What's the difference between pill and prill?

Pill


Definition:

  • (n.) The peel or skin.
  • (v. i.) To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
  • (v. t.) To deprive of hair; to make bald.
  • (v. t.) To peel; to make by removing the skin.
  • (v. t. & i.) To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel, to plunder.
  • (n.) A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.
  • (n.) Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sequential birth control pills are less common than monophasic pills, partly because the "first generation" sequential pills, which used estrogen only during the 1st part of the cycle, were more dangerous than the monophasic pills.
  • (2) Despite this, the public is more suspicious than ever of the danger of pills.
  • (3) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
  • (4) One view of these results stems from the belief that contraception is a necessary evil and the pill is the closest to a 'natural' sex act.
  • (5) This study compared one particular interview question to a pill-count measure by studying 98 patients who visited their family physician, received medication instructions, and were interviewed in their homes ten days later.
  • (6) 40 women aged 18-36 used the Postinor brand, levonorgestrel-containing, pill from the Gedeon-Richter firm for 240 menstrual cycles.
  • (7) This makes The Red Pill a continuous, multi-voiced, up-to-the-minute male complaint nestled at the heart of the so-called manosphere – a network of websites preoccupied with both the men’s rights movement and how to pick up women.
  • (8) Patients may have difficulty in the transition from one packet of pills to the next, and missed pills that extend the hormone-free interval may contribute to the failure rate.
  • (9) Among women using the pill for 8 years, the relative risk was 2.6 (p0.0001).
  • (10) The finding is at variance with others that ascribe haemostatic changes observed to increased oestrogen content in a given pill formulation and so merits confirmation in a larger study.
  • (11) A mother is facing prosecution for procuring abortion pills for her then underage daughter.
  • (12) The amino acid pool in leukocytes was found to be smaller in those patients taking the "pill".
  • (13) Only 2% of the subjects refused to take any pills, and, among pill takers, over 95% were reported to be taking most of their pills at the end of the study.
  • (14) 88% of the women in the recent study had used the pill at some point and 45% had used an IUD--methods that were not available to women in the 1940s.
  • (15) The pill group gave birth on an average of 5.79 days after the date forecast by Naegele's rule and .15 days before the date calculated from the ultrasound examination.
  • (16) Treatments for jock itch include anti-fungal ointments and lotions, or anti-fungal pills for severe cases.
  • (17) The estrogen potencies of 9 oral contraceptive pills, Enovid-E, Enovid-5, Ovulen, Demulen, Norinyl+80, Norinyl+50, Ovral, Norlestrin 1 mg. and Norlestrin 2.5 mg., were determined by bioassay.
  • (18) Motor behavior of substitutes was assessed following dry swallows and following several stimuli: intraluminar injection of 30 ml of water or 0.1N hydrochloric acid and swallowing pills.
  • (19) Presumably the competitive binding of iron by ascorbic acid in the vitamin pill allowed uninhibited absorption of the iron.
  • (20) Ten women were taking an oral contraceptive containing 50 mug oestrogen and progestogen ("combined pill"), one patient took a progestogen-only contraceptive and 14 served as controls.

Prill


Definition:

  • (n.) The brill.
  • (v. i.) To flow.
  • (n.) A stream.
  • (n.) A nugget of virgin metal.
  • (n.) Ore selected for excellence.
  • (n.) The button of metal from an assay.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fact that milk production was not increased in these experiments by feeding Ca salts of fatty acids and prilled fatty acids may be attributed to the use of medium to low producing cows that were past the peak of milk production.
  • (2) 12.25pm: "Björn Lubbers mentioned in his email you posted at 10am that 'the Dutchies are a very friendly, hospitable and tolerant people, but humans will be humans and idiots will be idiots ...', emails Karin Prill.
  • (3) Feeding prilled fat decreased slightly ruminal molar percentage butyrate.
  • (4) Dissolution rate constants for benzoic acid prills in distilled water at pH-stat 6.2 were used as a measure of the agitation intensities present in the different shaped vessels.
  • (5) The immune process of sensitisation was induced with "Tenzym prilled" (TP, Grindstedvoerket) and with "Maxatase" (M, Gist-Brocades) protease enzymes in the epicutaneous test (ET), using concentration series and various durations of application.
  • (6) Results suggest higher levels of concentrate support higher milk yields, and prilled fat supplementation improves fat test when fed with immature forages.
  • (7) In a 4 x 4 Latin square, increasing dietary prilled fatty acids (0, 3, 6, or 9% of DM) decreased DM intake, increased percentage of milk fat, and had no effect on percentage of milk protein.
  • (8) Prilled fat increased milk production, FCM, and milk fat percentage but decreased milk protein percentage, including casein content.
  • (9) Factors were 0 or 5% added prilled fat (DM basis) substituted for shelled corn and alfalfa silage fed in forage-to-concentrate ratios of 45:55, 64:36, and 84:16 (DM basis).
  • (10) The inclusion of prilled fat at 2% of DM in dairy cattle rations had slight effects on rumen fermentation, variable effects on milk yield and composition, and beneficial effects on conception rate.
  • (11) Prilled fat supplementation did not enhance lactation performance because of depressed DM intake in early lactation.
  • (12) Prill and Hammer's method (4) for microdetermination of diacetyl was modified by several authors (1-3, 7), but retaining the same principle: diacetyl is converted into dimethylglyoxime by reaction with hydroxylamine; the oxime is subsequently converted into a pink ammonoferrous glyoximate and its colour is measured by absorbance at 530 nm.
  • (13) The fat supplement containing 100% prilled fat appeared to be rumen-inert because it caused no changes in ruminal VFA concentration, acetate to propionate ratio, or total tract fiber digestion.
  • (14) Adding 0, 5, 15, and 20% of substrate as prilled or unprilled fatty acids [palmitic (47 to 48%), stearic (36 to 37%), and oleic (14%) acids] to an in vitro rumen fermenter had no effect on total VFA production.
  • (15) Factors were 0 and 5% added prilled long-chain fatty acids (DM basis) and three forage to concentrate ratios (45:55, 64:36, 84:16).
  • (16) In Pennsylvania, prilled fat had variable effects on milk composition and little effect on milk yield and FCM.
  • (17) Data suggest that Ca salts of fatty acids and prilled fatty acids are inert in the rumen and do not greatly alter fermentation in the rumen, apparent total tract digestibilities of DM, organic matter, ADF, NDF, and CP, or milk composition when fed at recommended amounts of 3 to 4% of the DM intake.
  • (18) Acetate:propionate ratio was reduced by fatty acid concentrations of 15 and 20% (prilled and unprilled).
  • (19) Milk protein was maintained during prilled fat supplementation but decreased .13% during calcium salt of palm oil fatty acid supplementation.
  • (20) Conception rate was improved in cows consuming rations containing prilled fat: first service, 59.1 versus 42.6%; all services, 59.3 versus 40.7%.

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