What's the difference between bren and brin?

Bren


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) Alt. of Brenne
  • (n.) Bran.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On Twitter, viewers compared her to Ricky Gervais's character in The Office, David Bren, and one said the documentary was "depressingly hilarious, hilariously depressing".
  • (2) Patagonia proposed the Bren School study in 2015, after polyester, the primary component of outdoor fabrics like fleece, showed up as a major ocean pollutant.
  • (3) (Quite unnecessarily, as a left hand is required to operate a Bren gun.)
  • (4) "The woman killed was said to be manning a Bren gun," he wrote.

Brin


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The idea that 80% of an engineer's time is spent on the day job and 20% pursuing a personal project is a mathematician's solution to innovation, Brin says.
  • (2) Brin and Page remain joint presidents, Brin in charge of technology, Page responsible for product launches, but the rapid growth of recent years has been steered by chief executive Eric Schmidt, 53, who came on board in 2001 as the commercial 'brain', negotiating the founders' evangelism and the shareholders' thirst for profits.
  • (3) The 11-year-old company, founded by Brin and Page in a garage in California, is the global search engine of choice, filtering what we find when we go looking on the internet.
  • (4) Brin's contention that censorship and "walled gardens", such as Apple's operating systems and Facebook's world of applications, will throttle the world of free and linked information on which Google has built its fortune may be right.
  • (5) As models for modern business managers, Brin and Page made their own rules.
  • (6) The latest prize from Milner, the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences , is a collaboration with his "old friends" Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, and Sergey Brin of Google.
  • (7) Smartphones are "emasculating" – at least according to Sergey Brin , the co-founder of Google, who explained his view while addressing an audience wearing a computer headset that made him look slightly like a technological pirate.
  • (8) While Google did reach agreement with a variety of libraries, including those of Harvard and Oxford universities, like good Montessori students Page and Brin did not first ask the permission of publishers and authors before digitising their copyrighted books – backing off only after a lawsuit was filed.
  • (9) Ten years ago next month, in an innocuous suburban garage, Page and Brin, two geeky students at Stanford University, founded a company called Google.
  • (10) Brin comes from a family who fled antisemitism in the Soviet Union.
  • (11) Many consumers believe Google's search engine works on a formula that was created by founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page and that was that: they set it running and the rest is history.
  • (12) Brin and Page's mission is to 'organise the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful'.
  • (13) Google’s illustrious founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, sagely stated that “since it is very difficult even for experts to evaluate search engines, search engine bias is particularly insidious”.
  • (14) Brin, who is more sociable than Page, has his own quirks.
  • (15) The seeds for Google's success were planted by Page and Brin when they met as graduate students at Stanford in 1995.
  • (16) Brin said that he was moved to invest in the technology for animal welfare reasons.
  • (17) Co-founder Sergey Brin said that the company's social experiments had been more successful than it was given credit for – but that Buzz would be more than just talking with friends and playing games.
  • (18) The four traders – Daniel Brin, Scott Connelly, Karen Levine and Ryan Smith – also have 30 days to prove why they should not face civil penalties after the regulator said the actions had led to losses of around $140m for California and other US states.
  • (19) And appropriately for a company with such mighty ambitions, instead of one CEO decision-maker, Google has three: co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin plus their CEO, Eric Schmidt.
  • (20) Google is run by two youngish men, Larry Page and Sergey Brin , who are, in a literal sense, visionaries.

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