
  • (10) David Fincher was originally slated to direct the project , but Boyle manages to put his own distinct imprint on it: the film has Boyle’s characteristic frenetic energy, and boasts colourful visuals.
  • (11) Besides, Corbyn wanted to wipe the slate clean – though he was not yet ready to explain what steps he would take to do so – and to remind the party that there was more that united it than divided it.
  • (12) He was slated to give a commencement speech at his alma mater in 2013, but withdrew after controversy arose in wake of his remarks comparing same-sex marriage to pedophilia.
  • (13) That panel is slated to deliver final recommendations as early as this month, although it may slip into the new year.
  • (14) There are a number of things that need to be repealed, but I think what we need to focus on first is what would we replace it with,” Alexander told Slate about a week after the election.
  • (15) The French unit also has proposals for a new film from Dutch genre icon Paul Verhoeven and a remake of 1988 cult horror Maniac Cop on its slate for Cannes.
  • (16) These are slated to move from London to the new Media City development by 2011.
  • (17) I have now left the defence force with a clean slate.
  • (18) The policy was known as “contraction” and it was slated to shut down two clubs, the other being the Minnesota Twins, a team that is thriving years after the policy foundered.
  • (19) A restaurant firm slated to open an outlet in Trump’s new Washington DC hotel complained that the remarks were damaging to them.
  • (20) His papers, which are stored in more than 200 slate-grey boxes, describe fascinating connections to a roll call of the great and the good: Shirley Williams, Ruth First, Nadine Gordimer, Henry Kissinger, Trevor Huddleston, Nelson Mandela , Anthony Crosland, Michael Heseltine, Ted Heath, John Cleese, David Cornwell (John le Carré) and many more.