What's the difference between brim and brin?

Brim


Definition:

  • (n.) The rim, border, or upper edge of a cup, dish, or any hollow vessel used for holding anything.
  • (n.) The edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water contained in it; the brink; border.
  • (n.) The rim of a hat.
  • (v. i.) To be full to the brim.
  • (v. t.) To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
  • (a.) Fierce; sharp; cold. See Breme.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Last year, in a continuing campaign to improve policing , he produced a book brimming with indignation.
  • (2) In general, we could say that the combination of these daily rules makes the detention atmosphere unsafe, full of stress and brimful of pressure.
  • (3) Nutritional stresses are indicated by dental lesions, hypoplasias, stature, and skull base height and pelvic brim index.
  • (4) This week I spoke to Richard Murphy , the economist and tax expert, whose new book has the self-explanatory title The Courageous State and brims with imaginative thinking.
  • (5) The likelihood of failure or complication was greater for stones above than for those below the pelvic brim (15 of 25 or 60 per cent versus 26 of 75 or 35 per cent, p less than 0.05).
  • (6) His private palace, seven miles outside town in Kawele, brimmed with paintings, sculptures, stained glass, ersatz Louis XIV furniture, marble from Carrara in Italy and two swimming pools surrounded by loudspeakers playing his beloved Gregorian chants or classical music.
  • (7) It was subdivided into fractures of the acetabulum, fractures of the pelvic girdle, dislocations, and fractures of the pelvic brim on the basis of the system of Judet and Engler as well as Feldkamp.
  • (8) At 56 he brims with the energy of a much younger man; he has international standing and experience and an undoubted feel for the needs and ambitions of the big players.
  • (9) Kennedy's wife Vicki sat in the front row, her eyes always brimming but never overwhelmed.
  • (10) The distance from the external urethral orifice to the cranial pubic brim was correlated (P less than 0.001) with bodyweight but was not significantly different in the continent and incontinent bitches.
  • (11) 'I greet the year 1968 with serenity,' he announced, brimming with self-satisfaction.
  • (12) Diego Forlán, 30 yards from the target, showed all the confidence that has been brimming over in his work for the Europa League winners Atlético Madrid.
  • (13) Spurs have been guilty of starting matches sluggishly this season but they brimmed with menace from the start, Adebayor and Gareth Bale going close with headers from corners.
  • (14) Six or seven” out of 10 was the faintly damning verdict of one Chinese tourist, an MBA student at Bath University, on the bride’s outfit: a glamorous cream Stella McCartney trouser suit with a wide-brimmed hat.
  • (15) Where’s your warrant?’” says Greste, wearing the same wide-brimmed hat he was arrested in.
  • (16) These predicted increases in risk, resulting from greater solar ultraviolet exposure, can be offset by adopting changes to behaviour during the summer months which may involve spending less time outdoors, wearing appropriate clothing including wide-brimmed hats, applying topical sunscreens, or a combination of these.
  • (17) calculi below the pelvic brim) underwent local shock-wave lithotripsy.
  • (18) Investment spurred a full-on revival of the arts scene, a gallery district and a brimming outdoor gallery of street art in Central and Humewood.
  • (19) Much beer was drunk, many speeches were made, brimming glasses raised to a company whose success had plainly served all who were present.
  • (20) The inverse covariability between the transverse inlet diameter and the brim index is weak (r = -0,17).

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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