What's the difference between pall and spall?

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.

Spall


Definition:

  • (n.) The shoulder.
  • (n.) A chip or fragment, especially a chip of stone as struck off the block by the hammer, having at least one feather-edge.
  • (v. t.) To break into small pieces, as ore, for the purpose of separating from rock.
  • (v. t.) To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering.
  • (v. i.) To give off spalls, or wedge-shaped chips; -- said of stone, as when badly set, with the weight thrown too much on the outer surface.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Frosty … Rafe Spall in Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror.
  • (2) He was a much smaller man than Tim Spall but I decided not to worry about that.” Dick Pope was honoured at Cannes with a technical award for his cinematography for bringing the paintings to life: the film is filled with Turneresque colour: rose, amber, palest blue… “It’s interesting,” Leigh says, “that this is the first full-length film we have made with a digital camera.
  • (3) His first spell there, while successful, was dotted with rows with players – especially Rivaldo – and his second spall was something of a disaster.
  • (4) He takes the title role in this comedy about divorced dad Rafe Spall’s attempts to find Santa’s lost reindeer, bust the big fellow from prison after a run-in with the authorities and thereby save Christmas.
  • (5) Spall's performance has been much celebrated for its emotional depth, despite Turner's vocabulary in the film often consisting of grunts, snorts and spitting saliva onto the canvas.
  • (6) It is, perhaps, strange that after all they have been through, the Spalls should have chosen so strenuous – and potentially hazardous – a pastime.
  • (7) Thus to see Timothy Spall in Mr Turner mindlessly attacking a badly painted oil sketch was a painful experience for those that love and study art, spoiling for me what otherwise was a beautifully shot and constructed film.
  • (8) There was nothing for the hottest Broadway ticket of last year, a revival of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal directed by Mike Nicholls and starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Rafe Spall.
  • (9) Timothy Spall deservedly won the best actor award at Cannes this year for his portrayal of the painter JMW Turner as a kind of intermittently tender warthog.
  • (10) Julianne Moore was named best actress for her performance as a demented Hollywood diva in David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars, while Britain's Timothy Spall won the best actor prize for his grunting, growling masterclass as marine painter JMW Turner in Mike Leigh's period drama Mr Turner .
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Timothy Spall stars in the forthcoming Mr Turner, directed by Mike Leigh Photograph: Allstar Picture Library “The skies over Thanet are the loveliest in all Europe,” he wrote of the area around Margate, where he painted more than 100 oils and watercolours.
  • (12) However, Spall, 57, has been painting for a decade, mostly canvases of anguished angels.
  • (13) He reckons Mr Turner will take the Palme d'Or, the Dardennes brothers socialist drama Two Days, One Night will have the second place Grand Prix, and Timothy Spall will be shut out of best actor by Channing Tatum or Steve Carell, both in Foxcatcher.
  • (14) But there is strong competition from Leviathan, a Russian epic inspired by the Book of Job and full of barbed digs at the Moscow administration, and from Mike Leigh's artist biopic Mr Turner, starring Timothy Spall.
  • (15) The costume drama, Leigh's first since his depiction of the eccentric Gilbert and Sullivan partnership in Topsy-Turvy, will star Timothy Spall as the enigmatic painter, with Marion Bailey, Dorothy Atkinson and Paul Jesson in supporting roles.
  • (16) Peter Bradshaw on Mr Turner – Timothy Spall dazzles as JMW Turner
  • (17) Turner is played by Timothy Spall , who has already received the Cannes best actor award for a tremendous and disconcerting performance.
  • (18) Notable names missing include Daniel Radcliffe, rave-reviewed for The Cripple of Inishmaan, Denzel Washington (A Raisin in the Sun) and the hottest Broadway ticket of last year, a revival of Harold Pinter's Betrayal directed by Mike Nicholls and starring Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Rafe Spall.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Timothy Spall, who ‘had an amateur notion of doodling’ had to study painting to prepare for his role in Mr Turner.
  • (20) Since Tim Spall had agreed to be in it by then and he's not what one would call svelte ... [Laughter] ... it pointed me in the direction where my imagination could get going with things that are an ongoing preoccupation.