What's the difference between desire and gaol?

Desire


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.
  • (v. t.) To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
  • (v. t.) To require; to demand; to claim.
  • (v. t.) To miss; to regret.
  • (v. t.) The natural longing that is excited by the enjoyment or the thought of any good, and impels to action or effort its continuance or possession; an eager wish to obtain or enjoy.
  • (v. t.) An expressed wish; a request; petition.
  • (v. t.) Anything which is desired; an object of longing.
  • (v. t.) Excessive or morbid longing; lust; appetite.
  • (v. t.) Grief; regret.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I'm not sure Tolstoy ever worked out how he actually felt about love and desire, or how he should feel about it.
  • (2) Further improvement of results will be possible by early operation, a desirable objective.
  • (3) This has been accomplished by insertion of a desired gene into a pre-existing immortal cell or by immortalizing primary cells.
  • (4) The light intensity profile for any desired cell can be examined in "real time", even during acceleration of the rotor.
  • (5) Still, even as unknowable as this decision may be for him, as any decision is, really, he is far more qualified to understand his desires and goals that would inform that decision than anyone else is.
  • (6) It’s not just a matter of will or gumption or desire on my part.
  • (7) "The pattern of consumption is that among ebook readers there is a desire to pre-order, or get it quickly, so ebook sales are particularly high in the first few weeks," he said.
  • (8) Attention is drawn to the desirability of differentiating between supra- and sub-gingival calculus in the CPITN scoring system and to the excessive treatment requirements that arise from classifying everyone with calculus as requiring prophylaxis and scaling.
  • (9) Alternatively, the data presented herein strongly suggest that diets containing conventional quantities of fat, in which saturated fat is replaced by unsaturated fat and dietary cholesterol reduced, would result in the desired reductions to total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations without the adverse effects of increased postprandial glucose and insulin concentrations, increased fasting and postprandial total and very-low-density lipoprotein triglyceride concentrations, and decreased fasting high-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations.
  • (10) Combining drugs may only occasionally be advisable to supplement a desired effect or to attenuate an unwanted one.
  • (11) Five hundred sixty grandmultiparous women were interviewed as to their contraceptive awareness, desirability and use in the three major hospitals in Benin City, Nigeria, between October 1, 1980 and September, 1981.
  • (12) It will not be so low as to put off candidates from outside the corporation but will be substantially less than Thompson's £671,000 annual remuneration – in line with Patten's desire to clamp down on BBC executive pay, which he said had become a "toxic issue".
  • (13) The concept of increasing bone mass and decreasing expanded soft-tissue mass has application within the judgment of the surgeon coupled with the patient's desires.
  • (14) This new derivative could represent a desirable complementation to rhbFGF for the development of more stable pharmaceutical formulations in wound healing applications.
  • (15) These concepts of facial harmony and surgical alterations have been difficult to teach in a residency program, especially regarding preoperative evaluation and a clear idea of the desired surgical results.
  • (16) Subsequent efforts focused on achieving high levels of insecticidal activity while minimizing costs of synthesis and retaining desirable levels of selective toxicity.
  • (17) The reasons are often financial, but can also be a desire for a change of pace or new experiences.
  • (18) Noninvasive procedures (such as Holter monitoring or recording of late potentials) are desirable for screening purposes, whereas it would be acceptable to use more aggressive invasive techniques in certain subsets of patients.
  • (19) KAP studies have demonstrated differences in the family size desires of men and women and in the determinants of attitudes toward birth control.
  • (20) An accurate description of the coronary anatomy is desired before anatomic correction of d-transposition of the great arteries.

Gaol


Definition:

  • (n.) A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The American philosopher John Dewey once said, 'If you want to establish some conception of a society, go find out who is in gaol.'
  • (2) O’Shea’s gaoling prompted hundreds of thousands of unionists to walk off the job in a statewide campaign that essentially re-established the right to strike in Australia.
  • (3) A new prison was big news the week I was in charge and I spelled it gaol instead of jail.
  • (4) The trailer is book-ended by Tyson quoting Oscar Wilde's The Ballad Of Reading Gaol: Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!
  • (5) In the home of the nasty Sheriff of Nottingham – at the city's old courthouse and county gaol – character actors lead visitors through the grim dance from trial and sentencing to prison (or death) in a real court.
  • (6) Kilmainham Gaol Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy The rebel leaders were taken here after the rising failed.
  • (7) Ancelotti, who has been linked with a move away from PSG in the summer, also led the club to the quarter-finals of the Champions League this season before they were knocked out by Barcelona on away gaols.
  • (8) At one moment, we hear him reciting Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol, with its famous line: "Each man kills the thing he loves."
  • (9) Worse, Brandis’s Bill proposes to gag journalists and bloggers if they tell anyone, with a 10 year gaol term if they do.
  • (10) Only on the back of the tomb is there elegantly chiselled a poignant verse from 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol': And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long broken urn.
  • (11) In recent years, large numbers of South African children have been the target of state-sanctioned abuse, including imprisonment in adult gaols.
  • (12) In a letter to the then Northern Ireland secretary Paul Murphy, he also showed an in-depth knowledge of Irish gaols as he recommended other sites of interest in the field.
  • (13) The administration of New Zealand's first general anaesthetic took place at the Colonial Gaol, Wellington, on the morning of Monday, September 27th, 1847.
  • (14) After that he is thrice in and out of gaol for deliriously funny reasons.
  • (15) That the former English teacher should have liked the classic Oscar Wilde poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol was described by one article as "Chris Jefferies' favourite poem was about killing wife".
  • (16) Another cousin, in the Communist party, was also in gaol.
  • (17) The remainder (22%) were using illegal opiates either regularly or intermittently, or were in gaol.
  • (18) And he wrote later in his famous letter from Birmingham City gaol, in answer to eight clergymen - bishops, pastors, and rabbis - who disagreed with his tactics of direct action in the street: "History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.
  • (19) The refs took a little look at the play, wondering if the stick of Pouliot was above the crossbar but the gaol stands.
  • (20) Today: Kilmainhaim Gaol is one of the most visited tourist attractions in Ireland.

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