What's the difference between bedel and betel?

Bedel


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Bedell

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The series has been commissioned by Elaine Bedell, director of entertainment and comedy at ITV.
  • (2) The ITV director of entertainment and comedy, Elaine Bedell, said it would be "one of the biggest TV events on ITV this year".
  • (3) The MGEITF executive chair, Elaine Bedell, added: "I'm very pleased George has accepted the role ...
  • (4) Geraldine Bedell, editor of Gransnet, and Ed Howker, co-author of Jilted Generation: How Britain has Bankrupted its Youth, discuss whether a generational war really has broken out.
  • (5) Stephens explores findings by Bedell and Delbanco that only 19% of patients undergoing resuscitation had previously discussed this issue with their physicians.
  • (6) Geraldine Bedell, who chaired the judges, said the list lacked ethnic diversity but she hoped that this would change in the future.
  • (7) The underdog candidate, who has never gone above single digits in any poll, started his speech by announcing the endorsement of former Iowa politician Berkley Bedell, before outlining his various liberal policy goals and tried to contrast his executive experience to that of Sanders and Clinton by stating he was about “actions, not words.” Former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee also spoke and seemed to spend much of his speech trolling Clinton.
  • (8) ITV’s director of entertainment and comedy Elaine Bedell said: “It has been a wonderfully entertaining series from beginning to end.
  • (9) ITV's director of entertainment and comedy Elaine Bedell said: "I joked when Splash went out that we would get celebrity rowing and celebrity roller skating.
  • (10) Geraldine Bedell: What worries me is the language that is often used, like "burden", "selfish", "greedy".
  • (11) Elaine Bedell, ITV's director of entertainment and comedy, said: "Britain's amateur talent has come out in force this year.
  • (12) Schuster, who will report to Elaine Bedell , ITV's director of comedy and entertainment, replaces Myfanwy Moore who moved to the BBC as controller of comedy earlier this year.
  • (13) Bedell said: "Scripted comedy will have an increasing and important role to play in the peak-time schedules of ITV2 as well as on the main channel, and I have no doubt that Saskia is the right person to be steering the genre for ITV.
  • (14) Spatial uncertainty was examined according to a procedure suggested by Bedell and Flom (1981) ("triangle procedure") and additionally with a line-division test designed by Kundt.
  • (15) Vicious has been commissioned by Moore and Elaine Bedell, ITV director of comedy and entertainment.
  • (16) In entertainment – which is headed by Elaine Bedell, the former BBC executive who is currently on gardening leave before joining ITV at the end of this week – the cuts are expected to mean the loss of two commissioners and one PA. Sources said the department's controller of alternative programming, Layla Smith, has held a discussion with independent production company Diverse about potentially replacing its outgoing creative director, Roy Ackerman.
  • (17) For each of those categories the judging panel – which included Gransnet editor Geraldine Bedell, standup comedian Jenny Eclair and the editor of Good Housekeeping, Lindsay Nicholson – chose their favourites.

Betel


Definition:

  • (n.) A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. It is a woody climber with ovate many-nerved leaves.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Epidemiologists need to conduct studies to determine if there is an increased likelihood of developing cancer in betel chewing pregnant women and OC users due to increased sensitivity of their lymphocytes to genetic damage compared with nonchewing pregnant women and OC users.
  • (2) Boric acid, propionic acid and potassium metabisulphite were used for the control of aflatoxin B1 on betel nuts.
  • (3) The results suggest that formation of reactive oxygen species in the presence of NNN may be a key factor in the initiation of oral tumours in tobacco and betel-quid chewers.
  • (4) Betel leaf extract at the dose levels used in the present study did not affect the body weight gain among rats.
  • (5) It was found that among the betel chewers as well as the non betels chewers., the highest caries susceptibility was in the age group of 20-34 years.
  • (6) Powdered slaked lime applied to the chewed Areca nut with Piper betle inflorescence at the corner of the mouth causes the mean pH to rise to 10, at which reactive oxygen species are generated from betel quid ingredients in vitro.
  • (7) Moreover both the extracts of betel leaf reduce the mutagenicity of benzo(a)pyrene and dimethylbenzanthracene.
  • (8) Areca cattechu Linn is commonly known as areca nut or betel nut.
  • (9) The effect of betel leaf extract and some of its constituents, eugenol, hydroxychavicol, beta-carotene and alpha-tocopherol, on benzo[a]pyrene-induced forestomach neoplasia in male Swiss mice was examined.
  • (10) The frequency of micronucleated cells (MNC) derived from exfoliated human oral mucosal cells has been measured to assess genotoxic damage in chewers of betel quid with tobacco (BQT) and tobacco with lime (T).
  • (11) Of seven sources, Banarasi betel leaves showed the maximum amounts of beta-carotene and alpha-tocopherol.
  • (12) Taken together, the observed pathobiological effects of areca-nut extract and certain related compounds in cultured human buccal epithelial cells indicate that these agents may contribute to the oral carcinogenicity associated with chewing betel quid.
  • (13) The elevation of MEC in Taiwanese, who are at low risk for oral cancer, is relatively small as compared to that found in chewers of Indian betel quids (pan), who show a highly elevated oral cancer risk.
  • (14) There is a need for more active and culturally appropriate health education programs to help prevent the negative effects of betel-nut chewing.
  • (15) DMSO extract of a mixture of tobacco and betel nut positively increased the incidence of early malignant changes in the hamster cheek pouch, indicating the enhancing effect of betel nut in carcinogenesis.
  • (16) A link between the generation of areca nut-related N-nitrosamines in the saliva, the induction of genotoxic damage in the oral mucosa, as judged by an increase in micronucleated exfoliated cells (MEC), and a low incidence of oral cancer was studied in 2 population groups characterized by their habit of chewing quids without tobacco: Guamanians, who chew areca nuts (Areca catechu) with or without the addition of betel leaf (Piper betle); Taiwanese, who use areca nut, betel leaf or inference and slaked lime.
  • (17) In addition, she had discontinued chewing betel nut that was used daily by virtually all of her fellow islanders on Yap.
  • (18) Arecoline, a major betel nut alkaloid, was tested for its effectiveness in inducing micronuclei in fetal mouse blood after transplacental exposure late in the gestation period.
  • (19) "Municipal officers used to come and demand bribes every month from all the street shops and vendors; I would curse them under my breath but used to pay," said Tara Kant Jha, 46, a street vendor who sells cigarettes and betel leaves – used like chewing tobacco.
  • (20) (3) Formation of endogenous NOC was assessed by the NPRO test in: (i) subjects living in high- and low-incidence areas for stomach cancer in northern Japan, Costa Rica and Poland; (ii) subjects with different habits of betel-quid chewing and tobacco use; (iii) patients with urinary bladder infections; and (iv) subjects infested with liver fluke in Thailand.