What's the difference between hell and mell?

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.

Mell


Definition:

  • (v. i. & t.) To mix; to meddle.
  • (n.) Honey.
  • (n.) A mill.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Due to the dramatic increase in international oil prices, the ethanol production by fermentation is presently becoming an attractive and feasible project for many countries Argentina has implemented an experimental national program of ethanol use as fuel and the standard procedure of Melle-Boinot is currently employed in sugar cane molasses fermentation.
  • (2) The ACLU charted a "cumulative set of restrictions" this year, added to restrictions in previous years, which has meant fewer clinics, more obstacles to health care, and "women being told we are too stupid to make decisions for ourselves" Louise Melling, ACLU's legal director, said in a press release.
  • (3) In what they hope will be the opening shot in a debate about the state of British democracy, the academics – Dr Andrew Mell of Corpus Christi College, Oxford; Simon Radford, of the University of Southern California; and historian Dr Seth Alexander Thévoz – conclude the probability of such an outcome is “approximately equivalent to entering the National Lottery and winning the jackpot five times in a row”.
  • (4) The violent Bedbound was about "me finding a real love for my father"; the daughter's pell-mell use of language was a twisted amplification of Walsh's own.
  • (5) Our recent three-proton-families model (Vasseur, van Melle, Frangne and Alvarado (1988) Biochem.
  • (6) Still, it is better than how the coalition is running pell-mell towards pre-election privatisation.
  • (7) David Melling has been in the trade since leaving school 35 years ago.
  • (8) Melle) as a primary growth (May), trimmed primary growth (early June) and regrowth (late June), and white clover (Trifolium repens cv.
  • (9) 23 men were treated during 1977-87 in a special hospital in Warsaw for infertility by administering the Mell-Krat scale, the Rorschach test, and a test consisting of drawing figures.
  • (10) And Harry Melling, now 25, who played Dudley Dursely, is to star next year in the London premiere of a play, Peddling , which he has written and already performed in to acclaim in New York.
  • (11) On the basis of our recent three-protons model for sucrase [Vasseur, van Melle, Frangne & Alvarado (1988) Biochem.
  • (12) But despite Mexico's jitters as the added three minutes ended in pell-mell fashion insipid failure was the endgame.
  • (13) The processing procedure is only helpful in eliminating the fish mell and making grinding and extracting easier.
  • (14) Mark Melling, senior director video and branded content, AOL As senior director of AOL video and branded content, Mark oversees all aspects of AOL’s video production, programming and syndication across its owned and operated properties – including The Huffington Post UK, Engadget, MAKERS and BUILD Series London.
  • (15) In its cheap version of grands projets, Glasgow built absurdly large housing estates and unfeasibly tall flats; in its pell-mell drive for modernity, it pushed urban motorways through the inner-city and razed entire settlements, so that (for examples) the city's east end lost two-thirds of its population and a place such as Springburn, which had once been a dense and distinctive community, barely existed beyond a name on the map.
  • (16) Will Jon have a big green blob of rosin in his glove tonight as he did in Game One, as seen on Vine and suggested by Cardinals farmhand Tyler Melling on a now deleted tweet?
  • (17) But we have an extension job at the minute and another in September that should keep us busy till Christmas.” While Melling thinks the trade is over the worst, he has noticed a change in the nature of building work.
  • (18) In other news, one Kai Melling has just sent me an email complaining about my pronunciation of Polish names.
  • (19) The results obtained at the National Institute for Animal Nutrition in Melle-Gontrode with the two step in vitro digestion technique and a developed cellulase method are illustrated more in detail.

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