What's the difference between frill and prill?

Frill


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To shake or shiver as with cold; as, the hawk frills.
  • (v. i.) To wrinkle; -- said of the gelatin film.
  • (v. t.) To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back. in crimped plaits; as, to frill a cap.
  • (v. i.) A ruffing of a bird's feathers from cold.
  • (v. i.) A ruffle, consisting of a fold of membrane, of hairs, or of feathers, around the neck of an animal.
  • (v. i.) A similar ruffle around the legs or other appendages of animals.
  • (v. i.) A ruffled varex or fold on certain shells.
  • (v. i.) A border or edging secured at one edge and left free at the other, usually fluted or crimped like a very narrow flounce.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Men might not have frills and furbelows as women traditionally do, but they’ve got spurious function: knobs on their watches or extra pockets on their jackets that are just as decorative as anything women wear.” 6.
  • (2) The pace of growth for both Aldi and fellow German discounter Lidl has slowed over the past year, but Barnes said the no-frills chains would continue to take market share from traditional players such as Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons.
  • (3) 5 Don't assume no-frills will be the cheapest option Always check which airlines are flying the route you are interested in – try Skyscanner.net .
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fancy that … Savages, a French-style cafe Fernando’s is a hole-in-the-wall no-frills Portuguese restaurant, just off Russell Road in Richmond Hill, with juicy chicken and prawns served straight from the grill.
  • (5) The spleens of a frilled shark, Chlamydoselachus anguineus was histo-anatomically studied.
  • (6) New Tesco House – the squat 1970s tower block on a grim industrial estate that the supermarket has called home for more than 40 years – used to be held up by former boss Sir Terry Leahy as a symbol of the “no-frills” corporate culture that was good for customers.
  • (7) They didn't seem to mind, but a group of young, well-dressed girls turned their noses up ... whether at us or at the no-frills service I wasn't sure.
  • (8) Baiano's no-frills bar existed several years before pacification and has become all the more happening since, attracting visitors from outside the favela.
  • (9) Three molecular forms of immunoglobulins: pentamer, dimer and monomer, were isolated from serum of the frill shark, Chlamydoselachus anguineus, the most primitive extant shark.
  • (10) The squeeze is encouraging shoppers to go to "no frills" chains such as Lidl and Iceland, which posted sales uplifts that were streets ahead of that of the big four supermarkets.
  • (11) At night, in Rome's no-frills Teatro Olimpico, on the banks of the Tiber, the playwright looks more like Humpty Dumpty than Italy's Prime Minister.
  • (12) As chairman of easyJet since 2010, he has been embroiled in rows with the no-frills airline's founder and largest shareholder, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou .
  • (13) We discovered the no-frills Burmese Restaurant and Library (there is no library) in one of those moments.
  • (14) Was this always the plan, to go so ludicrously ballistic years ahead of the next general election, or has the scale of Corbyn’s support in the Labour movement and the novelty of his no-frills personality and raw unplasticated ideas thrown Tory spinmeisters into a panic?
  • (15) This no-frills atmosphere was in evidence at our first shack, Roy Moore Lobster Co in Rockport, Massachusetts, a classically pretty New England village – all clapboard houses and small craggy bays.
  • (16) Price: £9.95 Polar Gear travel mug from Robert Dyas This is a no-frills stainless steel travel mug – it will keep your coffee hot and your soft drinks cool.
  • (17) Picking up on Tory-run Barnet council's idea of running no-frills services like budget airline Ryanair, Miliband said: "The Ryanair model may be an OK way to run an airline but it is no way to run a hospital, a care home or any of our public services."
  • (18) KINDLE free Amazon's e-reader app narrowly gets the nod over Apple's own iBooks, with fewer visual frills but a large collection of ebooks, including regular discounts and offers.
  • (19) EasyBook could recruit the chair of the Booker judges, Stella Rimington , as CEO and offer a no-frills novel-reading experience that goes from A to B and does not tax the brain.
  • (20) No frills - we'll pick out all the most essential details you need to know.

Prill


Definition:

  • (n.) The brill.
  • (v. i.) To flow.
  • (n.) A stream.
  • (n.) A nugget of virgin metal.
  • (n.) Ore selected for excellence.
  • (n.) The button of metal from an assay.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fact that milk production was not increased in these experiments by feeding Ca salts of fatty acids and prilled fatty acids may be attributed to the use of medium to low producing cows that were past the peak of milk production.
  • (2) 12.25pm: "Björn Lubbers mentioned in his email you posted at 10am that 'the Dutchies are a very friendly, hospitable and tolerant people, but humans will be humans and idiots will be idiots ...', emails Karin Prill.
  • (3) Feeding prilled fat decreased slightly ruminal molar percentage butyrate.
  • (4) Dissolution rate constants for benzoic acid prills in distilled water at pH-stat 6.2 were used as a measure of the agitation intensities present in the different shaped vessels.
  • (5) The immune process of sensitisation was induced with "Tenzym prilled" (TP, Grindstedvoerket) and with "Maxatase" (M, Gist-Brocades) protease enzymes in the epicutaneous test (ET), using concentration series and various durations of application.
  • (6) Results suggest higher levels of concentrate support higher milk yields, and prilled fat supplementation improves fat test when fed with immature forages.
  • (7) In a 4 x 4 Latin square, increasing dietary prilled fatty acids (0, 3, 6, or 9% of DM) decreased DM intake, increased percentage of milk fat, and had no effect on percentage of milk protein.
  • (8) Prilled fat increased milk production, FCM, and milk fat percentage but decreased milk protein percentage, including casein content.
  • (9) Factors were 0 or 5% added prilled fat (DM basis) substituted for shelled corn and alfalfa silage fed in forage-to-concentrate ratios of 45:55, 64:36, and 84:16 (DM basis).
  • (10) The inclusion of prilled fat at 2% of DM in dairy cattle rations had slight effects on rumen fermentation, variable effects on milk yield and composition, and beneficial effects on conception rate.
  • (11) Prilled fat supplementation did not enhance lactation performance because of depressed DM intake in early lactation.
  • (12) Prill and Hammer's method (4) for microdetermination of diacetyl was modified by several authors (1-3, 7), but retaining the same principle: diacetyl is converted into dimethylglyoxime by reaction with hydroxylamine; the oxime is subsequently converted into a pink ammonoferrous glyoximate and its colour is measured by absorbance at 530 nm.
  • (13) The fat supplement containing 100% prilled fat appeared to be rumen-inert because it caused no changes in ruminal VFA concentration, acetate to propionate ratio, or total tract fiber digestion.
  • (14) Adding 0, 5, 15, and 20% of substrate as prilled or unprilled fatty acids [palmitic (47 to 48%), stearic (36 to 37%), and oleic (14%) acids] to an in vitro rumen fermenter had no effect on total VFA production.
  • (15) Factors were 0 and 5% added prilled long-chain fatty acids (DM basis) and three forage to concentrate ratios (45:55, 64:36, 84:16).
  • (16) In Pennsylvania, prilled fat had variable effects on milk composition and little effect on milk yield and FCM.
  • (17) Data suggest that Ca salts of fatty acids and prilled fatty acids are inert in the rumen and do not greatly alter fermentation in the rumen, apparent total tract digestibilities of DM, organic matter, ADF, NDF, and CP, or milk composition when fed at recommended amounts of 3 to 4% of the DM intake.
  • (18) Acetate:propionate ratio was reduced by fatty acid concentrations of 15 and 20% (prilled and unprilled).
  • (19) Milk protein was maintained during prilled fat supplementation but decreased .13% during calcium salt of palm oil fatty acid supplementation.
  • (20) Conception rate was improved in cows consuming rations containing prilled fat: first service, 59.1 versus 42.6%; all services, 59.3 versus 40.7%.