What's the difference between bricking and fricking?
Bricking
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brick
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Brisk
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Dan Chung Around 220,000 live in this mud-brick labyrinth; some homes date back five centuries.
(2) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
(3) At the bottom is a tiny harbour where cafe Itxas Etxea – bare brick walls and wraparound glass windows – is serving txakoli, the local white wine.
(4) If you’ve been to a red brick university in the past 10 years then chances are you know the guy.
(5) This is a substantial country, not just a pile of bricks.
(6) My first mobile phone arrived in 1999: a camera-less and brick-like early Motorola model.
(7) It obviously helps to have a waterfront, red bricks and cotton mills,” said Professor Karel Williams at Manchester Business School.
(8) The Christmas theme doesn't end there; "America's Christmas Hometown" also has Santa's Candy Castle, a red-brick building with turrets that was built by the Curtiss Candy Company in the 1930s and sells gourmet candy canes in abundance.
(9) Apple held an unprecedented online sale on Friday and retail giants like WalMart have combined their online and bricks and mortar sales.
(10) Male workers with a history of long-term exposure to nonfibrous particulates in different industries (metal, ceramics, brick, glass, stone etc.)
(11) Growing up in Walters Way – and knowing that my parents built our house – taught me that there is an alternative to buying on the open market, and that houses don’t need to be made from bricks and mortar.
(12) The risk of getting malaria was greater for inhabitants of the poorest type of house construction (incomplete, mud, or cadjan (palm) walls, and cadjan thatched roofs) compared to houses with complete brick and plaster walls and tiled roofs.
(13) When I was a kid, Lego had nothing to do with gender and everyone played with the same bricks.
(14) The crown had spent months effectively throwing random bricks at the jury with little or no explanation as to how they fitted together.
(15) This has been achieved whilst overcoming a number of well-publicised housing market challenges, particularly brick and labour shortages,” a spokesman said.
(16) But, in contrast to mammals, the highly attenuated corneocytes of avians, which results from a paucity of keratin filaments, produce a 'straws-and-mortar' tissue, rather than the 'bricks-and-mortar' tissue of mammals.
(17) I adored Chez Elles in Brick Lane's Banglatown; and Otto's , on Gray's Inn Road, looks set to be the capital's next insider secret, with a menu that doesn't appear to have met the 21st century: it does canard à la presse, for goodness sake.
(18) Cash pilgrims and bricks of money: HSBC Swiss bank operated like cash machine for rich clients Read more Epstein, who reportedly keeps much of his wealth in the US Virgin Islands, where he owns a private island, did not respond to multiple requests for comment about his HSBC Geneva accounts.
(19) Corrective measures: Chagas: Since brick houses have replaced the wooden ones for several years, new infections are unlikely.
(20) The company is investing to make more bricks on the Sussex site.
Fricking
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) There is thus at least one example each of two-and three-dimensional forms which conform to the low concentration analysis up to 100% volume and so give a basis for the extensions to other and more complicated forms to complete a survey to work begun by Fricke in 1923.
(2) This work reports the results of an experiment carried out to investigate the compatibility of TG-21 ion chamber calibration with Fricke dosimetry near the extremes of the clinically available megavoltage photon energy range.
(3) First, we have to evaluate the equilibrium parameters, KF and n. Frick has shown how to determine those parameters for multicomponent solutions.
(4) The sensitivity is a factor of about six higher compared to ordinary ferrous sulphate solution, known as 'Fricke'.
(5) This permits a dose measurement which shows compared to the usual dosimetry of Fricke above all following advantages: dose specification related to water; displacement of the absorption maximum in the perceptible spectral sphere; increase of the sensibility and lower influence of pollutions.
(6) Furthermore, the Fricke constant phase model in which alpha = beta and phi = 0.5 pi beta was found not to be applicable in general.
(7) An extension of the model is made to describe the spin-lattice relaxation behavior of irradiated Fricke solution.
(8) Myotis [Frick 1952]), the tympanic cavity extends into the Recessus scalae tympani displacing the Membrana tympani secundaria medially from the lateral aperture of the Recessus scalae tympani (= Fenestra rotunda of mammals) and even into the plane of the Foramen perilymphaticum.
(9) Although Frick's methodological criticisms are well taken, there is additional evidence suggesting that response force can be strengthened by reinforcement and that such learning generalizes across behaviors.
(10) The Frick Collection , with its magnificent portrait of Philip in scarlet silk , had not yet been imagined, for Henry Frick was still a boy.
(11) In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the city was home to many of America's most successful "robber baron" industrialists, including Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Mellon brothers, as well as Henry John Heinz, the founder of the Heinz food company.
(12) With trimesic acid (1, 3, 5-benzentricarboacid) absorbed doses can be detected which are 1000 times smaller than with the Fricke solution.
(13) George Frick, generally regarded as the first American physician to limit his practice to ophthalmology, was also the first American to author a textbook on the eye.
(14) Dosimetry was performed with both Fricke dosimetry and ionization chamber.
(15) If you haven’t encountered Poehler yet, walk away from this article and please don’t come back until you’ve watched her performances in Mean Girls, Blades of Glory, Baby Mama, every clip of hers from Saturday Night Live (especially the time she rapped about Sarah Palin when she was about 10-and-a-half-months pregnant – in front of Sarah Palin ) and, most of all, Parks and Recreation, the best new US sitcom in fricking ages.
(16) In addition, the Maxwell-Fricke mixture theory was used to estimate the amount of hydrated water that relaxes far below 1 GHz.
(17) To exploit poor Oscar Wilde rather shamelessly, to mention Mail Online once is unfortunate, to do so twice suggests one needs to stop procrastinating so much by looking at Mail Online and do some fricking work as opposed to lobotomising oneself by reading yet more stories about how the dress of someone called Miranda Kerr fluttered slightly in the wind on her way to lunch.
(18) It took Sweden 18 minutes to get a shot on target but, when they did, it put them ahead, Marcus Berg holding off the challenge of Liechtenstein’s captain, Mario Frick, before shooting in.
(19) Various practical aspects of the NMR-Fricke system, such as the optimal initial ferrous concentration and the NMR frequency dependence of the sensitivity, are described.
(20) The Fricke constant phase model is a better representation of electrode behavior, but it also may not be valid in general.