What's the difference between spatter and sputter?

Spatter


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud.
  • (v. t.) To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner.
  • (v. i.) To throw something out of the mouth in a scattering manner; to sputter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tarantino’s blood-spattered, race-themed western was in fact his biggest hit, taking $425m worldwide.
  • (2) Inside, the white pillars in the big empty atrium were spattered with blood, and splintered wood and broken chairs hinted at the violence of the three-hour battle.
  • (3) In the early spring, Atlantic rollers pound the beach while gulls strut in rain-spattered tidal pools.
  • (4) I recall his guano-spattered union jack frock coat, designed by Alexander McQueen, on the cover of his 1997 drum'n'bass record Earthling.
  • (5) An experiment at the same Moscow facility in 1999 descended into chaos when a Russian captain forced a kiss on a female Canadian crew member, and two other Russians got drunk and ended up in a fist fight that left blood spattered over the capsule walls.
  • (6) In Muslim areas, the flag appeared in leaflets in a blood-spattered montage of Tony Blair and George Bush and troops in Iraq, while underneath it she played to religious homophobia by claiming that Labour was allowing children to be propositioned for homosexual relationships.
  • (7) However, the team still found blood from the attack spattered on some walls and ceilings and also brought back bullet casings that matched weapons Bales was reported to have carried, and fabric that matched a blanket prosecutors say he wore as a cape.
  • (8) The receipts are being published not merely too late, but also after being liberally spattered with a black marker pen in a way that covers up all the worst crimes.
  • (9) A central square was left spattered with blood after baton-wielding police dispersed crowds.
  • (10) As a shell blasted through the wall, showering occupants with shrapnel and spattering blood on walls and floors, Amna Zantit, 31, scrambled to gather up her three terrified infants in a panicked bid for the relative safety of the schoolyard.
  • (11) "Given that it's usually around 45-50 minutes long, I always presumed you waxed lyrical for many hours talking about everything from Boney M to punching wildlife, with a spattering of football in between, and producer Ben chopped it all down to 45 mintues of football chat.
  • (12) Sign up for our film masterclasses Xan Brooks tentatively enters through cinema's blood-spattered back door as he looks for some truly terrifying thrils in cinema's tawdriest genre Photograph: guardian.co.uk Join us to explore the wonder of cinematography at our second Guardian film masterclass .
  • (13) After the press conference, St Louis County police department shared pictures of the officer’s blood-spattered face mask.
  • (14) Its crew found Baby P already stiff and blue in his blood-spattered cot.
  • (15) (I find it useful to cover the pot with an inexpensive spatter screen to catch any spattering chilli.)
  • (16) • A defence witness called to dispute the state’s version of how Steenkamp was killed was labelled “irresponsible” by Nel, who pointed out that Roger Dixon was not trained in ballistics, light, sound or blood spatter evidence .
  • (17) As to Scarfe's cartoon specifically, it seems to me almost identical to every other blood-spattered pictorial lament for man's inhumanity to man he's knocked out over the past 40 years.
  • (18) It was early March and snow was still spattered on the leaf mould between the firs and larches.
  • (19) The prosecutor also said blood spatter evidence indicated that the athlete's statement about the location of a duvet in the bedroom was false.
  • (20) Pro-government media quickly published graphic pictures of the blood-spattered bodies of the five dead Egyptians – Tarek Saad Abdel Fattah, 52; his son Saad Tarek Saad, 26; his son-in-law Salah Ali Sayed, 40; Mostafa Bakr, 60; and Farouk.

Sputter


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
  • (v. i.) To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.
  • (v. i.) To throw out anything, as little jets of steam, with a noise like that made by one sputtering.
  • (v. t.) To spit out hastily by quick, successive efforts, with a spluttering sound; to utter hastily and confusedly, without control over the organs of speech.
  • (n.) Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All tooth specimens were sputter-coated with gold for 4 min and examined using a scanning electron microscope.
  • (2) And the Sunni-Shia conflict driving so much of this is not unlike the Wars of the Reformation– those took a century to conclude ... and still sputter along in Northern Island three centuries later.
  • (3) Auger spectroscopy and ion sputtering technique have shown that in surface of new archs oxygen and carbon are present up to about 300 A depth.
  • (4) The teeth were air dried, mounted on stubs, sputter-coated with gold-palladium and examined under SEM.
  • (5) Electronegative elements will be detected with similar sensitivities in the spectrum of negative sputtered ions, but inert gases, which are ionized with difficulty and have small electron affinities, will be detected with considerably poorer sensitivities.
  • (6) It is based on the selective evanescent field excitation of ligands adsorbed to supported planar bilayers on argon-sputtered glass plates.
  • (7) of implantation the surface of the as-cast polyurethane was covered with a monolayer of platelets and leukocytes, whereas thrombus development progressed more rapidly on the sputtered polyurethane surface and at 1 hr.
  • (8) Looking for a solution for Britain's sputtering maternity services?
  • (9) The catheter segments were sputter-coated with approx.
  • (10) While TEM provides the highest resolution images of sputter-coated cytoskeletons, it also damages the specimens owing to heating in the beam.
  • (11) He yanks a few times on the starting cord of the outboard engine, and we sputter off into the bay towards our target – our progress in these sensitive waters observed by a police motorboat.
  • (12) Images of DNA and ribosomal subunits contrasted by sputter shadowing with tungsten are shown.
  • (13) Several substrates--aluminum mnium foil, silver mirror deposit and sputtered gold-provided good conductive backgrounds for chromosomal spreads.
  • (14) Using sputter coating to form oxide films allows control of its thickness.
  • (15) Sputtered coats of 1-2 nm of platinum or tungsten provide both an adequate secondary electron signal for SEM and good contrast for STEM and TEM.
  • (16) Forty-five sputter-coated implants and an equal number of noncoated titanium implants were placed into 15 partially edentulated dog mandibles.
  • (17) The forward planning in such cities runs counter to the steadily accumulating evidence in Washington that Barack Obama's efforts to green America's economy is sputtering to a halt.
  • (18) Here we show that construction and use of a tungsten target greatly improves the quality of the sputter shadowed deposit.
  • (19) The thickness of the oxide layer can also be controlled by sputter coating.
  • (20) This study investigated and compared the healing rates of bone around commercially pure titanium implants and titanium implants sputter-coated from a hydroxyapatite target.