(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.
Birt
Definition:
(n.) A fish of the turbot kind; the brill.
Example Sentences:
(1) We describe a patient with multiple fibrofolliculomas (FF), tricodiscomas (TD) and acrochordons (Birt-Hogg-Dubé) associated with intestinal polyps.
(2) Later, Lord Birt said he admired the "bold, buccaneering spirit" of Rupert Murdoch but warned that Sky was "a financial behemoth now dwarfing other players, including the BBC, financially".
(3) "When I joined I took the salary I was offered, which happened to be exactly the same as my predecessor [Birt] and when I left my basic salary was something like half what the current director general [Thompson] is now receiving," he said.
(4) After the John Birt regime, however, his ebullient leadership style involving "cut the crap" and "let's make it happen" initiatives was welcomed by staff,who had felt creativity had been repressed for far too long under the weight of bureaucracy.
(5) Birt recalled how Frost only got the interview with Nixon because he raised the money personally, outbidding a US broadcaster.
(6) Or the Russian model: outgoing president picks incoming president (President Birt or President Levy)?
(7) Hall became director of news and current affairs in 1990 and was regarded as one of Birt's key lieutenants after he became director general in 1992.
(8) Birt became Frost's protege and went on to produce the Nixon interviews in 1977.
(9) In 1996, a former World Service US affairs analyst Michael Moran wrote after the Birt coup, that what had been "a journalist's dream, one where more than any other organisation on this planet the inherent value of the story is what counted", had became dominated by "new-age management consultancy", managers who spoke in the jargon of producer's choice and delayering.
(10) In late 1969 or early 1970, John Birt, then an editor for Granada's World in Action (and later the director general of the BBC), interviewed Frost at the Algonquin Hotel in New York.
(11) The BBC has been sensitive to the tax status of its staff since the so-called "Armanigate" scandal in 1993, when it was revealed that then director general John Birt was actually employed on a freelance basis, through his own company, John Birt Productions.
(12) Frost's second legacy, Birt said, was he inventing the modern interview.
(13) After Alasdair Milne resigned and John Birt achieved power, this centralisation was accelerated.
(14) Hodgson was described in her former boss John Birt's memoirs as an "extraordinarily smart operator" and has the advantage that she already has experience of working within the BBC and the trust.
(15) And my anxiety is that if [the government] are going to keep on treating the chair of the BBC Trust like this through charter renewal, you’re not going to have a robust discussion, you’re going to have a caving in.” On Monday, it emerged that the BBC had agreed to shoulder the £700m cost of providing free TV licences for the over-75s from 2020 – a deal negotiated in secret, It was subsequently criticised by several former senior BBC figures including the former director general Lord Birt and the former chair Sir Christopher Bland.
(16) Two familial observations of Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome are reported.
(17) Now, Birt, a fellow Catholic Liverpudlian, was persuaded that Black would “keep it clean”.
(18) In fact Birt has been unfairly turned into a wicked uncle.
(19) Does £145.50 a year until 2016 fit that crucial Birt bill?
(20) It is no accident that Birt's two jobs since have been at number 10 and at McKinsey's.