(v. t.) To supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman.
(n.) The relief of one person by another in any piece of work or watching; also, a turn at work which is carried on by one person or gang relieving another; as, a spell at the pumps; a spell at the masthead.
(n.) The time during which one person or gang works until relieved; hence, any relatively short period of time, whether a few hours, days, or weeks.
(n.) One of two or more persons or gangs who work by spells.
(n.) A gratuitous helping forward of another's work; as, a logging spell.
(n.) A story; a tale.
(n.) A stanza, verse, or phrase supposed to be endowed with magical power; an incantation; hence, any charm.
(v. t.) To tell; to relate; to teach.
(v. t.) To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
(v. t.) To constitute; to measure.
(v. t.) To tell or name in their proper order letters of, as a word; to write or print in order the letters of, esp. the proper letters; to form, as words, by correct orthography.
(v. t.) To discover by characters or marks; to read with difficulty; -- usually with out; as, to spell out the sense of an author; to spell out a verse in the Bible.
(v. i.) To form words with letters, esp. with the proper letters, either orally or in writing.
(v. i.) To study by noting characters; to gain knowledge or learn the meaning of anything, by study.
Example Sentences:
(1) We outline a protocol for presenting the diagnosis of pseudoseizure with the goal of conveying to the patient the importance of knowing the nonepileptic nature of the spells and the need for psychiatric follow-up.
(2) The government did not spell out the need for private holders of bank debt to take any losses – known as haircuts – under its plans but many analysts believe that this position is untenable.
(3) The tasks which appeared to present the most difficulties for the patients were written spelling, pragmatic processing tasks like sentence disambiguation and proverb interpretation.
(4) John Carver witnessed signs of much-needed improvement from the visitors in a purposeful spell either side of the interval but it was not enough to prevent a fifth successive Premier League defeat.
(5) The lesson, spelled out by Oak Creek's mayor, Steve Saffidi, was that it shouldn't have taken a tragedy for Sikhs, or anyone else, to find acceptance.
(6) Likud warned: “Peres will divide Jerusalem.” Arab states feared that his dream of a borderless Middle East spelled Israeli economic colonialism by stealth.
(7) This could spell disaster for small farmers, says Million Belay, co-ordinator of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa.
(8) In addition to expected differences in spelling and reading, probands obtained significantly (P less than or equal to .01) lower scores than controls on tests of other cognitive abilities.
(9) Despite fulfilling a boyhood wish to play for Milan when he returned to Italy, the striker admitted he erred in taking his career back to Serie A, having had a controversial spell at Internazionale before City recruited him for £17.5m in August 2010.
(10) Yesterday, John McDonnell spelled out the new Labour leadership’s public investment-driven economic alternative to austerity.
(11) Recognition memory was assessed by asking subjects to indicate which words from a longer list were presented during the spelling test.
(12) It was a spell in which the Dutch were in the ascendancy.
(13) When I wrote this week's public manager column pointing out that there are still too few women in senior public sector leadership roles, it didn't occur to me that I would have to spell out the reasons why it might be a good idea to have a few more women in top positions.
(14) Sigurdsson joined Reading as a youngster in 2005, and had loan spells at Crewe and Shrewsbury before breaking into the first team.
(15) Slow speech development occurred frequently in developmental and acquired spelling dysgraphic children.
(16) True, that comment was made early in Guardiola’s spell as Bayern manager and perhaps it was just a way of endearing himself to his new captain, but there is no doubt the former Barcelona manager adores Lahm.
(17) Since ALS occurs mostly in older age groups, this brings up the possibility that aging changes in the brain could play a causative role in the origin of such spells.
(18) A long spell of ultra-low interest rates has not driven a rise in inequality in the UK, the deputy governor of the Bank of England has said, rebuffing criticism that central bank policy had hurt some households.
(19) 3.05pm BST The Russian foreign ministry has again spelled out Sergei Lavrov's objections to threatening Syria with force if it doesn't comply with the chemical weapons agreement.
(20) However, when spelling ability was investigated, a heritability of 0.53 was obtained, increasing to 0.75 when intelligence was controlled.
Umlaut
Definition:
(n.) The euphonic modification of a root vowel sound by the influence of a, u, or especially i, in the syllable which formerly followed.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is of particular interest this time round because Merkel's junior coalition partners, the Free Democrats (FDP) have been polling dangerously close to the threshold, as have the anti-Euro newcomers, the Alternative fur (umlaut over u) Deutschland.
(2) Löfven [umlaut on o], a former welder with a boxer's nose, faces the difficult challenge of trying to win back Social Democrat voters without looking like what Swedes call a betongsosse, or concrete socialist of the olden days.
(3) "The absence of umlaut in the contract which Özil finally signs will decide if Wenger was trolling us or not.
(4) Shouldn't there be an umlaut or other diacritic over a vowel?"
(5) What we know: Merkel wins, as predicted, everyone else has a rather poor night, umlauts take ages to cut and paste into liveblogs.
(6) Is it a hearsay Umlaut in keeping with the day as a whole?
(7) One of those against was the former finance minister Peer Steinbruck (umlaut over u).
(8) Then surely the Style Guide gurus couldn't object to you using umlauts to your heart's content.
(9) There have been times this season when Mourinho seemed to forget who he is, the preposterous Happy Josepersona threatening to consume him, so much so that he wasn't far off waxing lyrical about the virtues of tiki-taka, putting an umlaut in his name and setting up a Twitter account called @JöseTweets, with #teamfollowback in the bio.
(10) Therefore examples from parasitology are cited when the ending of species names, the derivatio nominis, the transcription of the German umlaut, the ending of family names as well as collective group names are explained.
(11) Updated at 7.38pm BST 7.35pm BST You thought the umlaut, Turkish ö issue divided people "Sporting Kansas CITY," writes James Hupp .
(12) Updated at 7.50pm BST 6.32pm BST Eurosceptics euro-phoric Have just got off the phone with Frauke Petry, one of the leaders of the Alternative fur Deutschland (excuse missing umlaut - no time for accents now).
(13) "The umlaut is important for pronunciation purposes."
(14) He might as well bring a 18 year old French kid named Ozil, without the umlaut of course."