What's the difference between birl and pivot?

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.

Pivot


Definition:

  • (n.) A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or other body turns.
  • (n.) The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a support; as, the pivot of an arbor in a watch.
  • (n.) Hence, figuratively: A turning point or condition; that on which important results depend; as, the pivot of an enterprise.
  • (n.) The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place whike the company or line moves around him in wheeling; -- called also pivot man.
  • (v. t.) To place on a pivot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Excessive accumulation of hydrogen ions in the brain may play a pivotal role in initiating the necrosis seen in infarction and following hyperglycemic augmentation of ischemic brain damage.
  • (2) The function of motherese has become a pivotal issue in the language-learning literature.
  • (3) Glucose is the principal source for energy production in the brain, and undisturbed glucose metabolism is pivotally significant for normal function of this organ.
  • (4) Currently employed clinical indicators of perfusion provide inadequate warning of developing hazards caused by marginal perfusion in certain vital organs or "peripheral" tissues that are pivotal to postsurgical wound healing.
  • (5) Endobronchial biopsy and bronchial lavage studies following inhaled PAF did not show any increase in the number of activation of eosinophils, which are pivotal in the pathogenesis of BHR.
  • (6) Turkish police have stormed the offices of an opposition media group days before the country’s pivotal election, in a crackdown on companies linked to a US-based cleric and critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan .
  • (7) It was the introduction of Aluko that proved pivotal.
  • (8) This article discusses the effect of existing statutes and case law on three pivotal questions: To what sort of information are people entitled?
  • (9) It has been generally accepted that the deregulation of oncogenes or their regulators play a pivotal role in progression of this prevalent disease.
  • (10) The fact that Fraser suggested Pinter write one of the pivotal scenes, in which Emma challenges Jerry to leave his wife, was a revelation, he says.
  • (11) Marine Rotational Force – Darwin” (MRF-D) is one of four American marine air ground task forces (MAGTFs) in the Asia-Pacific region, along with those in Guam, Hawaii and Okinawa, the sum of which make up a central strategic pillar of the pivot.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘I’m president, they’re not’: Donald Trump at rally in Washington Trump is “much more resilient” than his opponents allow, said Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, before pivoting to a plug for his new book, Understanding Trump .
  • (13) Twitter has become pivotal in organising anti-government dissent in the past year: the Occupy Gezi movement, which marches against the recently passed internet censorship bill that allows the government to block any content within four hours without a court order, and the massive street protest and the funeral attended by hundreds of thousands after the death of 15-year-old Berkin Elvan , were initiated via social media.
  • (14) Verbal and non verbal communication skills (with the patient and the team) are pivotal in this approach; relatives are considered partners in the care of the patient and an essential element of the caring environment.
  • (15) This year will mark the start of a pivotal chapter for development as the UN finalises ambitious goals this autumn to improve all lives and secure a healthy planet.
  • (16) The 5' cap structure of eucaryotic mRNA plays a pivotal role in mRNA metabolism.
  • (17) Thirty years after one of the pivotal clashes in the miners' strike of 1984 when violent confrontations erupted at the Orgreave coking plant, the area outside Sheffield could barely look more different.
  • (18) Arthritic symptoms were present at operation in thirty patients, while thirty-four had no postoperative objective signs of pivot shift or instability.
  • (19) Two lines of evidence indicate that the general transcription factor TFIIB is a pivotal component in the mechanism by which an acidic activator functions.
  • (20) If cortical actin filaments are disrupted with dihydrocytochalasin B, processes form that are similar to those induced by dBcAMP suggesting that the disruption of the cortical actin network is the pivotal step in process formation.

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