What's the difference between fell and fella?

Fell


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Fall
  • () imp. of Fall.
  • (a.) Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous.
  • (a.) Eager; earnest; intent.
  • (a.) Gall; anger; melancholy.
  • (n.) A skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell.
  • (n.) A barren or rocky hill.
  • (n.) A wild field; a moor.
  • (v. i.) To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down.
  • (n.) The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting.
  • (v. t.) To sew or hem; -- said of seams.
  • (n.) A form of seam joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being folded together and the stitches taken through both thicknesses.
  • (n.) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 76 patients (73%) radionuclide and hemodynamic data fell in the same category.
  • (2) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
  • (3) Accidentally discovered nearly 40 years ago as the first true antidepressants, the MAOIs soon fell into disfavor due to concerns about toxicity and seemingly lesser efficacy compared with the newer tricyclic compounds.
  • (4) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
  • (5) mycoides cluster' at a similarity level (S) of 66% and which remained undivided at up to 78% S. At higher similarity levels, these strains fell heterogeneously into mixed sub-phenons containing strains of both subspecies.
  • (6) The mean acne scores, derived from grading and counting lesions and comedones, fell from 63.3 to 6 in the Diane 50 and from 64.2 to 4.5 in the Triphasil group.
  • (7) Acute and chronic experiments were performed and, in both, the hepatic concentration of GSH fell during the first 6 h after haemorrhage; this fall was followed by a significant rebound elevation at 24 h. In the chronic haemorrhage experiment the hepatic GSH level was normal at 1 week after haemorrhage.
  • (8) After haemorrhage in conscious rabbits total renal blood flow fell by 25%, this fall being confined to the superficial renal cortex.
  • (9) Blood pressure rose and heart rate fell in proportion to the dose of noradrenaline infused.
  • (10) In the remaining 60 patients (35 with atherosclerotic stenosis and 25 with fibromuscular dysplasia), both mean systolic and diastolic pressure fell immediately after percutaneous transluminal dilatation and remained significantly lower for a period of up to five years.
  • (11) TRH levels in serum fell and then returned to initial levels after L-DOPA administration in primary or pituitary hypothyroidism.
  • (12) The patients with phrynoderma fell into two groups.
  • (13) After effective treatment the level fell and rose again 10 months prior to the conventional clinical diagnosis of relapse.
  • (14) Urinary excretion of hydroxyproline fell significantly in patients receiving ND, whereas the biochemical indices of bone formation did not change (alkaline phosphatase) or increased (osteocalcin; P less than 0.01).
  • (15) Entries for French fell by 0.5%, compared with a 13.2% fall last year, and entries for German fell by 5.5% compared with a 13.2% fall in 2011.
  • (16) By all 50 O sera we found that 71.08%, strains was serotype however, they fell into 42 O ser-types.
  • (17) In gastric ulcer patients DNA loss or turnover was significantly (p less than 0-01) higher than normal, and fell significantly (p less than 0-01) after four weeks' treatment with carbenoxolone when 16 of the 17 ulcers had healed.
  • (18) But infrastructure fell for the third consecutive quarter, decreasing by 5.6%.
  • (19) In 31 patients in whom specific IgE fell to low (less than 6% counts bound) or unmeasurable levels, immunotherapy was discontinued, and sting challenge was carried out 1 to 3 years later.
  • (20) The absolute number of monocytes and B-lymphocytes fell significantly (p less than 0.01) on the first and second day after exercise.

Fella


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I think this fella has got Crystal Palace stamped all over him – the way he moves, the way he chases, the way he works.
  • (2) Barbara Shaw, the Alice Springs-based anti-Intervention campaigner, speaks of how welfare quarantining particularly rankles with Indigenous people who remembered the not-so-distant past: “There are a lot of people out there who, when they were young fellas, they only got paid rations.
  • (3) Normally a very friendly fellow, the reasons for 'Arry's lack of chivalry remain unknown, but it's thought he may have been preoccupied by the prospect of bringing triffic fellas Emmanuel Adebayor and Benoît Essou-Akotto to Loftus Road on loan.
  • (4) Shine, fellas, because no one’s letting you sing a verse.
  • (5) He tells his colleagues: "Obviously this doesn't go anywhere fellas … I've just broken the Geneva convention."
  • (6) Richard Dawkins emailed to say, 'Nice one, fella.'"
  • (7) There are perhaps exceptions to the rule, but Queens Park Rangers aren't one of them and at some point today Harry Redknapp is expected to bring Tottenham Hotspur outcasts Emmanuel Adebayor and Benoît Assou-Ekotto , who are both triffic fellas, to Loftus Road on loan.
  • (8) Well it does, because let’s face it, a lot of time you’re watching fellas who’ve been out on the ale the night before.
  • (9) I met a nice fella in the Nottingham Naafi club, and he told me I was not to get married.
  • (10) "Unfortunately, no one will say that in advance and then some of them will go to the World Cup and play badly and say to you guys, 'I was bored' and you'll write and say 'poor fella'."
  • (11) Instead of slagging me off you want to try and spend a bit more time keeping your leggings on every time a fella so much as glances at you,” she told Sarah-Lou hours before she went into labour, before loudly putting in an order at the cafe.
  • (12) As you do that, you transfer the responsibility from the coaches to the players but then an hour before the game, there is a fella up the front telling them what to do.
  • (13) He's very, very professional, just a normal fella, really.
  • (14) The court heard in evidence that he was known in gangland circles as the Long Fella, and that he engaged in violence, intimidation and money laundering and benefited from the proceeds of prostitution.
  • (15) It shouldn’t be like this, but then I’ve heard all about this Grim Reaper fella and there’s no fooling him.
  • (16) "There was one fella I remember who was really upset because he'd got the one shoe that he wanted, but didn't have the other one.
  • (17) "There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down," he told the paper in Carmel, the California town where he served as mayor in the 1980s.
  • (18) He glows, you can’t really miss him when you do see him out there from a distance, and it’s like fluorescent blue when you see him up close.” Migaloo, whose name is an Aboriginal word for “white fella”, was the only known white whale in the world until 2011 when an all-white calf was filmed.
  • (19) You take a nicking on the chin when dispensed by a decent fella.
  • (20) Even the corner, the young fella [Ji], he can keep the ball much better if they have more desire.