What's the difference between bill and nill?

Bill


Definition:

  • (n.) A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.
  • (v. i.) To strike; to peck.
  • (v. i.) To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.
  • (n.) The bell, or boom, of the bittern
  • (n.) A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill.
  • (n.) A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff.
  • (n.) One who wields a bill; a billman.
  • (n.) A pickax, or mattock.
  • (n.) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.
  • (v. t.) To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack, or chop anything) with a bill.
  • (n.) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.
  • (n.) A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document.
  • (n.) A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
  • (n.) A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill.
  • (n.) An account of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill.
  • (n.) Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc.
  • (v. t.) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
  • (v. t.) To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
  • (2) Of the five committees asked to develop bills, four have completed their work, and the Senate Finance Committee announced today that it will move forward next week.
  • (3) It helped pay the bills and caused me to ponder on the disconnection between theory and reality.
  • (4) Now, as the Senate takes up a weakened House bill along with the House's strengthened backdoor-proof amendment, it's time to put focus back on sweeping reform.
  • (5) Polls indicated that anger over the government shutdown, which was sharply felt in parts of northern Virginia, as well as discomfort with Cuccinelli's deeply conservative views, handed the race to McAuliffe, a controversial Democratic fundraiser and close ally of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
  • (6) If we’re waiting around for the Democratic version to sail through here, or the Republican version to sail through here, all those victims who are waiting for us to do something will wait for days, months, years, forever and we won’t get anything done.” Senator Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida is still reeling from the Orlando shooting, said he felt morally obligated to return to his constituents with results.
  • (7) In 1986, Bill Heine erected a 25ft sculpture of a shark falling through the roof of his terraced house in Oxford .
  • (8) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
  • (9) A new bill, to be published this week with the aim of turning it into law by next month, will allow the government to use Britain's low borrowing rates to guarantee the £40bn in infrastructure projects and £10bn for underwriting housing projects.
  • (10) The committee is chaired by John Thompson, the board's lead independent director, and includes Microsoft founder and chairman, Bill Gates, as well as other board members Chuck Noski and Steve Luczo.
  • (11) October 27, 2013 7.27pm GMT Around the league And here’s how things look elsewhere, as we head into the fourth quarter: Cowboys 13-7 Lions Browns 17-20 Chiefs Dolphins 17-20 Patriots Bills 10-28 Saints Giants 15-0 Eagles 49ers 35-10 Jaguars 7.25pm GMT End of 3rd quarter: 49ers 35-10 Jaguars The quarter ends with the Jaguars facing a third-and-one at their own 32.
  • (12) Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.
  • (13) Private landowners are able to use property guardians to minimise their tax bills and, although it is hard to estimate, the potential financial loss to councils is substantial.
  • (14) "We must be clear that there can be no letup in our efforts to seek ways to remove Bill Walker from parliament," Rennie said.
  • (15) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
  • (16) He has also been a vocal opponent of gay marriage, appearing on the Today programme in the run-up to the same-sex marriage bill to warn that it would "cause confusion" – and asking in a Spectator column, after it was passed, "if the law will eventually be changed to allow one to marry one's dog".
  • (17) It is understood that Labor, the Greens and the crossbench will seek to remove many of these additional measures, leaving the bill focused on the visa issue.
  • (18) As a member of the state Assembly, Walker voted for a bill known as the Woman’s Right to Know Act, which required physicians to provide women with full information prior to an abortion and established a 24-hour waiting period in the hope that some women might change their mind about undergoing the procedure.
  • (19) The court hearing – in a case of the kind likely to be heard in secret if the government's justice and security bill is passed – was requested by the law firm Leigh Day and the legal charity Reprieve, acting for Serdar Mohammed, tortured by the Afghan security services after being transferred to their custody by UK forces.
  • (20) Earlier this week the Obama administration said it would veto the bill unless major amendments were made.

Nill


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Not to will; to refuse; to reject.
  • (v. i.) To be unwilling; to refuse to act.
  • (n.) Shining sparks thrown off from melted brass.
  • (n.) Scales of hot iron from the forge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His father Giorgios hails from Greece and Nill Kyrgios was born in Malaysia.
  • (2) Osteoid formation in the osteotomy region was almost nill in all cases.
  • (3) The relation was positive in schizophrenia and mania, was nill in melancholia, and probably reversed U relation in other psychotics and neurotics.
  • (4) His mother, Nill Kyrgios, said on Twitter that Fraser’s attack was “out of line”.
  • (5) The first final I played in I got injured, and having been nilled in 2013 whilst at Hull FC I know how it feels to lose here.
  • (6) The responsiveness of these THC, PBMNC, NK, NULL, and NILL cells in vitro to graded levels of phytohemagglutinin (PHA), Concanavalin A (Con A), and recombinant interleukin-2 (rIL-2) was examined.
  • (7) NULL cells from healthy adults responding to interleukin-2 (IL-2) and NILL cells from patients with metastatic breast carcinoma nonresponsive to IL-2 were also isolated by the standard antibodies-pinning technique.
  • (8) It is suggested that lymphocyte maturation involves alloantigenic changes in a circulating stem cell-drived nill cell, leading to a cell bearing markers for both T- and B-cells.
  • (9) The mortality is nill for this technique, which is simple and which, for a low morbidity, provides good functional and esthetic results in 87% of cases.
  • (10) (Green, K. J., Parry, D. A. D., Steinert, P. S., Virata, L. A., Wagner, R. M., Angst, B. D., and Nilles, L. A.
  • (11) He’s still playing tennis.” Nill and Christos will watch Kyrgios play overnight on Wednesday, Australian time, and if his success continues the pair will likely be getting on a plane to England to potentially watch him play in the final.
  • (12) The experiments described in this study examined responsiveness of peripheral blood lymphocyte mononuclear (MNC) cells, natural killer (NK) cells, T-helper (THC) cells, and NILL (cells obtained from patients with advanced breast cancer) cells from 10 of each age-matched subjects from 10 healthy adults and patients, 10 with benign breast diseases (BBD), and 10 from patients from each of the breast carcinoma pathological stage BCa PS I, BCa PS II, BCa PS III, and BCa PS IV.
  • (13) In cases with a preoperative visual acuity of 0.01 or more, significant improvement was obtained in 80% of the patients, and when the preoperative visual acuity was not nill but less than 0.01, 38% of patients showed significant improvement.
  • (14) Kyrgios is already a star in his hometown which is why his mother, Nill, was only too willing to throw open the doors of her home to the media as her son took on Nadal.
  • (15) When only clearly defined cases were considered, the mortality was nill in early invasion and merely 1.2% in microcarcinomas with a fictitious volume of up to 500 cmm.
  • (16) Nill said her son excelled in tennis and basketball as a child before it was time to pick which sport he was going to focus on.
  • (17) nill kyrgios (@nillkyrgios) I have no comments on Dawn Frasers nasty racist attack...but she is out of line.
  • (18) The plectin sequence has several marked similarities to that of desmoplakin (Green, K. J., D. A. D. Parry, P. M. Steinert, M. L. A. Virata, R. M. Wagner, B. D. Angst, and L.A. Nilles.

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