What's the difference between breeze and zephyr?

Breeze


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Breeze fly
  • (n.) A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind.
  • (n.) An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze.
  • (n.) Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.
  • (n.) Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.
  • (v. i.) To blow gently.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Old fishing nets and briny ropes enclose the gardens, and lines of washing flap in the Atlantic breeze.
  • (2) He "jumped without hesitation", said official sources quoted in the Daily Breeze.
  • (3) Wenger had complained of a sinister media plot to brainwash Arsenal's home fans, as though they were easily led and swing in the breeze, but it all was sweetness and light as Aaron Ramsey continued his early season swagger.
  • (4) The only sound was the breeze whispering to the grass: splendour in solitude.
  • (5) Invited by Marcus Rashford to make a dart into the area Martial breezed past a bewildered Besic to cut the ball back from the byline and present Marouane Fellaini with a goal against his former club.
  • (6) As the heat of a desert sunrise bears down on the breeze-block walls of the Visión En Acción asylum, casualties and refugees from the most dangerous city in the world begin another day.
  • (7) In Zanzibar she lived in a modest breeze-block house with some of her "grandchildren" and their pigeons.
  • (8) But here, in our PS4 demo, everything is rendered in exquisite detail with real-time sunlight pouring in over the undulating mountains, reflecting over grasslands that sway in the breeze.
  • (9) The notion drifted away on the Istanbul breeze in the second-half, particularly after he had been forced to substitute Ramsey and Mathieu Flamini at half-time.
  • (10) A stark figure strode across its windswept hilltop, his black frock coat flapping in the breeze as he descended a winding cliff-side staircase, incongruous against the bleak backdrop.
  • (11) The beach itself is a long and fine one, with South Atlantic breezes cooling the heels of groups of novice surfers in wetsuits and ladies being massaged in the thatched treatment hut close to the lighthouse.
  • (12) Crowley, adds Breeze, “was many things and excelled at most: a record-setting mountaineer, a competition-level chess player, the best metrical poet of his generation in the estimation of some, a literary critic of international reputation, an innovative editor and book designer, a pioneer in the use of entheogens, and a lion of sexual liberation – he was above all a lover, of men, women, gods, goddesses and himself”.
  • (13) "Banter", for me, is like a spitty wind, one that either breezes past gently, or batters me round the cheeks with its mindless force.
  • (14) One clip shows Yeates breezing into the shop, allowing the door to swing closed behind her.
  • (15) "I have felt like St Peter with the Apostles in the boat on the Sea of Galilee: the Lord has given us many days of sunshine and gentle breeze, days in which the catch has been abundant; [then] there have been times when the seas were rough and the wind against us … and the Lord seemed to be sleeping," he said.
  • (16) There is an abundance of wildlife here in summer, holly blue butterflies flutter on the breeze and buzzards circle high overhead.
  • (17) The occurrence of high concentrations of a PCB (Aroclor 1254) in the Pensacola estuary prompted field and laboratory studies by the Gulf Breeze Environmental Research Laboratory (EPA).
  • (18) The architecture of the city acts as a giant cooling system that funnels Atlantic breezes through shaded streets in a triumph of civil engineering.
  • (19) What, after all, do a majority of votes matter, when your opponent has described you to history as a "mangy maggot", " the old desiccated coconut ", "araldited to the seat" and a "dead carcass, swinging in the breeze"?
  • (20) This created a single new company with a different name, Solar Breeze (Consolidated) Limited.

Zephyr


Definition:

  • (n.) The west wind; poetically, any soft, gentle breeze.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fully refined rapessed oils of high (regular rapeseed oil, B. campestris) and low erucic acid content (Span oil, B. campestris; commercially hydrogenated Span oil and Zephyr oil, B. napus) and soybean oil were fed to male and female Sprague-Dawley rats at a level of 15% by weight in the diet.
  • (2) Ford's motorsport supremo Walter Hayes had fallen into conversation with the film producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, with the result that AMR suddenly found itself building a handful of Ford Zephyr-engined cars for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968).
  • (3) This will include a weaponised Zephyr drone that is capable of remaining in the air for months.
  • (4) Zephyr Teachout (@ZephyrTeachout) Clinton ad announcing campaign is surprisingly free of content, lacking autobiography, policy, vision.
  • (5) The resolution of IgG and its fragments was better in all cases on S-Zephyr than on Mono-S under the conditions employed.
  • (6) Rats from all strains except Hooded fed the diet containing 20% Zephyr RSO had a significantly (P less than 0.001) higher incidence of myocardial lesions than rats fed the 20% corn oil diet which in turn had a significantly (P less than 0.001) higher incidence than rats fed 5% corn oil.
  • (7) S-Zephyr, a new column material for high performance cation exchange chromatography of proteins, is compared with Mono-S.
  • (8) I think Biden will have a hard time getting a lot of populist energy if he doesn’t come out with a strong contrast to Clinton on all these issues,” says Zephyr Teachout, a New York law professor and prominent supporter of Warren.
  • (9) None of the Hooded rats fed the diet containing 20% Zephyr RSO developed myocardial lesions whereas all other strains fed this diet developed a high incidence of myocardial lesions.
  • (10) They walked out after discovering that men doing the same work – making car seats for Cortinas and Zephyrs – were being paid 15% more.
  • (11) Zuckerberg said key members of the team were from the UK-based firm Ascenta, which created early versions of Zephyr, the world's longest flying solar-powered unmanned aircraft.
  • (12) However, in experiment 2 the groups fed the diets containing regular rapeseed oil or Span oil showed significantly (P less than 0.05) lower body weight gains when compared to soybean oil fed groups but not when compared to the hydrogenated Span or Zephyr oil fed groups.
  • (13) Zephyr on enzymic incubation yielded comparable amounts of thiocyanate ion, suggesting that the precursor responsible in the two varieties was the same and present in similar quantities.
  • (14) Meanwhile, Cuomo has been busy spending $2.5m every two weeks to fend off his progressive primary challenger, Zephyr Teachout .
  • (15) Monarchy and equality are incompatible bedfellows, but it would be churlish not to welcome the news that a zephyr of egalitarian zeal has at last blown through court and political circles.
  • (16) Ian Dowding and his mother and sister sitting on the (hot) roof of his dad’s Ford Zephyr in Cornwall 1956.
  • (17) Zephyr) showed the presence of t,iocyanate ion, while meal from heated seed of the same cultivar did not show detectable amounts.
  • (18) Rats fed a diet containing 20% Zephyr rapeseed oil showed a significantly (P less than 0.001) higher incidence of heart lesions than did rats fed diets containing 5% or 20% corn oil.
  • (19) I was not particularly impressed with it,” said Zephyr Teachout, a New York Democrat who ran for governor in 2014, warning on Twitter it was “surprisingly free of content, lacking autobiography, policy [and] vision”.
  • (20) Take Zephyr Teachout, a law professor at Fordham university who has written extensively on political corruption in the US.