What's the difference between bailee and bailie?

Bailee


Definition:

  • (n.) The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust.

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Bailie


Definition:

  • (n.) An officer in Scotland, whose office formerly corresponded to that of sheriff, but now corresponds to that of an English alderman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rigid copper-constantan and flexible Baily thermocouples were used to monitor temperature responses.
  • (2) What you will notice is the very good coffee (from £1.65, supplied by local roasters, Bailies), the fantastic cakes and scones (around £1.80), and a reasonably priced menu of sandwiches, wraps and daily specials, such as red Thai vegetable curry.
  • (3) In contrast, behavior modifiers and those using physical treatments such as psychosurgery claim rates of improvement and success which sometimes exceed 90 percent (Baily et al., 1973; Hunter-Brown, 1972; Paul, 1965; Rachman, 1971).
  • (4) Baily Logue, Cliven’s 24-year-old daugher, told the Guardian: “Anytime anyone speaks out against the federal government, we are taken down, put into jail and detained … But we’re not backing down, and this is not going to make us any weaker at all.
  • (5) Z. fermentati was found highly resistant to the proteolytic enzymes tested, whereas Z. baili was only trypsin-resistant.
  • (6) A studio spokeswoman said Wednesday that Paramount would fight the proposed follow-up to the 1946 holiday classic starring Jimmy Stewart as George Baily, a desperate family man who imagines what his town would be like if he'd never been born.
  • (7) In this report we demonstrate how the recently developed biotinylated affinity label biotinyl-Phe-Ala-diazomethane (Bio-Phe-Ala-CHN2) [Cullen, McGinty, Walker, Nelson, Halliday, Bailie & Kay (1990) Biochem.
  • (8) Those relatively few judgments that the IPT does publish will in future be available on the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (Baili) website.

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