What's the difference between birl and birr?

Birl


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To revolve or cause to revolve; to spin.
  • (v. t. & i.) To pour (beer or wine); to ply with drink; to drink; to carouse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: National Trust At Birling Gap, Sussex, Jane Cecil, the trust's general manager for the South Downs, described the rate of erosion as breathtaking, forcing the demolition of part of the visitor facilities.
  • (2) At Birling Gap in Sussex there has been seven years' worth of cliff erosion in two months and Formby on the Sefton coast in the north-west lost eight metres of sand dune in just one afternoon.
  • (3) The pituitary reserve of GH, ACTH, TSH, LH, and FSH was determined in seven prepubertal birls suffering from congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylation defect and under treatment with cortisone acetate.
  • (4) Storm damage at Birling Gap on the East Sussex coast.
  • (5) At Birling Gap we have designed a café and shop that can be deconstructed and moved back away from the cliff edge as it erodes.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hilary Benn’s speech would have father ‘birling’ in his grave, says Alex Salmond Presuming to insert themselves into private family dynamics about which they know nothing and which are even less of their business, they are people with whom no one remotely civilised could stand to spend any time, people so self-righteously tin-eared that they imagine this passes for having a point.

Birr


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make, or move with, a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion.
  • (n.) A whirring sound, as of a spinning wheel.
  • (n.) A rush or impetus; force.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The community pays 1,200 birr for waste removal once or twice a month and has recently started charging outsiders 1 birr to use them.
  • (2) Education is free until the age of 17, when there is a 60 birr registration fee.
  • (3) I rummage through my pockets for the 1.5 birr (5p) fare as passengers clamber on and off at regular intervals before we reach the Bole bridge bus terminal.
  • (4) He is building himself a three-bedroom house with satellite TV and internet access for about 500,000 birr (£15,000).
  • (5) One of those labouring on the railway is happy enough with his Chinese managers, but says his fee of 50 birr (£1.50) a day is insufficient and that “there’s no safety” – recently four workers died when a hole they were digging collapsed, he says.
  • (6) People are arriving exhausted, scared and in increasing numbers,” said Bhajat Al Arandas, an official with Al-Birr Society, which is working with UNHCR to distribute aid to the refugees.
  • (7) They are doing daily labour work on a farm to secure their lives.” Another addition to the village, in 1998, was a 1.5m birr medical centre.
  • (8) The school owns three hectares (7.5 acres) of land and last year grew six tonnes of wheat, earning a return of 55,000 birr.
  • (9) Birr et al., have shown that the C-terminal region of thymosin alpha 1 is essential for the biological activity.
  • (10) But officials in this fast-developing city say they have a 100m birr (£3m) plan to build an extra 25 public toilets within the next year along with 103 community and 289 mobile toilets, the latter equipped for pregnant women and people with disabilities.

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