What's the difference between burr and burry?

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.

Burry


Definition:

  • (a.) Abounding in burs, or containing burs; resembling burs; as, burry wool.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Backstory Roland Burris, a veteran Chicago politician, became the first African-American to win an Illinois state-wide election in 1978 and became attorney-general from 1991 to 1995.
  • (2) Two types of reconstruction were used: 24 open cancellous grafts by the Burri-Papineau method and 7 closed corticocancellous grafts.
  • (3) It’s unconscionable that a person can be shot that many times in the back,” Burris said.
  • (4) The anastomoses were burried in uninfected surrounding muscles.
  • (5) Obama said today that he agreed with senior Democratic leaders in the US Senate, who have said neither Burris nor anyone else appointed by Blagojevich will be allowed to take the Senate seat when Congress convenes on 6 January.
  • (6) John Burris, a lawyer representing the family, described it as a "compromise verdict".
  • (7) Therefore we conclude, that functional therapy after surgical treatment recommeneded by Burri et al.
  • (8) In the recently filed affidavit, however, Burris acknowledged that he spoke with the others, including three times with Blagojevich's brother, who was soliciting fundraising help, as well as Ed Smith, a labour ally of the former governor.
  • (9) Burris tried to distance himself from the scandal: "I have no relationship with the situation."
  • (10) Burris said he had not realised it was so much: "I will have to check the records."
  • (11) Llangennith is at the western end of the Gower Peninsula and stretches for more than three miles, with gorgeous views of the island of Burry Holms.
  • (12) US Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada and his top deputy, Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, had made Burris' full and complete testimony at the impeachment hearing one of the conditions for swearing him in as a federal lawmaker.
  • (13) Burris said Monday that Woods was not “aggressively fighting” the officers, who should have backed away.
  • (14) Although Blagojevich's appointment is potentially poisonous, Burris may have decided the gamble is worth it, given he is 71 and unlikely to get another chance of high office.
  • (15) An incident of inflammatory complications following the open bone fractures is very high (20% according to Burrie).
  • (16) Adante Pointer, a black lawyer with the Oakland firm of John Burris, which handles a lot of local police-killing lawsuits, represented Refugio and Elvira Nieto, the plaintiffs.
  • (17) But spokesman for the top Senate leaders said they hadn't yet seen Burris' new affidavit and were withholding judgment.
  • (18) Consecutive transmission electron microscopic investigation of serial sections demonstrated that the holes corresponded to slender tissue pillars (Burri and Tarek, 1990).
  • (19) Blagojevich's defiant selection of Burris, three weeks after the then-governor's arrest on federal corruption charges, set off a national political furore.
  • (20) Staining for proving the presence of nucleic acids does not eliminate the possibility of these formations being separate micro-organisms which cannot be stained by current staining methods but can be represented by the contrast method according to Burri, or by silvering according to Klein.

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