What's the difference between ail and vail?

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.

Vail


Definition:

  • (n. & v. t.) Same as Veil.
  • (n.) Avails; profit; return; proceeds.
  • (n.) An unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or benefit; a windfall.
  • (n.) Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; -- usually in the plural.
  • (v. t.) To let fail; to allow or cause to sink.
  • (v. t.) To lower, or take off, in token of inferiority, reverence, submission, or the like.
  • (v. i.) To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding, uncovering, or the like.
  • (n.) Submission; decline; descent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recently, La Vail (1976) demonstrated that the shedding of disks from the tips of rod outer segments followed a circadian rhythm in rats.
  • (2) With the telephone it was Theodore Vail of AT&T, offering a unified nationwide network and a guarantee that when you picked up the phone you always got a dial tone.
  • (3) In a previous study (M. S. Lantz, R. D. Allen, T. A. Vail, L. M. Switalski, and M. Hook, J. Bacteriol.
  • (4) The vice-chair of the Australian Privacy Foundation, David Vaile, has called into question the effectiveness of these safeguards because the authorisations are issued by the defence minister and not a judge.
  • (5) A week’s ski pass in the Rocky Mountains resort of Vail now costs British visitors £609, with ski hire another £200.
  • (6) Pollen patterns were compared between Vail, CO (8,200 feet elevation), Aspen, CO (7,900 feet) and Denver, CO (5,280 feet) from 1984 through 1988.
  • (7) These observations allow the following conclusions: (1) All genetic mutants which cause a reduction in ocular melanin, regardless of the molecular or cell-biological mechanism underlying the pigment reduction, result in decreased uncrossed projections; this confirms previous reports (La Vail et al., 1978, Sanderson et al., 1974).
  • (8) Perched on a hillside six miles west of Vail Pass, at 3,500m, the 16-person cabin is available on a per-person basis with shared accommodation, or as a full booking.
  • (9) Calcitonin, another potentially phosphaturic hormone, also vailed to increase phosphate excretion but markedly elevated urinary excretion of cyclic AMP.
  • (10) "With the vast amount of information that's exposed online there is a greater need for more protection," Vaile says.
  • (11) This study examined the preferences of Division 12 members (N=442) for doctoral training models (Boulder,Vail, equally Boulder and Vail) as a function of the respondent's own training program and current professional activities.
  • (12) However, as expected, preferences varied reliably according to one's doctoral training: Only 7% of the psychologists trained in a strong Boulder tradition preferred the Vail model, while only 10% of those trained in a strong Vail tradition favored the Boulder model.
  • (13) Aspen and Denver were compared in 1984, and Vail and Denver from 1985 through 1988.
  • (14) Between 1975 and 1982 a total of 47 cases of high-altitude pulmonary edema occurred in Vail, Colorado, elevation 2,500 m (8,200 ft).
  • (15) In albinos, the retinofugal projections to the ipsilateral side of the brain are reduced (e.g., see Guillery, 1969; La Vail et al., 1978; Lund, 1965).
  • (16) Tang, Chan and the former deputy prime minister and Nationals MP Mark Vaile are the three directors of 123 AustChina Education Consultancy, which according to its website is operating and setting up childcare centres across China.
  • (17) Ski towns in the area, including world famous resorts like Vail and Aspen, have tried to minimise marijuana suppliers to control any influx of stoned tourists.
  • (18) The concept of a ministerial warrant poses a number of problems because it does not provide any form of judicial oversight,” Vaile said.
  • (19) Ragweed was essentially absent from Aspen and Vail, and chenopod-amaranth counts were very low.
  • (20) +41 81 911 5848, startgels.ch , open when the Weisse Arena ski lifts and cable cars are in operation harryandsally US Game Creek restaurant, Vail, Colorado It's not cheap but then Vail isn't, really, and we had saved for 18 months so decided to just enjoy ourselves.

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