What's the difference between shalt and spalt?

Shalt


Definition:

  • () 2d per. sing. of Shall.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Members of the group will be on church steps again on Sunday, just as they were last week when dozens of Polish Catholics walked out of mass in protest at a bishops’ message stating that abortion is contrary to the “thou shalt not kill” commandment.
  • (2) The lesson is clear: when push comes to shove, obedience to God trumps human decency, to say nothing of obedience to the next commandment, "Thou shalt not kill".
  • (3) Such was the thou-shalt-not-pass determination as Pavey clenched her teeth round the last lap that it was a minor wonder she was able to smile so quickly afterwards.
  • (4) According to the late Peter Wright, whose book Spycatcher revealed many of the secrets that he had carefully hoarded during his 22 years as an MI5 officer, new recruits would be expected to take to heart its 11th commandment: "Thou shalt not get caught."
  • (5) And for the hopefuls lining up outside the passport office: thou shalt not quibble about freedom of speech.
  • (6) The first two – "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" and "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image" – come from a time when the Jews still believed in the existence of many gods but had sworn fealty to only one of them, their tribal "jealous" god.
  • (7) 3.45pm ET : Mollie Hemingway is tweeting photos of some of the more bizarre, random and interesting signs being seen at the rally today: Thou shalt not be douchebags I prefer facts nuance and intellectual debate so I'm probably not a real American Strange mama grizzlies distributing endorsements to constitutionally challenged witches is no basis for a system of government (Monty Python's Holy Grail reference there.)
  • (8) … a new friend is as a new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
  • (9) Thou shalt put up and shut up, until such time as though gets a passport.
  • (10) Thou shalt not kill, well, who would have thought it?
  • (11) In any case, the commandment meant only "Thou shalt not kill members of thine own tribe".
  • (12) And thou shalt not kill, unless thou work for the Metropolitan police.
  • (13) Hundreds of protesters outside the university wielded placards with slogans such as "thou shalt not kill".
  • (14) MI5's 11th commandment: Thou shalt not get caught In August last year, the high court ruled that Witness B may have been involved in "possible criminal wrongdoing" when he interrogated Binyam Mohamed.
  • (15) Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, unless the is an MP.
  • (16) He delivered an ultimatum: thou shalt not not intervene.
  • (17) He pitched Don's song Thou Shalt Not Steal to Kitty Wells , who had a country hit with it in December 1954.
  • (18) Thou shalt not steal, unless thou has a parliamentary expense account.
  • (19) It’s the first commandment: thou shalt have no other issues before me.
  • (20) The most important being: thou shalt honour thy mother and thy father and thy home secretary.

Spalt


Definition:

  • (n.) Spelter.
  • (a.) Liable to break or split; brittle; as, spalt timber.
  • (a.) Heedless; clumsy; pert; saucy.
  • (a.) To split off; to cleave off, as chips from a piece of timber, with an ax.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The region-specific homeotic gene spalt (sal) acts in two separate domains in the head and tail region of the Drosophila melanogaster embryo.
  • (2) The expression of this newly discovered gene, spalt major (salm) is strongly repressed in gain-of-function mutants that express Antp in the antennal disc.
  • (3) Rhabdomyolysis without renal failure was noted after suicidal ingestion of 29 tablets of Spalt N containing 7.25 g of acetaminophen, 7.25 g of phenazone and 1.45 g of caffeine by a 29 year-old weighing 73 kg.
  • (4) The differences in the SPALT method can be ascribed to the possibility that this assay measures not only "intact" caeruloplasmin but also paraneoplastic substances with "caeruloplasmin-like immunoactivity".
  • (5) The enhancer detector in this strain is located near a similarly regulated gene at the spalt (sal) locus, which encodes a homeotic function involved in embryonic head and tail development.

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