What's the difference between ailing and ailment?

Ailing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ail

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.

Ailment


Definition:

  • (n.) Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Herbalists in Baja California Norte, Mexico, were interviewed to determine the ailments and diseases most frequently treated with 22 commonly used medicinal plants.
  • (2) Le Dantec Hospital from January 1978 to June 1986 - shows the progression of this ailment, which remains rare (0.85% of admissions - 5 cases per year).
  • (3) However, after her diagnosis, it became my occupation to know everything about her ailment because I was her caregiver during her excruciating decline.
  • (4) Based on a quantitative analysis of sputum cultures, pathogenic bacteria in respiratory ailments isolated in our laboratory during 1984 to 1986 were classified and analyzed.
  • (5) The overriding common features of these ailments are the gender of their sufferers and the behavioral symptoms they exhibit.
  • (6) Muchhal, a professional singer who has worked on major Bollywood hits, has raised more than 37m rupees (£400,000) to save the lives of more than 550 children with heart ailments.
  • (7) Consistent with these measures, derived from self-reported data, physician-diagnosed measures also indicate a greater vulnerability of unemployed individuals to serious physical ailments such as heart trouble, pain in heart and chest, high blood pressure, spells of faint-dizziness, bone-joint problems and hypertension.
  • (8) The hypothesis tested was that cognitive factors in the generation of stress, namely perceived coping incapacity (PCI), relate to the extent of psychosomatic ailments.
  • (9) The observed group consisted of 20 women of age between 18 and 35 years treated because of acute hepatitis without coexisting diseases including gynecological ailments.
  • (10) When several diagnostic procedures are performed on a patient, the probability of his having or not having a specific ailment will change as the result of each procedure is known.
  • (11) Congestive cardiomyopathy accounted for 16 cases (24.3%) and diabetes mellitus unassociated with other ailments for another 6 cases (9.1%).
  • (12) Cerebral ailments characterized by attacks usually manifest themselves within one year after the accident.
  • (13) Furthermore, Miller had different ailments during the regular season and the Seahawks passing offense was inclined towards their receivers rather than the tight end position.
  • (14) But while Britain has left intensive care, we still need to secure the recovery – and make sure we continue to treat the ailments that brought us low in the first place."
  • (15) Swimmers experienced respiratory ailments most frequently, followed by gastrointestinal, eye, ear, skin, and allergenic symptoms, respectively.
  • (16) Finally, the case history of a patient with this ailment, treated by Mollin's light arches technique, is displayed.
  • (17) Accordingly, although the techniques of molecular biology are invaluable in generating new understanding of the mechanisms underlying drug specificity, they may prove disappointing as applied to actually tailoring specific drugs for the treatment of such major human ailments as hypertension or schizophrenia.
  • (18) Language ailment is then rarely isolated but it belongs to a global disorganizing of cerebral functions.
  • (19) Sometimes having a diagnosis for an ailment makes the symptoms much more palatable.
  • (20) In 17 towns in 11 countries across Europe, 10 questions on health were asked as part of a general standardized interview regarding self-perceived global and relative health, quality of life, chronic diseases, use of medicine and specific ailments.