What's the difference between glee and glen?

Glee


Definition:

  • (n.) Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.
  • (n.) Joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; paricularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast.
  • (n.) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices. It is not necessarily gleesome.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The prime minister told the Radio Times he was a fan of the "brilliant" US musical drama Glee, preferred Friends to The West Wing, and chose Lady Gaga over Madonna, and Cheryl Cole over Simon Cowell.
  • (2) They talk of cutting down to size , of hiving off, of limiting the scope, with all the manic glee of a doctor urging his patient to consider the benefits of assisted suicide.
  • (3) Glee and American Horror Story impresario Ryan Murphy returns with this camptastic take on the slasher genre where a sorority house is besieged by a killer.
  • (4) He lost no time climbing on the back of the clown car of the demagogue who, with ghoulishly oedipal glee, he calls “Daddy”.
  • (5) Today the TV show Glee depicts small town Ohio as a place where a teenage boy can openly express his homosexuality.
  • (6) But the new micro-institutions of journalism already bear the hallmarks of the restrictive heritage they abandoned with such glee.
  • (7) The answer, apparently, is comedian Eddie Izzard , along with a whole fleet of red-carpet English entertainers , who are to be driven north to bring shine and glee to the rather dreary Project Fear .
  • (8) James Monroe Iglehart, who plays the manic Genie in Aladdin, won for best featured actor in a musical and could barely contain his glee as he thanked a long list of people that included God and his wife.
  • (9) Those growing up in the gloomy postwar period remember his films with glee, especially the three My Favourite .
  • (10) The earphones were with Eva, 11, who was listening to the soundtrack of Glee at a loud enough level to produce that particularly annoying mixture of hiss and thud.
  • (11) In the last photos of her, taken barely 10 minutes before the Russian bombs landed, she shows off a new bracelet and freshly painted nails with glee, then squeezes a kiss from her squirming baby sister.
  • (12) City were ahead again before half-time, Santa Cruz dummying over Shaun Wright-Phillips' centre for Bellamy to plunder the goal he so richly deserved, but three is not enough to guarantee City victory these days, and Kenwyne Jones, on as substitute, headed in from four yards to get Wearside's barmy army crowing with glee.
  • (13) Anthony Glees, director of the centre for security and intelligence studies at the University of Buckingham, said: "The fact that these people were killed by an IED (improvised explosive device) might suggest not just that this is a very dangerous place but that the Afghans aren't particularly good at delivering security."
  • (14) Tory right-to-buy plan threatens mass selloff of council homes Read more Labour councils, responding to the squalor and overcrowding of Victorian and Edwardian cities, and the graphic failure of private landlords and developers to deal with it – indeed the glee with which some of them exploited it – had constructed much of Britain’s early municipal housing in the 1900s.
  • (15) They jeered each time the soldiers sallied forth and fired off a round or threw a stun grenade, mocking them and chanting with unflagging glee.
  • (16) Rusbridger also questioned the claims of Britain's security chiefs that the Guardian's revelations had undermined national security and – in the words of the head of MI6, Sir John Sawers – left al-Qaida rubbing its hands in glee.
  • (17) It has Democrats on the congressional committee salivating with glee.
  • (18) Mr Glees insisted the files he saw were not the same as those obtained by MI5 through official channels.
  • (19) Gone are the days when winning The Apprentice meant a lifetime spent buffing Lord Sugar's paperclip collection while weeping with glee in a stationery cupboard off the A1023.
  • (20) The hyperbole that followed yesterday’s story was astonishing – Professor Anthony Glees reportedly branded Snowden “a villain of the first order” – Darth Vader eat your heart out.

Glen


Definition:

  • (n.) A secluded and narrow valley; a dale; a depression between hills.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Defenders: Leighton Baines, Gary Cahill, Ashley Cole, Phil Jagielka, Glen Johnson, Phil Jones, Chris Smalling, Kyle Walker.
  • (2) Crystal Palace 1-3 Liverpool (Delaney 78) 78 min: Damien Delaney tries a speculative shot from distance, which is deflected past Simon Mignolet off the back of Glen Johnson, who had failed to close down the Palace defender and was on the half-turn.
  • (3) Glen Johnson eased his way through for a 50th cap and to Hodgson's intense relief, that initial sense of panic when Daniel Agger's studs connected with the top of Jack Wilshere's boot eventually dispersed.
  • (4) Grampian police joined forces with Tayside police and Marr search and rescue to comb a large area from Loch Muick to Glen Clova in the national park.
  • (5) The ball's swung into the mixer, where Glen Johnson is penalised for hand-ball.
  • (6) In 2012, the roof of Glen Licht House bothy sustained serious damage and if not repaired quickly, the interior will be fall into disrepair.
  • (7) Glen Johnson moves to left-back, so Kelly can take up his favoured right-back position.
  • (8) And now England, much as we thought: 1-David James; 2-Glen Johnson, 15-Matthew Upson, 6-John Terry, 3-Ashley Cole; 16-James Milner, 4-Steven Gerrard, 8-Frank Lampard, 14-Gareth Barry; 19-Jermain Defoe, 10-Wayne Rooney.
  • (9) You're on a journey, so this is not the moment for lobster and posh table linen, but there's a big car park, useful paths up Glen Fyne where you can exercise the dog, and the excellent Tree Shop .
  • (10) The Manny Pacquiao who entered the congested dressing room on Thursday morning at Madison Square Garden, smartly clad in a glen plaid suit and Louis Vuitton sunglasses, with a pair of iPhones in hand, might have seemed an imposter a decade ago.
  • (11) Sean O'Driscoll, chairman of the Glen Dimplex manufacturing group, said proponents of a no vote on 31 May were being "disingenuous" in claiming the republic could remain in the euro even if the electorate rejected the EU fiscal treaty.
  • (12) OK.” Glen Coco (@MrPooni) To clarify, this is Matt Damon trying to school the producer of Dear White People on diversity in Hollywood.
  • (13) Police said Sunday that the body of Chris Kyle was found by officers responding to an incident at the Rough Creek Lodge in Glen Rose the previous evening.
  • (14) The aim of the filibuster was to prevent the bill, by Republican senator Glen Hegar, reaching Perry.
  • (15) A little earlier Defoe had headed against the bar from a Glen Johnson delivery.
  • (16) "The idea that the LA Times could be taken over by right-wing radical extremists just boggles the mind," said Glen Arnodo, staff director of the LA County Federation of Labor, as protestors prepared to picket.
  • (17) His other options at right-back were Jon Flanagan, who missed the entire season through injury, and Glen Johnson, who is out of contract at Anfield this summer and will be leaving on a free transfer.
  • (18) It showed courage and determination to make sure we got at least a draw – and we actually went down the other end to try to get a winner, and were thankfully able to do that through a great ball from Glen Johnson and good finish by Mame Diouf.” Bournemouth suffered a significant early blow when their top scorer Callum Wilson was carried off on a stretcher in the 17th minute having sustained what appeared to be a serious knee injury.
  • (19) Glen Johnson is in the situation with Liverpool where he sometimes plays and sometimes doesn’t so I prefer this time certainly to stick with the two younger guys and they won’t let me down.” Berahino was the most eye-catching selection.
  • (20) The assistant manager, Sean O’Driscoll, first-team coach, Gary McAllister, head of performance, Glen Driscoll, and head of opposition analysis, Chris Davies, were all relieved of their duties on Thursday as Klopp’s authority was made immediately apparent.