What's the difference between spilt and tear?

Spilt


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Spill
  • () of Spill
  • () imp. & p. p. of Spill. Spilled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Doctors refuse to discharge 'Baby Asha' because of fears for safety on Nauru Read more It’s understood the baby girl, who is about a year old and is known as Asha, suffered burns when boiling water was accidentally spilt on her on Nauru.
  • (2) A major 1970 oil spill in Ogoniland in the south-east of Nigeria led to thousands of gallons being spilt on farmland and rivers, ultimately leading to a £26m fine for Shell in Nigerian courts 30 years later .
  • (3) Federici, fatally, spilt this, and Bony was ruthless.
  • (4) Addition of surfaceactive agents to the experimental solutions, did not spilt the wave into separate acts.
  • (5) Croatia's anthem is played next and at the end of the line of Croatia's line, Ivica Olic is wearing the expression of a man weighing up whether or not to glass somebody he thinks might have spilt his pint.
  • (6) "Of course there's a change in the amount of coffee being spilt," she adds.
  • (7) Many millions of words have been spilt on the subject of the perfect cup of coffee, the vast proportion confusing or downright contradictory.
  • (8) He has captured the elements of nascent rock scenes in New York, London and California: the sweaty fans, spilt drinks and crumbling venues.
  • (9) My hands – hand – simply wouldn't work, and it wasn't just in a slipping-off-keys manner, which would be at least understandable given the amount of ash I'd spilt on my keyboard down the years.
  • (10) The arrogance of the outsiders who argued that anything was better than Gaddafi’s rule has caused much Libyan blood to be spilt, destabilised a vast region from the Maghreb to Mali, and is now encouraging thousands to try their luck crossing the Mediterranean to Italy .
  • (11) It will not serve BP's ambition to stave off that day if its chief executive plays down the scale of the crisis as he did by suggesting in his interview with this paper yesterday that the oil that has spilt so far is – to paraphrase only a little – just a drop in the ocean.
  • (12) According to the joint investigation team, which included Shell, around 3,800 barrels of crude were spilt at Bonny.
  • (13) The probability of spilling the liquid, the quantity of liquid spilt, and subject's estimates of the probability of spillage were determined for all conditions.
  • (14) The vapours caught light, and in the ensuing panic she spilt petrol on her clothes and they also caught fire.
  • (15) As the presentation may mimic a number of neurological conditions, or patients with AIDS may suffer head injury, subarachnoid haemorrhage, or other common conditions, it is probably wise to assume all patients have AIDS and to modify operating technique and other procedures where blood may be spilt to minimise the risks of acquiring the infection.
  • (16) With Sheen such a shoo-in for the lead, producers will now be busily searching for an actor who looks like 2,500 square miles of spilt crude oil.
  • (17) In fact, vastly more ink was spilt on the subject of the internet, MP3s, iPods, filesharing and their attendant effects on the music industry's finances than on even the biggest pop star.
  • (18) This may sound cynical – who has kids with someone thinking they are gong to spilt up?
  • (19) Although my Catholicism remains resolutely lapsed, it was something I could relate to in a wider sense, and I found myself photographing some spilt milk on a Jerusalem street and an oil stain I saw in Bethlehem.
  • (20) Chemical analysis revealed that the isotonically contracting muscle spilt only 25% as much high energy phosphate as did the isometrically contracting muscle.

Tear


Definition:

  • (n.) A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids.
  • (n.) Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
  • (n.) That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
  • (v. t.) To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions.
  • (v. t.) To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home.
  • (v. t.) To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.
  • (v. t.) To move violently; to agitate.
  • (v. i.) To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily.
  • (v. i.) To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.
  • (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To determine the accuracy of double-contrast arthrography in complete rotator cuff tears, we studied 805 patients thought to have a complete rotator cuff tear who had undergone double-contrast shoulder arthrography (DCSA) between 1978 and 1983.
  • (2) For the case described by the author primary tearing of the chiasma due to sudden applanation of the skull in the frontal region with burstfractures in the anterior cranial fossa is assumed.
  • (3) For the 20 patients who received treatment in the latter period (1987-1990), we gave priority to conservative treatment for type T cases that were free from complications, and adopted a treatment method attaching greater importance to the resection of intimal tears.
  • (4) Recently the presence of a coating inhibitory factor was described in human tears which can prevent the binding of proteins to a solid phase.
  • (5) The typical signs of muscle tears and neuromuscular diseases in relation to normal sonomorphology are discussed.
  • (6) In one case MRI showed a false image of tear of the supra spinatus m. on its anterior edge.
  • (7) If a tear is found, remove all unstable meniscal fragments, leaving a rim, if possible, especially adjacent to the popliteus recess, and then proceed to open cystectomy.
  • (8) In contrast, significant tear IgG increase was observed during the rejection phenomenon.
  • (9) At least one of these manipulative tests was positive in 79% of meniscal tears.
  • (10) Tests were undertaken to study resistance to tears in laser welded dental metal alloys.
  • (11) Death, helicopter crashes and tears: nurses' career-defining moments Read more Of course, we still continue to accept and treat patients as we always have.
  • (12) Even a long tear with a stable reduced position can be expected to show good healing.
  • (13) Shell casings littered the main road, tear gas hung in the air and security forces beat local residents.
  • (14) According to Israeli media reports, the US statement had caused "senior officials in Jerusalem to tear out their hair".
  • (15) The patients usually had a history of recurrent hamstring "tears."
  • (16) Egged on by Israel, Trump has threatened to tear up Obama’s landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.
  • (17) This approach was used in 42 shoulders with rotator cuff tears or posterior instability without complications of infection, failure of deltoid healing, or compromise of suprascapular or axillary nerves.
  • (18) Perhaps it’s the lot of people like my colleagues here in the centre and me to wrestle with our consciences, shed tears, lose sleep and try to make the best of a very bad, heart-breaking job and leave the rest of the world to party, get pissed and celebrate Christmas.
  • (19) The MRI scan is a highly accurate, noninvasive modality for documentation of meniscal pathology as well as cruciate ligament tears in the knee.
  • (20) Lateral ligament tear is often associated with anterior cruciate ligament tear.

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