What's the difference between del and duel?

Del


Definition:

  • (n.) Share; portion; part.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If Del Bosque really want to win this World Cup thingymebob, then he has got to tell Iker Casillas that the jig is up, correct?
  • (2) His next C4 show, Gordon’s Costa Del Nightmares – a “rebooted Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares” – will be his last for now.
  • (3) Already this season they have won three trophies and could yet make it five out of six if they win the Champions League and Copa del Rey.
  • (4) También puedes usar la aplicación para smartphones GuardianWitness o entrar en la nueva app del Guardian y buscar “GuardianWitness assignments”.
  • (5) Antonio Conte Vicente del Bosque Lars Lagerbäck Didier Deschamps Conte's Italy lost to Deschamps's France in the Euro 2000 final.
  • (6) It sells itself to British tourists as a holiday heaven of golden beaches, flamenco dresses and well-stocked sherry bars, but southern Andalucía – home to the Costa del Sol – has now become the focus of worries about the euro.
  • (7) Del Piero, who helped greatly increase the A-League’s profile during his two-year stay, was linked by the media to a managerial role at the club when Frank Farina lost his job in April 2014.
  • (8) Del Bosque had listened to the criticism, all that stuff about it being a negative tactic, and decided not to budge an inch, and who can blame him?
  • (9) The karyotype of the tumor was 46,XX,t(7;13)(q11.1;p13),t(7;17)(p21;q12),del(11)(q13q21).
  • (10) Phenotypic abnormalities associated with del(12p) appear to be mental retardation, microcephaly, and micrognathia.
  • (11) Considerable phenotypic similarities were found in two patients with del(13)(q21.33 q31.3) and one with del(13)(q14.3q22.3).
  • (12) If this coastline ever gets fully developed, I hope it happens in this direction, taking the lead from Punta del Diablo with a gentle development down, rather than large-scale and from Punta del Este upwards.
  • (13) This was not the path we wanted, that’s the truth,” Vicente del Bosque admitted.
  • (14) As his supporters gathered to demonstrate in Puerta del Sol square in central Madrid on Thursday evening, many claimed there was a conspiracy to bring down one of the world's best-known human rights investigators.
  • (15) A Del Mar Avionics Pressurometer III system recorded an average of 121 readings on each subject.
  • (16) In blacks, homozygotes for the ins allele had the least involvement of the thoracic and the abdominal aorta with lesions, homozygotes for the del allele had the greatest involvement, and heterozygotes had intermediate involvement (p = 0.0328 for thoracic aorta, p = 0.0104 for abdominal aorta), but no differences were found in whites.
  • (17) Radial arm maze observations were made on offspring rats during a total of 30 trials, and we made the following findings: 1) The number of trials required for fulfilling learning criterion was significantly large in F-DEL and F-NURS male rats groups relative to the controls; that is, F-DEL and F-NURS were slow in learning.
  • (18) Hugging the other side of the Dora Riparia river in Vanchiglia is Foster + Partners ’ curvaceous new Campus Luigi Einaudi, while to the west in Borgo Dora is performance venue Cortile del Maglio and writing school Scuola Holden .
  • (19) Then again, another referee might also have produced a red card for Choi Jin-cheul’s two-footed challenge on Gianluca Zambrotta , or Kim Tae-young’s elbow on Del Piero.
  • (20) Yes.” A representative for Lana Del Rey has yet to respond.

Duel


Definition:

  • (n.) A combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons, by agreement. It usually arises from an injury done or an affront given by one to the other.
  • (v. i. & t.) To fight in single combat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is an ongoing duel over whether Sky should offer its channels to BT's YouView service, while BT has yet to agree a deal with the cable operator Virgin Media to broadcast its channels.
  • (2) He described his players as “half-hearted,” lacking spikiness in the duels and quality in general.
  • (3) Later that year, speaking at Sinn Féin's annual conference, I used the phrase "the Armalite and the ballot box" to sum up the new duel strategy of engaging in armed struggle and simultaneously contesting elections.
  • (4) Robert Lewandowski wins the aeriel duel but is unable to control his header and sends the ball high and wide.
  • (5) 2.05am BST Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 0, top of the 4th We have a pitcher's duel ladies and gentlemen!
  • (6) Suárez lost that duel with Azpilicueta, Eto'o comes in and it looks like somebody shot him [Suárez] in the back.
  • (7) It was the first time our opponent has been much better than us.” Mané’s duel with Gomes continued into the second half when they collided again while vying for a deflected Targett cross.
  • (8) Why would he open his duel with “Jeet” by trying a pitch he almost never uses?
  • (9) In other words, the noise surrounding this debate, not to mention the TV duel, will only partly be about whether Britain should be in Europe or not: the rest of it, one would imagine, will centre on the issue of immigration, both in terms of its links with the EU, and as a public concern that informs just about every other area of policy – and, implicitly or otherwise, the sense a lot of people have that we are governed by a homogeneous, well-heeled, cosseted bunch of politicians, and among the only people who offer any kind of alternative is Farage, complete with his pint and fag.
  • (10) John Terry to leave Chelsea after refusal of further one-year contract Read more “With a little bit more distance he could have thought, ‘Hey, these two guys went intensively for the duel’ – it was an intense game and he has to consider a bit the intensity of the game and this duel as well.
  • (11) Hey maybe this is actually going to be a pitcher's duel and not the far more common "game hyped up as a pitching duel where both starters get run out by the fourth".
  • (12) Clinton and Trump camps duel over FBI director's late email revelation Read more Comey, a career prosecutor who grew up in New Jersey and studied religion and chemistry, had his first brush with a high-profile investigation came in 1996, after a stint with the US attorney for New York.
  • (13) When he took the lease on his house at Soisy, he exclaimed: 'Ah, now there's a real garden for a pistol duel.'")
  • (14) Vronsky, who had despised Karenin because he wouldn't fight a duel, is now humiliated and dishonoured; Karenin, flooded with forgiveness for everyone, wins back Anna's respect.
  • (15) So much for the hopes that American television had of broadcasting, and the vast galleries at Peeble Beach of witnessing, another epic duel on America's most photogenic course between the best two players of the last decade or so.
  • (16) According to Ofgem, the average duel fuel bill in the UK is £1,420 a year, an increase of 18% since 2009.
  • (17) Agüero had given him the runaround and seemed locked in a personal duel with Asmir Begovic, deputising for Thibaut Courtois in the Chelsea goal, before his perseverance finally paid off just after the half-hour, when he turned away from Gary Cahill and expertly rolled a left-foot shot in off the post.
  • (18) Of course, a duel is more fun to watch than a 14-legged scrum.
  • (19) Both teams have a lot of pride at stake, and as I review side-by-side stats from the regular season rounded to whole percentages, the two lead in shutouts, and are close to even on passing accuracy (SKC's 78% to NER's 76%) and duels won (SKC's 50% to NER's 48%).
  • (20) Tordenskiold has lain since 1819 in a marble sarchophagus in the Danish Naval Church in Copenhagen, but still without the blessing of the Church, because duels were forbidden.