What's the difference between splatter and splitter?

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  • (2) While my pink, freckled body is blank and pictureless, my father's is an ink-splattered historical document.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.

Splitter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, splits.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 1.44am BST Heat 19-30 Spurs, 11:00 remaining in 2nd quarter Splitter assists Ginobili who hits a jumper, this Spurs run continues.
  • (2) Output measurements in water and in air indicated that scatter from the aluminum plate more than compensates for the reduction in backscatter factor, due to the decrease in irradiated area when the beam splitter is used.
  • (3) 2.46am GMT Red Sox 3 - Cardinals 1, bottom of 8th Uehara wastes no time, two splitters, two strikes.
  • (4) The metabolic products were diluted with carrier steroids, then separated and measured by thin-layer chromatography and by gas chromatography on an instrument equipped with a splitter.
  • (5) 1.08am BST Spurs starters are being announced, and Tiago Splitter once again is announced last.
  • (6) The mucosa of the dog; bladder and the pig renal pelvis, to which expansive splitter was made contact, showed no histological change after 30, 45 or 60 minutes after the contact.
  • (7) That plus maybe a few more three-pointers from Miami like that one... 4.11am BST Spurs 77-73 Heat - 10:26 remaining, 4th quarter Tiago Splitter hits a hook shot three... And Mike Miller hits a three-point shot in response, with just one shoe!
  • (8) Reflected light returns through the objective, exits the camera port, is reflected off the beam splitter, and is imaged on to the photocathode of an image dissector tube (IDT).
  • (9) The role of the cell state splitter is thus to create a mechanical instability corresponding to the embryonic state of "competence" in an otherwise mechanically stable cell.
  • (10) Tiago Splitter , center: The Brazilian, despite having a name that sounds like an ill-fated secondary pitch made up by a struggling pitcher, bounced around Brazil and Spain before making his debut with the Spurs in 2011.
  • (11) Go off into the oblivion [like] previous splitters from the Labour party have done.” Kenny said MPs opposing Corbyn had every right to stay in the party if they intended to initially argue for different policies as long as they ultimately supported the party.
  • (12) Grabbed by Kawhi Leonard, but Bosh blocks Splitter's layup attempt.
  • (13) 12.43am BST San Antonio Spurs starters Power forward : Kawhi Leonard Forward : Tim Duncan Center: Tiago Splitter Guard: Danny Green Guard: Tony Parker 12.40am BST Miami Heat starters Center: Chris Bosh Power forward: Rashard Lewis Small forward: LeBron James Shooting guard: Dwyane Wade Point guard: Mario Chalmers Inactive: Justin Hamilton , Michael Beasley.
  • (14) A beam splitter and camera equipment are essential accessories.
  • (15) The consequences of the silver splitters also has an impact on the family support system.
  • (16) 3.08am BST Heat 80-78 Spurs, 10:59 remaining in the 4th quarter Splitter draws a foul on Wade, but Mills tries to slip away the ball on Lewis after he gets a rebound, first foul on him.
  • (17) A rotating beam splitter was designed and fabricated for use in treating tangential breast fields on an AECL Theratron-80 cobalt teletherapy unit.
  • (18) Ukip are the splitters, who will let the left come through the middle in marginal seats.
  • (19) The new app enables you to crossfade, sync, loop and preview tracks (via a splitter adapter) from Spotify’s 20m-strong catalogue.
  • (20) The light passes through a beam splitter, enters an inverted microscope through the side camera port, and is imaged at the object by the microscope objective.

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