What's the difference between brig and bring?

Brig


Definition:

  • (n.) A bridge.
  • (n.) A two-masted, square-rigged vessel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Born in Brig, a Swiss-German speaking Alpine town close to the border with Italy, he studied law at Fribourg university, then worked as the secretary general of the International Centre for Sports Studies at the University of Neuchâtel.
  • (2) During a visit to Nigeria in August, the US secretary of state, John Kerry, congratulated the government for reclaiming swaths of territory, while Brig Gen Mansur Dan-Ali, the defence minister, told local media last week that the government had “eradicated almost 95% of Nigeria’s security challenges within one year”.
  • (3) In Terry's recording from 1969, one black sailor describes how, "when they caught a brother with an Afro, they just took him down to the brig and cut all his hair off and throw him in jail.
  • (4) This was always the question I repeatedly asked of Bush supporters who embraced this same War on Terror theory to justify all of his claimed powers: how can any cognizable limits be placed on that power, including as applied to US citizens on US soil (and indeed, the Bush administration did apply that theory to those circumstances, as when it arrested US citizen Jose Padilla in Chicago and then imprisoned him for several years in a military brig in South Carolina: all without charges).
  • (5) A shrubby plant, abundant in east Kenya, Gynandropsis gynandra (L.) Brig., was shown to exhibit repellent and acaricidal properties to larvae, nymphs and adult Rhipicephalus appendiculatus and Amblyomma variegatum ticks.
  • (6) But when asked by one of the audience what he thought about the "elephant in the room" – the US "torturing a prisoner in a military brig" – he replied without pausing that he thought the Pentagon's actions were "ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid".
  • (7) After apparent outside pressure on the brig due to my mistreatment, I was given a suicide prevention article of clothing called a "smock" by the guards.
  • (8) I stood at parade rest for about three minutes … The [brig supervisor] and the other guards walked past my cell.
  • (9) 2.41pm BST A commenter takes issue with our characterization in the intro of Manning's Quantico confinement as being under "harsh conditions" : anairbagsavedmylife 21 August 2013 2:16pm his sentence would be shortened by 112 days as a blandishment for his illegal detention in solitary confinement and other harsh conditions at the Quantico brig in Virginia in 2010-11.
  • (10) Initially, after surrendering my clothing to the brig guards, I had no choice but to lay naked in my cold jail cell until the following morning.
  • (11) PJ Crowley, the assistant secretary of state for public affairs at the US state department, said Manning was being "mistreated" in the military brig at Quantico, Virginia.
  • (12) In Senate testimony that June, Adm William McRaven, who commanded the Seal raid that killed Osama bin Laden, testified that the administration lacked a detentions policy, which had forced the Boxer brig to be used as a floating Guantánamo surrogate.
  • (13) A Nigerian army spokesman, Brig Gen Olajide Laleye also insisted that victory was close on Wednesday, dismissing reports of troops suffering from low morale and lack of basic equipment including bullet-proof vests.
  • (14) Brig Sheldon said the alleged actions of the soldiers, if proved, could never be justified.
  • (15) Crisis in Yemen – the Guardian briefing Read more The coalition spokesman, the Saudi army’s Brig Gen Ahmed Asiri, vowed a “harsh response” to the attacks and said the Houthis “made a mistake by targeting Saudi cities”.
  • (16) This is because suicide risk would have required a brig mental health provider's recommendation in order for the added restrictions to continue.
  • (17) In Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina has a populist president who is doing what all populists do: seeking an issue to divert public attention from her government's real problems, which are more to do with inflation and bondholders than anything a British brig-sloop did 180 years ago.
  • (18) In response to this specific incident, the brig psychiatrist met with me.
  • (19) Late Royal Regiment of Artillery Brig Timothy Patrick Robinson, OBE.
  • (20) Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi ambassador to the US, said sending ground troops remained “on the table” and the operation’s spokesman, Brig Gen Ahmed Asseri, declined to comment on reports that Saudi special forces were in Aden.

Bring


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.
  • (v. t.) To cause the accession or obtaining of; to procure; to make to come; to produce; to draw to.
  • (v. t.) To convey; to move; to carry or conduct.
  • (v. t.) To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.
  • (v. t.) To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch; as, what does coal bring per ton?

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These included bringing in the A* grade, reducing the number of modules from six to four, and a greater attempt to assess the whole course at the end.
  • (2) It's the demented flipside of David Guetta bringing Euro house into the mainstream.
  • (3) These are typically runaway processes in which global temperature rises lead to further releases of CO², which in turn brings about more global warming.
  • (4) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
  • (5) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
  • (6) But the sports minister has been clear that too many sports bodies are currently not delivering in bringing new people from all backgrounds to their sport.
  • (7) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
  • (8) The new Somali government has enthusiastically embraced the new deal and created a taskforce, bringing together the government, lead donors (the US, UK, EU, Norway and Denmark), the World Bank and civil society.
  • (9) The aim of the present study was to bring forward data of acceptance of dental treatment for 3-16-yr-old children in a population with good dental health and annual dental care, and to evaluate the influence on acceptance of age, sex, residential area, and previous experience and present need of dental treatment.
  • (10) When it was grown, it would bring both ecstasy and catastrophe to women.
  • (11) The temporary loss of a family member through deployment brings unique stresses to a family in three different stages: predeployment, survival, and reunion.
  • (12) On the other hand the TUC says people should also be prepared to be out in the sun for several hours and bring sunscreen and if possible a hat.
  • (13) Some parents are blessed with a soul that lights up every time their little precious brings them a carefully crafted portrait or home-made greetings card.
  • (14) Although there was already satisfaction in the development of dementia-friendly pharmacies and Pride in Practice, a new standard of excellence in healthcare for gay, lesbian and bisexual patients, the biggest achievement so far was the bringing together of a strategic partnership of 37 NHS, local government and social organisations.
  • (15) Obiang, blaming foreigners for bringing corruption to his country, told people he needed to run the national treasury to prevent others falling into temptation.
  • (16) It may, however, be useful to compare local wall dynamics in the more isometrically-contracting basal segment with those in the middle portion which brings about most of the emptying of the ventricle.
  • (17) Unions have complained about the process for Chinese-backed companies to bring overseas workers to Australia for projects worth at least $150m, because the memorandum of understanding says “there will be no requirement for labour market testing” to enter into an investment facilitation arrangements (IFA).
  • (18) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
  • (19) Just before Christmas the independent Kerslake report severely criticised Birmingham city council for its dysfunctional politics and, in particular, its handling of the so-called Trojan Horse affair, in which school governors were said to have set out to bring about an Islamic agenda into the curriculum contents and the day-to-day running of some schools.
  • (20) The chancellor confirmed he would bring in a welfare cap of £119.5bn, with the state pension and unemployment benefits exempted from this.