What's the difference between burg and burp?

Burg


Definition:

  • (n.) A fortified town.
  • (n.) A borough.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But it made sure there weren’t surprises like this one: when Natalie Burg, of Michigan, was newly married, she discovered that adding a rider for maternity coverage would more than double the cost of her health insurance, from $120 a month to more than $300.
  • (2) ‘You help us and we’ll take care of you’: a windfall of abuse hits minorities in the Windy City – and Lee Harris Facebook Twitter Pinterest The notoriously abusive Chicago police officer Jon Burge (top) was released on Friday.
  • (3) Last Friday evening, ahead of the congress, the politicians gathered with 100 guests for a dinner in the vaulted cellar of a castle, Burg Weisenau, in the nearby city of Mainz.
  • (4) The funds will be used to pay up to $100,000 per individual for living survivors with valid claims to have been tortured in police custody during Burge’s command.
  • (5) They didn’t fully address Mr Burge’s queries and their tone was not appropriate.
  • (6) On the other hand, the theoretical values of these ratios were calculated by inserting the geometrical parameters describing the shapes and the sizes of the body and the tail of individual organism into the equations previously derived for the hydrodynamic model of the propulsion of flagellated bacteria (Holwill and Burge, 1963; Chwang and Wu, 1971).
  • (7) There were no recurrent ulcers in those who had peroperative Burge tests, although secretory studies showed no difference between those tested and those not tested.
  • (8) On February 9, in Florida, Burge was confronted once again by his old legal nemesis, attorney Flint Taylor, for a deposition in one of the sprawling torture cases his police legacy spawned.
  • (9) Harlemites wanted to get back to “real” Africa, yet Africans back home in Jo’burg dreamed of Harlem.
  • (10) The Burge test produced 2 false negative results and 3 false positives.
  • (11) A Newham council spokesman said: “Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Mr Burge following his tragic death.
  • (12) Burge, 66, who lived in a lodge at the City of London cemetery, wrote to the council telling them he was “depressed, stressed and suicidal”, saying: “I have no savings or assets.
  • (13) From 1972 through 1991, Burge and officers under his command tortured more than 100 African Americans.
  • (14) Three digital spectrum estimators, Fast Fourier Transform, Burg autoregressive method, and minimum variance method, were slightly more accurate than the zero crossing detector (0.984 less than or equal to r less than or equal to 0.994), especially at points close to the walls and with higher levels of turbulence.
  • (15) Newham council admitted a failure to deal with Malcolm Burge’s benefit issue because of the backlog of cases after the change.
  • (16) But they were assigned to different police areas: Burge at Area 2 on the south side, Zuley on the north side at what was alternatively known as Area 6 and Area 3.
  • (17) Horace Rumpole had, like all great fictional characters, been composed from fragments of the real people John had worked with, his father, and James Burge (a mercurial Old Bailey junior who never quite recovered from the professional consequences of defending Stephen Ward during the Profumo scandal in 1963) and Jeremy Hutchinson, a mighty defence silk married at the time to Peggy Ashcroft.
  • (18) In our submission to the coroner we acknowledged delays and deficiencies in our extensive correspondence through letters and phone calls with Mr Burge.
  • (19) Chicago city council voted to award a total of $5.5m to help survivors, almost all African American men, who were mistreated in a long episode of police brutality that ran throughout the 70s and 80s under Jon Burge.
  • (20) Pressure has mounted on Emanuel to confront police violence as reports in the Guardian about a secretive Chicago police facility known as Homan Square collided with activism around the Burge torture regime during his mayoral runoff election .

Burp


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "When I burp and pass wind the smell is absolutely horrendous.
  • (2) Emissions from livestock, largely from burping cows and sheep and their manure, currently make up almost 15% of global emissions.
  • (3) A 'mere' three hours per week on Radio 2 earn him £530,000 a year, which works out at £3,397 an hour, which, if you are inclined, you can break down into pounds per minute or pennies per burp.
  • (4) ITV's coverage of the tournament to date may or may not provide some fodder for Harry Hill's TV Burp, which returned with 4.4 million viewers, rising to 4.61 million when ITV1+1 viewers were included – a 19.3% share of the audience.
  • (5) In some ways these films are a straightforward response to box-office disenfranchisement: a burp from the bible belt, ignored by an industry set on manufacturing global blockbusters.
  • (6) Let's Dance was up against ITV1's New You've Been Framed, with 4.112 million (18.3%) and Harry Hill's TV Burp, which had 5.278 million (22.2%).
  • (7) In one species of vocalizing fish, the plainfin midshipman (Porichthys notatus), large, nest-guarding males ('type I') use striated muscles to produce acoustic communication signals that include short duration (less than 1 s) 'burps' important in agonistic encounters and long duration (in the order of minutes) 'hums' which function in attracting females to nest sites during the breeding season.
  • (8) Like, she wouldn't know that it's not OK just to burp in someone's face at the dinner table, which allowed me to play her with a measure of black comedy.
  • (9) It is effective in prevention of reflux and the patient is able to burp and vomit if necessary.
  • (10) Jack And The Beanstalk, SECC, Glasgow, to 6 Jan Harry Hill Harry Hill Ex-Burp man 1 Binoculars To check that I've legally parked from the office window.
  • (11) I miss Harry Hill's TV Burp [on ITV] and [BBC1's] Total Wipeout."
  • (12) drew 4.1 million and 19% at 7pm, while at 7.30pm Harry Hill's TV Burp brought in 5.3 million and a 23% audience share, down 1 million and five share points on last week.
  • (13) At the same time on ITV1, 4.5 million were watching Harry Hill's TV Burp.
  • (14) Burping (44.53%) and proper posturing (92%) of the child is not being practiced.
  • (15) Females, and a second group of smaller reproductively active males ('type II') that 'sneak' spawn, do not generate hums, although they produce burps.
  • (16) As executive chairman Michael Grade said he would move upstairs to become non-executive chairman of the cash-strapped broadcaster, his content-led recovery policy bore fruit with singing contest The X Factor winning best entertainment programme, while Harry Hill beat Ross to take home the Bafta for entertainment performance for the second year in a row, for his often-hilarious look at the week's television, TV Burp.
  • (17) W e will then live with the statistical risk of some gigantic underground burp.
  • (18) Decision Rules and Regulating Functions were associated only for burping during a feeding.
  • (19) 42% had no knowledge about the proper technique for feeding; 74%, burping; 90%, weaning; and 75%, colostrum.
  • (20) It was enough to put ITV1's lineup to the sword, including New You've Been Framed, which had 3.9 million viewers (17.2%) between 7.20pm and 7.50pm, and Harry Hill's TV Burp, with 4.3 million viewers (18.9%) between 7.50pm and 8.20pm.