What's the difference between nill and sill?

Nill


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Not to will; to refuse; to reject.
  • (v. i.) To be unwilling; to refuse to act.
  • (n.) Shining sparks thrown off from melted brass.
  • (n.) Scales of hot iron from the forge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His father Giorgios hails from Greece and Nill Kyrgios was born in Malaysia.
  • (2) Osteoid formation in the osteotomy region was almost nill in all cases.
  • (3) The relation was positive in schizophrenia and mania, was nill in melancholia, and probably reversed U relation in other psychotics and neurotics.
  • (4) His mother, Nill Kyrgios, said on Twitter that Fraser’s attack was “out of line”.
  • (5) The first final I played in I got injured, and having been nilled in 2013 whilst at Hull FC I know how it feels to lose here.
  • (6) The responsiveness of these THC, PBMNC, NK, NULL, and NILL cells in vitro to graded levels of phytohemagglutinin (PHA), Concanavalin A (Con A), and recombinant interleukin-2 (rIL-2) was examined.
  • (7) NULL cells from healthy adults responding to interleukin-2 (IL-2) and NILL cells from patients with metastatic breast carcinoma nonresponsive to IL-2 were also isolated by the standard antibodies-pinning technique.
  • (8) It is suggested that lymphocyte maturation involves alloantigenic changes in a circulating stem cell-drived nill cell, leading to a cell bearing markers for both T- and B-cells.
  • (9) The mortality is nill for this technique, which is simple and which, for a low morbidity, provides good functional and esthetic results in 87% of cases.
  • (10) (Green, K. J., Parry, D. A. D., Steinert, P. S., Virata, L. A., Wagner, R. M., Angst, B. D., and Nilles, L. A.
  • (11) He’s still playing tennis.” Nill and Christos will watch Kyrgios play overnight on Wednesday, Australian time, and if his success continues the pair will likely be getting on a plane to England to potentially watch him play in the final.
  • (12) The experiments described in this study examined responsiveness of peripheral blood lymphocyte mononuclear (MNC) cells, natural killer (NK) cells, T-helper (THC) cells, and NILL (cells obtained from patients with advanced breast cancer) cells from 10 of each age-matched subjects from 10 healthy adults and patients, 10 with benign breast diseases (BBD), and 10 from patients from each of the breast carcinoma pathological stage BCa PS I, BCa PS II, BCa PS III, and BCa PS IV.
  • (13) In cases with a preoperative visual acuity of 0.01 or more, significant improvement was obtained in 80% of the patients, and when the preoperative visual acuity was not nill but less than 0.01, 38% of patients showed significant improvement.
  • (14) Kyrgios is already a star in his hometown which is why his mother, Nill, was only too willing to throw open the doors of her home to the media as her son took on Nadal.
  • (15) When only clearly defined cases were considered, the mortality was nill in early invasion and merely 1.2% in microcarcinomas with a fictitious volume of up to 500 cmm.
  • (16) Nill said her son excelled in tennis and basketball as a child before it was time to pick which sport he was going to focus on.
  • (17) nill kyrgios (@nillkyrgios) I have no comments on Dawn Frasers nasty racist attack...but she is out of line.
  • (18) The plectin sequence has several marked similarities to that of desmoplakin (Green, K. J., D. A. D. Parry, P. M. Steinert, M. L. A. Virata, R. M. Wagner, B. D. Angst, and L.A. Nilles.

Sill


Definition:

  • (n.) The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like.
  • (n.) The timber or stone at the foot of a door; the threshold.
  • (n.) The timber or stone on which a window frame stands; or, the lowest piece in a window frame.
  • (n.) The floor of a gallery or passage in a mine.
  • (n.) A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
  • (n.) The shaft or thill of a carriage.
  • (n.) A young herring.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's fairly cheap and easy to capture, too: best shot from a moving Peugeot 207, with the camera balanced on the sill of a half-opened side window.
  • (2) For example, nasal reconstruction may be secondary to repair of deformities of the sill, rim, limen nasi, septum, or nasal bones.
  • (3) Philtrum length, philtrum shape, philtrum depth, nasolabial triangular area, vermilion thickness, Cupid's bow peak, horizontal upper lip groove, vermilion border, alar size, depth of alar groove, nasal deviation, nostril shape, nasal tip, columella height, sill shape, columella width, and facial balance of the anterior, profile, and caudal views are used as aesthetic checkpoints for the results of a cleft lip operation.
  • (4) The lengthening and lowering of the short and sometimes retracted columella and narrowing of the alar bases is performed by making a columellar splitting incision and extending it along the alar sills.
  • (5) Accumulation of the bacterial plaque on materials used for cosmetic fillings was comparatively evaluated against that on the dental enamel of males and females aged 40-50 yr using the index of Löe & Sillness.
  • (6) Fewer short-term illnesses were reported by postpartum women than sill-pregnant women, suggesting the potential for recall bias or loss.
  • (7) Junior to and often feistier than the Metropolitan Opera, City Opera was a spawning ground for top opera talent that included Beverly Sills, Placido Domingo, Renee Fleming and Samuel Ramey.
  • (8) The change in (subischial leg length (SILL)--sitting height (SH)) standard deviation score (SDS) was used as an index of disproportionate segmental growth, which allowed the influence of growth hormone deficiency on growth to be discounted.
  • (9) The findings of this study with respect to retention of continuous and discrete psychomotor sills closely parallel findings of the three-month retention study.
  • (10) Significant increases were also observed in the height SDS for bone age (BA), sitting height (SH) SDS and subischial leg length (SILL) SDS.
  • (11) This reduction in spinal growth is reflected by a strongly positive disproportion score (DPS; [SILL SDS-S.HT SDS] + 2.81).
  • (12) Nasal floor excess is improved by an excision of the nasal sill.
  • (13) The limited effectiveness of esculin, a glycoside of 6,7-dihydroxycoumarin prompted research which led to the synthesis of other compounds of the same class, many of which have proved useful as whiteners; though the really broad developments of the 1940's stemmed from the synthesis of the 4,4'-diaminostilbene-2,2'disulfonic acid derivatives which are sill the most important groups of FWAs.
  • (14) Breakfast in bed, with juice congealing on the sill: pages and pages began to pour out again.
  • (15) If irradiated peripubertally, annual change in (SILL-SH) SDS to final height was +0.22 SD 0.23, not significantly different from the change over puberty in the prepubertal group.
  • (16) The lateral subunit is bordered by philtrum column, nostril sill, alar base, and nasolabial crease, while the medial topographic subunit is one-half the philtrum.
  • (17) This C-junction of the nostril sill allows an alignment of the nasal structure without a primary rhinoplasty.
  • (18) Either dry or humit warm-air inhalations with coniferous oil additives were prescribed depending on the type of sillness.
  • (19) The aspidistra of the book's title comes from the pot plants to be found on every window sill which, for Comstock, symbolise all that is wrong with the "mingy, lower-class decency" he is desperate to escape.
  • (20) The glacier has now become detached from a stabilising sill and is losing ice at a rate of 4.5bn tonnes a year.

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