What's the difference between slatter and splatter?
Slatter
Definition:
(v. i.) To be careless, negligent, or aswkward, esp. with regard to dress and neatness; to be wasteful.
Example Sentences:
(1) With his strike Winothai, a former Belgian second division footballer, joined John Aldridge and Neil Slatter in the footnotes of players who have handed defeats to United's past two managers in their first games, after Alex Ferguson's 1986 vintage went down 2-0 to Oxford at the Manor Ground in the opener to what proved to be 26-plus years of success.
Splatter
Definition:
(v. i. & t.) To spatter; to splash.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gucci showed jeans, too, splattered and distressed; at Prada they were tailored with visible white stitching.
(2) While my pink, freckled body is blank and pictureless, my father's is an ink-splattered historical document.
(3) Decreasing r&d time has the same effect on TCs generated from both noise and tonal stimuli, even when it only measurably increases the acoustic splatter of the latter.
(4) In lurid images of blood-splattered dollars fluttering down over warlords in conflict zones, accompanied by a menacing soundtrack worthy of a horror classic, the film seeks to distill in punchy form the central message of the book: that Hillary and Bill Clinton, since leaving the White House famously “dead broke” in 2001, have amassed a vast fortune of more than $200m by blurring the lines between public office, their philanthropic foundation, lucrative speaker fees and friendships with dubious characters around the world.
(5) Sit the steamer on the surface of your milk, slightly off centre so the milk starts to flow around it in a circular motion, rather than splattering uncontrollably.
(6) 92% of obligate heterozygotes had a mud-splattered appearance of the fundus with hyperpigmented streaks and in 74% this was associated with marked iris translucency.
(7) The cartoon shows a menacing looking Netanyahu wielding a blood-splattered trowel, bricking screaming Palestinians into the wall's structure.
(8) The very steep stimulus slopes required to produce an offset CAP are likely to generate much more acoustic splatter than the more gradual slopes required to produce an onset CAP, and this may be related to the different shapes of the onset and offset simultaneous MTCs.
(9) J Crew and studio chic J Crew pays homage to painters with its splattered trousers.
(10) "I remember kissing his head, his face held between two blocks, completely splattered in dry blood.
(11) The house where his blood and brains were splattered yesterday.
(12) I see a cascade of shit pirouetting from your penthouse office, caking each layer of management, splattering all in between.
(13) Clutching Squire-customised Jackson Pollock-style paint-splattered guitars, they launched into Elephant Stone , an instantly infectious collision of melody and house-influenced rhythms delivered in a psychedelic haze.
(14) Nor has the RAF (with apologies to the Royal Air Force) featured in the Mail Online's sidebar of shame whereas BRF has already become almost as much of a regular feature there as drool-splattered photos of 14-year-old girls looking "grown up for their years".
(15) With an old North Face down jacket, MacPac rucksack and mud-splattered Berghaus boots – the kit that saw him through the mountains of central Afghanistan in midwinter – he looks more uppercrust eco-warrior than county Tory.
(16) The latter, splattered with hammers and sickles, runs close to the shores of the Saronic Gulf.
(17) Freud is pictured in his laceless, paint-splattered boots.
(18) Junior doctors are not looking for a last-minute “concession” splattered across the papers.
(19) Movie monsters have been steadily slinking back to the B-list depths from whence they came, hence the popularity of CGI splatter such as Sharknado , where we can be sure no real animals were harmed, because it’s clear none were used.
(20) The floor is splattered with globules and rivulets of dried paint; you could almost be standing on an enormous Jackson Pollock.