What's the difference between brim and flood?

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).

Flood


Definition:

  • (v. i.) A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land not usually thus covered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation.
  • (v. i.) The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood.
  • (v. i.) A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency.
  • (v. i.) Menstrual disharge; menses.
  • (v. t.) To overflow; to inundate; to deluge; as, the swollen river flooded the valley.
  • (v. t.) To cause or permit to be inundated; to fill or cover with water or other fluid; as, to flood arable land for irrigation; to fill to excess or to its full capacity; as, to flood a country with a depreciated currency.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
  • (2) Last November he bluntly warned EU chiefs he could, if he wished, “flood Europe” with refugees.
  • (3) During Pakistan's recent floods, Chinese aid totalled $18m; the US gave nearly $700m.
  • (4) During a single reversal trial of two 2-wk experimental periods, teats of all glands of 12 Holstein cows were subjected to a milking routine conducive to large vacuum fluctuations and flooded teat cups.
  • (5) In his interview, Smith accepts that the EA's response to the flooding has not been perfect.
  • (6) These changes led to a flooding of the alveoli with up to 40 times normal protein levels and a greater than fivefold increase in airway antiproteinase.
  • (7) The loss of summer sea ice has led to unusual warming of the Arctic atmosphere, that in turn impacts weather patterns in the northern hemisphere , that can result in persistent extreme weather such as droughts, heatwaves and flooding," she said.
  • (8) It will be protected from rising sea levels by a giant flood wall that environmental experts say could damage the communities further down the coast – and social justice campaigners have called the project a form of “climate apartheid” .
  • (9) As a result, low-lying areas, including Bangladesh, Florida, the Maldives and the Netherlands, will undergo catastrophic flooding, while in Britain large areas of the Norfolk Broads and the Thames estuary could disappear.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Many locals said they had never known the flooding this bad.
  • (11) Yu Xiangzhen, former Red Guard Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Almost half a century on, it floods back: the hope, the zeal, the carefree autumn days riding the rails with fellow teenagers.
  • (12) "And secondly, there will also be help with sand bags, which could help prevent further flooding."
  • (13) Allen's team has used the new technique to work out whether global warming worsened the UK floods in autumn 2000, which inundated 10,000 properties, disrupted power supplies and led to train services being cancelled, motorways closed and 11,000 people evacuated from their homes - at a total cost of £1bn.
  • (14) Her home in nearby Burrowbridge just about escaped flooding but she spends four days a week doing volunteer work for those who were not so fortunate.
  • (15) The data discussed in this article were gathered through use of a retrospective cohort survey five years following a major flood in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania.
  • (16) The solicitor did a search, they went through the parish records and local histories, they got a sworn statement from the vendors: in the 150-plus years since it was built, the farm had never flooded.
  • (17) The current floods in Australia have the potential to affect prices for commodities such as sugar and cane growers are warning of production problems for up to three years.
  • (18) Source: Reuters Dirty old river If the notion of an Englishman’s castle as his home is being challenged on the Levels, where scores of properties flooded, the bursting of the Thames from its banks a few hundred yards from the royal castle of Windsor has raised the issue to a new height.
  • (19) The malaria threat is part of a wider health emergency, with more than 20 million people affected by the floods struggling to cope as the winter approaches.
  • (20) The £180m a year scheme is to be paid for by a £10.50 levy on all home insurance, from homeowners who are not at elevated risk of flooding as well as those who are.