What's the difference between burg and burr?

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 .

Burr


Definition:

  • (n.) Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs.
  • (n.) The thin ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal. See Burr, n., 2.
  • (n.) A ring of iron on a lance or spear. See Burr, n., 4.
  • (n.) The lobe of the ear. See Burr, n., 5.
  • (n.) The sweetbread.
  • (n.) A clinker; a partially vitrified brick.
  • (n.) A small circular saw.
  • (n.) A triangular chisel.
  • (n.) A drill with a serrated head larger than the shank; -- used by dentists.
  • (n.) The round knob of an antler next to a deer's head.
  • (n.) A prickly seed vessel. See Bur, 1.
  • (n.) The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting.
  • (n.) A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.
  • (n.) A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe, to prevent the hand from slipping.
  • (n.) The lobe or lap of the ear.
  • (n.) A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr.
  • (n.) The knot at the bottom of an antler. See Bur, n., 8.
  • (v. i.) To speak with burr; to make a hoarse or guttural murmur.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But Burr admitted the bill would still allow companies to share directly with the NSA, and could potentially receive liability protections if information is shared “not electronically”.
  • (2) Incumbents facing competitive re-election battles in November, including Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Marco Rubio of Florida, Rob Portman of Ohio, John McCain of Arizona and Richard Burr of North Carolina, voted for that bill, which had the backing of the NRA.
  • (3) The animal model was induced by left frontal burr hole opening and inoculation of a small piece of G-XII glioma tissue to 6- to 8-week-old rats.
  • (4) A number of predictions were derived from the work of Cristensen, Reiss, and Burr.
  • (5) Patients were treated with observation, serial percutaneous needle drainage, drainage through burr holes, drainage into a closed external drainage system, or subdural to peritoneal shunt.
  • (6) Burr said that language in the bill would require companies to “remove all personal information before that data is transferred to the federal government”, and that the Department of Homeland Security would scrub any data not cleaned by companies.
  • (7) A limited craniectomy was performed at the fronto-temporal junction using three adjacent burr-holes.
  • (8) Together with William Burr of the National Security Archive, Aid has co-authored an article in Foreign Policy that explores the significance of the new disclosures.
  • (9) The ideal drill is a slim straight instrument, which rotates dental burrs and is operated by a light finger pressure.
  • (10) "I'll be brief," Burr said at the start of his second-round question for Brennan.
  • (11) In a letter addressed to Richard Burr and Mark Warner, chairman and vice-chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, Page notes media reports that secret court orders were issued last October to allow the FBI to conduct surveillance of “US persons” in an investigation of possible contacts between Russian banks and the Trump Organization.
  • (12) All patients were managed with diagnostic burr-hole procedures.
  • (13) None of the patients initially managed with craniotomy were worse or died, whereas of the four patients initially managed with burr holes, two were worse (25 per cent) and two died (25 per cent).
  • (14) Warner indicated in a statement, issued alongside his statement with Burr, that he did not necessarily view the intelligence panel’s inquiry as the final investigative option.
  • (15) 2) Technique for release of ventricular catheter obstruction by percutaneous management through the "8-shaped" burr hole.
  • (16) It has previously been demonstrated that pp60v-src is associated with a detergent-insoluble matrix containing the cellular cytoskeleton (J. G. Burr, G. Dreyfuss, S. Penman, and J. M. Buchanan, Proc.
  • (17) Burr said it was safe to assume the Russians were “actively involved” in the forthcoming French election, adding: “We feel part of our responsibility is to educate the rest of the world what’s going on because it’s now into character assassination of candidates.” Burr, who served as a security adviser to Trump’s campaign, confirmed that he voted for the Republican nominee but said he had not coordinated with the White House on the reach of the investigation, which he described as one of the biggest of his congressional career.
  • (18) 59 cases were treated through burr holes, irrigation and drainage and 57 cases were completely cured after operation.
  • (19) 79 cases of obstructive hydrocephalus treated between 1972 and 1983 by burr hole third ventriculo-cisternostomy have been analysed together with the published literature.
  • (20) After rotablation of the posterior lateral branch over 3 cm with a 1.5 mm burr and rotablation with a 1.75 mm burr of the posterior branch of the left circumflex coronary artery the vessel was reopened with a smooth surface without perforation and dissection.