What's the difference between forestall and forstall?
Forestall
Definition:
(v. t.) To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.
(v. t.) To take possession of, in advance of some one or something else, to the exclusion or detriment of the latter; to get ahead of; to preoccupy; also, to exclude, hinder, or prevent, by prior occupation, or by measures taken in advance.
(v. t.) To deprive; -- with of.
(v. t.) To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mastitis in its complexity has managed to forestall all efforts of eradication in spite of years of research, antibiotics and practical control measures.
(2) His message suggested a Grexit was now inevitable as he stressed the need for EU humanitarian programmes to forestall social implosion in Greece.
(3) From the psychologic standpoint, plastic surgeons are now challenging their patients to help themselves in such an overall program to forestall the effects of aging.
(4) Obama may prefer to consider that his lasting contribution to international affairs has been a landmark diplomatic accord to forestall an Iranian nuclear weapon, or the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba .
(5) Such legislation needs to be carefully designed in order to achieve its objectives and forestall new, financially abusive arrangements.
(6) There is current interest in the possibility of developing interventions that forestall the normal cognitive decline in elderly adults.
(7) Treatment needs to be multidisciplinary in approach, and to be started early to forestall a number of organic complications associated with reduced appetite control and significant overweight.
(8) In patients with chronic symptoms, surgery is indicated to forestall further local infectious complications, and a single-stage sigmoid resection without hysterectomy may be adequate.
(9) In the next century we will see a serious test of whether or not mankind has lost its ability to foresee and forestall the side effects of scientific and technological ingenuity.
(10) The big four are understood to be driving a similarly hard bargain with Spotify, which has had its US launch forestalled by industry negotiations.
(11) This presentation describes the organization of disaster relief work after the earthquake, the rescue of buried victims, the organization of medical resources, and the sanitation work to forestall epidemics.
(12) Prevention of glycosylation with aminoguanidine has forestalled complications in experimental diabetes.
(13) Moreover, neurons are also protected from excitotoxin-induced death by the addition to the culture medium of either superoxide dismutase or mannitol, which scavenge superoxide and hydroxyl radicals, respectively, or serine protease inhibitor, which forestalls formation of xanthine oxidase.
(14) Overdentures designed to prevent direct occlusal trauma to the residual ridge may either forestall or reduce residual ridge resorption.
(15) These results suggest that home nursing care assists patients with forestalling distress from symptoms and maintaining their independence longer in comparison to no home nursing care.
(16) The ability of long-acting fluphenazine decanoate and oral fluphenazine hydrochloride to forestall relapse among newly discharge schizophrenic patients is examined in the context of high and low degrees of social therapy (ST).
(17) There is no need for asymptomatic people with HIV infection to restrict their lives in order to avoid exposure to stressful life experiences or to develop special skills for coping with stress to forestall the progression of HIV illness.
(18) The ultimate strategy lies in improving the quality of life in these communities through adequate housing, sanitation, and health education, and integrating primary prophylaxis into national health care programs to forestall the development of rheumatic fever.
(19) It's an attempt to forestall a controversy that is taking place anyway.
(20) The organize language groups for the elderly appeared urgent in order to forestall a deterioration of their faculties and strengthen those faculties which could be maintained.
Forstall
Definition:
(v. t.) To forestall.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the introduction was a public relations fiasco, and after the initial criticism, Cook fired Scott Forstall , the head of the iPhone software team, and maps chief Richard Williamson soon afterwards .
(2) Cook told BusinessWeek about Forstall's departure: "The key in the change that you're referencing is my deep belief that collaboration is essential for innovation.
(3) (Fadell's team lost to one led by Scott Forstall, who squeezed desktop computing capability into a phone.)
(4) Scott Forstall, the former chief for iOS software, was known to be a fan of skeumorphism; Ive isn't.
(5) It's been a blast so far: big names such as, well, perhaps not, but Phil Schiller, Apple's longtime head of marketing has testified, and Scott Forstall, head of the iPhone and iPad software division, as well as members of Apple's design division.
(6) (The App Store site , however, stopped short of Scott Forstall's claim, instead saying "amost all" these applications could run on the iPad.)
(7) They’re not gonna let Obama get nowhere close to down here,” said Errol Joseph, sweating and sitting on a bucket on the front porch of his house on Forstall Street, which is finally near completion thanks to help from volunteers with lowernine.org , which has rebuilt 77 houses – like other nonprofits, helping to fill gaps in federal and local responses.
(8) Scott Forstall, in charge of iPhone software at Apple, said that all those programs could run unchanged on the iPad.
(9) Schiller announced the name, while demonstrations of the voice activation technology were led by Scott Forstall, who heads the development of iOS.
(10) Apple fired Scott Forstall, the executive in charge, and the reason was very Appley – it wasn't because Forstall didn't do a good job, or because he refused to publicly apologize for a notable failure; it was because he disappointed Apple's idealism, its value of collaboration.
(11) It's not perfect, but there's a huge amount it can do," said Forstall.
(12) A key element in the iPhone 4S is a "voice assistant" called Siri which Scott Forstall, head of the iOS division, demonstrated.