What's the difference between nail and pail?

Nail


Definition:

  • (n.) the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.
  • (n.) The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
  • (n.) The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
  • (n.) A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, used for fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven into or through them.
  • (a.) A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard.
  • (n.) To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams.
  • (n.) To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails.
  • (n.) To fasten, as with a nail; to bind or hold, as to a bargain or to acquiescence in an argument or assertion; hence, to catch; to trap.
  • (n.) To spike, as a cannon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since fingernail creatinine (Ncr) reflects serum creatinine (Scr) at the time of nail formation, it has been suggested that Ncr level might represent that of Scr around 4 months previously.
  • (2) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
  • (3) Ender nails as well as three forms of interlocking nails, Brooker-Wills (B-W), Klenm-Schellman (K-S), and Grosse-Kempf (G-K), were implanted in cadaver femora.
  • (4) In the end, the emails from citizen scientists nailed the timing: “looks like it started maybe December 2015”; the severity: “I’ve seen dieback before, but not like this”; and the cause: “guessing it may be the consequence of the four-year drought”.
  • (5) Impairments of hearing, of mobility, of cutting toe-nails and of general physical activity were the conditions which were most frequently named.
  • (6) All nine injuries had antibiotic prophylaxis before and after nail removal.
  • (7) But I'm starting with the job that I can do something about right now – scrabbling around on the floor, picking up three-inch nails and cigarette butts so that the new four-year-olds will have somewhere safe to play at break.
  • (8) A case is reported of a male infant with congenital palmoplantar keratoderma and nail dystrophy who developed progressive perioral and perineal keratoderma.
  • (9) Although the nail changes and systemic complications are probably due to different causes in drug-induced YNS, a careful search for systemic complications are necessary in patients who develop nail changes.
  • (10) Similar cultures from ten additional patients who underwent nail surgery were also performed.
  • (11) It constitutes an alternative to Ender nailing, screw-plate, and nail-plate.
  • (12) Fragments of nail keratin removed with tweezers from patients suffering from alopecia areata were examined using light microscopy and electron microscopy.
  • (13) It's an anxious time for those 180,000 teenagers chasing the last university places in clearing ; nails are bitten to the quick, eyes glazed from internet searching.
  • (14) The phenol and alcohol procedure still remains as one of the most effective and gratifying means of treatment for symptomatic ingrown nails.
  • (15) High level of Ge content was detected from the hair and nail by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry.
  • (16) Yellow nail syndrome is characterized by a yellow discolouration of the nails associated with idiopathic lymphoedema and pleuropulmonary manifestations.
  • (17) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
  • (18) Median strain values of reamed only and polyacetal-nailed femora ranged from 67 to 90 percent of the intact side.
  • (19) Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority and minority leaders, held two lengthy meetings on Monday in an attempt to nail down terms of a possible compromise.
  • (20) One hundred patients were treated with the Rydell four-flanged nail and 100 with the Gouffon pins.

Pail


Definition:

  • (n.) A vessel of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and having a bail, -- used esp. for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; a bucket. It may, or may not, have a cover.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition, ampicillin was dissolved in milk and pail fed 20 to 30 minutes following intramuscular atropine.
  • (2) Ampicillin was only detected in the plasma of calves which had received the drug, pail fed in milk.
  • (3) Sewage collected in these pails was often dumped overboard into the harvesting area.
  • (4) One of the panners, Martine Wandango, 25, bends over her pail of water as she filters out rocks and searches for ore. “You can only survive with money, and you can only find money from gold,” says Martine, who followed her husband to the delta 15 years ago by walking 60 miles over the mountains from their remote highland village.
  • (5) The presence of the 73,000 species previously assessed to be bound to poly(A) is discussed in view of the fact that histone mRNA does not contain a pail.
  • (6) Secondly, there were changes to the system of disposal of excrement from cesspits to poorly organized pail and single-pan schemes which led to the causal disposal of sewage in the street gutters.
  • (7) As the blood pressure was increased, pail arterioles constricted and cerebral blood flow remained relatively constant, showing that autoregulation of cerebral blood flow was intact.
  • (8) At the weekend the chair of the Harlow Conservative Association, Linda Pailing, summed up that attitude: "The voters are disillusioned with Cameron himself.
  • (9) Dangers such as bed- and tub-sharing, diaper and cleaning pails, plastic wrappers, balloons, small beds, toys on strings, broken or poorly designed cribs, and poorly positioned adult beds must be brought to the attention of the parent as consumer.
  • (10) Using a multiple baseline design with reversal conditions, social play was measured on four activities: pegs and pegboard, athletic ball, blocks, and water pail.
  • (11) Chickens were subjected to the sound produced by banging on a metal pail (104 decibels) for 30 seconds.
  • (12) A 41-year-old man noticed motor disturbances when he tried to lift a bath pail and to write on July, 1978.
  • (13) The first colostrum is best ingested when it is offered in a pail or bottle provided with a nipple.
  • (14) A shirtless addict who had just pissed into a pail in the corner helped me.
  • (15) Pregastric esterase activity was detected in reconstituted nonfat milk sham fed from a nipple pail to two 4-yr-old rumen-fistualted steers.
  • (16) Ampicillin was given orally to five Holstein calves using the following four different methods of administration: via stomach tube, mixed and fed in the calf starter ration, dissolved in milk and pail fed and administered orally as 400 mg commercial calf tablets.
  • (17) Highly reactive, vertically oriented, large diameter fibers were seen as groups between the outer portion of layer 5 and the pail surface.
  • (18) In three experiments, we examined why some idioms can be lexically altered and still retain their figurative meanings (e.g., John buttoned his lips about Mary can be changed into John fastened his lips about Mary and still mean "John didn't say anything about Mary"), whereas other idioms cannot be lexically altered without losing their figurative meanings (e.g., John kicked the bucket, meaning "John died," loses its idiomatic meaning when changed into John kicked the pail).
  • (19) At both ages the desipramine-treated and zimeldine-treated rats expressed lengthened immobility times in the water pail.
  • (20) The 'liquid-fed' group (LFG) was given from a pail a liquid suspension of the equivalent amount of the same concentrates as those fed to DFG calves, for the same periods.

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