Brook vs Breeze - What's the difference?
brook | breeze |
To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
To earn; deserve.
(label) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object ).
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A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
*Bible, (w) viii. 7
*:The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:empties itself, as doth an inland brook / into the main of waters
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
A water meadow.
Low, marshy ground.
A gadfly; a horsefly.
A strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae.
To buzz.
A light, gentle wind.
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*(William Wordsworth) (1770-1850)
*: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 a proper noun brook
is for someone living by a brook .As a noun breeze is
a gadfly; a horsefly or breeze can be a light, gentle wind.As a verb breeze is
to buzz or breeze can be to move casually, in a carefree manner.brook
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.}}
- Nevertheless, Garcilaso does claim that the Spaniards ‘who were unable to brook the length of the discourse, had left their places and fallen on the Indians’.