What's the difference between brief and whirl?

Brief


Definition:

  • (a.) Short in duration.
  • (a.) Concise; terse; succinct.
  • (a.) Rife; common; prevalent.
  • (adv.) Briefly.
  • (adv.) Soon; quickly.
  • (a.) A short concise writing or letter; a statement in few words.
  • (a.) An epitome.
  • (a.) An abridgment or concise statement of a client's case, made out for the instruction of counsel in a trial at law. This word is applied also to a statement of the heads or points of a law argument.
  • (a.) A writ; a breve. See Breve, n., 2.
  • (n.) A writ issuing from the chancery, directed to any judge ordinary, commanding and authorizing that judge to call a jury to inquire into the case, and upon their verdict to pronounce sentence.
  • (n.) A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose.
  • (v. t.) To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The following is a brief review of the history, mechanism of action, and potential adverse effects of neuromuscular blockers.
  • (2) This article is intended as a brief practical guide for physicians and physiotherapists concerned with the treatment of cystic fibrosis.
  • (3) Brief treadmill exercise tests showed appropriate rate response to increased walking speed and gradient.
  • (4) In addition to the phase diagrams reported here for these two binary mixtures, a brief theoretical discussion is given of other possible phase diagrams that may be appropriate to other lipid mixtures with particular consideration given to the problem of crystalline phases of different structures and the possible occurrence of second-order phase transitions in these mixtures.
  • (5) The introduction of intravenous, high-dose thrombolytic therapy during a brief period has markedly reduced mortality of patients with acute myocardial infarction.
  • (6) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
  • (7) The present status of percutaneous coronary angioplasty is presented, with a brief outline of current technique, the technical and clinical indications for the method, and the results being obtained.
  • (8) It is suitable either for brief sampling of AP durations when recording with microelectrodes, which may impale cells intermittently, or for continuous monitoring, as with suction electrodes on intact beating hearts in situ.
  • (9) We found no statistically significant difference in one-year, biochemically validated, sustained cessation rates between the group offered the long-term follow-up visits (12.5%) and the group given the brief intervention (10.2%).
  • (10) If anyone should have been briefed on Prism and Tempora, it should have been the NSC.
  • (11) A subgroup of 40 patients was asked to complete a brief survey on medical care information and satisfaction.
  • (12) It will act as a further disincentive for women to seek help.” When Background Briefing visited Catherine Haven in February, the refuge looked deserted, and most of its rooms were empty, despite the town having one of the highest domestic violence rates in the state.
  • (13) Technically speaking, this modality of brief psychotherapy is based on the nonuse of transferential interpretations, on impeding the regression od the patient, on facilitating a cognitice-affective development of his conflicts and thus obtain an internal object mutation which allows the transformation of the "past" into true history, and the "present" into vital perspectives.
  • (14) So the government wants a “root and branch” review to decide whether the BBC has “been chasing mass ratings at the expense of its original public service brief” ( BBC faces ‘root and branch’ review of its size and remit , 13 July).
  • (15) Brief digestion at neutral pH without reduction produced a molecule in which the Fab and Fc fragments were still linked by a pair of labile disulphide bridges, and the Fc fragment released by cleaving these bonds, called 1Fc fragment, contained a portion of the ;hinge' region including an interchain disulphide bridge.
  • (16) A brief review of the last decade or so of developments in health politics, policy and law suggests that health is no longer a field of mere "dynamics without change."
  • (17) Sharif Mobley, 30, whose lawyers consider him to be disappeared, managed to call his wife in Philadelphia on Thursday, the first time they had spoken since February and a rare independent proof he is alive since a brief phone call with his mother in July.
  • (18) This review of androgenetic alopecia (AA) in women provides a summary of hair physiology and biochemistry, a general discussion of AA, and a brief description of other types of hair loss in women.
  • (19) They’re putting on a heavy sales job as one would expect,” Texas representative Mac Thornberry, the Republican who chairs the House armed services committee, told reporters upon leaving one of the briefings.
  • (20) A U-shaped second-grade polynomic relationship (R = 0.69) was found between steady state of haloperidol and percentage improvement in total score on the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale.

Whirl


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.
  • (v. t.) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch; to harry.
  • (v. i.) To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate.
  • (v. i.) To move hastily or swiftly.
  • (v. t.) A turning with rapidity or velocity; rapid rotation or circumvolution; quick gyration; rapid or confusing motion; as, the whirl of a top; the whirl of a wheel.
  • (v. t.) Anything that moves with a whirling motion.
  • (v. t.) A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached.
  • (v. t.) A whorl. See Whorl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the box the atmosphere is whirled round by a fan and hereby led over a layer of catalyst.
  • (2) Water contaminated by Myxosoma cerebralis was disinfected with ultraviolet irradiation to control whirling disease.
  • (3) But then this isn’t really a team yet, more a working model conjured out of the air by Klopp’s whirling hands on the touchline.
  • (4) It's tempting to see all this layering as a painstaking effort on Green's part to understand her husband's death, but it's clear she sees it more as an expression of the absence of meaning that has resulted from it, the wild and whirling words of grief.
  • (5) Antonio Valencia raced around like the winger of a few seasons ago; Danny Welbeck discovered an extra yard of pace and an ability to spin opponents; Wayne Rooney was once more the whirling team totem, the closest to Roy Keane the club has had since the Irishman departed nine years ago.
  • (6) In contrast to the more uniform localization of antigens 01 through 010 over the whole cell surface, antigens 011 and 012 are less strongly detectable on cell bodies than on processes and membranous whirls.
  • (7) The not yet solved and serious uncertainities which need priority in the research are, according to the speaker, the control of the amebiasis of hatchery rainbow trout, the incysted icthyophtiriasis of various fresh water fishes, the rainbow trout myxosomiasis (Whirling disease), and the argulosis of eel reared in brackish water lagoons.
  • (8) Pape Souaré’s substitution at half-time was presumably so Palace’s left-back could have his neck iced, so many times did he find himself whirling around in a funk trying to work out exactly where Mahrez had shimmied off to now.
  • (9) That it should take a young Anglo-Lebanese barrister, recently married to a Hollywood star, to reanimate the debate (in a whirl of camera-clicks and flash bulbs), says much about the times we live in.
  • (10) That’s when all the wealthy widows who live elsewhere the rest of the year flock to their Florida mansions and get caught up in a whirl of charity balls and dinners.
  • (11) The numerous internal membranous bodies, some of which arise from the plasma membrane of the vegetative hypha, may be vesicular, whirled, or convoluted.
  • (12) Based in the Netherlands, where he is artistic director of Toneelgroep Amsterdam , the country's foremost theatre company, he frequently whirls his productions through European cities.
  • (13) Eukaryotic cell structures have been detected consisting of lamella layers whirled around the intact rickettsiae.
  • (14) The frequency with which the word whirling and similar words (whirlall words) were used in Rorschach tests administered to 1154 medical students 20 to 35 years ago has been counted by computer.
  • (15) This angelic whirling is a perfect counterpoint to the earthly chanting.
  • (16) In addition, a high incidence 1) of micronodular hepatocellular whirling lesions with increased basophilia, 2) of other proliferative areas of altered cellularity and 3) of precancerous nodules was found in the livers of schistosome-infected mice treated with hycanthone.
  • (17) The main subjective complaint was vertigo (whirling; 93%).
  • (18) So the studios made sure that those who appeared on screen could not be perceived as gay, marrying them off in a whirl of publicity if necessary.
  • (19) Give the Aussie Eggs a whirl: poached free range eggs on toast with tomato, garlic and fresh basil.
  • (20) Typical alterations are the vascular lesions of the conjunctiva, the whirl-like opacities of the cornea, the wedge-shaped anterior opacities and the branching spokes of the lens, as well as the vascular lesions of the retina.