What's the difference between spelling and sperling?

Spelling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spell
  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spell
  • (n.) The act of one who spells; formation of words by letters; orthography.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to spelling.

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.

Sperling


Definition:

  • (n.) A smelt; a sparling.
  • (n.) A young herring.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Elliot Sperling, a Tibetologist at Indiana University, was turned back on arrival at Beijing airport this weekend and ordered to board a flight returning to the US.
  • (2) The present discussion offers a counter-argument that artifacts are not as pervasive in previous research as Sperling et al.
  • (3) This paper reports on the result of central bone chip bolting in the treatment of pseudarthrosis of the cuneonavicular joint, using an autologous bone chip according to the method evolved by Wilhelm and Sperling.
  • (4) Sperling stood down as director of Obama’s National Economic Council last month.
  • (5) "I asked why I was being sent back and the man said: 'I can't tell you,'" said Sperling.
  • (6) Processing demands in the Sperling (1960) whole- and partial-report tasks were evaluated with the simple reaction-time probe procedure.
  • (7) China's foreign ministry had not responded to faxed queries about Sperling's case at time of writing.
  • (8) The attached memorandum asks you to authorize Treasury to proceed to announce and submit their financial services modernization proposal,” writes Sperling.
  • (9) Sperling noted that his work was mostly historical and textual and that he had tenure, meaning that an inability to visit China should not affect his ability to keep a job, as it might for some scholars.
  • (10) Matthew Evans Managing solicitor, Prisoners Advice Service, Simon Creighton Bhatt Murphy, Andrew Sperling Association of Prison Lawyers, Laura Janes Howard League for Penal Reform, Sally Middleton Birnberg Peirce and Partners • Tom McNally seems badly briefed.
  • (11) When sufficient antibody was present, all (greater than 98%) the nucleosomes sedimented with increased velocities, indicating that all chromosomal particles contain H2B, as suggested by previous electron microscopic studies (Bustin, M., Goldblatt, D., and Sperling, R. (1976), Cell 7, 297).
  • (12) The correlation found by Moustacchi (1987) between cellular response to a crosslinking challenge and genetic heterogeneity in Fanconi's anaemia is confirmed for an earlier set of complementation groups (Zakrzewski and Sperling 1980).
  • (13) Putting a handcuff and chain on me was bizarre and cruel and stupid, and made me feel like I was not a human being, not worthy of any kind of dignity or respect, whatever my circumstances were, which I can only assume was the point.” Hall’s lawyer, Andrew Sperling, said: “Daniel cannot stand up or walk by himself.
  • (14) Models which suffice to explain the motion percept in these non-Fourier motion (NFM) stimuli include linear spatiotemporal filtering, followed by rectification, followed by standard motion analysis (Chubb & Sperling 1988).
  • (15) Failing to extend emergency unemployment insurance through 2014 will negatively impact 14 million Americans – the 4.9 million workers who will see unemployment insurance cut off and the approximately 9 million additional family members they are supporting,” Sperling said.
  • (16) The present experiments illustrated that the partial report paradigm designed by Sperling (1960) could be used with elderly adults to obtain such a measure.
  • (17) As of this weekend (only 24 hours before Summers withdrew) Sperling, his biggest supporter, has said he will leave the administration .
  • (18) Perspective, by itself or in combination, is a very weak cue whereas PLC is a powerful cue [Schwartz and Sperling (1983) Bull.
  • (19) Please eat this paper after you have read this,” jokes the hand-written 1998 note addressed to Gene Sperling, then director of Clinton’s National Economic Council.
  • (20) Three experiments have tested for the existence of laterality effects in iconic storage by employing a Sperling partial-report paradigm and lateralized presentations of alphabetical or pattern material.

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