What's the difference between manilla and manille?
Manilla
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Manila or Manilla, the capital of the Philippine Islands; made in, or exported from, that city.
(n.) A ring worn upon the arm or leg as an ornament, especially among the tribes of Africa.
(n.) A piece of copper of the shape of a horseshoe, used as money by certain tribes of the west coast of Africa.
(a.) Same as Manila.
Example Sentences:
(1) The component resin of the surgical adhesive implicated (Alphacopal) is a Manilla resin, produced by a variety of Agathis dammara (Lamb.)
(2) Manilla had 7.7 million people in 1987, with 2 hospitals, and a health care systems based on the European model.
(3) Spray flies from the head of Joe Frazier as heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali connects during the Thrilla in Manilla.
(4) But the will must be stronger than the skill.” I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and got into bed before the room was dark.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Like interviewing a martian: Michael Parkinson remembers Muhammad Ali The Thrilla in Manilla, 1975 I saw your wife.
(5) The resins of the Araucariaceae are special products that may be called Manilla resin and kauri resin, which are relatively different from each other.
(6) Photograph: AP But he ploughed on, to a desperately gruelling decider with Frazier in Manilla which he won after Frazier’s trainer Eddie Futch pulled his man out before the 15th round.
(7) The Manilla Health Department was reorganized into 4 major services.
(8) The red clover was stored in manilla bags in a silo among the ordinary silge fodder, use being of the "green solution method" (Farmos Oy).
(9) New initiatives to bring primary health care to the poor barangays (villages) of Manilla, the capital of the Philippines are described.
(10) Confronting Frazier at a press conference he announced: "It will be a killa, a chilla and a thrilla when I get the gorilla in Manilla."
(11) To study the Trichomonas vaginalis infection rate in the Philippines, 280 women were examined, by either wet mount or stained smear methods, in the greater Manilla area.
(12) Frazier, who took on Ali in three momentous fights in the 1970s, including the epic 'Thrilla in Manilla', had been under home hospice care after being diagnosed with the cancer just weeks ago, according to aa family friend.