What's the difference between bustle and teem?

Bustle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd.
  • (n.) Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement.
  • (n.) A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also bishop, and tournure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A block further sits the Museum of Chocolate, joining the avant-garde of luxury chocolatiers that seem the hallmark of every bustling metropolis these days.
  • (2) The flat is opposite Covent Garden tube station in the heart of London, and a stone's throw from the hustle and bustle of Leicester Square.
  • (3) Commuters streaming into the bustling streets of the capital Kuala Lumpur earlier in the morning were overwhelmingly black-clad, while state television aired recitations from the Qur’an and showed photos of the victims.
  • (4) Karachi is a bustling business hub of more than 16 million people.
  • (5) Like most provincial towns around Russia , Kirov is far from the hustle and bustle of Moscow's political life.
  • (6) And, among several Hamlets on film, my favourite remains Gregory Kozintsev's 1971 version , which reminded us that Hamlet is only one figure in a bustling, hyperactive court.
  • (7) Poundsavers, on the other hand, looks large and bustling.
  • (8) The city's huge and priceless cultural heritage, a legacy of its medieval status as an African equivalent to Oxford or Cambridge, complete with bustling university, was little known in the outside world, with even the French, Mali's colonial rulers until 1960, carrying away some manuscripts to museums but doing little to unearth the full story behind them.
  • (9) Photograph: Alamy A great place to while away an afternoon, enjoying the tranquillity of the gardens, which make a stark contrast to the usual hustle and bustle of Delhi.
  • (10) Lee was a founding member of the governing People’s Action party and is credited with transforming Singapore from a sleepy Asian entrepot into a bustling and wealthy financial hub.
  • (11) There is colour and bustle in Chinatown, with its handsome temples and excellent food, but otherwise Singapore feels like it’s been scrubbed to within an inch of its life.
  • (12) The forward bustled in, stealing the ball and holding off the centre-half as he attempted to wrest it back, before ripping a glorious shot from a horribly tight angle into the far top corner as Ben Foster edged out to smother.
  • (13) With its bleating goats and vegetable patches, the centre is an oasis of rural tranquillity compared with the hustle and bustle of Goma down the road.
  • (14) Meanwhile, the bones that have just been confirmed as those of Richard III – the last Plantagenet king, the last English monarch to die on a battlefield, whose death ushered in the upstart Tudors – lay quietly in a calm room on the second floor of the Leicester University library, unknown to many of the students bustling in and out of the building.
  • (15) Even so, a free society requires an independent press: turbulent …enquiring…bustling…and free.
  • (16) Throw in the culture and hustle-bustle of London with a bit of the modern architecture of Jersey City, and the city would be even better.
  • (17) On a recent afternoon dozens of children could be seen racing past a multicoloured government creche towards a bustling main square.
  • (18) Their first shelter was a dingy basement in a slum far from São Paulo's bustling financial centre.
  • (19) But as a result of that, Ukip can afford its own office, which gives the area a political bustle that might at any moment turn into a blazing row.
  • (20) Money talks, especially in the bustle of an Indian bazaar.

Teem


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale.
  • (v. t.) To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mold, with molten metal.
  • (a.) To think fit.
  • (v. i.) To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
  • (v. i.) To be full, or ready to bring forth; to be stocked to overflowing; to be prolific; to abound.
  • (v. t.) To produce; to bring forth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The impressive views take in West Angle Bay, Rat Island and the whole length of Milford Haven and Man of War Roads, a 15km ship-teeming passage leading from Dale all the way to Pembroke Dock.
  • (2) Some of the cultures teemed with rounded microorganisms arranged in chains; Billroth chose to call them streptococci.
  • (3) The place was teeming with families and young children, and yet despite my best efforts to find one, I was pleased to note there didn't seem to be a Bugaboo buggy in sight.
  • (4) The story begins with the park open to visitors, teeming with them in fact, and wouldn’t you know it, on the very day we drop in, one of the big beasties breaks out, precipitating catastrophe.
  • (5) The native grasslands that teemed with marsupials and birds are now an endangered plant community.
  • (6) KP's government, backed by UN agencies, is currently on a war footing against polio in particular because Peshawar, the province's teeming capital, has become a global health problem.
  • (7) A few weeks ago this cafe and the square teemed with smugglers conducting their illicit trade in the open, and refugees negotiating prices.
  • (8) The vast construction site is like something out of Mordor – an immense wall of stone, steel and concrete that towers above a blasted plain teeming with trucks, bulldozers and cranes.
  • (9) Rooms are available on site, and the nearby town is teeming with guesthouses.
  • (10) Two possibilities of application of TEEM-test for immunological investigation in multiple sclerosis are discussed: detection of lymphocyte sensitization against a soluble antigen (3 M KCl extracted) derived from a normal brain and measurement of mixed lymphocyte reactin (MLR) after a short-time lymphocyte culture.
  • (11) The vistas that greet travellers are quite the opposite: Robinson Crusoe islands of swaying palms and snow-soft sand, shimmering azure waters and coral reefs teeming with tropical life.
  • (12) In recent years, of course, the gathering has teemed with stars, observers reporting even finance ministers stalking them with cameraphones and generally acting like teenage girls at a Justin Timberlake concert.
  • (13) In The Economy of Cities (1969), Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life (1984), Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics (1994) and The Nature of Economies (2000), Jacobs proposed that the natural habitat for inventive, ingenious humanity was a teeming city, arguing that livestock had been domesticated and arable farming devised in archaic trading and manufacturing cities.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Grappling with grouper … diving off Garajau beach I tried scuba-diving from Garajau beach in Caniço; the clear water of this protected marine reserve is teeming with big, friendly mero (grouper) and surprisingly tropical-looking fish, such as rainbow wrasse and damsel fish.
  • (15) Nobody knows, for sure, very much about them - how many there are, where they are, how many are needed for a viable population, how they cope with modern life, or, in a country teeming with foxes and badgers, their natural predators.
  • (16) You take it for granted when you live there, but Wales is teeming with history wherever you go.
  • (17) Motion pictures were not born in religious practice, but instead are a totally profane offspring of capitalism and technology,” writes Paul Schrader in his landmark book, Transcendental Style in Film, in which he isolates two strains of religious film-making: the epics of Cecil B DeMille, presenting religion as spectacle, with teeming hordes, VistaVision, shafts of light, and strangely subdued orgies.
  • (18) The capital has become the most cosmopolitan city in the world, from top to bottom, teeming with Americans, Europeans, Australians, Asians, Africans and Arabs.
  • (19) In practice, the corridors of the parliament often teem with individuals, who meet MEPs in their offices or in open spaces such as the "Mickey Mouse bar" (nicknamed so because of the shape of its seats) inside the parliament.
  • (20) People have no concept of allowing others to pass beside them on the footpath – assuming you can find a spare inch on the footpath amongst the teeming hordes; traffic is rampant, the MRT always overcrowded, nobody looks where they’re going because they are too busy reading phones, noise of traffic and strange food smells, stifling heat and commercial pressure from advertising everywhere.