What's the difference between ell and hell?

Ell


Definition:

  • (n.) A measure for cloth; -- now rarely used. It is of different lengths in different countries; the English ell being 45 inches, the Dutch or Flemish ell 27, the Scotch about 37.
  • (n.) See L.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Developing pyramidal cells in the remaining three tuberous organ-receptive lateral ELL segments are unreactive.
  • (2) I adored Chez Elles in Brick Lane's Banglatown; and Otto's , on Gray's Inn Road, looks set to be the capital's next insider secret, with a menu that doesn't appear to have met the 21st century: it does canard à la presse, for goodness sake.
  • (3) Because he is mad for them and I was like, you do not think they have gone the tiniest bit school run, as in Elle McPherson klaxon, but Mr Karzai was like, when something is a serious classic like a divine Turkman robe or the perfect ankle boot, it can survive any brand damage?
  • (4) The original referred to Mary-Ellen Field as a former PA to Elle Macpherson.
  • (5) From day 10, a population of T-lymphocytes coexpressing BoT4 and BoT8 appeared in ELL, reaching 33% by day 14.
  • (6) Indigenous performers like the Sami singer Elle Márjá Eira will be playing with acts like "arctic ambient" musician Biosphere ; Wardruna, a black-metal-affiliated band who play traditional Norwegian instruments; and musicians from the Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra , who will be performing on the beach.
  • (7) We determined the position of labelled cell bodies within the ganglion and followed anterogradely filled fibers to their termination sites in one of the four somatotopic maps in the electroreceptive lateral line lobe (ELL).
  • (8) Analysis of ELL sorted into populations differing on the basis of expression of BoT4 and BoT8, revealed a higher level of parasitosis in the BoT4+ and BoT8+ lymphocytes than in the BoT4+ BoT8- or BoT4- BoT8+ populations.
  • (9) The goal of the present study was to describe and interpret these various potentials in mormyromast afferent fibers as a first step in understanding the processing of electrosensory information in ELL.
  • (10) Hachette Filipacchi UK also publishes Red, Elle and Sugar, and owns entertainment news and media website Digital Spy.
  • (11) In classic Ginsburg fashion, however, she attacked those suggestions in a September 2014 Elle interview .
  • (12) SCMP Group also owns the Hong Kong editions of magazines Esquire, Elle, Cosmopolitan and Harper’s Bazaar.
  • (13) We were lucky that Copenhagen was poor after the second world war Søren Elle While concrete was being poured to create other giant urban spaghetti junctions across Europe , Copenhagen found itself at a crossroads: “[It] has reached a state of development where it is necessary to develop a network of motorways through the city to secure its arterial functions.
  • (14) Elle Fanning will play Aurora as a teenager and the cast also includes Sharlto Copley, Miranda Richardson, Sam Riley and Imelda Staunton.
  • (15) We were lucky that Copenhagen was poor after the second world war,” Elle says.
  • (16) In May, La Barbe teamed up with more mainstream groups such as Osez le Feminisme (Dare Feminism) to demonstrate and circulate a petition entitled " ils se lachent, elles trinquent " (men let loose, women pay) that brought thousands of women of all ages into the streets.
  • (17) These findings lead us to propose that an IgG-induced redistribution ("capping") of Fc receptors on the K cell surface may be required for cytolysis and for effector -ell inactivation.
  • (18) » Une résidente du village, Bella Kabatesi, 18 ans, dont les parents sont morts suite à une maladie lorsqu’elle avait quatre ans, a utilisé l’énergie solaire pour alimenter une veilleuse en mémoire du fondateur du village, désormais décédé.
  • (19) Hachette's Red magazine slipped by less than 1% to 218,726 while stablemate Elle had a bad first half, dropping 4.1% to 195,192.
  • (20) The antiarrhythmic drugs ajmaline and its 17-monochloroacetate ester (MCAA; Rtimos-Elle) were studied in cats.

Hell


Definition:

  • (v. t.) The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades.
  • (v. t.) The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death; the abode of evil spirits. Hence, any mental torment; anguish.
  • (v. t.) A place where outcast persons or things are gathered
  • (v. t.) A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
  • (v. t.) A gambling house.
  • (v. t.) A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type.
  • (v. t.) To overwhelm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
  • (2) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
  • (3) In a 2011 interview with the Financial Times he said: “JPMorgan doesn’t have a chance in hell of not coming up with a big settlement.” He claimed: “There were people at the bank who knew what was going on.” The payment brings the total of fines imposed on JP Morgan to nearly $20bn in the past year.
  • (4) What the hell is the point of cops looking like this?
  • (5) And this was always the thing with the British player, they were always deemed never to be intelligent, not to have good decision-making skills but could fight like hell for the ball.
  • (6) As one source close to the inquiry put it: “There was a hell of a lot of dirty stuff going on.” Two earlier Yard inquiries had failed to investigate the relevant notes in Mulcaire’s logs.
  • (7) And what the hell do bears get up to in those woods?
  • (8) Instead, because of other people, it all too often becomes something else: a complete and utter hell.
  • (9) The country’s other attractions include a burning pit at “the door to hell” in the Darvaza crater, and rarely seen stretches of the silk road, the region’s ancient trade route.
  • (10) One hell of a party” it ain’t, but it is great to know that you are appreciated while you are still able to hear it.
  • (11) One neighbour said: “Janet’s done nothing wrong and this must be hell for her.” This article was corrected on 25 March 2017.
  • (12) You can argue about what constitutes a race “riot” these days – and why the hell we are seeing teargas every other evening in the suburbs, or Jim Crow-reminiscent police dogs in the year 2014.
  • (13) Downtown LA is improving, but for years it was a desolate hell zone of freeways, office blocks and closed stores.
  • (14) With an out-of-session Congress deadlocked over immigration reform and right-wing lawmakers hell-bent on “sealing the border”, the White House faces intense pressure to do something – anything – about immigration, after years of burying a civil rights crisis in a mire of political tone-deafness and jingoistic bombast.
  • (15) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
  • (16) In a 2011 interview with the Financial Times he said: “JPMorgan doesn’t have a chance in hell of not coming up with a big settlement.” He claimed: “There were people at the bank who knew what was going on,” an assertion that JP Morgan has consistently claimed is false.
  • (17) He said the French government had opened the "gates of hell" and "fallen into a trap much more dangerous than Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia".
  • (18) The question about what the hell am I doing standing in, might be raised.
  • (19) And when Israel is hit, it is going to be a hell, hundreds of rockets are going to fall on it.
  • (20) It's been a wonderful game of football, with both sides going hell-for-leather and it couldn't be more even as things stand: all square on the scoreboard, with each aside having scored an away goal.

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