What's the difference between avel and javel?

Avel


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pull away.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I felt the key was to use stretched vowels and to find an equivalent echo between "tout" and "tournaient": "They were reeling round: all reeled round and about them …" Historical details took hours of research: for a debauched night, Emma sports a "lampion" on one ear: not the unlikely "paper lantern" (Wall), nor a "cocked hat" ( Eleanor Marx Aveling , Russell and Davis), but a suitably Gypsy-like "lantern earring" – fashionable at the time.

Javel


Definition:

  • (n.) A vagabond.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) L'eau de Javel (bleaching agent with sodium hypochloride) was the most frequently encountered caustic substance (89%).
  • (2) The work of Johannes Müller and Emil Javel is especially emphasized with regard to advances in the teaching of squint and its treatment.
  • (3) The authors emphasize the frequency and the severity of lesions caused by chloride bleach (eau de Javel) and recommend that fibroscopy be carried out in all children following ingestion of any caustic substance, even in the absence of oropharyngeal burns.
  • (4) Sodium hypochlorite was used to suppress diacetoxyscirpenol cutaneous toxicity; mice skin can be decontaminated with "Eau de Javel" (1 p. 100 free chlorine) if application is performed less than 15 min.
  • (5) On follow-up, six patients developed esophageal stricture, three of them after concentrated, eau de Javel ingestion.
  • (6) Other nonlinear responses to multitonal stimuli can also be reproduced, such as "spectral edge enhancement" [Horst et al., Peripheral Auditory Mechanisms (Springer, Berlin, 1985)] and some aspects of three-tone suppression [Javel et al., Mechanisms of Hearing (Monash U.P., Australia, 1983)].

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