What's the difference between ail and oil?

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.

Oil


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances, not miscible with water; as, olive oil, whale oil, rock oil, etc. They are of animal, vegetable, or mineral origin and of varied composition, and they are variously used for food, for solvents, for anointing, lubrication, illumination, etc. By extension, any substance of an oily consistency; as, oil of vitriol.
  • (v. t.) To smear or rub over with oil; to lubricate with oil; to anoint with oil.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
  • (2) But earlier this year the Unesco world heritage committee called for the cancellation of all such Virunga oil permits and appealed to two concession holders, Total and Soco International, not to undertake exploration in world heritage sites.
  • (3) There were few significant differences between high polyunsaturated (safflower oil) and saturated fat (lard) diet groups.
  • (4) In late May, more than 50 residents of Ust-Usa protested the effects of oil drilling and plans for a new oil well near the village.
  • (5) Work conditions and the health status in workers of Bashkirian oil enterprises are characterized.
  • (6) Group-2 mares (n = 32) were given a single dose of progesterone (625 mg, IM) in sesame oil.
  • (7) However, this inhibition was not found in rats treated with castor oil for 3 d. Moreover, 5-HT concentration in the midbrain significantly decreased in rats that acquired the adaptability for the occurrence of diarrhea.
  • (8) They were like some great show, the gas squeezing up from the depths of the oil well to be consumed in flame against the intense black horizon, like some great dragon.
  • (9) Using an oil painting by G.F. Watts displayed in the National Portrait Gallery of London, we made an attempt to diagnose the dermatological alterations recognizable.
  • (10) Officers arrested her last month during the protest against oil drilling by the energy firm Cuadrilla at Balcombe in West Sussex – a demonstration Lucas has attended several times.
  • (11) Both fatty acid composition and the degree of lipid peroxidation were measured in this study in 23 OTC fish oil preparations.
  • (12) The effects of flaxseed oil on tissue amounts of individual saturated fatty acids were minimal, but amounts of monounsaturated fatty acids, especially C18:1, were depressed.
  • (13) Despite 50 years of criminalisation, illicit drugs are now the third most valuable industry in the world, after food and oil.
  • (14) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
  • (15) If battery and EV prices fall more rapidly over the period, and the price of oil increases more rapidly, replacing the fleet with EVs could be cost-neutral.
  • (16) Put in a large bowl, add the parsley, oil and lemon juice, and gently toss.
  • (17) Interest in the antithrombotic potential of diets enriched with fish oil-derived polyunsaturated fatty acids (omega-3 PUFAs) prompted us to examine how these fatty acids, when taken preoperatively, affect hemostasis, plasma lipid levels, and production of prostacyclin (PGI2) by vascular tissues in atherosclerotic patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
  • (18) A few blocks away there are streets full of empty buildings, signs that the oil boom of the past decade is long past.
  • (19) The latter oil mixture resulted in a predictable reduction in kidney PGE2 and 6-keto PGF1 alpha (hydrolysis product of PGI2), aortic 6-keto PGF1 alpha and serum TXB2.
  • (20) The medium-chain triglyceride oil supplementation did not influence the growth of these infants.

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