What's the difference between mell and tell?

Mell


Definition:

  • (v. i. & t.) To mix; to meddle.
  • (n.) Honey.
  • (n.) A mill.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Due to the dramatic increase in international oil prices, the ethanol production by fermentation is presently becoming an attractive and feasible project for many countries Argentina has implemented an experimental national program of ethanol use as fuel and the standard procedure of Melle-Boinot is currently employed in sugar cane molasses fermentation.
  • (2) The ACLU charted a "cumulative set of restrictions" this year, added to restrictions in previous years, which has meant fewer clinics, more obstacles to health care, and "women being told we are too stupid to make decisions for ourselves" Louise Melling, ACLU's legal director, said in a press release.
  • (3) In what they hope will be the opening shot in a debate about the state of British democracy, the academics – Dr Andrew Mell of Corpus Christi College, Oxford; Simon Radford, of the University of Southern California; and historian Dr Seth Alexander Thévoz – conclude the probability of such an outcome is “approximately equivalent to entering the National Lottery and winning the jackpot five times in a row”.
  • (4) The violent Bedbound was about "me finding a real love for my father"; the daughter's pell-mell use of language was a twisted amplification of Walsh's own.
  • (5) Our recent three-proton-families model (Vasseur, van Melle, Frangne and Alvarado (1988) Biochem.
  • (6) Still, it is better than how the coalition is running pell-mell towards pre-election privatisation.
  • (7) David Melling has been in the trade since leaving school 35 years ago.
  • (8) Melle) as a primary growth (May), trimmed primary growth (early June) and regrowth (late June), and white clover (Trifolium repens cv.
  • (9) 23 men were treated during 1977-87 in a special hospital in Warsaw for infertility by administering the Mell-Krat scale, the Rorschach test, and a test consisting of drawing figures.
  • (10) And Harry Melling, now 25, who played Dudley Dursely, is to star next year in the London premiere of a play, Peddling , which he has written and already performed in to acclaim in New York.
  • (11) On the basis of our recent three-protons model for sucrase [Vasseur, van Melle, Frangne & Alvarado (1988) Biochem.
  • (12) But despite Mexico's jitters as the added three minutes ended in pell-mell fashion insipid failure was the endgame.
  • (13) The processing procedure is only helpful in eliminating the fish mell and making grinding and extracting easier.
  • (14) Mark Melling, senior director video and branded content, AOL As senior director of AOL video and branded content, Mark oversees all aspects of AOL’s video production, programming and syndication across its owned and operated properties – including The Huffington Post UK, Engadget, MAKERS and BUILD Series London.
  • (15) In its cheap version of grands projets, Glasgow built absurdly large housing estates and unfeasibly tall flats; in its pell-mell drive for modernity, it pushed urban motorways through the inner-city and razed entire settlements, so that (for examples) the city's east end lost two-thirds of its population and a place such as Springburn, which had once been a dense and distinctive community, barely existed beyond a name on the map.
  • (16) Will Jon have a big green blob of rosin in his glove tonight as he did in Game One, as seen on Vine and suggested by Cardinals farmhand Tyler Melling on a now deleted tweet?
  • (17) But we have an extension job at the minute and another in September that should keep us busy till Christmas.” While Melling thinks the trade is over the worst, he has noticed a change in the nature of building work.
  • (18) In other news, one Kai Melling has just sent me an email complaining about my pronunciation of Polish names.
  • (19) The results obtained at the National Institute for Animal Nutrition in Melle-Gontrode with the two step in vitro digestion technique and a developed cellulase method are illustrated more in detail.

Tell


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.
  • (v. t.) To utter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to narrate.
  • (v. t.) To make known; to publish; to disclose; to divulge.
  • (v. t.) To give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to teach; to inform.
  • (v. t.) To order; to request; to command.
  • (v. t.) To discern so as to report; to ascertain by observing; to find out; to discover; as, I can not tell where one color ends and the other begins.
  • (v. t.) To make account of; to regard; to reckon; to value; to estimate.
  • (v. i.) To give an account; to make report.
  • (v. i.) To take effect; to produce a marked effect; as, every shot tells; every expression tells.
  • (n.) That which is told; tale; account.
  • (n.) A hill or mound.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Michael James, 52, from Tower Hamlets Three days after telling his landlord that the flat upstairs was a deathtrap, Michael James was handed an eviction notice.
  • (2) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
  • (3) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
  • (4) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
  • (5) "With hyperspectral imaging, you can tell the chemical content of a cake just by taking a photo of it.
  • (6) I think he had been saying all season that with three or four games to go he will tell us where we are.
  • (7) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
  • (8) Are you ready to vote?” is the battle cry, and even the most superficial of glances at the statistics tells why.
  • (9) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
  • (10) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
  • (11) Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall tried to liven things up, but there are only so many ways to tell us to be nice to chickens.
  • (12) David Hamilton tells me: “The days of westerners leading expeditions to Nepal will pass.
  • (13) If Del Bosque really want to win this World Cup thingymebob, then he has got to tell Iker Casillas that the jig is up, correct?
  • (14) Will African film-makers tell those kind of films differently?
  • (15) July 7, 2016 Verified account A blue tick that tells you the user is either an A-list celebrity, a respected authority on an important subject or a BuzzFeed employee.
  • (16) The education secretary's wife, Sarah Vine, a columnist, said her son William, nine, and daughter Beatrice, 11, now realise how much their father is hated for his position in government because other children tell them in the playground.
  • (17) You can tell them that Deutsche Bank remains absolutely rock solid, given our strong capital and risk position.
  • (18) The debate certainly hit upon a larger issue: the tendency for people in positions of social and cultural power to tell the stories of minorities for them, rather than allowing minority communities to speak for themselves.
  • (19) In saying what he did, he was not telling any frequent flyer something they didn't already know, and he was not protesting about any newly adopted measures.
  • (20) Blight responded with a hypothetical, telling Ludlam if the ASD asked a foreign agency to get material about Australian citizens it could not access under Australian law, the IGIS would know about it and flag it in its annual report.

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