What's the difference between keel and kneel?

Keel


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To cool; to skim or stir.
  • (n.) A brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat.
  • (n.) A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the principal timber of the vessel, and, by means of the ribs attached on each side, supports the vessel's frame. In an iron vessel, a combination of plates supplies the place of the keel of a wooden ship. See Illust. of Keelson.
  • (n.) Fig.: The whole ship.
  • (n.) A barge or lighter, used on the Type for carrying coal from Newcastle; also, a barge load of coal, twenty-one tons, four cwt.
  • (n.) The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and inclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina. See Carina.
  • (n.) A projecting ridge along the middle of a flat or curved surface.
  • (v. i.) To traverse with a keel; to navigate.
  • (v. i.) To turn up the keel; to show the bottom.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 2007, she put the Oscars back on an even keel after poor reviews for the satirist Jon Stewart in 2006.
  • (2) As they were leaving, he told the court, D’Souza took charge of Keeling and asked Sagar to leave the pair alone.
  • (3) But before you keel over in shock she's back on form arguing that the government use the money spent on overseas aid to boost investment in prisons.
  • (4) In that time, MacKeown has had to endure tastleless coverage of her daughter’s drug use and sex life, and close scrutiny of her own lifestyle, and of her decision to allow Keeling to travel alone to Anjuna while the family toured a neighbouring state.
  • (5) Because we know how even-keeled and slow-to-anger people are during those types of situations.
  • (6) This bar is only a couple of miles from where the body of British teenager Scarlett Keeling was found five years ago.
  • (7) Another ship, called TransSpar and designed by Canada's Extreme Ocean Innovation , has a huge, deep keel for stability, giving it the shape of a seahorse, while a third is an adaptation of a Norwegian Navy minesweeping hovercraft .
  • (8) A silastic keel is secured between the vocal cords at the anterior commissure by means of a loop of nylon passing externally through the crico-thyroid and crico-hyoid membranes.
  • (9) This instrument will allow endoscopic insertion of sutures for lateralization of a paralyzed vocal cord or for fixation of endoscopically inserted stents or keels in laryngotracheal stenosis.
  • (10) In a rare case of simultaneous glottic and supraglottic webbing a tantalum keel, as described by McNaught, and a silcone elastomer keel, as described by Montgomery, were placed simultaneously via laryngofissure.
  • (11) Willetts has appointed Dame Janet Finch, a former vice-chancellor of Keele University, to sit down with academics and publishers to work out how an open-access scheme for publicly-funded research might function in the UK.
  • (12) Fifteen-year-old Scarlett Keeling was found bruised and half-dressed in the waters of popular Anjuna beach in February 2008.
  • (13) Professor Peter Styles, professor of applied and environmental geophysics at Keele University, said the find could supply the UK for decades.
  • (14) In chickens he found NCD (pseudo-fowlpest) and in ducklings a mortal disease which the author then called 'keeling disease' but which he many years later, recognized as virus hepatitis.
  • (15) Analysis of the 12-wk pooled data from both cage and floor groups indicated the occurrence of isometric growth of the shank and breast in G1 and of the breast only in G2 and allometric growth of the thigh and keel in both genotypes.
  • (16) An endoscopic technique using a Teflon keel which has been successful in properly selected cases is presented.
  • (17) Pain threshold was measured in 106 patients with rheumatoid arthritis, 50 with ankylosing spondylitis, and 50 normal controls using Keele's algometer.
  • (18) I did not need O-levels to lead, to have judgment, to make decisions and to be decided.” Nevertheless, in later life he would serve several universities, as pro-chancellor of Keele, then chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan and first chancellor of Chester.
  • (19) I kept falling asleep during morning session, keeling over into the person next to me.
  • (20) Nonarticulated components, such as the solid-ankle cushion heel foot, have various keel designs; energy-storing variants provide springiness for walking and running.

Kneel


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To bend the knee; to fall or rest on the knees; -- sometimes with down.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Among the non-standard postures examined were: twisting while lifting or lowering, lifting and lowering from lying, sitting, kneeling, and squatting positions, and carrying loads under conditions of constricted ceiling heights.
  • (2) 1.07am GMT 49ers 10-3 Seahawks end of 2nd quarter Kaepernick kneels and that will do it for the first half, one mostly dominated by defense with the exception of SF's #7 running all over the field for 98 yards.
  • (3) But they're still far smaller than groups in the US, with individual members often kneeling on freezing pavements for hours to hold the 12-hour presence demanded by the group HQ that's located "somewhere in Texas".
  • (4) Colin Kaepernick and San Francisco 49ers safety Eric Reid kneeled during the national anthem on Thursday night, continuing the quarterback’s preseason protest against American racial injustice and minority oppression.
  • (5) From glossy magazines to giant billboards and the celebrity culture we obsessively consume, all kneel at the altar of the airbrushed.
  • (6) The reason these guys are kneeling, the reason we’re locking arms, is to bring people together to make people aware that this is not right.
  • (7) Colin Kaepernick has hit back at Donald Trump’s assertion that the quarterback “should find another country that works better for him” in response to his decision to kneel for the national anthem.
  • (8) A Syrian aged about 30 who has just crossed the border prays to the east next to the railway track, kneeling on a sleeping bag.
  • (9) Read more The Labour leader had previously indicated he would have to think about whether to attend the Buckingham Palace ceremony, at which new members have to kneel, kiss the monarch’s hand and swear to defend her against “all foreign princes, persons, prelates, states or potentates”.
  • (10) ‘Kneel down and put your hands on your head': the last minutes of the Sydney siege and Tori Johnson's life Read more “I honestly believed it would be my last command,” the tactical commander said, adding that he thought there would be a “massive explosion” from the stronghold.
  • (11) Twelve patients continued to have symptoms months or years after the infection, particularly those with preexisting chronic bursitis, or those who kneeled at work.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A New York City police officer calls for help as he kneels near a victim of the Fraunces Tavern bombing.
  • (13) Sydney siege: how a day and night of terror unfolded at the Lindt cafe Read more Johnson was shot, without warning, in the head at almost point blank range after being made to kneel on the ground in the early hours of 16 December.
  • (14) Several protesters have their hands crossed above their heads and some are kneeling.
  • (15) And in among this relentless violence, there were moments when the police preferred humiliation: the officer who stood spread-legged in front of a kneeling and injured woman, grabbed his groin and thrust it into her face before turning to do the same to Daniel Albrecht kneeling beside her; the officer who paused amid the beatings and took a knife to cut off hair from his victims, including Nicola Doherty; the constant shouting of insults; the officer who asked a group if they were OK and who reacted to the one who said "No" by handing out an extra beating.
  • (16) The activation patterns of the gastrocnemius, tibialis anterior, rectus femoris, and biceps femoris muscles of the leg initiating movement exhibited variability among subjects during the kneel-to-stand movement.
  • (17) Most say they were forced to kneel upright for long periods on arrival at the JFIT.
  • (18) So he will pray again, just like he has for the past 364 days and nights, kneeling at the side of her empty bed.
  • (19) "At the end of it, she said: 'We're all going to kneel in prayer'.
  • (20) He has confirmed that he intends to join the body, but has not said whether he will kneel on a footstool or kiss the Queen’s hand as part of the process.