What's the difference between expel and impel?

Expel


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.
  • (v. t.) To drive away from one's country; to banish.
  • (v. t.) To cut off from further connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the like; as, to expel a student or member.
  • (v. t.) To keep out, off, or away; to exclude.
  • (v. t.) To discharge; to shoot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Ayotzinapa school has long been an ally of community police in the nearby town of Tixtla, and Martinez said that, along with the teachers’ union and the students, it had formed a broad front to expel cartel extortionists from the area last year.
  • (2) "We have Revolutionary Guards who defied orders, though they were severely punished, expelled from the force and taken to prison," he says.
  • (3) I gave her my personal opinion, which was that there would be no problem for her, but I was not able to give her the guarantee that I think she was entitled to deserve.” The peer reminded the House of Lords about the shock in Britain when Idi Amin expelled the Asians from Uganda.
  • (4) The Liberal Democrat investigation was carried out by Alistair Webster QC, who found it was not appropriate to charge Rennard with acting in a way that had brought the party into disrepute., which could have led to his expulsion expelled from the party.
  • (5) Our results showed that a lower percentage of normal subjects and a lower percentage of constipated patients were able to pass a 1.8 cm incompressible sphere compared with a 50 ml deformable balloon, although constipated patients found it more difficult than normal subjects to expel both types of simulated stool.
  • (6) Banding studies showed the presence of one 9qh in the mother and two 9qh chromosomes in the child, indicating that the triploidy arose from the failure to expel the second polar body.
  • (7) Detrusor pressure and fluid expelled by the bladder were recorded, synchronized, and digitized.
  • (8) Sensitized peritoneal exudate cells from Swiss albino mice donors infected with a single dose of 1000 A. caninum larvae could expel a challenge dose of 500 larvae from recipients at a faster rate when compared to cells from repeatedly infected (250 + 250 + 500) donors.
  • (9) At the same time, leaving the catheter in-situ until it is expelled spontaneously reduces the induction-abortion interval appreciably.
  • (10) The governing body expelled Legia on Friday morning after an investigation found that they were guilty of fielding an ineligible player in the second leg of the tie at Murrayfield on Wednesday night – as an 86th-minute substitute.
  • (11) Britain's high commissioner described him as "becoming ever more autocratic and intolerant of criticism" – and was expelled in retaliation .
  • (12) In the second phase nitric oxide, which is still bound to CuB after the first phase, is expelled from the complex by azide, with a concomitant electron transfer from CuB to cytochrome a.
  • (13) In the presence of sugars fermentable by E. coli alone or both E. coli and S. aureus, motile E. coli strains exerted a potent antagonistic effect and S. aureus was expelled from the culture vessel within a few days.
  • (14) Then Russia was expelled, the G8 became the G7 and is meeting in Brussels.
  • (15) This time, a relatively unknown Belgian group has pledged to “expel the Islamists” and police warn that extreme-right activists are believed to be converging on Molenbeek from around Europe, even though police banned the scheduled protest and any counter protests in the city as soon as it was announced, largely in reaction to the unrest last week.
  • (16) For the next few days, though, all eyes will be on whether Malema is suspended or expelled from the ANC.
  • (17) Half of the patients tested had difficulty in expelling a water filled balloon.
  • (18) David Cameron said he was still determined to expel Qatada.
  • (19) He was expelled from South East Essex college and also studied at Chiswick Polytechnic and Goldsmiths College, London.
  • (20) Overall, 68.0% of the patients failed to expel the placenta within one hour of abortion of the fetus.

Impel


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To drive or urge forward or on; to press on; to incite to action or motion in any way.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Byatt said that, while she had not wished to present an allegory or a polemic, the story was impelled by a profound sense of gloom about the environment and indeed about all human endeavours.
  • (2) By being steadfast in our values we can impel Russia to rethink its ambitions; by being mild we can encourage their cruellest actions.
  • (3) In this configuration, recirculation of the oxygenated media is provided by the CelliGen Cell Lift impeller.
  • (4) I would have thought that our foreign policy disasters throughout the Muslim world would have impelled Blair to learn the lesson of the unintended consequences of military action.
  • (5) The second model produces a pulsatile flow by differing the gaps between impeller and cap on the inlet pipe.
  • (6) The centrifugal pump with a 50 mm diameter impeller resulted in almost the same index of hemolysis value as did a Bio-Medicus centrifugal pump.
  • (7) The death rate constant increased sharply at impeller tip speeds above 40 cm s-1.
  • (8) A minority (24%) of those holding health insurance believed that public sector services were inadequate to provide health care but only 9% of families were able to cite some specific shortcoming of public sector services which had impelled them to take out insurance cover.
  • (9) This may be due in part to aspects of the illness and treatment side effects that impel patients to use dopamine agonist drugs.
  • (10) This paper takes as index the content of free acids and total acids, the action of pepsin in the stomachs of hungry mice, impelling functions and intestines of hungry mice and makes a comparison of the raw products with the processed products of medicated leaven.
  • (11) The deals done here fuel death, injury, fear and repression – yet instead of banning it, the government helps make it happen.” Those who felt impelled to draw attention to this anomaly were arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass.
  • (12) Ultimately, the organizations said, health risks to adolescents are so impelling that legal barriers and deference to parental involvement should not stand in the way of needed health care.
  • (13) Bellichick, however, also felt impelled to deny reports that he "hated" Tebow as a player .
  • (14) In the first model, the impeller oscillates in an axial direction during constant rotation.
  • (15) The new position furnished a direct line of sight to the apex of the IV ventricle corresponding to that provided by the classic high sitting position, without the latter's risks of air embolism and of acute subdural hematoma secondary to tearing of corticodural bridging vessels due to escape of gravity-impelled CSF from the large ventricles.
  • (16) A total absence of visual feedback impelled subjects to use subtle cues such as crude auditory localization.
  • (17) Impelled by pressure from the public, the scientific community, and the Congress, the NIH participates in formulating safety guidelines regarding potential applications of biotechnology.
  • (18) The valvo-pump can be made feasible by developing a small, high-output, power motor and an endurable seal, as well as by optimizing the impeller design.
  • (19) Recent identification of atrial natriuretic peptides (ANP) in the mammalian heart demonstrated that the heart functions not only as a pump impelling the blood but also as an endocrine organ that secretes the hormone controlling body fluid volume, electrolyte balance, and blood pressure.
  • (20) (24)Na is added to the mucosal medium of a short-circuited bladder mounted between halves of a chamber in which the fluid is stirred by rotating impellers.