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Jill


Definition:

  • (n.) A young woman; a sweetheart. See Gill.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Jill McDonald, chief marketing officer at McDonald's for northern Europe, said today in one of her first public comments that she tackled the obesity crisis not just as a marketing executive but "as a mother".
  • (2) Ivanka Trump thinks she is in Beauty and the Beast: more like Macbeth | Jill Abramson Read more Later in the day, the White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, said Trump was due to visit Siemens’ Technische Akademie, a vocational training college, and US architect Peter Eisenmann’s Holocaust memorial.
  • (3) In the end, Jill feels her decision was vindicated when her marriage broke up after she discovered he was having an affair.
  • (4) "It's very, very quiet," said Jill Cloke, owner of Upper Lynstone caravan and camping park in Bude, north Cornwall.
  • (5) Jill Treanor (@jilltreanor) Matt Damon joked as starts with golden globe speech he didn't give ... Before talking of his disbelief about lack of clean water January 21, 2014 Updated at 5.34pm GMT 5.24pm GMT Key event To summarise, the key message from the Pope is that Davos must make serious progress on fixing the economic system, and that business leaders must become more focused on fixing the world's problems.
  • (6) This week's victims, siblings Stuart and Jill, both love amateur dramatics.
  • (7) So I’m just really optimistic.” A Morning Consult poll released on Sunday put the four-way split at Hillary Clinton at 39%, Donald Trump at 37%, Johnson at 8% – he was at 9% in the same poll earlier in August – and the Green party candidate, Jill Stein , at 3%.
  • (8) Anna asks, practically hanging a bell round Jill's neck and herding her into a meadow.
  • (9) If local residential provision cannot, or indeed should not, be expanded quickly, "there has to be a really huge emphasis on quality rather than cost", argues Jill Sheldrake, director of social care at Together Trust, a charity that runs residential homes in the north-west.
  • (10) Paul Guard, who lost his parents Roger and Jill Guard , said nine people from his family would attend the service.
  • (11) First black senator elected in south since Reconstruction Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tim Scott smiles with his mother, Frances Scott, after winning his Senate race over challengers Jill Bossi and Joyce Dickerson in South Carolina.
  • (12) ‘Washington is offering no choice besides disaster’ Geno, 37, Pennsylvania, voting for Jill Stein I’m in that middle class suffering from decades of neoliberalism – involuntarily in debt, in a dead-end job because of health coverage and few options.
  • (13) During her pregnancy, it is likely the duchess will be attended to by the Queen's gynaecologist, who is currently Alan Farthing, the former fiance of the murdered television presenter Jill Dando.
  • (14) As USA was getting ready for a crucial semi-final against Germany this week, they were a little closer to their opponent than they would’ve liked: USA coach Jill Ellis said she almost walked into Germany’s meal room her first day in Montreal.
  • (15) Jill Treanor: Bank of England committee flags up housing market concerns 1.34pm GMT Photos: Protests in Athens School guards stand with their backs against policemen as they try to open a street.
  • (16) Rather, it's how women in authority – or, specifically, female bosses – are discussed, because English is incapable of dealing with this crazy female phenomenon, as demonstrated by the palaver following the sacking last week of Jill Abramson as the executive editor of the New York Times.
  • (17) A famed beauty, she went on to have a string of high-profile lovers, including Arthur Koestler, Cyril Connolly, Kenneth Tynan and Cecil Day-Lewis, who was married to her best friend Jill Balcon at the time.
  • (18) "[S]ome aspects of Jill's management of our newsroom" is how Sulzberger frames it .
  • (19) Jill Harth, woman who sued Trump over alleged sexual assault, breaks silence Read more After Access Hollywood host Billy Bush and Trump spend a few minutes making lascivious comments about actor Arianne Zucker, they meet the woman they were just objectifying.
  • (20) The company's chief executive for northern Europe, Jill McDonald, said the company was expanding despite challenging economic conditions: "Our continued focus on serving quality, affordable food and giving our customers a great experience is enabling us to keep investing in our business and creating jobs."

Sill


Definition:

  • (n.) The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like.
  • (n.) The timber or stone at the foot of a door; the threshold.
  • (n.) The timber or stone on which a window frame stands; or, the lowest piece in a window frame.
  • (n.) The floor of a gallery or passage in a mine.
  • (n.) A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
  • (n.) The shaft or thill of a carriage.
  • (n.) A young herring.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's fairly cheap and easy to capture, too: best shot from a moving Peugeot 207, with the camera balanced on the sill of a half-opened side window.
  • (2) For example, nasal reconstruction may be secondary to repair of deformities of the sill, rim, limen nasi, septum, or nasal bones.
  • (3) Philtrum length, philtrum shape, philtrum depth, nasolabial triangular area, vermilion thickness, Cupid's bow peak, horizontal upper lip groove, vermilion border, alar size, depth of alar groove, nasal deviation, nostril shape, nasal tip, columella height, sill shape, columella width, and facial balance of the anterior, profile, and caudal views are used as aesthetic checkpoints for the results of a cleft lip operation.
  • (4) The lengthening and lowering of the short and sometimes retracted columella and narrowing of the alar bases is performed by making a columellar splitting incision and extending it along the alar sills.
  • (5) Accumulation of the bacterial plaque on materials used for cosmetic fillings was comparatively evaluated against that on the dental enamel of males and females aged 40-50 yr using the index of Löe & Sillness.
  • (6) Fewer short-term illnesses were reported by postpartum women than sill-pregnant women, suggesting the potential for recall bias or loss.
  • (7) Junior to and often feistier than the Metropolitan Opera, City Opera was a spawning ground for top opera talent that included Beverly Sills, Placido Domingo, Renee Fleming and Samuel Ramey.
  • (8) The change in (subischial leg length (SILL)--sitting height (SH)) standard deviation score (SDS) was used as an index of disproportionate segmental growth, which allowed the influence of growth hormone deficiency on growth to be discounted.
  • (9) The findings of this study with respect to retention of continuous and discrete psychomotor sills closely parallel findings of the three-month retention study.
  • (10) Significant increases were also observed in the height SDS for bone age (BA), sitting height (SH) SDS and subischial leg length (SILL) SDS.
  • (11) This reduction in spinal growth is reflected by a strongly positive disproportion score (DPS; [SILL SDS-S.HT SDS] + 2.81).
  • (12) Nasal floor excess is improved by an excision of the nasal sill.
  • (13) The limited effectiveness of esculin, a glycoside of 6,7-dihydroxycoumarin prompted research which led to the synthesis of other compounds of the same class, many of which have proved useful as whiteners; though the really broad developments of the 1940's stemmed from the synthesis of the 4,4'-diaminostilbene-2,2'disulfonic acid derivatives which are sill the most important groups of FWAs.
  • (14) Breakfast in bed, with juice congealing on the sill: pages and pages began to pour out again.
  • (15) If irradiated peripubertally, annual change in (SILL-SH) SDS to final height was +0.22 SD 0.23, not significantly different from the change over puberty in the prepubertal group.
  • (16) The lateral subunit is bordered by philtrum column, nostril sill, alar base, and nasolabial crease, while the medial topographic subunit is one-half the philtrum.
  • (17) This C-junction of the nostril sill allows an alignment of the nasal structure without a primary rhinoplasty.
  • (18) Either dry or humit warm-air inhalations with coniferous oil additives were prescribed depending on the type of sillness.
  • (19) The aspidistra of the book's title comes from the pot plants to be found on every window sill which, for Comstock, symbolise all that is wrong with the "mingy, lower-class decency" he is desperate to escape.
  • (20) The glacier has now become detached from a stabilising sill and is losing ice at a rate of 4.5bn tonnes a year.

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