What's the difference between bur and burlesque?

Bur


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Burr

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The 12-fluted bur caused no clinically identifiable marks on the enamel surface.
  • (2) Of roots treated by diamond burs, 165 stained areas were evaluated; 9 (5.5%) exhibited bacteria.
  • (3) When Bur-tumor was analysed by immunoblotting with Bur-1 antibody a positive reaction was obtained with material migrating in the kD-45kD molecular-weight region.
  • (4) For the experimental studies, fractures of the jaw bone in terms of oblique osteotomies from angle to sigmoid notch of the mandible of the Malaysian monkeys were made by using #700 fissure bur and reduced and fixed them in terms of interosseous wiring.
  • (5) Orthopedic new approaches to therapy of OA include removal of abnormal tissue to stimulate repair (e.g., burring, abrasion) and grafting (e.g., osteochondral grafts, perichondrium, periosteum) to the subchondral bone.
  • (6) In order to establish the complete amino acid sequence of the human IgA alpha1 chain Bur, IgA1 protease from Streptococcus sanguis was employed to generate Fabalpha and Fcalpha fragments in the final stage of this investigation.
  • (7) Creation of smear layers with abrasive paper or dental burs reduced permeability by 80-85%.
  • (8) The goal of the present in vivo study was to evaluate human roots by means of scanning electron microscopy (SEM), after treating the root surfaces either with conventional hand instruments or with newly developed diamond burs.
  • (9) T-shirts were rush-printed overnight, showing his bald, burly head above the logo: "Hi, I'm Joe Plumber and Obama is a punk."
  • (10) It also was recovered from El Bur and one with similar microscopic characters has been seen in Chad and also in "territoire français des Afars et des Issas".
  • (11) Moreover a fine diamond bur suitable for air-rotor stripping of posterior interproximal enamel is also described.
  • (12) In all groups a retrofilling preparation was made to a depth of a number 331 bur.
  • (13) The highest degree of microleakage was observed when the cavities prepared with a diamond coated bur (mean particle size 80 microns) were left unfinished.
  • (14) Acceptable finishing procedures for the composite materials tested include silicon carbide disks for accessible areas or 12 fluted finishing burs for more inaccessible areas.
  • (15) It is hardly suited to the hurly-burly of the hustings.
  • (16) Some normal cells in the lung, pancreas (acini), and kidney (distal tubules) also bound Bur-1 antibody.
  • (17) The most active were oak bark, sage and St. John's wort grass WAG extracts, horse radish root and leaf AG extracts, celandine grass WA extract; bur marigold and yarrow grass WA extracts were active towards S. aureus.
  • (18) I’d called it because of concerns about how we were going to go forwards, particularly on Brexit.” Bur she denied being out of touch in not realising the campaign was not going well.
  • (19) Method 4 comprised a green stone, a carbide finishing bur, and the Vivadent polisher for composite.
  • (20) The results of the study lead to the conclusion that criterion for diabetes compensation should be not only the blood sugar normalization bur also the correction of the lipid fractions changes.

Burlesque


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.
  • (v. i.) To employ burlesque.
  • (a.) Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical.
  • (n.) Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire.
  • (n.) An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything.
  • (n.) A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If you want to watch cabaret’s great and good consuming one too many glasses of prosecco, Saturday night at the Soho Burlesque Club is the place to go.
  • (2) The two identities coexist as "two hearts beating in my chest", and have different back-stories: while Neuwirth was born in the Austrian town of Gmunden, Conchita comes from the mountains of Colombia and has a fictional husband, burlesque artist Jacques Patriaque ("a fairytale – he's actually a close friend of mine").
  • (3) Are we really asking standups to compete with burlesque dancers and rock music?
  • (4) Sure, the season’s story, which focuses on Vanessa Ives’s struggle to decode the “memoirs of the devil” and fight a hissing viper pit of Lucifer’s witches, may be pure pulp burlesque, but that’s just the first layer of Penny Dreadful’s charm.
  • (5) • workersplaytime.net Chosen by Sink the Pink co-founders, Glynfamous (Glyn Fussell) and Amy Zing (Amy Redmond) Soho Burlesque Club Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Soho Burlesque Club Soho Burlesque Club – at the Hippodrome Casino – is a properly late-night cabaret experience.
  • (6) That gin-obsessed burlesque and cupcake fanatic you've secretly had your eye on?
  • (7) I think they had some kind of burlesque-type dancing on a stage, but it was mainly just 90s house, techno and people dancing, in drag.
  • (8) Faena has seven buildings under construction, including an arts centre, a luxury hotel and burlesque theatre designed by film director Baz Luhrmann to invoke the spirit of a Latino Great Gatsby.
  • (9) There will be burlesque workshops for adults, the Magnificent Insect Circus Museum and five performances of Sideshow Illusions featuring a headless lady.
  • (10) Compered by the ventriloquist and standup comedian, it is billed as a mix of cabaret, burlesque, magic, musical comedy and circus performance.
  • (11) It saw the first night of his most successful play, The Love Of Four Colonels, a cold war satirical burlesque in which Russia, America, Britain and France partition the land in which the Sleeping Beauty lies.
  • (12) Union Music, Lewes Running a burlesque boutique in a Sussex market town wasn't enough of a challenge for Stevie Freeman.
  • (13) I once stayed out drinking there with burlesque superstar Dirty Martini until the early hours of the morning.
  • (14) The owners Steve and Hannah book an eclectic mix of music, burlesque and comedy and you can guarantee something off the wall will be on.
  • (15) It was the exact opposite, weaving puppets and games around set pieces – which included a rap about going for a smear test and a burlesque act where slogans about equal pay were all that was revealed.
  • (16) This year, Cotillard takes a belt-and-braces approach: she's an Ellis Island burlesque dancer in James Gray's 1920s-set The Immigrant , as well as a moll in 70s Brooklyn in Blood Ties (scripted by Gray, shot by her husband, Guillaume Canet).
  • (17) Cher's right about Burlesque – an overlong potboiler that also starred Christina Aguilera, it wasn't even camp enough to be fun.
  • (18) Cypriot halloumi + Shed Seven + burlesque.” In the days approaching The Thick of It screening I smugly congratulated myself on my precognitive programming genius.
  • (19) In the comedy programme, the majority of acclaimed shows were by women, including the visiting American standup Tig Notaro, British standup and actor Sara Pascoe, and the extraordinary Adrienne Truscott, one-half of the New York burlesque double-act The Wau Wau Sisters.
  • (20) But the regulator noted that ITV "regretted that some viewers were taken aback by the performance, but it believed that it took appropriate steps to minimise potential offence", and said that because Aguilera's routine was based on her film Burlesque that the costumes had to be seen "in context".

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