What's the difference between pail and pall?

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.

Pall


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Pawl.
  • (n.) An outer garment; a cloak mantle.
  • (n.) A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages.
  • (n.) Same as Pallium.
  • (n.) A figure resembling the Roman Catholic pallium, or pall, and having the form of the letter Y.
  • (n.) A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb.
  • (n.) A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.
  • (v. t.) To cloak.
  • (a.) To become vapid, tasteless, dull, or insipid; to lose strength, life, spirit, or taste; as, the liquor palls.
  • (v. t.) To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull; to weaken.
  • (v. t.) To satiate; to cloy; as, to pall the appetite.
  • (n.) Nausea.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Working in tandem with Westminster city council, Transport for London and the Greater London Authority, the crown estate has pedestrianised several side streets, widened pavements, and introduced a diagonal crossing at Oxford Circus and new traffic islands at Piccadilly Circus, along with two-way traffic on Piccadilly, Pall Mall and St James's Street.
  • (2) Palin has palled on the American public The Republican party's troubles over the past seven years have mostly been because of George W Bush.
  • (3) The staggering figure – one of the worst bombings in 13 years of war in Iraq – has cast a pall on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan and which begins on Wednesday in Iraq .
  • (4) But after 14 hours Danilkin's numbing monologue – almost a carbon copy of the prosecutors's case – is beginning to pall.
  • (5) The purpose of the study was to prove the efficacy of bacterial filters (Ultipor BB 50, Pall Ltd., Dreieich) in preventing microbial contamination of respirators during long-term ventilation.
  • (6) The Pall filter maintained high flow rates but did not remove debris as effectively, particularly with pressure infusion.
  • (7) Molecular genetic analysis of PALL-I cells revealed neither bcr rearrangement nor 8.5-kb abI-related mRNA that is characteristically seen in Ph1-positive chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML).
  • (8) Drainage melioration in the Polesye resulted in a sharp increase in the number of tundra vole (Microtus oeconomus Pall.)
  • (9) Steel industry sources pay tribute to the support that successive governments have given in general terms to the industry through apprenticeships, innovation and science, but there is a lingering sense that steel is a sunset industry; like the smog above the plant, a pall of inevitable doom hangs over its future.
  • (10) News of the killing cast a pall of fear and anger over Pakistan's media.
  • (11) The effects of nifedipine, diltiazem, and Paeonia lactiflora Pall (PLP) on serum lipids.
  • (12) A prospective, randomized, controlled study was undertaken to compare the Pall Ultipor breathing circuit filter (PUBCF), a heat-and-moisture exchanger, and heated hot water systems (HHWSs) in ICU patients submitted to controlled mechanical ventilation.
  • (13) As a candidate he was accused of palling around with terrorists, cutting a sweetheart deal for his home, and following the lead of an anti-American preacher.
  • (14) Comparison of the Bentley PFS-127, Fenwal 4C2417, Johnson & Johnson Intersept, Pall Ultipore, and Swank IL200 filters led to the conclusion that the Fenwal 4C2423 was both a significant improvement over the previous Fenwal design and comparable to the most efficient of these filters for both the removal of microaggregates during massive blood transfusion and for the blood flow rates obtained.
  • (15) The Humid-Vent Filter and Siemens 150 filters were most efficient, the Pall Conserve and ThermoVent 600 less efficient.
  • (16) The filtration was shortest with the Pall RC 50 (p less than 0.001 compared to the other 4 filters).
  • (17) One hundred and forty-four fungal isolates were obtained from diseased Paeonia albiflora Pall.
  • (18) Pall Filter (PF), a hydrophobic filter, humidifies the dry gases from the condensed water which is put down on the HME surfaces during cooling of saturated expired gases.
  • (19) The development of the infection process during cutaneous leishmaniosis was traced in one midday gerbil (Meriones meridianus Pall).
  • (20) The Tories will hope that the glamour images of visiting world leaders - and especially of Barack Obama palling around with, and lavishing warm compliments on, his "friend" the British prime minister - will soon fade.

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