What's the difference between gill and vill?

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".

Vill


Definition:

  • (n.) A small collection of houses; a village.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The direct Fourier transform method, autoregressive modelling, the maximum likelihood method and the Wigner-Ville distribution were applied to the Doppler signal obtained from a fully insonated laminar model flow.
  • (2) The tombs of the Dukes of Brabant were not concentrated in one dynastic necropolis, but located as well in abbeys (Affligem and Villers-la-Ville) as in churches belonging to cloisters or chapters, in Louvain and Brussels, the two towns successively used as the ducal residence.
  • (3) These differences in the distribution of the chorionic ville in some classes of size between placentas of diabetic and such of normal pregnancies are significantly too.
  • (4) Mantes-la-Ville, 30 miles west of Paris, is the first town to be run by the Front National in the Île-de-France region that surrounds the capital.
  • (5) The tomb of Henry II (1248) in the abbeychurch of Villers-la-Ville, nowadays disappeared.
  • (6) Ten flavonoid C-glycosyl derivatives: orientin (1), isoorientin (2), vitexin (3), isovitexin (4), isovitexin 7,2"-di-O-glucoside (5), isovitexin 7-O-galactoside-2"-O-glucoside (6), two different 6,8-di-C-hexosylapigenins (7, 8), and two different 6-C-hexosyl-8-C-pentosylapigenins (9, 10) have been either produced from flavonoid fractions from Adonis vernalis L. (1, 2) and Crataegus species (3, 4), or isolated from Stellaria media (L.) Vill.
  • (7) From timeless mountain villages such as Ville-di-Paraso and Speloncato there are stunning views across the Regino valley towards the distant coast, and as the light changes in the afternoon, the jutting ridges of granite glow pink.
  • (8) It has been determined that the thromboplastic agents from the inflorescence of the birch Betula pendula Roth, blossoms of the willow Salix daphnoides Vill., seeds of the pea Pisum sativum L. provoke protective reaction of the animal's anticoagulation system, though weaker expressed than the reaction of thromboplastin from brain.
  • (9) In the rabbit, this occurs before the time of appearance or ville or of an enzyme marker (lactase) for microville.
  • (10) The program, Ville plus sûre, quartiers sans accidents, was launched in 1984, with goals of integrating motorized traffic into urban environments with due regard to local participation and awareness.
  • (11) Over the course of 17 years I disturbed their daily routines by turning Paris upside down; and they had to look at the same face of the prefect in the Hôtel de Ville.
  • (12) Mantes-la-Ville echoes the concerns of many in English towns who voted to leave.
  • (13) If the polls are accurate, the Socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo will get the keys to the city and the 150 sq metre mayoral office at the French capital's imposing Hôtel de Ville on the banks of the Seine.
  • (14) Focus formation following DNA transfection of mouse 3T3-Vill cells was used to search for the presence of activated oncogenes in human thyroid tumors.
  • (15) I identified them all first time - which clearly pleased Ville Makinen, co-founder and chief technology officer.
  • (16) This is Smart Lane, New England Ville, although those who live here don’t exactly have all the comforts the address implies.
  • (17) Which, appearing opposite Jim Carrey as the bumptious Mayor of Who-ville, is precisely his role in Ron Howard's imminent, baroquely sentimental Grinch.
  • (18) "I've had bikes stolen so many times, I'd rather just use these," says an advertising executive at a bike point at the Hôtel de Ville.
  • (19) Washington and the Bills are also both in the red zone – it’s been a fast start to the second-half just about everywhere… 7.39pm GMT Around the league So here’s the full half-time roundup: Chiefs 3-10 Vills Vikings 10-6 Cowboys Titans 7-7 Rams Chargers 14-7 Washington Saints 14-20 Jets Falcons 10-14 Panthers 7.38pm GMT End of first half: Saints 14-20 Jets Drew Brees takes a knee, and that’s the half.
  • (20) Her solo exhibition Linder Sterling is at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris from 7 October to 31 December 2011.

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