What's the difference between barker and tout?

Barker


Definition:

  • (n.) An animal that barks; hence, any one who clamors unreasonably.
  • (n.) One who stands at the doors of shops to urg/ passers by to make purchases.
  • (n.) A pistol.
  • (n.) The spotted redshank.
  • (n.) One who strips trees of their bark.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "While I wouldn't necessarily concur with all the specific recommendations of the report," Barker said, "there is one clear message that I do agree with: that solar has far more potential than has previously been thought."
  • (2) Most significantly, it has delegated too much to the Bank of England, which next year will for the first time have a governor appointed for an eight-year term, into a very powerful unelected role," Barker said.
  • (3) The new companies to be given ministerial buddies – but not yet publicly disclosed – include the property firms Atkins and Balfour Beatty, which have been paired with climate change minister Greg Barker, who is overseeing work on the government's green deal and zero-carbon homes programmes.
  • (4) It was on the set of The Frost Report that production staff began to refer to Barker and Corbett as "the two Ronnies", while the writing team included Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, and Eric Idle – every Monty Python member bar Terry Gilliam – as well as Marty Feldman and lead writer Antony Jay, who went on to create Yes, Minister.
  • (5) Microgeneration like home wind and solar panels will not be covered by the project, but could be marketed by selling companies alongside the core efficiency measures, said Barker.
  • (6) The rates "will come down", Barker confirmed when we spoke last week.
  • (7) Each week, Frost's script, the sketches and topical songs would riff on a single theme - for example class, when John Cleese, Corbett and Barker appeared in one of the most famous sketches in the annals of British comedy.
  • (8) Barker also announced a new comedy, Nurse, based on the eponymous BBC Radio 4 series.
  • (9) At the moment the club needs a long term strategy but has an owner with a short term view - Al Reading It’s been one huge wet lettuce of a season Ben Barker, Reading fan It’s been one huge wet lettuce of a season.
  • (10) Speaking about Bacon, Barker said: “[He] speaks to the soul.
  • (11) The Shonan Maru No 2 tailed the Bob Barker, a Sea Shepherd vessel, for two days earlier this week, according to the group.
  • (12) As Greg Barker told me last week , "the focus of the current scheme needs to be on the small scale, to get the maximum number of installations".
  • (13) It is a far cry from Barker's promise of: "A radical new approach to home energy improvement, moving away from pepper potting individual measures to whole house or property solutions."
  • (14) He beat his fellow MSP, Richard Barker, and Glasgow city council leader, Gordon Matheson.
  • (15) Mike Reiss (@MikeReiss) Patriots inactives: DL Sopoaga, CB Green, G Barker, TE Williams, DE Bequette, WR Thompkins, LB Beauharnais.
  • (16) Energy and climate change minister Greg Barker welcomed an increase in the number of people having their homes assessed for the green deal .
  • (17) The interim report from the five-strong Commission on the Future of Health and Social Care in England , chaired by Kate Barker, a former Bank of England economist, has been published as all three main parties decide how to approach the issue of social care in their election manifestos.
  • (18) Read the biographies - Winifred Gérin, Juliet Barker and, in particular, Lucasta Miller - and you can begin to discern a more formidable woman who could cope with the world rather better than the image of the doomed Emily might suggest.
  • (19) (1966), worked with Simpson, Arnold Wesker and John Arden , and, having staged Howard Barker ’s Cheek in 1970, collaborated with him in 1986 on the audacious Women Beware Women, adapting Middleton’s Jacobean original with poisonous puritanism.
  • (20) Following the physiological investigation, the muscle was fixed and stained according to the method of Barker and Ip (J.

Tout


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To act as a tout. See 2d Tout.
  • (v. i.) To ply or seek for customers.
  • (n.) One who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training, to get information about their capabilities, for use in betting.
  • (v. i.) To toot a horn.
  • (n.) The anus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The party she led still touts itself as the bunch you can trust with the nation's money.
  • (2) Nevertheless, the historic poll is being touted by foreign governments as the first credible election in half a century.
  • (3) For example, the Basics Card is touted as an innovative policy when in fact it offers repugnant flashbacks to last century’s mission days when Aboriginal people had their bank accounts controlled by the state.
  • (4) If the Bicep2 result stands, the observation will be touted as evidence for cosmic inflation, the rapid expansion of the universe around a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the big bang.
  • (5) Adelson has touted the merits of a Trump trip to Israel and is working with conservative allies to lay the groundwork for a visit this summer, according to multiple sources close to the casino owner.
  • (6) The American musician’s unexpected political intervention came in the wake of a much-touted but ultimately disappointing dialogue between government officials and student leaders.
  • (7) Both tout their domestic credentials and experiences of motherhood.
  • (8) Bush marked his 100 days with a barnstorming tour of six states in four days to tout his achievements.
  • (9) In their zeal to tout their faith in the public square, conservatives in Oklahoma may have unwittingly opened the door to a wide range of religious groups, including Satanists who are seeking to put their own statue next to a Ten Commandments monument outside the statehouse.
  • (10) The coalition's much-touted manufacturing renaissance is so far confined to a roundabout of hi-tech firms in east London, and British industry remains largely a bit-player, making and assembling parts for foreign companies.
  • (11) Culture secretary Sajid Javid has said that ticket touts are “classic entrepreneurs” and their detractors are the “chattering middle classes and champagne socialists, who have no interest in helping the common working man earn a decent living by acting as a middleman”.
  • (12) Indeed, politicians of all stripes love to tout the adversity their parents overcame so that their children could be successful and live comfortably.
  • (13) At the event on Wednesday, Giuliani touted his record of surveilling mosques after the 1993 World Trade Center attack “I put undercover agents in mosques for the first time in January 1994,” he said.
  • (14) When Zuley came down, they were able to tout him as ‘Hell yeah, he’s just like you guys, he’s a detective’ and this and that,” Fallon said.
  • (15) Due to a decade of tri-annual BBC2 exposure, dogged Dantean circuits of provincial comedy venues, conscious manipulation of vulnerable broadsheet opinion formers and undeserved good luck, I am now popular enough to have caught the eye of touts or, as we now dignify them, Secondary Ticketing Agents™.
  • (16) Fiber is currently being touted as protection against colon cancer.
  • (17) Worthy accoucheurs will have planned for this event and will have selected from the numerous procedures touted for its correction that group he or she intuitively feels will be most effective or, at a minimum, most easily remembered.
  • (18) When blatant falsehoods are presented as truth on critical questions - by a film that touts itself as a journalistic presentation of actual events - insisting on apolitical appreciation of this "art" is indeed a reckless abdication.
  • (19) Numerous documents prove that executives at leading banks, credit agencies, and mortgage brokers were falsely touting assets as sound that knew were junk: the very definition of fraud.
  • (20) Three possible candidates touted to become Iran’s next supreme leader: Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani: The 80-year-old moderate politician was among the founding members of the Islamic republic and its president, from 1989 to 1997.