What's the difference between amusing and brill?

Amusing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Amuse
  • (a.) Giving amusement; diverting; as, an amusing story.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was amusing: he's still working away and this picture of him is hanging in a gallery somewhere.
  • (2) Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver is amusing himself by trying to take a puff of a cigar in his saddle.
  • (3) Students have been amused by the amount of public response to this action.
  • (4) But she is determined to reassert her authority and appears not to have been amused by the remark.
  • (5) In La Shish, the beloved local halal restaurant where Wanda Beydoun has worked a minimum wage managing job for 16 years, these stereotypes are a source of amusement.
  • (6) In a tent for those recovering, a talkative man wearing a heavy gold chain played up to amused doctors during the lunch break.
  • (7) Israeli media reports said the rocket came down near an amusement park in sand dunes on the edge of the city.
  • (8) He tells an amusing story of how exhilarated, if stunned, he was by completing three skeleton runs at Lillehammer.
  • (9) Tech entrepreneurs will keep expanding into increasingly diverse niches, so it will be amusing to try and pick out the most obscure market being disrupted in 2014.
  • (10) King notes with some amusement that he has been around so long that kids who read and loved him in the 1970s now run publishing houses and newspapers; he is revered, these days, as a grand old man of American letters.
  • (11) She added that the superstore would have pulled business from the local high street and brought big lorries and heavy traffic to the site which sits next to Dreamland, Margate’s derelict amusement park which is being revived.
  • (12) But my amusement should be a problem for movement conservatism.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest We are most amused … The Windsors, starring Harry Enfield and Hadyn Gwynne, centre.
  • (14) In Brussels, the reaction was more bemusement than amusement.
  • (15) It’s something that has always baffled and amused me about my grandmother.
  • (16) It amuses me that he calls his new material "songs" when they are so unsingable.
  • (17) The joke, the uncontainable amusement, the gleeful satisfaction, was that most rational people had thought that he was too disabled to walk 26 miles, that he was too sick.
  • (18) The tribunal ruled: "The comment having been made, other people in the room, including other supervisors, laughing and finding it amusing, was inevitably conduct that any gay police officer would reasonably consider … degrading."
  • (19) "The part in the film is small, I thought it would be amusing.
  • (20) Now tell us this, Robbie, when you collected your MBE from the queen, did you exchange amusing chitchat with the woman who most of us only ever encounter on stamps?

Brill


Definition:

  • (n.) A fish allied to the turbot (Rhombus levis), much esteemed in England for food; -- called also bret, pearl, prill. See Bret.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The club then brought in Darren Randolph, Dean Brill, Scott Flinders, Roman Larrieu, and Simon Royce on loan at various times."
  • (2) This Skype is brill – it reaches those parts other stuff doesn't.
  • (3) Over a supper of brill, roast beef, and lemon parfait, the leaders, not having to take a quick decision, seemed to chill a bit, taking the heat out of the increasingly intemperate exchanges that have marked the past few weeks.
  • (4) This report documents the occurrence of Brill-Zinsser disease in a 48-year-old woman who experienced typhus fever in a German concentration camp.
  • (5) Three clinical cases with the mediastinal form of Brill-Symmers disease are discussed.
  • (6) A group of sera from autochtonous cases of Brill-Zinsser's disease, in the early acute phase, were examined by the tests of Murray et al.
  • (7) By contrast, brill and flounder are infested by a species of Lepeophtheirus that corresponds to no other species reported in the literature.
  • (8) lousiness, measures to detect the source of infection, respectively patients with louse-borne typhus and Brill-Zinsser disease.
  • (9) Gay people have claimed that there exist within major cities "gay ghettos", neighborhoods housing large numbers of homosexual men and women as well as gathering places where homosexual behavior is generally accepted, and have designated as such certain sections of Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles (Aiken, 1976, p. 27; Altman, 1971, p. 42; Brill, 1976, p. 27; Chicago Gay Liberation, 1970, pp.
  • (10) Another is Bob and Roberta Smith, also known as Patrick Brill.
  • (11) The remission rate for Brill-Symmers disease was higher (6 out of 14).
  • (12) The titres of complement-fixing antibodies in the sera of patients with Brill's disease with the antigen of R. mooseri were lower than the titres with the homologous antigen within the range of 1-2 twofold dilutions of the serum.
  • (13) In the eastern Mediterranean, the copepod Lepeophtheirus thompsoni Baird, 1850, has been reported to infest turbot, brill and flounder.
  • (14) Use of specific anti-IgG and anti-IgM sera in parallel micro-IF tests made it possible to differentiate cases of recrudescent epidemic typhus (Brill-Zinsser disease) from primary epidemic typhus cases.
  • (15) The results obtained both with these sera and those of primary typhus cases from other countries, suggest the possibility of establishing a serologic diagnosis of Brill-Zinsser's disease, with certainty, by identifying the secondary nature of the disease according to the presence of antibodies type 7 S. The authors recommend complement fixation with increasing soluble R. prowazeki antigen concentrations as a method of electron for routine diagnosis.
  • (16) The method is simple, is rapid (45 min), yields concentrated cofactor, and, unlike the original method [Shah, V. K., & Brill, W. J.
  • (17) We have characterized a Nif- mutant of Azotobacter vinelandii, designated UW91 (Shah, V. K., Davis, L. C., Gordon, J. K., Orme-Johnson, W. H., and Brill, W. J.
  • (18) The distribution of detected patients with Brill-Zinsser especially indicates that a small number of patients from endemic ares has been detected.
  • (19) According to this, lymphoreticular neoplasias are immunologically grouped into four main classes: B-cell neoplasias comprising most of the chronic lymphocytic leukemias, well differentiated lymphocytic lymphomas, BURKITT's tumor, follicular lymphoma BRILL-SYMMERS, and hairy cell leukemia.
  • (20) Sera of patients with Brill's disease and of healthy persons with spotted fever in their past history were examined in the complement fixation reaction (CFR) to determine antigenic relations between R. prowazekii and R. canada.