What's the difference between spiller and stiller?

Spiller


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, spills.
  • (n.) A kind of fishing line with many hooks; a boulter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results of EEG investigations after Spiller-Frazier's operation for trigeminal neuralgia in 112 patients are reported.
  • (2) Some of that can be attributed to Fred Jackson's presence, but Jackson is a lesser player at this point in his career and Spiller could have had vastly more than 207 carries even as part of a committee.
  • (3) One of these patients was operated on by the method of Frazier-Spiller, the other by Dandy's method in a microsurgical modification.
  • (4) Simon Spiller "A relaxed seaside town, but less of a sleepy backwater than it used to be: quite a few urban downshifters in their 40s, like us, and culture, including a literary festival.
  • (5) In two patients a Spiller-Frazier operation had been performed after tractotomy, in two patients exairesis of the infraorbital or supraorbital nerve had been done.
  • (6) Medicinal therapy is then still frequently possible without side effects and operative treatment (Frazier-Spiller's retrogasserian neurotomy) can be postponed.
  • (7) The data are analogous to those found for homogenates of calf and chicken lens (Beaulieu, C. F., J. I. Clark, R. D. Brown III, M. Spiller, and S. H. Koenig.
  • (8) The supreme court in Spiller has dealt, head on, with one of the many complexities and controversies that have bedeviled the fair comment defence in recent years and have highlighted that the whole area merits consideration by the Law Commission, or an expert committee.
  • (9) examinations was carried out at periods of 6 months to 4 years, after they had been operated on by the Spiller-Frazier method.
  • (10) The primary structure and cotranscription of the petCA genes encoding the Rieske-FeS (nuclear encoded in plants) and apocytochrome f proteins has been described previously (Kallas, T., Spiller, S., and Malkin, R. (1988) Proc.
  • (11) Spiller and R.J. Amen in this journal in 1975 (Volume 7 Issue 1).
  • (12) Running back CJ Spiller can carry this team so far, but an injury-disrupted preseason has provided a less-than-ideal platform for the team's new coaching staff.
  • (13) The additions of Cordy Glenn and TJ Graham notably improved the talent on offense, but the combination of Ryan Fitzpatrick's tendency to turn the ball over and miss open receivers coupled with Gailey's reluctance to put the ball in the hands of his best player, CJ Spiller , seriously affected production.
  • (14) 8:47-57; Beaulieu, C. F., R. D. Brown III, J. I. Clark, M. Spiller, and S. H. Koenig.
  • (15) Spiller ranked second in the league in yards per carry, but 22nd in the league in attempts .
  • (16) In 2000, three Rotherham men were found guilty of laundering £3m worth of unfit chicken and turkey, supposedly destined for tins of Spillers and Pedigree petfood, back into supplies for human consumption.
  • (17) He had been working on odour research at Spillers cat food, trying to establish how smell influenced feeding, but when the chance came to return to academia at London Zoo, where the first British colony of naked mole rats had been established in 1987, he jumped at it.
  • (18) He put his fate in Fitzpatrick's hands when he should have put it in Spiller's instead.
  • (19) The Frazier-Spiller operation had been the standard operation for trigeminal neuralgia.

Stiller


Definition:

  • (n.) One who stills, or quiets.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bowie’s 1980 track Fashion has provided the soundtrack for more catwalk shows than I could ever hope to list here, and of course Bowie made a cameo appearance – judging a walk-off between two competing male models – in Ben Stiller’s brilliant 2001 fashion spoof Zoolander.
  • (2) I’m certain he, Ben Stiller and Alexander Payne were all justified in their scorn.
  • (3) Forbes top 10 list 1 Tom Cruise , $75m 2 = Leonardo DiCaprio , $37m 2 = Adam Sandler , $37m 4 Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, $36m 5 Ben Stiller , $33m 6 = Sacha Baron Cohen , $30m 6 = Johnny Depp , $30m 6 = Will Smith , $30m 9 Mark Wahlberg , $27m 10 = Taylor Lautner, $26.5 m 10 = Robert Pattinson , $26.5 m
  • (4) The top five is rounded out by Ben Stiller , whose voice work in the animated sequel Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted helped the film to return $426m worldwide last month.
  • (5) Asked by a member of the audience how he had handled rehearsals for a group of actors that includes Eddie Murphy, Ben Stiller, Casey Affleck and Precious's Gabourey Sidibe , Ratner responded glibly: "Rehearsal?
  • (6) "If I'd got him when he was younger I'd have tried to make him be even stiller, to conserve his energy like Galen," he says.
  • (7) For Stiller's roast, Comedy Central didn't want me there as I wasn't in its demographic.
  • (8) David Wilcock Dalston, Cumbria • I am dismayed to see the Guardian persisting with the popular conception that suffering from cancer somehow equates to having a fight ( Actor Ben Stiller discloses prostate cancer fight , 5 October).
  • (9) Joe Pesci's burgundy velvet suit in My Cousin Vinny, tied with Ben Stiller's tracksuits in The Royal Tenenbaums.
  • (10) As of this writing I am two years cancer free and extremely grateful.” Stiller stresses that he is still tested regularly and urges men to get their PSA level checked, which indicates the presence of prostate cancer, despite some controversy about whether the test can lead to over-treatment of cancers which are not life-threatening.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Stiller and Rock in 2008 at the Madagascar 2 premiere.
  • (12) Ben Stiller ($53m), Tom Hanks ($45m) and Adam Sandler ($40m) all earned more than Jolie.
  • (13) That film was released in 2016; Stiller’s credits prior to that were the 2014 comedies While We’re Young and Night at the Museum 3.
  • (14) For the great James Thurber creation – played first on film by Danny Kaye and recently revived by Ben Stiller – is a harmless daydreamer, lapsing into pleasant fantasies in which he himself is cast as the hero.
  • (15) The Adidas tracksuits worn by Chas (Ben Stiller) in The Royal Tenenbaums give me a similar thrill of pleasure and deserve a place on "greatest men's fashion moments in cinema" far more than boring ol' American Gigolo.
  • (16) Already written are a film about Winston Churchill's depression and an untitled Ben Stiller movie.
  • (17) I, like Ben Stiller, had prostate cancer which was detected by a blood test and then treated by a radical prostatectomy.
  • (18) In Noah Baumbach’s new film While We’re Young, Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts play CD-generationers who befriend Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried, twentysomethings with a wall of vinyl in their apartment.
  • (19) Stiller’s discussion of his diagnosis prompted a statement from Angela Culhane, chief executive at Prostate Cancer UK, who said: “We applaud Ben for his courage in talking openly about his personal experience.
  • (20) Ben Stiller paid tribute with a tweet, along with a statement : “I met Robin when I was 13 at the Improv.

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