What's the difference between hades and hell?

Hades


Definition:

  • (n.) The nether world (according to classical mythology, the abode of the shades, ruled over by Hades or Pluto); the invisible world; the grave.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Aside from the US presidency, the big debate of Bilderberg 2012 is likely to be: what in Hades do we do about Greece?
  • (2) Cerberus, named after the mythical three-headed dog that guards Hades , declined to comment on why a Dutch entity had bought the mortgages or whether it would pay the same amount of UK tax as a UK-registered entity would have done.
  • (3) In another herd -- numbering 18 sows -- all sows which hade farrowed during the last 4 months before the present investigation, had developed the Mastitis-Metritis-Agalactia syndrome (MMA).
  • (4) There was no way we were going to put wigs on them, it was already hotter than Hades on the set.
  • (5) Based on the fantasy novel by Joe Hill , this looks like one of those teen-orientated movies you really wish had been directed by David Cronenberg as a full-on body horror in which Radcliffe slowly metamorphosises into a hideous creature from the seventh layer of Hades.
  • (6) Timarion, the fictive narrator, falls ill with a fever and is brought to Hades by two conductors of souls.
  • (7) It was very toddler unfriendly; I must have asked in about 25 bistros if they hade a high chair, and they would look at me as if I’d asked to bring my horse into the restaurant.
  • (8) In order to estimate the combined effect of ethanol and fatigue on the activity of tendon reflexes, the mechanical threshhold and the latency of the patellar tendon, the radial and the biceps reflexes as well as the time of contraction of the musculus quadriceps femoris was investigated in men, with an ethanol level in blood at 80 mg % during elimination-period, and with tired subjects meaning that they hade done their usual daywork and had been awake for about 20 to 22 hours.
  • (9) In Scotland, for example, we have found that Cerberus is tougher in enforcing breaches in covenants.” Taking its name from the mythical multi-headed dog that guarded Hades and prevented the dead from leaving, the New York-based group was founded by Stephen Feinberg and other former employees of Drexel Burnham Lambert, a junk bond specialist that collapsed into bankruptcy in 1990.
  • (10) Patients with a tumor size of less than 5 cm hade a 5-year survival rate of 21%, but 38% of the patients had a tumor size of greater than 10 cm and none of these lived for more than 4 years.
  • (11) He wrote his first story while still at school: The Hades Business, originally published in the school magazine.
  • (12) Half a mile across the sea is the legendary island of Keros, once thought to be the doorway to Hades, and now uninhabited except for teams of visiting archeologists from Cambridge University picking through the rich remains of Bronze Age Cycladic history.
  • (13) In Hades Timarion sues to the court of judges of the dead.
  • (14) The tumors of different histological types hade close sensitivity to the tested drugs.
  • (15) This was Operation Hades, later renamed the friendlier Operation Ranch Hand – the source of what Vietnamese doctors call a "cycle of foetal catastrophe".
  • (16) According to a decree by Asclepios and Hippocrates posted in Hades, any person that has lost one of his four elements may not live longer.

Hell


Definition:

  • (v. t.) The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades.
  • (v. t.) The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death; the abode of evil spirits. Hence, any mental torment; anguish.
  • (v. t.) A place where outcast persons or things are gathered
  • (v. t.) A dungeon or prison; also, in certain running games, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
  • (v. t.) A gambling house.
  • (v. t.) A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type.
  • (v. t.) To overwhelm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
  • (2) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
  • (3) In a 2011 interview with the Financial Times he said: “JPMorgan doesn’t have a chance in hell of not coming up with a big settlement.” He claimed: “There were people at the bank who knew what was going on.” The payment brings the total of fines imposed on JP Morgan to nearly $20bn in the past year.
  • (4) What the hell is the point of cops looking like this?
  • (5) And this was always the thing with the British player, they were always deemed never to be intelligent, not to have good decision-making skills but could fight like hell for the ball.
  • (6) As one source close to the inquiry put it: “There was a hell of a lot of dirty stuff going on.” Two earlier Yard inquiries had failed to investigate the relevant notes in Mulcaire’s logs.
  • (7) And what the hell do bears get up to in those woods?
  • (8) Instead, because of other people, it all too often becomes something else: a complete and utter hell.
  • (9) The country’s other attractions include a burning pit at “the door to hell” in the Darvaza crater, and rarely seen stretches of the silk road, the region’s ancient trade route.
  • (10) One hell of a party” it ain’t, but it is great to know that you are appreciated while you are still able to hear it.
  • (11) One neighbour said: “Janet’s done nothing wrong and this must be hell for her.” This article was corrected on 25 March 2017.
  • (12) You can argue about what constitutes a race “riot” these days – and why the hell we are seeing teargas every other evening in the suburbs, or Jim Crow-reminiscent police dogs in the year 2014.
  • (13) Downtown LA is improving, but for years it was a desolate hell zone of freeways, office blocks and closed stores.
  • (14) With an out-of-session Congress deadlocked over immigration reform and right-wing lawmakers hell-bent on “sealing the border”, the White House faces intense pressure to do something – anything – about immigration, after years of burying a civil rights crisis in a mire of political tone-deafness and jingoistic bombast.
  • (15) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
  • (16) In a 2011 interview with the Financial Times he said: “JPMorgan doesn’t have a chance in hell of not coming up with a big settlement.” He claimed: “There were people at the bank who knew what was going on,” an assertion that JP Morgan has consistently claimed is false.
  • (17) He said the French government had opened the "gates of hell" and "fallen into a trap much more dangerous than Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia".
  • (18) The question about what the hell am I doing standing in, might be raised.
  • (19) And when Israel is hit, it is going to be a hell, hundreds of rockets are going to fall on it.
  • (20) It's been a wonderful game of football, with both sides going hell-for-leather and it couldn't be more even as things stand: all square on the scoreboard, with each aside having scored an away goal.