What's the difference between skater and slater?

Skater


Definition:

  • (n.) One who skates.
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of hemipterous insects belonging to Gerris, Pyrrhocoris, Prostemma, and allied genera. They have long legs, and run rapidly over the surface of the water, as if skating.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The morphometrical data of the skaters muscle fiber are compared with the muscle parameters (according to the literature data) of the m. vastus lateralis in high qualification sportsmen of other specialization and in nontrained persons.
  • (2) Others may argue, as former US Olympic skater Johnny Weir has, that what they define as “politics” shouldn’t enter into the equation of whether a country is fit to host the Games.
  • (3) In skater-statyers sarcoplasm of muscle fibers sharply increases in volume.
  • (4) For those analytics lovers, there’s the evidence via Extra Skater that the Kings Fenwick score (shot attempts) was better throughout the entirety of the game, perhaps suggesting that the true abnormality of Saturday night’s game was that the Rangers led for so much of it.
  • (5) Using aerobic and anaerobic power production as measured during supra maximal bicycle tests of international-level speed skaters, a model of the kinetics of power production is obtained.
  • (6) Sometimes, loading for endurance in skater-stayers produces rather essential disturbances in structure of muscle fibers up to their necrosis.
  • (7) A Russian speed skater revealed he had failed a drugs test for meldonium on the day the country’s sports officials warned more athletes could test positive for the drug responsible for Maria Sharapova failing a test at the Australian Open .
  • (8) Female senior pair skaters reported an average of 1.4 serious injuries, and other groups averaged greater than 0.5 serious injury per skater.
  • (9) The 23-year-old from Livingston was one of a five-strong squad of short-track skaters confirmed for the Games , along with Charlotte Gilmartin, Jon Eley, Richard Shoebridge and Jack Whelbourne.
  • (10) This power is necessary to overcome the air and ice friction and to increase the kinetic energy of the skater.
  • (11) Of the nine injured skaters, eight were treated conservatively and one skater with Jones' fracture was treated surgically.
  • (12) An analysis of the start of the 500 m speed skating races during the 1988 Olympic Winter Games showed a remarkably high correlation between the acceleration of the skater in the first second of the sprint and the final time (r = -0.75).
  • (13) This information may be useful for designing strength training programs for figure skaters.
  • (14) It is a more thoughtful book, but it also prefigures Clark's seeming obsession with the wayward lives of teenagers, which has since become the central theme of his films, most controversially Kids, and later books like 2008's Los Angeles Vol 1 , in which he trails a bunch of skater kids from Compton, east Los Angeles.
  • (15) Compared with previous published data, skaters in this study were younger and smaller with a higher percent body fat.
  • (16) Muscle fibers composition was investigated in vastus lateralis muscles of 103 skaters.
  • (17) This initial effort to evaluate the efficacy of this type of a training program for competitive figure skating seems to have proven to be beneficial to the skaters.
  • (18) Over the course of the 3-month period, the skaters in the program showed an average increase in oxygen consumption of 9% from 44.73 cc per kg per min to 55.51 cc per kg per min.
  • (19) In previous outings, conversation prints and skater skirt shapes could have been seen as cutesy, but this season's dresses had no-brainier ease that also came with a Beckham-branded complexity and sophistication.
  • (20) On alternate days, the skaters used the same amount of time in a strength training program.

Slater


Definition:

  • (n.) One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
  • (n.) Any terrestrial isopod crustacean of the genus Porcellio and allied genera; a sow bug.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Jonathan Lovekin for the Observer Nigel Slater's cold noodle and tomato salad makes a nice grownup supper with leftovers for the packed lunch.
  • (2) When Matt Slater went swimming with his dog Mango in a Cornish estuary this month, he bumped into a barrel jellyfish.
  • (3) The data of Slater (1938) on the parents and children of manic-depressives are reanalysed.
  • (4) Christian Slater, who plays Joe's father said: "As an actor I felt safe.
  • (5) But his boss, education secretary Nicky Morgan, is adamant that forcing all schools to become academies will cut central interference – which ought to mean Slater will need even fewer civil servants.
  • (6) Sent via Guardian Witness By Andy Slater 25 May 2013, 18:29 Either this photo was taken earlier or this fan is so disgusted by Bayern's sluggishness so far that he has left the stadium.
  • (7) Key has characterised both Nicky Hager, author of the book Dirty Politics, which draws on emails hacked from the venomous rightwing blogger Cameron Slater, and Greenwald, who arrived in New Zealand last week to expose contradictions in official positions on surveillance, as "conspiracy theorists".
  • (8) Slater’s Official Information Act request, which Hager says was encouraged by one of the PM’s staff, had been almost immediately fulfilled, while similar requests from other media were denied.
  • (9) Proposed changes to death certification in England and Wales in 2014 will make matters worse by levying an additional fee on all burials, Slater said.
  • (10) Photograph: PR When he started, Wright, whose previous work had been split between young people and professionals, asked producer David Slater what he should expect.
  • (11) Barbara Slater, director of BBC Sport, said: "We are absolutely delighted that [Formula One] will remain on the BBC.
  • (12) All nominees have achieved exceptional success in their respective fields in the past year,” Slater said, “and we wish each of them the best of luck, while also looking forward to a great night in Belfast.
  • (13) Hager draws on thousands of hacked emails and Facebook private messages, which reveal Slater’s links to Jason Ede, then a senior press adviser and so-called “black ops” co-ordinator in the prime minister’s office, as well as to senior cabinet minister Judith “Crusher” Collins and others.
  • (14) But instead of leaks from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Hager had something which, in domestic political terms at least, would prove even more explosive: a cache of correspondence from the computer of Cameron Slater, a vigorous, venomous rightwing blogger better known by his site’s title, Whale Oil.
  • (15) After the jet-black high school satire Heathers pulled the rug out from under John Hughes and his oversharing Brat Pack, in 1989, American adolescents were left with few offerings, most of them wistful odes to another age – either stylistically, as with the overblown, pirate-radio-themed Christian Slater vehicle Pump Up the Volume; or quite literally, in the case of Richard Linklater’s nostalgia-fuelled 70s pastiche, Dazed and Confused.
  • (16) A monkey only pressed a button of a camera set up on a tripod – a tripod I positioned and held throughout the shoot.” Last year, as the dispute simmered, Slater offered copies of a “monkey selfie” photo to purchasers willing to pay only for shipping and handling, and said he would donate $1.70 from each order to a conservation project dedicated to protecting Sulawesi’s macaques.
  • (17) Only the giant Antarctic slater Glyptonotus antarcticus survived the exposure to the contaminated water unharmed.
  • (18) In 2011, Indonesian macaques snatched David J Slater’s camera and started taking pictures of themselves.
  • (19) With a DNA probe derived from the cloned CHS1 gene that codes for chitin synthase I [Bulawa, C. E., Slater, M., Cabib, E., Au-Young, J., Sburlati, A., Adair, W. L. and Robbins, P. (1986) Cell 46, 213-225] a Northern analysis was conducted of CHS1-specific transcripts.
  • (20) The documents show a deep and intimate connection between Slater and Jason Ede, former senior advisor to Key.