What's the difference between birr and burr?

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.

Burr


Definition:

  • (n.) Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs.
  • (n.) The thin ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal. See Burr, n., 2.
  • (n.) A ring of iron on a lance or spear. See Burr, n., 4.
  • (n.) The lobe of the ear. See Burr, n., 5.
  • (n.) The sweetbread.
  • (n.) A clinker; a partially vitrified brick.
  • (n.) A small circular saw.
  • (n.) A triangular chisel.
  • (n.) A drill with a serrated head larger than the shank; -- used by dentists.
  • (n.) The round knob of an antler next to a deer's head.
  • (n.) A prickly seed vessel. See Bur, 1.
  • (n.) The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting.
  • (n.) A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.
  • (n.) A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping.
  • (n.) The lobe or lap of the ear.
  • (n.) A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr.
  • (n.) The knot at the bottom of an antler. See Bur, n., 8.
  • (v. i.) To speak with burr; to make a hoarse or guttural murmur.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But Burr admitted the bill would still allow companies to share directly with the NSA, and could potentially receive liability protections if information is shared “not electronically”.
  • (2) Incumbents facing competitive re-election battles in November, including Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Marco Rubio of Florida, Rob Portman of Ohio, John McCain of Arizona and Richard Burr of North Carolina, voted for that bill, which had the backing of the NRA.
  • (3) The animal model was induced by left frontal burr hole opening and inoculation of a small piece of G-XII glioma tissue to 6- to 8-week-old rats.
  • (4) A number of predictions were derived from the work of Cristensen, Reiss, and Burr.
  • (5) Patients were treated with observation, serial percutaneous needle drainage, drainage through burr holes, drainage into a closed external drainage system, or subdural to peritoneal shunt.
  • (6) Burr said that language in the bill would require companies to “remove all personal information before that data is transferred to the federal government”, and that the Department of Homeland Security would scrub any data not cleaned by companies.
  • (7) A limited craniectomy was performed at the fronto-temporal junction using three adjacent burr-holes.
  • (8) Together with William Burr of the National Security Archive, Aid has co-authored an article in Foreign Policy that explores the significance of the new disclosures.
  • (9) The ideal drill is a slim straight instrument, which rotates dental burrs and is operated by a light finger pressure.
  • (10) "I'll be brief," Burr said at the start of his second-round question for Brennan.
  • (11) In a letter addressed to Richard Burr and Mark Warner, chairman and vice-chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, Page notes media reports that secret court orders were issued last October to allow the FBI to conduct surveillance of “US persons” in an investigation of possible contacts between Russian banks and the Trump Organization.
  • (12) All patients were managed with diagnostic burr-hole procedures.
  • (13) None of the patients initially managed with craniotomy were worse or died, whereas of the four patients initially managed with burr holes, two were worse (25 per cent) and two died (25 per cent).
  • (14) Warner indicated in a statement, issued alongside his statement with Burr, that he did not necessarily view the intelligence panel’s inquiry as the final investigative option.
  • (15) 2) Technique for release of ventricular catheter obstruction by percutaneous management through the "8-shaped" burr hole.
  • (16) It has previously been demonstrated that pp60v-src is associated with a detergent-insoluble matrix containing the cellular cytoskeleton (J. G. Burr, G. Dreyfuss, S. Penman, and J. M. Buchanan, Proc.
  • (17) Burr said it was safe to assume the Russians were “actively involved” in the forthcoming French election, adding: “We feel part of our responsibility is to educate the rest of the world what’s going on because it’s now into character assassination of candidates.” Burr, who served as a security adviser to Trump’s campaign, confirmed that he voted for the Republican nominee but said he had not coordinated with the White House on the reach of the investigation, which he described as one of the biggest of his congressional career.
  • (18) 59 cases were treated through burr holes, irrigation and drainage and 57 cases were completely cured after operation.
  • (19) 79 cases of obstructive hydrocephalus treated between 1972 and 1983 by burr hole third ventriculo-cisternostomy have been analysed together with the published literature.
  • (20) After rotablation of the posterior lateral branch over 3 cm with a 1.5 mm burr and rotablation with a 1.75 mm burr of the posterior branch of the left circumflex coronary artery the vessel was reopened with a smooth surface without perforation and dissection.