What's the difference between gill and grill?

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".

Grill


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A gridiron.
  • (v. t.) That which is broiled on a gridiron, as meat, fish, etc.
  • (n.) To broil on a grill or gridiron.
  • (n.) To torment, as if by broiling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These tacos, the legacy of the city's many Lebanese immigrants, a variation of shawarma , the grilled marinated meat dish popular throughout the Middle East.
  • (2) With the election only a week away, the three grillings were seen as critical to the outcome of the closest election for a generation.
  • (3) She wanted to cook the kind of food she had eaten and prepared while living in Italy – grilled meats, bread soups, pasta.
  • (4) Grilled Grill herring with a little oil and salt and the skin will blacken and crisp to reveal a creamy delicious flesh inside.
  • (5) As the embattled NHS chief executive was grilled in the televised hearing, committee member Valerie Vaz told him: "Please don't feel that this is a trial."
  • (6) The debut of the film – before an audience of business journalists, film critics and a smattering of Wonga customers – comes before a grilling by MPs in Westminster on Tuesday as calls grow for tighter curbs on payday lenders.
  • (7) Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt was grilled for six hours at the Leveson inquiry and his evidence touched on phone-hacking, his meetings with the Murdochs, the role of his former special adviser Adam Smith and whether he really did hide behind a tree.
  • (8) Davis had earlier declined the privilege of specifying his final supper, so instead was given the institution's choice of grilled cheeseburgers, oven browned potatoes, baked beans, coleslaw, cookies and a grape beverage.
  • (9) However, it’s the views of the Cascade mountains from Portland City Grill on the 30th floor that really grab the attention.
  • (10) There's nothing worse than a semi-raw grilled tomato, so make sure they're cooked properly all the way through and a bit caramelised on top.
  • (11) BP credit rating downgraded after Tony Hayward's grilling by Congress 19 June One of BP's partners, Anadarko Petroleum, refuses to accept any responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon explosion despite owning a quarter of the well.
  • (12) P51 The Independent Farage to be grilled by tipsy Gogglebox couple.
  • (13) 400g cooked or tinned butterbeans 1 tsp ground cumin 10ml lemon juice ¼ clove garlic, peeled and finely minced 1 small handful picked flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped 1 tbsp plain flour (gluten-free flour also works fine) 1 tsp salt 1 egg 1 spring onion, trimmed and finely sliced 50g breadcrumbs 100g feta (or other crumbly goat's or sheep's cheese) Put the butterbeans, cumin, lemon juice, garlic, parsley, flour, salt and egg in a food processor and blitz to a coarse paste: you don't want the mix fully pureed, otherwise the burgers will be too wet and will fall apart on the grill.
  • (14) After hours of grilling in senate estimates, assistant health minister Fiona Nash insists there was no conflict of interest or breach of standards in her office because her former chief of staff, Alister Furnival, did not act like a man who had a conflict of interest, did everything required of him to avoid conflicts, and he can’t help it if his accountant forgot to tidy up his paperwork.
  • (15) "It would have looked very bad if these battles were going on while Vella was being grilled by MEPs," said Micklewright.
  • (16) • £585, +30 22710 32217, perleas.gr Greek island holiday guide: Crete Read more Where to eat Fabrika In an old olive press in the market town of Volissos, this taverna specialises in grilled meat (done properly over charcoal).
  • (17) The Ukip leader said he was making immigration the central plank of his campaign and wants the the chance to grill David Cameron on the issue at the leaders’ television debates later this week.
  • (18) Grilled cuttlefish on a bed of chestnut purée comes dramatically drizzled with black squid ink and shredded fried leek, while the innocuous-sounding champi con foie conceals mushroom, foie gras, creamy alioli (garlic mayonnaise) and a slick of salsa verde.
  • (19) The neutral fractions of yakitori grilled for 3, 5, and 7 min contained 3.8, 19, and 43 ng, respectively, of 1-nitropyrene per gram of yakitori, accounting for 3.0, 2.7, and 1.3%, respectively, of the total extract mutagenicity.
  • (20) And here's our full story: Service sector growing at fastest pace since 1997 10.29am GMT MPs grill Wonga: Payday lenders admit making changes Wonga has also admitted it was forced to make changes to its sales practices following an Office of Fair Trading investigation,as the hearing before MPs continued...

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