What's the difference between coffin and pall?

Coffin


Definition:

  • (n.) The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.
  • (n.) A basket.
  • (n.) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
  • (n.) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
  • (n.) The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
  • (v. t.) To inclose in, or as in, a coffin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Those around him assumed he was dead and he was put in a coffin, only to regain consciousness at the last moment.
  • (2) His website sells direct to the public, with prices starting from £245 for a plain cardboard coffin, as well as offering a comparison service.
  • (3) Harry also spoke about walking behind his mother’s coffin as a 12-year-old and said no child “should be asked to do that under any circumstances”.
  • (4) At recent climate change conferences, a coffin has been paraded through the halls of delegates covered in a shroud and attended by mourners.
  • (5) Many families choose to decorate the coffin, either in the days leading up to the funeral or as part of the ceremony.
  • (6) At the end of the ceremony, Havel's coffin was to be carried through the cathedral's Golden Gate to Strasnice crematorium for a private family funeral.
  • (7) About 60 coffins were expected, although the number was not immediately confirmed.
  • (8) The attack in Peshawar is yet another nail in Pakistan’s coffin, cynical residents and pundits alike will tell you today.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest People carry the coffin of Giulio Regeni during his funeral in Fiumicello, northern Italy, on 12 February.
  • (10) Another man, placed in what he called "the electric coffin" – in which a detainee is forced to lie inside a wooden box, across two metal plates through which they pass a current.
  • (11) "Each decade," he continued, "we shiftily declare we have buried class; each decade the coffin stays empty."
  • (12) The board’s chief executive, Peter Deague, told Guardian Australia that meant they could cater to anyone who weighed up to 250kg, as a coffin for a person of that size usually weighed about 100kg.
  • (13) The political battle over memorials follows a separate row over "phony" arrival ceremonies, in which flag-draped coffins of dead military personnel were carried from planes and presented to relatives.
  • (14) He was still able to have a good conversation with me.” The PSNI is also investigating the firing of shots by the New IRA over the coffin of a veteran west Belfast republican on Sunday night.
  • (15) But it's the images of women and their children marching through the night that stick most in the mind: infants toting cardboard coffins, mothers chanting hate.
  • (16) The final nail in social security's coffin came with the demise of the Department of Social Security in 2001 and its replacement by the Department for Work and Pensions.
  • (17) In some establishments, mournful dirges played while coffins were carried through the crowds of drinkers; in others, the walls were hung with black crepe.
  • (18) If you want a coffin, alternatives to the regular chipboard, veneered box are now mainstream and in all good undertakers’ catalogues.
  • (19) This study ought to be the final nail in the coffin of techno-libertarianism.
  • (20) There is no formation of callus at the site of the fracture, but only a firm formation of fibrous tissue which does not bother the horse unless the fragments are too much dislocated giving rise to a greater destruction of the coffin joint.

Pall


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Pawl.
  • (n.) An outer garment; a cloak mantle.
  • (n.) A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages.
  • (n.) Same as Pallium.
  • (n.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
  • (n.) A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb.
  • (n.) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.
  • (v. t.) To cloak.
  • (a.) To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls.
  • (v. t.) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
  • (v. t.) To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.
  • (n.) Nausea.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Working in tandem with Westminster city council, Transport for London and the Greater London Authority, the crown estate has pedestrianised several side streets, widened pavements, and introduced a diagonal crossing at Oxford Circus and new traffic islands at Piccadilly Circus, along with two-way traffic on Piccadilly, Pall Mall and St James's Street.
  • (2) Palin has palled on the American public The Republican party's troubles over the past seven years have mostly been because of George W Bush.
  • (3) The staggering figure – one of the worst bombings in 13 years of war in Iraq – has cast a pall on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan and which begins on Wednesday in Iraq .
  • (4) But after 14 hours Danilkin's numbing monologue – almost a carbon copy of the prosecutors's case – is beginning to pall.
  • (5) The purpose of the study was to prove the efficacy of bacterial filters (Ultipor BB 50, Pall Ltd., Dreieich) in preventing microbial contamination of respirators during long-term ventilation.
  • (6) The Pall filter maintained high flow rates but did not remove debris as effectively, particularly with pressure infusion.
  • (7) Molecular genetic analysis of PALL-I cells revealed neither bcr rearrangement nor 8.5-kb abI-related mRNA that is characteristically seen in Ph1-positive chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML).
  • (8) Drainage melioration in the Polesye resulted in a sharp increase in the number of tundra vole (Microtus oeconomus Pall.)
  • (9) Steel industry sources pay tribute to the support that successive governments have given in general terms to the industry through apprenticeships, innovation and science, but there is a lingering sense that steel is a sunset industry; like the smog above the plant, a pall of inevitable doom hangs over its future.
  • (10) News of the killing cast a pall of fear and anger over Pakistan's media.
  • (11) The effects of nifedipine, diltiazem, and Paeonia lactiflora Pall (PLP) on serum lipids.
  • (12) A prospective, randomized, controlled study was undertaken to compare the Pall Ultipor breathing circuit filter (PUBCF), a heat-and-moisture exchanger, and heated hot water systems (HHWSs) in ICU patients submitted to controlled mechanical ventilation.
  • (13) As a candidate he was accused of palling around with terrorists, cutting a sweetheart deal for his home, and following the lead of an anti-American preacher.
  • (14) Comparison of the Bentley PFS-127, Fenwal 4C2417, Johnson & Johnson Intersept, Pall Ultipore, and Swank IL200 filters led to the conclusion that the Fenwal 4C2423 was both a significant improvement over the previous Fenwal design and comparable to the most efficient of these filters for both the removal of microaggregates during massive blood transfusion and for the blood flow rates obtained.
  • (15) The Humid-Vent Filter and Siemens 150 filters were most efficient, the Pall Conserve and ThermoVent 600 less efficient.
  • (16) The filtration was shortest with the Pall RC 50 (p less than 0.001 compared to the other 4 filters).
  • (17) One hundred and forty-four fungal isolates were obtained from diseased Paeonia albiflora Pall.
  • (18) Pall Filter (PF), a hydrophobic filter, humidifies the dry gases from the condensed water which is put down on the HME surfaces during cooling of saturated expired gases.
  • (19) The development of the infection process during cutaneous leishmaniosis was traced in one midday gerbil (Meriones meridianus Pall).
  • (20) The Tories will hope that the glamour images of visiting world leaders - and especially of Barack Obama palling around with, and lavishing warm compliments on, his "friend" the British prime minister - will soon fade.