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Session vs. Spell — What's the Difference?

Session vs. Spell — What's the Difference?

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Session

A meeting of an official body, especially a legislature, council, or court of law, to conduct its business
The governor called this week's special session to reconsider the decision

Spell

To name or write in order the letters constituting (a word).

Session

A period devoted to a particular activity
Gym is followed by a training session

Spell

To constitute the letters of (a word)
These letters spell animal.

Session

The governing body of a Presbyterian Church.
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Spell

To add up to; signify
Their unwise investment could spell financial ruin.

Session

A meeting of a legislative or judicial body for the purpose of transacting business.

Spell

To name or write in order the letters of a word or words
I've never been able to spell very well.

Session

A series of such meetings.

Spell

To put (someone) under a spell; bewitch.

Session

The term or duration of time that is taken by such a series of meetings.

Spell

To relieve (someone) from work temporarily by taking a turn.

Session

The part of a year or of a day during which a school holds classes.

Spell

To allow (someone) to rest a while.

Session

A period of time devoted to a specific activity
A recording session at a music studio.
A login session that was disrupted by a power outage.

Spell

To take turns working.

Session

A period devoted to a particular activity, e.g. the annual or semiannual periods of a legislative body (that together comprise the legislative term) whose individual meetings are also called sessions.
A training session
"Are we having a recording session?" / "Yes. We've even got some session musicians to provide some brass."

Spell

(Australian) To rest for a time from an activity.

Session

A meeting of a council, court, school, or legislative body to conduct its business.
This court is now in session.

Spell

A word or formula believed to have magic power.

Session

(computing) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.
Logging out or shutting down the computer will end your session.

Spell

A bewitched state or trance
The sorcerer put the prince under a spell.

Session

(cricket) Any of the three scheduled two hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.

Spell

A compelling attraction; charm or fascination
The spell of the theater.

Session

(obsolete) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.

Spell

A short, indefinite period of time.

Session

(music) jam session

Spell

(Informal) A period of weather of a particular kind
A dry spell.

Session

(education) An academic term

Spell

One's turn at work.

Session

(beer) An extended period of drinking, typically consuming beer with low alcohol content.

Spell

A period of work; a shift.

Session

(music) To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians.

Spell

(Australian) A period of rest.

Session

The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import.
But Viven, gathering somewhat of his mood, . . . Leaped from her session on his lap, and stood.

Spell

(Informal) A period of physical or mental disorder or distress
A dizzy spell.

Session

The actual sitting of a court, council, legislature, etc., or the actual assembly of the members of such a body, for the transaction of business.
It's fit this royal session do proceed.

Spell

(Informal) A short distance.

Session

Hence, also, the time, period, or term during which a court, council, legislature, etc., meets daily for business; or, the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or adjournment; thus, a session of Parliaments is opened with a speech from the throne, and closed by prorogation. The session of a judicial court is called a term.
It was resolved that the convocation should meet at the beginning of the next session of Parliament.

Spell

Words or a formula supposed to have magical powers.
He cast a spell to cure warts.

Session

A meeting for execution of a group's functions;
It was the opening session of the legislature

Spell

A magical effect or influence induced by an incantation or formula.
Under a spell

Session

The time during which a school holds classes;
They had to shorten the school term

Spell

(obsolete) Speech, discourse.

Session

A meeting devoted to a particular activity;
A filming session
A gossip session

Spell

A shift (of work); (rare) a set of workers responsible for a specific turn of labour.

Session

A meeting of spiritualists;
The seance was held in the medium's parlor

Spell

(informal) A definite period (of work or other activity).

Spell

(colloquial) An indefinite period of time (usually with a qualifier); by extension, a relatively short distance.

Spell

A period of rest; time off.

Spell

A period of illness, or sudden interval of bad spirits, disease etc.

Spell

(cricket) An uninterrupted series of alternate overs bowled by a single bowler.

Spell

(dialectal) A splinter, usually of wood; a spelk.

Spell

The wooden bat in the game of trap ball, or knurr and spell.

Spell

To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.

Spell

To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort.

Spell

To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word.

Spell

(intransitive) To be able to write or say the letters that form words.
I find it difficult to spell because I'm dyslexic.

Spell

(transitive) Of letters: to compose (a word).
The letters “a”, “n” and “d” spell “and”.

Spell

To clarify; to explain in detail.
Please spell it out for me.

Spell

(transitive) To indicate that (some event) will occur.
This spells trouble.

Spell

To constitute; to measure.

Spell

(obsolete) To speak, to declaim.

Spell

(obsolete) To tell; to relate; to teach.

Spell

(transitive) To work in place of (someone).
To spell the helmsman

Spell

(transitive) To rest (someone or something), to give someone or something a rest or break.
They spelled the horses and rested in the shade of some trees near a brook.

Spell

To rest from work for a time.

Spell

A spelk, or splinter.

Spell

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.
A spell at the wheel is called a trick.

Spell

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.
Nothing new has happened in this quarter, except the setting in of a severe spell of cold weather.

Spell

One of two or more persons or gangs who work by spells.
Their toil is so extreme that they can not endure it above four hours in a day, but are succeeded by spells.

Spell

A gratuitous helping forward of another's work; as, a logging spell.

Spell

A story; a tale.

Spell

A stanza, verse, or phrase supposed to be endowed with magical power; an incantation; hence, any charm.
Start not; her actions shall be holy asYou hear my spell is lawful.

Spell

To supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman.

Spell

To tell; to relate; to teach.
Might I that legend find,By fairies spelt in mystic rhymes.

Spell

To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
He was much spelled with Eleanor Talbot.

Spell

To constitute; to measure.
The Saxon heptarchy, when seven kings put together did spell but one in effect.

Spell

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.
The word "satire" ought to be spelled with i, and not with y.

Spell

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.
To spell out a God in the works of creation.
To sit spelling and observing divine justice upon every accident.

Spell

To form words with letters, esp. with the proper letters, either orally or in writing.
When what small knowledge was, in them did dwell,And he a god, who could but read or spell.

Spell

To study by noting characters; to gain knowledge or learn the meaning of anything, by study.
Where I may sit and rightly spellOf every star that heaven doth shew,And every herb that sips the dew.

Spell

A psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation

Spell

A time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else);
It's my go
A spell of work

Spell

A period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition;
He was here for a little while
I need to rest for a piece
A spell of good weather
A patch of bad weather

Spell

A verbal formula believed to have magical force;
He whispered a spell as he moved his hands
Inscribed around its base is a charm in Balinese

Spell

Recite the letters of or give the spelling of;
How do you spell this word?

Spell

Indicate or signify;
I'm afraid this spells trouble!

Spell

Write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word);
He spelled the word wrong in this letter

Spell

Place under a spell

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