What's the difference between biggin and building?
Biggin
Definition:
(n.) A child's cap; a hood, or something worn on the head.
(n.) A coffeepot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured; -- so called from Mr. Biggin, the inventor.
(v. t.) Alt. of Bigging
Example Sentences:
(1) Shaker Aamer , released after 14 years incarcerated at Guantánamo Bay where he was beaten by his American military jailers, has touched down on British soil at Biggin Hill airport in south-east London.
(2) Against a background of falling TV and live audience figures, and with sponsorship increasingly difficult to negotiate for cash-strapped teams, F1’s strategy group – consisting of the biggest teams, the sport’s chief executive, Bernie Ecclestone, and the FIA president, Jean Todt – met at Biggin Hill on Thursday and came up with a few ideas to reinvigorate the sport.
(3) | Barbara Biggins Read more Emily Wilson: It was a total surprise to find out the hero was a woman Somehow I went into the cinema with no idea that the hero would be a young woman and it took quite a while to realise that THIS was the 21st-century Luke Skywalker – THIS was the future of the Jedi knights – some girl!
(4) At Bristol University he gained a degree in English, French and drama (1967), and at the Bristol Old Vic theatre school he graduated from the training course (1969) alongside Jeremy Irons and Christopher Biggins as acting stage managers in the Bristol Old Vic company.
(5) He added: “The prime minister has been clear that the public should be reassured that everything to ensure public safety is in place.” According to the flight-tracking firm FlightAware, a plane left Guantánamo Bay bound for Biggin Hill airport in southeast London at 11.30pm local time (4.30am GMT).
(6) I grew up near Biggin Hill airfield in Kent, in the shadow of the second world war.
(7) It doesn't matter - it's no more likely to land Christopher Biggins in prison for wearing suspenders than the existing law would prevent Robert Downey Jnr from entering the country because he blacked up in Tropic Thunder.
(8) He said: “The Americans announced some weeks ago that they were going to release Shaker Aamer from Guantánamo and I can confirm that he is on his way back to the UK now and he will arrive in Britain later today.” According to the flight tracking firm FlightAware, a plane left Guantánamo Bay bound for London’s Biggin Hill airport at 11.30pm local time (0430 GMT).
(9) An early start to the pantomime season, with guest appearances from Keith Chegwin as Workfare and Christopher Biggins as The Debt?
(10) The rating was well up on the final of the seventh series last year, won by Christopher Biggins, which averaged 8.2 million and a 36% share between 9pm and 10.30pm.
(11) The amendment which has made Moyles so topical has also brought Rod Liddle out in praise of the racist joke, and driven Christopher Biggins to the barricades, in defence of pantomime transvestitism and in despair at what he sees as an effort to ban homophobic jokes.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Christopher Biggins (left, with Neil Sinclair) wore a pink suit to the service, saying it would have made Bellingham smile.
(13) Security was tight at Biggin Hill, a small airport famous for its connection with the Battle of Britain.
(14) The Epstein-Barr virus glycoprotein gp85 has been mapped to the Epstein-Barr virus DNA open reading frame BXLF2 (R. Baer, A. Bankier, M. Biggin, P. Deininger, P. Farrell, T. Gibson, G. Hatfull, G. Hudson, S. Stachwell, C. Sequin, P. Tufnell, and B. Barrell, Nature [London] 310:207-211, 1984).
(15) The figures were well up on the final of the seventh series in 2007, won by Christopher Biggins, which averaged 8.2 million and a 36% share between 9pm and 10.30pm Friday's I'm a Celebrity also beat the 2006 finale, which attracted 9.5 million viewers and a 42% share when the former Busted singer Matt Willis won.
(16) (He denies in particular, the claims made to the News of the World in 2006 by a 25-year-old Latvian woman named Liga who allegedly took him to her home, staggering drunk, from a pub in Biggin Hill where, she claims, they made love seven times after which Farage was "snoring like a horse".)
Building
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Build
(n.) The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing.
(n.) The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture.
(n.) That which is built; a fabric or edifice constructed, as a house, a church, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
(2) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(3) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
(4) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(5) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
(6) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
(7) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
(8) He also plans to build a processing facility where tourists can gain firsthand experience of the fisheries industry, and to open a restaurant.
(9) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
(10) "Speed is not the main reason for building the new railway.
(11) The building block of cytokeratin IFs is a heterotypic tetramer, consisting of two type I and two type II polypeptides arranged in pairs of laterally aligned coiled coils.
(12) The fire at Glasgow School of Art's Charles Rennie Mackintosh building was reported at about 12.30pm.
(13) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
(14) Historically, councils and housing associations have tended to build three-bedroom houses, because that has always been seen as a sensible size for a family home.
(15) Cooper, who was briefly a social worker in Los Angeles, also suggests working hard to build a rapport with colleagues in hotdesking situations.
(16) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
(17) ... and the #housingstrategy on Twitter: Robin Macfarlane, a retired businessman: @MacfarlaneRobin House building should have been on the agenda from day one.
(18) The only other black woman I see in the building: washing dishes behind a door that was supposed to have been locked.
(19) Mortality rates naturally vary considerably, but in earthquakes, for example, the number of deaths per 100 houses destroyed can give an indication of the adequacy of building techniques.
(20) The aim of the trial was to determine the effectiveness of aspirin in preventing cardiovascular problems in people with asymptomatic atherosclerosis – the undetected build-up of waxy plaque deposits on the inside of blood vessels.