What's the difference between impost and wall?

Impost


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is imposed or levied; a tax, tribute, or duty; especially, a duty or tax laid by goverment on goods imported into a country.
  • (n.) The top member of a pillar, pier, wall, etc., upon which the weight of an arch rests.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The details are a bit sketchy but I've just had it confirmed from Old Trafford that the people who were in Spain, apparently negotiating on their behalf for Ander Herrera, were not sent there by the club and can accurately be described as 'imposters'.
  • (2) The Manny Pacquiao who entered the congested dressing room on Thursday morning at Madison Square Garden, smartly clad in a glen plaid suit and Louis Vuitton sunglasses, with a pair of iPhones in hand, might have seemed an imposter a decade ago.
  • (3) US and Canadian oil policies, especially the tar sands schemes in Alberta, would increase the chances of global calamities, the imposters told their audience - but reassured them that the industry could keep "fuel flowing" by transforming the billions of people who died into oil.
  • (4) The feeling of being an imposter is definitely unnerving.
  • (5) The imposter phenomenon describes individuals who at times feel as if they are imposters in their chosen profession.
  • (6) "Facilitated by organised criminals, this typically involved invigilators supplying, even reading out, answers to whole exam rooms or gangs of imposters being allowed to step into the exam candidates' places to sit the test.
  • (7) Mansoor’s name first rose to public prominence in 2010 when western intelligence officials spent tens of thousands of dollars ferrying a “senior commander” to Kabul for peace talks, only to discover that they had been courting an imposter , a grocer pretending to be Mansoor.
  • (8) Manchester United missed out on signing the Athletic Bilbao midfielder Ander Herrera not because the deal was hijacked by "imposters" , but due to their failure to understand the complexities of Spanish buy-out clauses.
  • (9) There is an overblown budget emergency to justify nasty imposts on low income earners.
  • (10) June 6, 2014 ( Note: There's a possibility that this tweet is actually not from the real Brian Scalabrine, but some Twitter imposter.
  • (11) They are seeing through him.” A spokesman for Ukip said the move had been made, in part, because imposters were using the Ukip logo on racist social media accounts in order to embarrass the party.
  • (12) Sissoko broke on several occasions and it was surprising to see how many of Tottenham’s players faded or made errors to infuriate Pochettino who complained that Spurs were virtual imposters after the interval, impossible to make out from their first-half display.
  • (13) Some famous people make the mistake of shunning social media or using false names, leaving the field open for imposters who can do serious damage.
  • (14) At times he confessed to her that "he felt like an imposter.
  • (15) But, with an election campaign possibly just days away, the statement was also a political document, careful to spare households from any direct imposts and including in its fine print several hundred million dollars in “decisions taken but not yet announced”.
  • (16) Finally, the most distinguishing characteristics were identity delusions, possession delusions, grandiose delusions (other than identities and possessions), and delusions that their families were imposters (Capgras Syndrome) reported by paranoid schizophrenics.
  • (17) Whenever his country had gone through a period of doubt “or nearly disappeared”, he said, France was always able “to drive out the imposters in power and replace them with people who really loved our country.” The audience cheered.
  • (18) However, it now seems the trio were imposters and had nothing to do with United at all.
  • (19) And Palmer himself is often accused of being something of an imposter, claiming grand feats that aren’t quite what they seem or don’t quite eventuate.
  • (20) Baird has acknowledged that the GST is regressive – that is, lower income earners are hit harder because the impost represents a greater share of their disposable income – so says an increase would have to be accompanied by a compensation package for households earning up to $100,000 a year.

Wall


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.
  • (n.) A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room.
  • (n.) A defense; a rampart; a means of protection; in the plural, fortifications, in general; works for defense.
  • (n.) An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel; as, the walls of a steam-engine cylinder.
  • (n.) The side of a level or drift.
  • (n.) The country rock bounding a vein laterally.
  • (v. t.) To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall.
  • (v. t.) To defend by walls, or as if by walls; to fortify.
  • (v. t.) To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Within the outflow tract wall, the labelled cells were enmeshed by strands of alcian blue-stained extracellular matrix.
  • (2) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
  • (3) With aging, the blood vessel wall becomes hyperreactive--presumably because of an augmented vasoconstrictor and a reduced vasodilator responsiveness.
  • (4) At operation, the tumour was identified and excised with part of the aneurysmal wall.
  • (5) The role of whole Mycobacteria, mycobacterial cell walls and waxes D as immunostimulants was well established many years ago.
  • (6) The lesion (10.6 X 9.8 mm) was a well-defined ellipsoid granuloma due to a foreign body with a central zone of necrosis surrounded entirely by a fibrous wall.
  • (7) During the digestion of these radiolabeled bacteria, murine bone marrow macrophages produced low-molecular-weight substances that coeluted chromatographically with the radioactive cell wall marker.
  • (8) All patients with localized subaortic hypertrophy had left ventricular hypertrophy (left ventricular mass or posterior wall thickness greater than 2 SD from normal) with a normal size cavity due to aortic valve disease (2 patients were also hypertensive).
  • (9) Its pathogenesis, still incompletely elucidated, involves the precipitation of immune complexes in the walls of the all vessels.
  • (10) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
  • (11) The following possible explanations were discussed: a) the tested psychotropic drugs block prostaglandin receptors in the stomach; b) the test substances react with prostaglandin in the nutritive solution; c) the substances stimulate metabolic processes in the stomach wall that break down prostaglandin.
  • (12) It may, however, be useful to compare local wall dynamics in the more isometrically-contracting basal segment with those in the middle portion which brings about most of the emptying of the ventricle.
  • (13) Their levels in urine are a useful indicator of the integrity of membrane barriers of the kidney glomerular capillary wall.
  • (14) The resistance of GSA 65 to proteolytic degradation, together with previous immunofluorescence data that indicate the antigen is an integral part of the G. lamblia cyst wall, suggests that this molecule may play a role in maintaining the integrity of the cyst in vivo.
  • (15) Polypeptide factor isolated from vascular wall of the cattle ("vasonin") was shown to affect the immunogenesis and hemostasis, to stimulate kallikrein-kinin system and to accelerate processes of regeneration.
  • (16) In the case with a more distally situated VSD, the bundle branches skirted the anterior and distal walls of the defect.
  • (17) Cholecystectomy provided successful treatment in three of the four patients but the fourth was too ill to undergo an operation; in general, definitive treatment is cholecystectomy, together with excision of the fistulous tract if this takes a direct path through the abdominal wall from the gallbladder, or curettage if the course is devious.
  • (18) Following injections of HRP into the apex of the heart, the sinoatrial (SA) nodal region and the ventral wall of the right ventricle, we observed that HRP-labeled sympathetic neurons were localized predominantly in the right stellate ganglia, and to a lesser extent, in the right superior and middle cervical ganglia, and left stellate ganglia.
  • (19) A temperature-sensitive mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was identified which at the restrictive temperature of 37 degrees C is unable to secrete a number of cell wall-associated proteins and thus resembles previously reported sec mutants.
  • (20) Polypropylene mesh was used to repair the abdominal wall.