What's the difference between fill and gill?

Fill


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
  • (a.) To make full; to supply with as much as can be held or contained; to put or pour into, till no more can be received; to occupy the whole capacity of.
  • (a.) To furnish an abudant supply to; to furnish with as mush as is desired or desirable; to occupy the whole of; to swarm in or overrun.
  • (a.) To fill or supply fully with food; to feed; to satisfy.
  • (a.) To possess and perform the duties of; to officiate in, as an incumbent; to occupy; to hold; as, a king fills a throne; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the House fills the chair.
  • (a.) To supply with an incumbent; as, to fill an office or a vacancy.
  • (a.) To press and dilate, as a sail; as, the wind filled the sails.
  • (a.) To trim (a yard) so that the wind shall blow on the after side of the sails.
  • (a.) To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel.
  • (v. i.) To become full; to have the whole capacity occupied; to have an abundant supply; to be satiated; as, corn fills well in a warm season; the sail fills with the wind.
  • (v. i.) To fill a cup or glass for drinking.
  • (v. t.) A full supply, as much as supplies want; as much as gives complete satisfaction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The bank tellers who saw their positions filled by male superiors took special pleasure in going to the bank and keeping them busy.
  • (2) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
  • (3) Membranes of this material were filled with islets of Langerhans and implanted in the peritoneal cavity of rats.
  • (4) In the stage 24 chick embryo, a paced increase in heart rate reduces stroke volume, presumably by rate-dependent decrease in passive filling.
  • (5) "Acoustic" craters were produced by two laser pulses delivered into a saline-filled metal fiber cap, which was placed in a mechanically drilled crater.
  • (6) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
  • (7) The intestinal cells are filled with concentric spherules, and the intestinal lumen is reduced.
  • (8) Over the years the farm dams filled less frequently while the suburbs crept further into the countryside, their swimming pools oblivious to the great drying.
  • (9) If women psychiatrists are to fill some of the positions in Departments of Psychiatry, which will fall vacant over the next decade, much more attention must be paid to eliminating or diminishing the multiple obstacles for women who chose a career in academic psychiatry.
  • (10) Sadler shook her head again when Cameron repeated the much-used statistic that enough water to fill Wembley Stadium three times was being pumped from the Levels each day.
  • (11) Recurrence of the dermatitis one day after amalgam dental fillings had been made and again one year later, this time without new fillings, raised the possibility that it was due to the old amalgam fillings.
  • (12) Atrioventricular (AV) delay that results in maximum ventricular filling and physiological mechanisms that govern dependence of filling on timing of atrial systole were studied by combining computer experiments with experiments in the anesthetized dog instrumented to measure phasic mitral flow.
  • (13) Rings of isolated coronary and femoral arteries (without endothelium) were suspended for isometric tension recording in organ chambers filled with modified Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate solution.
  • (14) These two enzymes may act jointly in filling up the gaps along the DNA molecule and elongating the DNA chain.
  • (15) Emergency CT showed evidence of pericardial effusion suggesting hemopericardium, enlargement of the ascending aorta and a peripheral semilunar filling defect which caused a slight deformation of the true channel.
  • (16) In several eyes, apparent intraretinal blood-filled cavities were seen acutely in the macular region and elsewhere.
  • (17) This could, however, not be related to a reduced LV diastolic filling rate.
  • (18) The ruling centre-right coalition government of Angela Merkel was dealt a blow by voters in a critical regional election on Sunday after the centre-left opposition secured a wafer-thin victory, setting the scene for a tension-filled national election in the autumn when everything will be up for grabs.
  • (19) Size of both areas gradually decreased as the medulla filled with plasma cells, 7-30 days after injection.
  • (20) In junctions, 3' PSS termini are preserved by fill-in DNA synthesis, although their 5' recessed ends cannot serve as a primer.

Gill


Definition:

  • (n.) An organ for aquatic respiration; a branchia.
  • (n.) The radiating, gill-shaped plates forming the under surface of a mushroom.
  • (n.) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
  • (n.) The flesh under or about the chin.
  • (n.) One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.
  • (n.) A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber.
  • (n.) A leech.
  • (n.) A woody glen; a narrow valley containing a stream.
  • (n.) A measure of capacity, containing one fourth of a pint.
  • (n.) A young woman; a sweetheart; a flirting or wanton girl.
  • (n.) The ground ivy (Nepeta Glechoma); -- called also gill over the ground, and other like names.
  • (n.) Malt liquor medicated with ground ivy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Having read Gill's own account of his experimental sexual connections with his dog in a later craft community at Pigotts near High Wycombe, his woodcut The Hound of St Dominic develops some distinctly disconcerting features.
  • (2) Clare Gills, an American journalist and friend of Foley, wrote in 2013: “He is always striving to get to the next place, to get closer to what is really happening, and to understand what moves the people he’s speaking with.
  • (3) Clinical data on 30 Korean patients of the authors with Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome are described, as well as data on seven other Korean cases from the literature.
  • (4) Gilles de la Tourette syndrome is a neuropsychiatric disorder with an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance and reduced penetrance at a single genetic locus.
  • (5) Exposing the animals to deionized water (salt-depleted) resulted in a loss of transmitter substances from gill tissue, but serotonin reduction was modest.
  • (6) Water moves along the osmotic gradient across the gill, being gained in fresh water and lost in sea water.
  • (7) None of the experimental strains to the sixth day (in the gills and liver).
  • (8) The intramembrane organization of the occluding junctions in the gill epithelium of the Atlantic hagfish, Myxine glutinosa, was studied by means of freeze-fracture electron microscopy.
  • (9) Further, these changes were greater in magnitude in the brain, liver and muscle (non-osmoregulatory organs) than in the gill, kidney and intestine (osmoregulatory organs) in both metal media.
  • (10) Brush border membrane vesicles were prepared from mussel gills using differential and sucrose density gradient centrifugation.
  • (11) The dark, luxury air in the silent bedrooms of empty riverside apartments, their identical curving blocks clustered in threes and fours, grim and silent as gill slits, will be theirs.
  • (12) The gill permeability to various non-electrolytes (P(s)) was measured in fresh-water and sea-water adapted trout (Salmo gairdneri).
  • (13) Tissue homogenates of brain, gill, liver and kidney of Labeo rohita were subjected in vitro to the various concentrations as 5.00, 1.66, 0.55, 0.18 and 0.06 mu M of 2 organochlorine pesticides aldrin and dieldrin and the disruption of ATP dependent active transport (involving ATPase) was studied.
  • (14) Cilia, primarily of the lamellibranch gill (Elliptio and Mytilus), have been examined in freeze-etch replicas.
  • (15) Gill also responded to the complaints on Twitter, saying: "I don't think anyone 'let' it go out like that.
  • (16) On the other hand, the relatively smooth-surfaced 'lanes' between groups of respiratory islets have a microridged surface similar to that of the primary gill lamellae.
  • (17) The secondary lamellae of the gills were shortened and deformed and the epithelial cells were disoriented with regard to the pillar cell system.
  • (18) There was, however, significant labelling in liver, intestine, kidney, bladder, skin and gill.
  • (19) We have examinived the nieural correlates of habittuatiotn atid dishabitiuation of tlhe gill-withdrwal reflex in Aplysia.
  • (20) Chief Guide Gill Slocombe said the charity was committed to helping girls to develop into happy, self-confident young women and the programme would have "a huge impact on the lives of thousands of young people across the UK".

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