Session vs. Spell — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Session and Spell
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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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