What's the difference between phiz and whiz?

Phiz


Definition:

  • (n.) The face or visage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I felt a sudden, instinctive lurch – the thought of my phiz besmirching every hairdresser's salon and dentist's waiting room.

Whiz


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make a humming or hissing sound, like an arrow or ball flying through the air; to fly or move swiftly with a sharp hissing or whistling sound.
  • (n.) A hissing and humming sound.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In April, Trump told Chris Wallace on Fox News: “It’s not like, gee whiz, nobody has them.
  • (2) Finally we’d be in the hands of a pro, someone who knows how to tell a whiz-bang action yarn with a big budget.
  • (3) Updated at 10.57am BST 10.35am BST Here's a graph showing how 10-year Greek bonds have rallied in value in recent months (via fund manager and general financial whiz @pawelmorski ).
  • (4) Maturity, social skills and being a team player are meaningless, as long as you're a whiz coder or can invent that app people didn't know they needed.
  • (5) 16 - JJ Abrams Surely the busiest man in Hollywood, and indeed TV, production whiz Abrams returns to directing with a sequel to his massively fun reboot of Star Trek .
  • (6) Editing a Keynote slide: guide lines show when you have proportions correct (photo downsampled from 4MB screenshot) If you're a Powerpoint whiz (everyone thinks they are; very few are) then this won't satisfy you.
  • (7) It’s the close of another Broadway season, which means we have another chance to pit jukebox musicals against original compositions, real narratives against invented ones and showbiz whiz-bang against low-key cool.
  • (8) In black jeans and charcoal grey crewneck, tucking his phone and white earbuds into a pocket, bouncing boyishly on his sneakers, you might at first peg him as, say, a Silicon Valley whiz-kid rather than a top-flight fashion designer.
  • (9) Beyond archeology there are other Gaza surprises, like surfers hanging ten, documented in the film God Went Surfing With the Devil, and an English language tourism website , designed by internet whiz Mohammed Alafranji.
  • (10) You could call Goddard a bog-standard head, too, since he couldn't be further removed from one of those Teach First whiz-kids fresh out of Balliol.
  • (11) The whiz and blur of projectiles flying past us, ricocheting of the street.
  • (12) A solid device beneath a layer of whiz-bang frippery - New York Times Digging beneath the gimmicky features the New York Times's Farhad Manjoo found a solid, basic smartphone .
  • (13) It also completes a miserable few weeks for Facebook's 26-year-old founder Mark Zuckerberg , the whiz-kid who lists "openness", "revolutions" and "making things" in the interests section of his own Facebook page.
  • (14) There’s always been an element out there that valued the ‘gee whiz’ factor rather than the economics,” says Moore.
  • (15) A front-page interview in the Wall Street Journal in May ("How Wall Street whiz finds niche selling books on the internet") proves a watershed moment.
  • (16) They know it is irrational but the money, the language, the whiz-bangs, the uniforms turn their heads and dazzle their minds.
  • (17) However, can the same company then also look over its shoulder at the upcoming digital whiz-kids, often emerging from unexpected places, such as Japanese social media platforms?
  • (18) His potential candidacy’s momentum began with a speech at the Iowa Freedom Caucus this January that many columnists and pundits described as “fiery” because Walker – a man who, to steal a phrase from Albert Burneko , is essentially wet bread – indicated emotions stronger than gee-whiz optimism for America or performative empathy for the struggling folks whose lives he labored to make more difficult.
  • (19) Everything about them - that they were the children of mixed-marriage vaudevillians, and performers themselves as genius whiz kids on a radio game show - was absolutely right; of course they were too perfect, with all their sensitivities, their Buddhism, their philosophical despair and their family bondings, but that's why we responded as we did.
  • (20) The film, an adaptation of Don DeLillo's 2003 novel set mostly in Packer's limousine, concerns a financial whiz-kid who is either having sex, having a finger inserted into his bottom (an on-the-move prostate exam), engaging in lengthy overblown monologues, losing vast sums of money, dodging an assassin, seeking a haircut, or all of the above.

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