Biro vs Birl - What's the difference?
biro | birl |
A BIRO brand ballpoint pen.
* 1993 , , 2008,
(by extension, UK, AU, NZ) Any ballpoint pen.
* 2007 , , The Anatomy of Wings ,
(by extension) Ink from a ballpoint pen.
* 2011 , Shannon Lush, Jennifer Fleming, Completely Spotless ,
(Scottish) To spin.
* 1893 , , Chapter XXII: Helvoetsluys,
* 1906 , '', reprinted in 1958, ''Para Handy Tales ,
To cause a floating log to rotate by treading on it.
* 1903 April, , Volume 20,
(music, bagpipes) A type of grace note movement that quickly switches between low-A and low-G several times, producing a low rippling sound.
As nouns the difference between biro and birl
is that biro is a BIRO brand ballpoint pen while birl is a type of grace note movement that quickly switches between low-A and low-G several times, producing a low rippling sound.As a verb birl is
to spin.biro
English
(wikipedia biro)Noun
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- Frank's Biro taps delicately at the topmost of the little yellow notes.
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- Massimo's finger was poised above red on his multi-coloured biro like a kangaroo frozen in headlights.
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- ‘My very creative 2-year-old son used my good friend?s white polyester Roman blinds as a canvas,’ says Jacqui. They?re now covered in blue biro'. And although my friend isn?t too bothered by the ' biro , I am! Can you help??
birl
English
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic.Verb
(en verb)- About nine in the morning, in a burst of wintry sun between two squalls of hail, I had my first look of Holland - a line of windmills birling in the breeze.
- "I'll maybe no trouble you long, boys," he moaned lugubriously. "My heid's birling roond that fast that I canna even mind my own name two meenutes."
- "That's nothing!" my companion repressed me, "anybody can birl a log. Watch this."
- Roaring Dick for the first time unfolded his arms. With some appearance of caution he balanced his unstable footing into absolute immobility. Then he turned a somersault.
Noun
(en noun)www.mcnabbs.org - Introduction to Bagpipe Music