Brisk vs Breeze - What's the difference?
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Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.
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Full of spirit of life; effervescing, as liquors; sparkling; as, brisk cider.
Stimulating or invigorating.
Abrupt, curt in one's manner or in relation to others.
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A gadfly; a horsefly.
A strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae.
To buzz.
A light, gentle wind.
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*:Into a gradual calm the breezes sink.
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*:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.
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(lb) Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.
Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. .
An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.
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To move casually, in a carefree manner.
(weather) To blow gently.
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To take a horse under a light run in order to understand the running characteristics of the horse and to observe it while under motion.
As verbs the difference between brisk and breeze
is that brisk is to make or become lively; to enliven; to animate while breeze is to buzz.As an adjective brisk
is full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.As a noun breeze is
a gadfly; a horsefly.brisk
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Adjective
(en-adj)- We took a brisk walk yesterday.
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- This morning was a brisk fall day. It wasn't cold enough for frost, but you wanted to keep moving.
- Her manner was brisk, and her good-breeding scarcely concealed her conviction that if you were not a soldier you might as well be a counter-jumper.