What's the difference between peal and penal?

Peal


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To resound; to echo.
  • (n.) A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin.
  • (v. i.) To appeal.
  • (n.) A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, of a multitude, etc.
  • (n.) A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale; also, the changes rung on a set of bells.
  • (v. i.) To utter or give out loud sounds.
  • (v. t.) To utter or give forth loudly; to cause to give out loud sounds; to noise abroad.
  • (v. t.) To assail with noise or loud sounds.
  • (v. t.) To pour out.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With the promise of a new set starting at midnight, his third of the night, I arrive around 11pm to hear him still in full flow, vein-popping saxophone pealing out into Mornington Crescent.
  • (2) Black smoke rising from the chapel's chimney signifies an inconclusive vote (traditionally damp straw was added to make the smoke black but a chemical compound is now used instead); white smoke – and the pealing of the basilica's bell to avoid any confusion about the colour of the smoke – means that a new pope has been elected.
  • (3) Of a sudden from the belfry in the square there broke out again a wild midnight peal of bells.
  • (4) Unique aspects of the prehistory and current distribution of the Polynesian rat (Rattus exulans Peale) have been applied to the problem of determining the biogeographical origin of its parasites as found on 'exulans only' islands of New Zealand.
  • (5) The peals of laughter that greeted this piece of deadpannery were perhaps indicative of the committee's eagerness to put its guest at his ease.
  • (6) In patients with myocardial infarction there was good correlation between the minimum plasma zinc level and the peal value of plasma enzymes, and also with some clinical estimators of prognosis.
  • (7) Furthermore, both the size and number of cells recovered in fractions 7 to 11 (which include the modal peal volume of unseparated hepatocytes) were increased.
  • (8) I ask you – would the Germans discriminate against our bicycles, if they thought we would discriminate against their BMWs?” he asked, to peals of laughter.
  • (9) The clang of an approaching train's warning to pedestrians to get off the open tracks has become part of the city's soundtrack, along with the constant honking of car horns, the five-times-a-day Muslim call to prayer, the occasional peal of church bells and the Friday afternoon siren that marks the start of the Jewish sabbath.
  • (10) Websites have been constructed; commemorative gold coins and stamps are to be issued; a peal of bells will ring from churches; a series of lectures around the world, starting with one by Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, will emphasise the document’s enduring importance; the British Library will host the largest exhibition in its history; special songs and poems will be performed; Magna Carta will even get its own display at the Notting Hill carnival.
  • (11) Ectoparasite records are presented for four species of commensal murid rodents (Rattus rattus palelae Miller & Hollister, R. argentiventer (Robinson & Kloss), R. exulans (Peale) and Mus musculus castaneus Waterhouse) in Sulawesi Utara, with particular reference to the potential for these arthropods to bite and transmit pathogens to humans.
  • (12) 2.57pm BST Bells have started pealing as the planes slowly come to a halt near assembled mourners.
  • (13) A little light relief amid the gravitas of an occasion which amounted to the most important ruling in the court's 61-year history was offered by a slip of the tongue by Vosskuhle who called the petitions to block the ESM "justified" before changing it to "unjustified" after being corrected by a colleague, as peals of laughter filled the courtroom.
  • (14) He is more obviously shy than Koenig – they met during a production of Romeo and Juliet at Columbia – but he has a ready grin and emits little peals of laughter at unexpected moments during our conversation.
  • (15) One man, carrying a large German flag which flaps in the wind, is heard greeting his friends with “Heil Deutschland” to be met by peals of laughter.
  • (16) Its peal will be answered by the bells of churches all along the river and theirs, in turn, echoed by others up and down the land.
  • (17) Her laughter is the only kind I've ever heard that actually deserves the word "peals": she reels in her seat with it.
  • (18) Band-pass was set up between 1 and 125 Hz and latencies and amplitudes were studied for both types of evoked responses, PEATs and PEALs.
  • (19) Linearity in the intrinsic and radiation sensitized response of the 280 degree C TL peal for both pellet and powder forms has been studied with regard to ultraviolet dosimetry over the range 10(-2) to 5 x 10(4) mJ cm-2.
  • (20) A little light relief amidst the gravitas of an occasion which amounted to the most important ruling in the court's 61 year history was offered by a slip of the tongue by Vosskuhle who called the petitions to block the ESM “justified” before changing it to “unjustified” after being corrected by a colleague, as peals of laughter filled the courtroom.

Penal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence
  • (a.) Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code.
  • (a.) Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact of offense.
  • (a.) Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) According to the Howard League for Penal Reform, which is backing the legal challenge, every year 75,0000 17-year-olds are held in custody.
  • (2) The instrument is a definite aid to the surgeon, and does not penalize the time required for surgery.
  • (3) The Federal Penal Service rejected a request from Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova to serve their remaining time in Moscow; given the high profile nature of their case, they are afraid for their safety in the communal environment of a correctional colony.
  • (4) Two remarks from previous analyses are then made: the underestimation of the factor of depression in the homicidal act; and the need for reforming the practice of penal psychiatric survey.
  • (5) The introduction in 1968 of the legal concept of Grave Abnormal into the penal code, Development of the Personality Amounting to a Disorder made possible criminal exculpation on the basis of psychosocial maldevelopment.
  • (6) Instead, the situation has deteriorated: rehearsals for the piece began on the day the Russian authorities finally produced confirmation that Tolokonnikova had been admitted to the medical wing of a Siberian penal colony , following a three-week transit period during which her family and legal representatives were denied any information of her whereabouts.
  • (7) A comparative analysis of the cases indicates that penal care measures are predominantly effective in those cases where the delinquents are subjected to intensive expert diagnosis, therapeutic care and vocational counselling and vocational aidmeasures at the commencement, during and subsequent to their respective periods of confinement.
  • (8) Now boos ring round the stadium as the resultant free kick causes some chaos in the box and Seattle are penalized for Zach Scott holding.
  • (9) There are currently about 750 babies in Russia's penal colonies living in mini-detachment blocks.
  • (10) Oleg Sentsov should make new films, not count years in prison.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Oleg Sentsov sings the Ukrainian national anthem as he is sentenced to 20 years in a Russian penal colony Sentsov attracted the ire of the Russian authorities after helping to organise a campaign protesting at Russia’s occupation and annexation of Crimea in March 2014.
  • (11) Whether in civil, penal or administrative law, it supposes the notion of liability.
  • (12) As part of this they investigate “the reasons for the establishment of one or more British colonies such as a penal colony (for example Moreton Bay, Van Diemen’s Land) or a colony that later became a state (for example Western Australia, Victoria)”.
  • (13) Civil legislation (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch = BGB) as well as the penal code (Strafgesetzbuch = StGB) contain a broad spectrum of laws to protect children against physical abuse, physical neglect, sexual abuse, emotional abuse and neglect: i.e.
  • (14) The 29 people arrested are reportedly facing charges of joining an unlawful assembly under section 143 of the penal code, which carries a maxiumum 20-year jail term.
  • (15) When the justice secretary took to the airwaves yesterday , his purpose was more serious – to blow a gale through a generation of failed thinking on prisons, a failure that started the moment Clarke last lost control of penal policy.
  • (16) Common to both perspectives is the implicit recognition that certain rules will be followed and that penalties will ensue when they are not, or, at the very least, that the prospect of penality will serve as a deterrent.
  • (17) The responses reveal that coaches disapprove and even sanction players receiving too many useless penalties, but occasionally congratulate them for a penalized action executed to save a goal.
  • (18) Cocos, the remote emerald tip of a towering underwater mountain range which was the setting for the fictional Isla Nublar in the novel Jurassic Park, has served as a pirate hideaway, whaling station, penal colony and a pit stop for Colombian drug runners.
  • (19) It would take much political courage and social confidence to spread the penal philosophy of Bastoy outside Norway, however.
  • (20) Previous studies have shown older people to be especially penalized by divided attention situations, but the generality of this finding was recently challenged by Somberg and Salthouse (1982).