What's the difference between gill and nill?

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".

Nill


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Not to will; to refuse; to reject.
  • (v. i.) To be unwilling; to refuse to act.
  • (n.) Shining sparks thrown off from melted brass.
  • (n.) Scales of hot iron from the forge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His father Giorgios hails from Greece and Nill Kyrgios was born in Malaysia.
  • (2) Osteoid formation in the osteotomy region was almost nill in all cases.
  • (3) The relation was positive in schizophrenia and mania, was nill in melancholia, and probably reversed U relation in other psychotics and neurotics.
  • (4) His mother, Nill Kyrgios, said on Twitter that Fraser’s attack was “out of line”.
  • (5) The first final I played in I got injured, and having been nilled in 2013 whilst at Hull FC I know how it feels to lose here.
  • (6) The responsiveness of these THC, PBMNC, NK, NULL, and NILL cells in vitro to graded levels of phytohemagglutinin (PHA), Concanavalin A (Con A), and recombinant interleukin-2 (rIL-2) was examined.
  • (7) NULL cells from healthy adults responding to interleukin-2 (IL-2) and NILL cells from patients with metastatic breast carcinoma nonresponsive to IL-2 were also isolated by the standard antibodies-pinning technique.
  • (8) It is suggested that lymphocyte maturation involves alloantigenic changes in a circulating stem cell-drived nill cell, leading to a cell bearing markers for both T- and B-cells.
  • (9) The mortality is nill for this technique, which is simple and which, for a low morbidity, provides good functional and esthetic results in 87% of cases.
  • (10) (Green, K. J., Parry, D. A. D., Steinert, P. S., Virata, L. A., Wagner, R. M., Angst, B. D., and Nilles, L. A.
  • (11) He’s still playing tennis.” Nill and Christos will watch Kyrgios play overnight on Wednesday, Australian time, and if his success continues the pair will likely be getting on a plane to England to potentially watch him play in the final.
  • (12) The experiments described in this study examined responsiveness of peripheral blood lymphocyte mononuclear (MNC) cells, natural killer (NK) cells, T-helper (THC) cells, and NILL (cells obtained from patients with advanced breast cancer) cells from 10 of each age-matched subjects from 10 healthy adults and patients, 10 with benign breast diseases (BBD), and 10 from patients from each of the breast carcinoma pathological stage BCa PS I, BCa PS II, BCa PS III, and BCa PS IV.
  • (13) In cases with a preoperative visual acuity of 0.01 or more, significant improvement was obtained in 80% of the patients, and when the preoperative visual acuity was not nill but less than 0.01, 38% of patients showed significant improvement.
  • (14) Kyrgios is already a star in his hometown which is why his mother, Nill, was only too willing to throw open the doors of her home to the media as her son took on Nadal.
  • (15) When only clearly defined cases were considered, the mortality was nill in early invasion and merely 1.2% in microcarcinomas with a fictitious volume of up to 500 cmm.
  • (16) Nill said her son excelled in tennis and basketball as a child before it was time to pick which sport he was going to focus on.
  • (17) nill kyrgios (@nillkyrgios) I have no comments on Dawn Frasers nasty racist attack...but she is out of line.
  • (18) The plectin sequence has several marked similarities to that of desmoplakin (Green, K. J., D. A. D. Parry, P. M. Steinert, M. L. A. Virata, R. M. Wagner, B. D. Angst, and L.A. Nilles.

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