What's the difference between splatter and splutter?

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  • (2) While my pink, freckled body is blank and pictureless, my father's is an ink-splattered historical document.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

Splutter


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To speak hastily and confusedly; to sputter.
  • (n.) A confused noise, as of hasty speaking.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gerhard Schröder , Merkel’s immediate predecessor, had pushed through parliament a radical reform agenda to get the country’s spluttering economy back on track.
  • (2) Thereafter they both got so angry with one another they started adopting each other's pet phrases – "I won't be lectured to by..." – and there was the unnerving possibility they might just morph into a single, spluttering entity.
  • (3) The very thought is enough to get older Tory MPs spluttering into their gin this weekend – but it's probably a factor and a very zeitgeisty one.
  • (4) There are still two episodes to go before it splutters over the finishing line.
  • (5) Most worrying of all, despite the head's spluttered remonstration, the parent didn't seem to get the point that school comes first.
  • (6) "Yes OK, but I don't want to die," Duncan splutters.
  • (7) That would be an unfortunate ending to a process that should have been a timely intervention on a vital issue but now looks likely to splutter to a hazy conclusion.
  • (8) So when Bill Gates pitched into the debate last week with a proposal that robots should be taxed , just like human workers are, you can imagine the splutters of outrage from the neoliberal fortresses of Silicon Valley.
  • (9) There was a presumption in the chief executive’s comments in Chantilly on Tuesday as England conducted their painful post-mortem of the spluttering campaign at Euro 2016.
  • (10) But back in Paris, the tone was one of spluttering outrage.
  • (11) splutters John Lally, zoning in on the claim that Hazlehurst was up there with Stockhausen et al .
  • (12) And now there is choking and spluttering and shouts and confusion and everyone begins to turn and run back the way they came.
  • (13) That's assuming the hiccup in the core UK business doesn't develop into a full-blown splutter.
  • (14) Collateral damage extends to the spluttering peace process with the Taliban.
  • (15) Marc Wilmots’ complaints about his opponents’ style and tactics rather ignored the reality that his own charges had spluttered when an opportunity had been there for the taking, yet their biggest threat at the Estádio Nacional remained their potential.
  • (16) Consumption is likely to be a spluttering engine of growth, at best.
  • (17) But they can still appear as champions of the people The old image of the Establishment was summed up by the cartoons of H.M. Bateman in the Twenties, showing a hapless outsider committing a faux pas at a club or grand reception, faced by spluttering colonels or outraged dowagers.
  • (18) This victory took West Ham nine points clear of 18th-placed Sunderland, whom they visit on Monday, yet such a chasm seems remarkable given the way this team spluttered as they did for long periods here, their football lacking guile and purpose even if the manager said they were "absolutely magnificent".
  • (19) Although the noise from HP on Tuesday was about the accusations against unnamed former managers at Autonomy , the real concern should be that the company which Silicon Valley once looked to as the engine of invention is spluttering.
  • (20) This was by no means their worst performance of a spluttering season.