What's the difference between anile and feeble?

Anile


Definition:

  • (a.) Old-womanish; imbecile.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anil Bairwal, one of the authors of the thinktank report, said the true number of state and national parliamentarians and candidates facing charges of sexual violence could be far higher, as most attacks were registered without reference to gender.
  • (2) Anil Cherukupalli is the media and communications manager of WaterAid India.
  • (3) As a result of condensation of methyl ester I with various aromatic aldehydes in boiling benzene solution, the Schiff-bases (anils) II--VIII were obtained.
  • (4) No anil was formed if p-hydroxybenzoate was the growth substrate.
  • (5) "But of all the children Anil was the one you would worry about, where he was going in life, that sort of thing.
  • (6) "My team's Argentina," said Delhi gym trainer Anil Chikara.
  • (7) Photos will allow users to index and find images of “people, places and things that matter the most in my life”, as the company’s Anil Sabharwal put it.
  • (8) Others charged were Anil Kumar, 51, a director of the management consultancy firm McKinsey, and two executives from a fund management firm, New Castle Funds, named as Danielle Chiesi, 43, and Mark Kurland, 60.
  • (9) It has the support of a wide swath individuals such as internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee, Daniel Ellsberg, Gabriella Coleman, Xeni Jardin, the actor Wil Wheaton, Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian, and Anil Dash.
  • (10) One woman, who asked not to be named, said Anil had often played in the street with other children when he was younger.
  • (11) Anil Dash (@anildash) I used to take circuit boards & electronics to school, even as the only brown kid.
  • (12) Last month, Vedanta's chairman, Anil Agarwal, had told a shareholder meeting in London that the episode at Korba was an "unfortunate accident".
  • (13) "The lineup will be the same next year and it's a meltdown for Congress," Anil Padmanabhan, an analyst who writes for local newspaper Mint .
  • (14) Hard Brexit will cost Treasury up to £66bn a year, ministers are told Read more Anil Kashyap, a newly appointed figure at the Bank, said the UK would lose out from taxes paid by City workers if jobs moved out of the capital as a result of a hard Brexit.
  • (15) Anil Dash, a prolific blogger and founder of Think-up , quoted Barack Obama saying “Together, let us unleash the imagination of our people, affirm that we are a Nation of makers, and ensure that the next great technological revolution happens right here in America.” Dash added that “many of us have been moved to offer support to Ahmed and his creativity,” and has started to crowdsource a list of ideas “that can help change the culture of Irving to be more welcoming to innovators of all kinds”.
  • (16) Locals said they thought Anil was studying mechanical engineering at a north-western university.
  • (17) The London-listed but India-focused miner, controlled by billionaire Anil Agarwal, had so far concentrated on metals such as zinc, copper, aluminium and iron ore.
  • (18) The shock has been tremendous and widely spread,” says Anil Bhardwaj, the secretary general of the Federation of Indian Micro and Small & Medium Enterprises.
  • (19) Sixteen N-piperidino-(morpholino)-methylisatin-3-anils have been synthesised and evaluated for their antimicrobial activity.
  • (20) Another senior Bank of England figure, Anil Kashyap, a newly appointed independent policymaker, said this week that the UK would lose out from taxes paid by City workers if jobs moved out of London as a result of a hard Brexit.

Feeble


Definition:

  • (superl.) Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.
  • (superl.) Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.; faint; as, a feeble color; feeble motion.
  • (v. t.) To make feble; to enfeeble.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Arsenal’s 10 men fall at the first hurdle against Dinamo Zagreb Read more This win, even against such feeble opponents, was celebrated, with the locals chorusing their manager’s name amid a wave of relief given so much of the team’s domestic campaign to date has been dismal.
  • (2) A Tory spokesman said: “This is feeble stuff from a party with no economic plan and a leader who just isn’t up it.
  • (3) The most important manometric abnormality was the feeble contractions of the pharyngeal musculature, more pronounced in patients with severe dysphagia (grade II).
  • (4) After Cameron wasted an overlap opportunity with a feeble cross into Elliot’s arms, Mark Hughes made an overdue substitution and sent on Peter Crouch.
  • (5) In Catalonia the outspoken local politician is derided as a feeble sellout for opposing total independence; in the rest of Spain he is damned as a rabid separatist for wanting a bit more self-governance.
  • (6) These data indicate that Veillonella and Neisseria species possess a feeble ability to attach to cleaned teeth.
  • (7) If you want to compare effective regulation with weak regulation, compare the utterly feeble 2009 PCC report into phone hacking with the way the former independent television regulator, the ITC, reacted when, back in 1998, the Guardian published allegations about a programme on drug-running made by Carlton TV.
  • (8) As good a way as any would have been to have followed the Twitter feed of one of his backbench MPs, Gloria De Piero, who was tweeting: “The government has a mandate to open Brexit negotiations but not a blank cheque that puts jobs, workers’ rights and our economy at risk.” Instead, he chose to go for a feeble joke.
  • (9) In treating vertebragenic headache, the segmental movement, the shortened postural muscles, the feeble phasic muscles and the wrong patterns of movement can be influenced by exercises.
  • (10) No proliferative activity is seen in the giant cells and these cells show only feeble phagocytic activity, tested by their ability to take up carbon particles.
  • (11) A muscle that has feeble tendon jerks may show a late component in the response to a tendon tap, with a latency similar to that of the long-latency stretch reflex.
  • (12) The administration of a convulsant dose of penicillin enhanced the transmission of monosynaptic reflexes in spinal cords in which reflex transmission was feeble before the drug treatment, but it had little effect in cords where monosynaptic reflexes were powerful to begin with.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Boris Johnson: ‘Saudi Arabia and Iran puppeteering in Middle East’ – video It’s true, the Saudis are propping up Yemen’s feeble half-government against a rebellion by Iranian-backed tribal militias.
  • (14) At the other extreme with an average allograft survival time of 91 days, C3H(H-1(a)) --> C3H.K(H-1(b)) showed a feeble production of plaque-forming cells with a peak response of 3.7 per 10 x 10(6) viable spleen cells at 9 days.
  • (15) But this much is clear: the old system of regulation was feeble.
  • (16) We have espoused unpopular causes, stood up for those too feeble to stand up for themselves, locked horns with the high and mighty so swollen with power that they have forgotten their roots, exposed corruption and the waste of your hard-earned tax rupees, and made sure that whatever the propaganda of the day, you were allowed to hear a contrary view.
  • (17) Of the several esophageal body motor abnormalities considered, only feeble peristalsis had significantly more positive Bernstein tests than did normal esophageal body motor functioning.
  • (18) Failures picked over include parliament's dithering over election laws that could result in the country going into a crucial presidential poll next year with no legal framework, the feeble sentences handed to the masterminds of the $900m Kabul Bank scandal and slow progress on asset recovery.
  • (19) For mild cooling (32 degrees C), the Q10 in 18-day-old embryos was about 1.5, while 12- and 16-day-old embryos had a Q10 value of about 2, indicating that a feeble homeothermic metabolic response to cooling appears in late prenatal embryos.
  • (20) "The justifications presented [for] the reduction are, to say the least, feeble.