What's the difference between briony and bryony?

Briony


Definition:

  • (n.) See Bryony.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the four years before his death in 2000, Gyngell set up tax-free Jersey trusts for his wife Kathy and his children David, Skye, Adam and Briony according to the files leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) news non-profit in Washington DC and seen by the Guardian in London.
  • (2) "We'd rented this house in Hertfordshire on the basis of its library and the girl who was being Briony got fed up.
  • (3) In his two Bond films he’s worn tailored Brioni suits alongside Topman and Zara.
  • (4) Thanks to the following people who are involved in the video Shayna (London), Claire (London), Aideen (Co Limerick, Ireland), Bert (Australia), G Kong (California), Bridie (London), Dave (New York), Nicola (Milan), Javier (Hawaii), Louise and Amy (Essex, UK), Paul (London), Nickey and family (Australia), Victoria, Hannah, Holly and Helen (Bristol, UK), Mathieu (Strasbourg, France) Adam (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) Briony (London) Craig, Dave (East Sussex) Fossil Free Bristol, George, Nickey (Australia), Paul (Amsterdam), Peter (Brighton), Sharon Lee, Neil (Ipswich) Somy (London), David (London), Camille, Monica, and Andrew (London), Jenny (London) Lima, Tim and the children of Mulgrave Primary School (Woolwich, London) and Richard.

Bryony


Definition:

  • (n.) The common name of several cucurbitaceous plants of the genus Bryonia. The root of B. alba (rough or white bryony) and of B. dioica is a strong, irritating cathartic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "She [Simpson] was one of the most stylish women of the day, and there is a lasting fascination with their lives together which shows no sign of going away," said Bryony Meredith, head of Sotheby's jewellery department.
  • (2) As part of the fortnight, on Wednesday, 21-year-old Bryony Hamblin, of Ystrad in the Rhondda Valley, who stacks shelves for a supermarket chain in Cardiff, will talk about fair pay at the Welsh assembly.
  • (3) Bryony Lavery's award-winning 1998 play Frozen looks at a doctor's attempt to unravel the motivations of a child killer.
  • (4) If Palingswick House is not ready, the council has offered the school an alternative venue at the Bryony Centre in White City.
  • (5) "If India offers an emissions target, even if it's relative to their economic growth, it's a very welcome step," said Bryony Worthington, founder of campaign group Sandbag.
  • (6) Bryony Lavery should make good work of bringing a 19th-century story to modern family audiences (including transforming Jim from boy to adventurous girl), and Polly Findlay should work her directorial magic to create a salty sea story full of adventure and thrills.
  • (7) Bryony Worthington, founder of Sandbag, welcomed the prospect of a ban on industrial gas offsets: "This vast supply of cheap and ineffective offsets means there is no need for investment in cutting emissions within the EU."
  • (8) The best supporting role nominees are Mark Addy (Collaborators), Oliver Chris (One Man), Johnny Flynn (Jerusalem), Bryony Hannah (The Children's Hour) and Sheridan Smith (Flare Path).
  • (9) She wrote that writers such as Caitlin Moran and Bryony Gordon (the Telegraph journalist allegedly called a “slut” or “slattern” by Michael Fallon , the defence secretary) are producing hyperconfessional works that constitute an “abandoning of dignity and self-respect”.
  • (10) The amino-acid sequences of two trypsin inhibitors isolated from red bryony (Bryonia dioica) and watermelon (Citrullus vulgaris) seeds are reported.
  • (11) Seven trypsin inhibitors were isolated from the seeds of Cucurbitaceae plants: two from cucumber (Cucumis sativus) and red bryony (Bryonia diotica) and one from figleaf gourd (Cucurbita ficifolia), spaghetti squash (Cucurbita pepo var.
  • (12) The London branch, run by students Julia Gray, 23, and Bryony Beynon, 25, launched last April in conjunction with nail salon WAH (which stands for We Ain't Hoes) in Dalston.
  • (13) There’s still a lot to do,” said Bryony Sadler, one of the scores of residents forced to evacuate the village of Moorland on the Somerset Levels almost a year ago and now finally back in her home.
  • (14) We’re spending money on all the wrong things and as a result the right things are not happening,” said Bryony Worthington , a Labour life peer and Sandbag founder.
  • (15) Bryony Worthington is a green campaigner and founder of Sandbag.org.uk
  • (16) Jenny Colgan said it was “ a bit like peering into the inside of your dog’s head ”; Bryony Gordon found it “about as sexy as a misery memoir and as arousing as the diary of a sex offender”.
  • (17) Bryony Sadler, a member of Somerset's Flooding on the Levels Action Group, told the newspaper: "We are extremely grateful to the Environment Agency's people on the ground, who are doing their best to help us.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bryony Gordon: ‘There’s still a slight shock that a woman can have casual sex … in a way that there isn’t with men.’ Photograph: Retts Wood Not that the old pressures have completely vanished.
  • (19) Think of writer and columnist Bryony Gordon’s revelations that her lover is so wrapped up in his job that he makes her have sex “to the dulcet tones of Jeremy Paxman berating an MP over the financial crisis”.
  • (20) Bryony Worthington, director of sandbag.org.uk I'd say things look pretty gloomy on the UN front.

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