different between krill vs rill

English

Etymology

From Dutch kriel (“puny/tiny”), applied to fish fry (in the sense of hatchlings); sometimes interpreted as "whale food".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

krill (plural krill or krills)

1. any of several small marine crustacean species of plankton in the order Euphausiacea in the class Malacostraca.

Derived terms

• Antarctic krill
• northern krill

Translations

References

• Wikipedia article on krill
• https://web.archive.org/web/20021218082407/http://www.ecoscope.com/krill/

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kril?]
• Rhymes: -il?

Noun

krill (plural krillek)

1. krill

Declension

Synonyms

• világítórák

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• (non-standard since 2005) kril

Etymology

Of uncertain origin, related to dialectal kril (krusning); compare with Icelandic kríli.

Noun

krill m (definite singular krillen, indefinite plural kriller, definite plural krillene)

1. krill, several species of crustacean plankton of the order Euphausiacea.
2. (dialectal) synonym of småsild (sprats)

See also

• kril (Nynorsk)

References

• “krill” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “krill_3” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Portuguese

Noun

krill m (plural krills or krill)

1. krill (small marine crustacean of the class Malacostraca)

Swedish

Etymology

From Norwegian krill.

Noun

krill n

1. krill

Declension

English

Etymology

From or akin to West Frisian ril (“rill; a narrow channel”), Dutch ril (“rill; gully; trench; watercourse”), German Low German Rille, Rill (“a small channel; brook; furrow”), German Rille (“a groove; furrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l/

• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

rill (plural rills)

1. A very small brook; a streamlet.
   • 1751 Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard:

     ...nor yet beside the rill,

     Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he

   • 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan:

     So twice five miles of fertile ground

     With walls and towers were girdled round:

     And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,

     Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;

     And here were forests ancient as the hills,

     Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

2. (planetology) Alternative form of rille.

Derived terms

• rillet

Translations

Verb

rill (third-person singular simple present rills, present participle rilling, simple past and past participle rilled)

1. To trickle, pour, or run like a small stream.
   • 1862, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Il Mystico, 81-86:

     And fainter, finer, trickle far

     To where the listening uplands are;

     To pause—then from his gurgling bill

     Let the warbled sweetness rill,

     And down the welkin, gushing free,

     Hark the molten melody;

Irish

Etymology

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Verb

rill (present analytic rilleann, future analytic rillfidh, verbal noun rilleadh, past participle rillte)

1. (transitive) riddle, sieve, sift
2. (transitive) pour (as from sieve)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• rilleán m (“riddle, coarse sieve”)

Further reading

• "rill" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “rillim” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “rill” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.