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Bruin


Definition:

  • (a.) A bear; -- so called in popular tales and fables.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Bruins, on the other hand, limped into the playoffs, with everyone wondering where their firepower had gone.
  • (2) His goal came at a crucial moment , immediately after the Bruins had the Habs hemmed in their own end.
  • (3) But that is the thing that we have to do: We have to try and fight through that,” Team Canada assistant coach Claude Julien said before his Bruins played the Kings Monday night .
  • (4) Houston bring on Weaver for Bruin (who has cut a rather lonely figure up front, all alone) 3.38am GMT 72 mins SKC win anther corner and Zusi puts it into the right area but again it's met by a Houston head.
  • (5) In Game Six of the Stanley Cup Finals, the Boston Bruins held a 2-1 lead over the Chicago Blackhawks with 77 seconds remaining in regulation and looked poised to force a Game Seven in Chicago.
  • (6) Bruins, Cnossen and van Boheemen built their first rough prototype using the heater element from a hairdryer and some other stuff they picked up at the home improvement store, Home Depot for €40 (£33).
  • (7) Then Jonathan Toews stunned the Boston crowd by pushing the puck past Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask, tying the game up at 2-2 with little more than a minute left.
  • (8) The large effect of low PCO2 on both fetal and adult erythrocytes was related to the higher affinity for CO2 of deoxyhemoglobin compared to oxyhemoglobin and a model for CO2 binding analogous to that described by de Bruin et al.
  • (9) Chicago's Andrew Shaw finally ended t he fifth longest ever Stanley Cup final game 12:08 minutes into triple overtime (112:08 in total to save you the mathematics) and capped a 4-3 comeback victory for the Blackhawks over the Boston Bruins.
  • (10) And it paid off in a goal early on, care of Chris Kelly , a new standout in the Bruins lineup.
  • (11) Here's a look courtesy of our favourite wikipedia: 1942 Stanley Cup when the Toronto Maple Leafs came back and won four straight over the Detroit Red Wings 1975 Stanley Cup quarterfinals when the New York Islanders came back and won four straight over the Pittsburgh Penguins 2004 American League Championship Series when the Boston Red Sox came back and won four straight over the New York Yankees 2010 Stanley Cup conference semifinals when the Philadelphia Flyers came back and won four straight, winning the fourth game 4-3 after being down by a score of 0-3 to the Boston Bruins 2014 Stanley Cup conference quarterfinals when the Los Angeles Kings came back and won four straight over the San Jose Sharks.
  • (12) BRUINS 4, DEVILS 3, OT In Boston, David Krejci completed his second career hat trick in overtime to give the Boston victory and its first season sweep of New Jersey since 1985-86.
  • (13) Updated at 2.56am GMT 2.55am GMT 45 mins Bruin breaks past one and then two men and shoots hard and low from 22 yards out.
  • (14) With two fast goals in the dying moments of the third period Monday night in Boston, the Chicago Blackhawks came from behind to beat the Bruins 3-2 and win the 2013 Stanley Cup.
  • (15) Several studies have suggested that binding of the receptor antibody and TSH to the TSH receptor is mutually exclusive (Manley et al., 1977; Petersen et al., 1977; Rickards et al., 1981) but recently the formation of termolecular complexes consisting of detergent solubilized receptors, labelled TSH and Graves' IgG has been reported (Konishi et al., 1982; De Bruin et al., 1984).
  • (16) 7.56pm GMT 2 mins: A long ball for Will Bruin in the SKC box but he's judged to have fouled Collin.
  • (17) The Rangers will play the winner of Wednesday's Game 7 at Boston between the Bruins and Montreal, while Chicago will meet either Anaheim or Los Angeles, with the Ducks leading that series 3-2.
  • (18) #RunWithUs November 7, 2013 HoustonDynamo (@HoustonDynamo) The @DirectEnergy starting XI: Hall; Sarkodie, Boswell, Brunner, Ashe; García, Creavalle, Clark, Davis ©; Barnes, Bruin #DreamScreamBelieve November 7, 2013 That is quite an impressive piece of sponsorship that the Dynamo managed to slip in there.
  • (19) In and around that they gave up two soft goals to Will Bruin, whose resurgence under Coyle is one of the early stories of the season.
  • (20) Bruins and his colleagues also approached academic medical researchers, who agreed that malaria detection was a good use for their PCR machine.

Burin


Definition:

  • (n.) The cutting tool of an engraver on metal, used in line engraving. It is made of tempered steel, one end being ground off obliquely so as to produce a sharp point, and the other end inserted in a handle; a graver; also, the similarly shaped tool used by workers in marble.
  • (n.) The manner or style of execution of an engraver; as, a soft burin; a brilliant burin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) What we are doing to each other is what we are doing to the planet?” Margaret Burin (@margaretburin) #VDay dance against violence towards women ends in liberating nude swim, #ByronBay .
  • (2) He etches with his sharp, implacable burin questions that need to be faced now more than ever in the resistance to terrorism.

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