What's the difference between keel and weel?

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.

Weel


Definition:

  • (a. & adv.) Well.
  • (n.) A whirlpool.
  • () Alt. of Weely

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In human fetal lung, there was an increase in specific activity of methionine adenosyltransferase with increasing gestational age (r = 0.87; P less than 0.01) up to 25 weels of gestation, after which time no fetal specimens were obtained.
  • (2) This paper reviews the most important issues discussed in a 2-day symposium on corporate exposure limits which was sponsored by the AIHA Workplace Environment Exposure Limits Committee (WEEL).
  • (3) Determination of hydroxyproline concentration showed that significant differences in the content of the collagen tissue in relation to control animals of the same age occurred only in Goldblatt rats 24 weels after operation.
  • (4) A prototype rate pressure product module has been constructed for use with Simonsen and Weel Series 8000 monitors.
  • (5) The human weel protein, a homologue of the yeast weel protein, was expressed in E. coli and purified to homogeneity.
  • (6) These results confirmed earlier reports by Yonge (1924) and van Weel (1955) on the decapods, Nephrops norvegicus and Atya spinides, respectively.
  • (7) Two or three days after plating, the cells were attached to the surface of tissue culture weel, and began dividing.
  • (8) The growth-stimulating effect depended on the animal species and strain and on the carcinogen, as weel as on the route of administration.
  • (9) Measurements with Criticare CSI 501 (Simonsen & Weel), Criticare CSI 502 (Simonsen & Weel), Nellcor N 100 (Dräeger), Satlite (Datex) and Novametrix 500 (Vickers) were compared with arterial blood gas analyses with Radiometer ABL 3 (Radiometer, Copenhagen).
  • (10) These are the Cardiac Recorders CR26, the Hewlett-Packard HP43120A, the Physico-Control Lifepak 8, the PPG Hellige SCP 852 and the Simonsen & Weel Defi 2.
  • (11) Intra-atrial, atrio-ventricular and intraventricular conduction disorders, as weel as primary ventricular repolarization changes, were also observed.
  • (12) These signals may be monitored through the weel pathway leading to tyrosyl phosphorylation of p34cdc2.
  • (13) In cells in which the weel+ gene is overexpressed fivefold and that have an average length at mitosis of 28 microns, the rate of nuclear separation was only slightly reduced but, as spindles in these cells measure 20-22 microns, the duration of anaphase B was extended by approximately 40%.
  • (14) The history and function of Threshold Limit Values (TLVs) Maximum Allowable Concentrations (MACs), Permissible Exposure Limits (PELs) and Workplace Environment Exposure Limits (WEELs) also were reviewed.
  • (15) The authors analyse the importance in recognizing the minimal signals and symptoms, as weel as the clinical patterns of the manifested disease; Some considerations are draw about the values of the early diagnostic before the high incidence of mortality and the gravity of sequaele that occur besides the high doses and long term antimicrobial therapy.
  • (16) A cdc2-3w weel-50 double mutant of fission yeast displays a temperature-sensitive lethal phenotype that is associated with gross abnormalities of chromosome segregation and has been termed mitotic catastrophe.
  • (17) The pattern of p34 phosphorylation is unaltered at the nonpermissive temperature in strains carrying temperature sensitive alleles of weel-50 and ran1-114 or in a strain overproducing the ran1+ gene product.
  • (18) Furthermore, serine and tyrosine residues of the yeast weel protein are reportedly autophosphorylated in vitro, however the tyrosine residue of the human weel protein was autophosphorylated whereas the serine and threonine residues were not.
  • (19) They had weel pronounced sinuosity and clearly protruding valves.
  • (20) In 11 patients the GGTP activity as weel as that of the other enzymes was normal despite heavy chronic herioin abuse.

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