What's the difference between ail and nil?

Ail


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To affect with pain or uneasiness, either physical or mental; to trouble; to be the matter with; -- used to express some uneasiness or affection, whose cause is unknown; as, what ails the man? I know not what ails him.
  • (v. i.) To be affected with pain or uneasiness of any sort; to be ill or indisposed or in trouble.
  • (n.) Indisposition or morbid affection.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Describing the Standard as a "good paper", he said his "social mission" was to help the ailing title survive.
  • (2) According to articles presented by Breitbart, Clinton is tired and ailing.
  • (3) Kelly reportedly spoke with lawyers investigating claims of sexual harassment by former Fox chairman Roger Ailes, who left the network following allegations by several women of years of abuse.
  • (4) The principle’s not so different now.” Fifteen years ago, when he was 27, Baker found himself with an ailing father and 250 cows, farmed traditionally – grass in summer, silage and concentrates in winter – around the village.
  • (5) Bill Gates betrayed his ailing business partner and tried to deprive him of his share of the Microsoft fortune, according to a scathing memoir from Paul Allen , the company's billionaire co-founder.
  • (6) If there's one thing this current Lakers squad, mostly assembled by Jerry Buss's son Jim while his father was ailing, has proven, it's that simply acquiring the best available players isn't enough to create a winning team, let alone a championship-caliber one.
  • (7) Almost all of the 20-plus women claim they experienced Ailes’s harassment firsthand.
  • (8) In addition, these studies reveal that functional homology exists between Ail and the structurally related protein Rck, which promotes resistance to complement killing in Salmonella typhimurium.
  • (9) Seven of these changes are predicted to be in cell surface domains of the protein (a model for the proposed folding of Ail within the outer membrane is presented).
  • (10) Hague has contacted Shaker Aamer to reassure him that attempts to reunite him with his family in London are continuing, a process made increasingly urgent by fresh evidence of the 44-year-old's ailing health.
  • (11) A chance to revive the fortunes of an ailing giant might just appeal to a man of his talents and ego.
  • (12) This week his criticism of Kelly – and thus a reported “feud” with the influential Fox News chief Roger Ailes – flared up again when Trump retweeted a message that called Kelly a “bimbo”.
  • (13) Paddle on the Riviera Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A half-hour walk from the tiny railway station at Cap d’Ail in the Alpes-Maritimes, a coastal footpath runs underneath a line of art nouveau and art deco villas and round a headland before Mala Plage comes into view.
  • (14) Roginsky said in the suit that she was punished for not disparaging the former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson after she filed a sexual harassment suit against Ailes.
  • (15) Joe Muto, Slate The Newsroom can be read as Sorkin's attempt to cure what's ailing the news industry, but he's misdiagnosing the patient.
  • (16) Anyone expecting the public to suddenly turn on Ailes in a way it hasn’t before is likely to be disappointed, Tyndall said, adding that part of Fox News’s classic-TV appeal is a re-creation of the permissive atmosphere that has historically made life unbearable for women in entertainment.
  • (17) I think you and I should have had a sexual relationship a long time ago and then you’d be good and better and I’d be good and better,” Ailes said, according to the lawsuit.
  • (18) However, the ailing Greek economy, which is suffering from an unemployment level twice as high as it was in May 2010 and industrial production 30% below to its pre-crisis level, has few ways to generate income without the EU’s support.
  • (19) Polymerase chain reaction was performed by using a mixture of primers against the inv gene from Y. pseudotuberculosis and the ail gene from pathogenic Y. enterocolitica.
  • (20) Lost time rate of long ailing persons was three times higher than that in the whole group, while lost time rate among frequently ailing persons was 2.5 times higher that than for the whole group.

Nil


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Will not.
  • (n. & a.) Nothing; of no account; worthless; -- a term often used for canceling, in accounts or bookkeeping.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have examined the presence of 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin; 5-HT) in the intermediate lobe of the frog pituitary and investigated the effect of exogenous 5-HT on alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH) release from the perifused neurointermediate lobe (NIL).
  • (2) Two injections of the alpha 1-adrenoceptor blocker prazosin 45 and 90 min before sacrifice, alone or together with the beta-blocker propranolol, prevented the increase in plasma AVP found in SCGx rats 6 h after surgery, and the decrease in plasma AVP and the increase of NIL-AVP found 16 h after SCGx.
  • (3) The incidence of G-6-PD varied from nil to 17.3%, while that of Hb-S varied from nil to 22.3%.
  • (4) The basal release of beta-END from NIL was 180% of that from HNC (p less than 0.01), which provides further support for the presence of hypothalamic factors that inhibit beta-END release from the intermediate pituitary.
  • (5) Hamster (nil) cells maintained overnight in culture medium containing cyclohemiximide and either glucose or fructose exhibit strikingly different rates of hexose transport and metabolism (i.e.
  • (6) Regardless of the sort of driving force, ATP synthesis was optimum at the intravesicular pH of around 6.5 and almost nil at 8, where ATP syntheses by F0F1 type ATPases in other organisms are most active.
  • (7) Only the private bank is willing to accept personal guarantees.” Deutsche Bank's $630m Russian fine reflects badly on banking | Nils Pratley Read more In the years since then, Deutsche Bank has been hit by scandal after scandal.
  • (8) He will not have to buy the shares – they are what are termed in the City "nil cost options" – but they will be awarded depending on the firm's financial performance.
  • (9) The amount of apo TC II produced by six lines of cultured human cells ranged from abundant to nil.
  • (10) 14C galactose incorporation into the TCA-precipitable material of cultures of fibroblasts deficient in galactokinase (GALK-) was nil.
  • (11) There were 8 black patients and 5 white; 10 had a biopsy diagnosis of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) and 3 nil lesion.
  • (12) Between December 1981 and December 1988 we treated 160 patients in this way, the mortality in the series being nil.
  • (13) The opiate receptor antagonist naloxone (1 microM) had no effect on the evoked release of 5-HT from the NIL or NL.
  • (14) The distribution of the gestagen given with EE revealed by the whole body autoradiography in normal mice were essentially consistent with the radiometric results in rats and that in the pregnant mice showed that the gestagen in fetus was virtually nil under the present conditions.
  • (15) 5-HT release evoked by electrical stimulation of the pituitary stalk from the NIL, but not from the isolated neural lobe (NL) was enhanced in the presence of the dopamine receptor antagonist sulpiride (1 microM).
  • (16) Fertility (fertile eggs per 100 set) and hatchability (live chicks per 100 fertile eggs) were both nil in the borate-treated hens, compared with 57 and 95 and 59 and 100 for the control and aluminate-treated hens, respectively.
  • (17) In all three cases, jejunal secretion rate of immunoglobulin A was nil and secretion rates of albumin and immunoglobulin G were increased as compared to controls.
  • (18) Oxytocin levels increased in the paraventricular nucleus and median eminence following NIL-X, whereas vasopressin concentrations were relatively unaffected by NIL-X.
  • (19) Severe undernourishment was not as effective as diabetes to reduce beta-END stores in the hypothalamus and NIL.
  • (20) Measurement of anterior and neurointermediate (NIL) pituitary BE-LI, alpha-MSH and ACTH and plasma corticosterone confirmed earlier results showing NIL depletion of all 3 peptides at 24 h and increased plasma corticosterone concentrations at 72 h in ethanol-exposed mice.

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