What's the difference between booby and person?

Booby


Definition:

  • (n.) A dunce; a stupid fellow.
  • (n.) A swimming bird (Sula fiber or S. sula) related to the common gannet, and found in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account of its apparent stupidity. The name is also sometimes applied to other species of gannets; as, S. piscator, the red-footed booby.
  • (n.) A species of penguin of the antarctic seas.
  • (a.) Having the characteristics of a booby; stupid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) • Sustainable tourism company Sumak Travel offers tailor-made journeys to Veracruz, and other parts of Mexico Los Islotes , Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico Steve Backshall , naturalist and TV presenter Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Just two hours from La Paz in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, Los Islotes is a rocky California sea lion colony, peppered with resting blue-footed boobies, cormorants and pelicans.
  • (2) Friday night's attack came just hours a after police discovered a booby trap bomb device underneath a car also in west Belfast.
  • (3) She said she refuses to let anyone inside the room, and sweeps it for cameras and “booby traps.” She said she is taunted daily about the videos, which are still online.
  • (4) But they can at least lay booby-traps to confuse and deter – a concept known as “active defence”.
  • (5) Observations in 1969 and 1970 implicated the monkeys in a drastic decline of the nesting populations of brown boobies (Sula leucogaster) and red-footed boobies (Sula sula).
  • (6) Holmes, still clad in body armour, told police he had booby-trapped his apartment.
  • (7) So I invited my friends to my "Bye Bye Boobies" Party.
  • (8) Alan Boobis said: “My role in ILSI (and two of its branches) is as a public sector member and chair of their boards of trustees, positions which are not remunerated.
  • (9) The recent proliferation of articles linking fetal scalp or cord blood evidence of metabolic acidosis to birth asphyxia threatens to create another legal booby trap.
  • (10) There are several beaches near busy Padstow, including wide golden Booby's Bay – sure to make kids giggle, and a hit with advanced surfers.
  • (11) A succession of police and federal agents testified that Holmes spent weeks amassing guns and ammunition, concocted explosives to booby-trap his apartment, scouted the movie theatre before the attack and took a series of chilling photographs .
  • (12) The witnesses said that in late June he began equipping himself with a helmet, gas mask and body armour; and in July he began buying fuses, gunpowder, chemicals and electronics to booby-trap his apartment in the hope of triggering an explosion and fire to divert police from the theatre.
  • (13) "No," reassured Lynch, "Eigg's sea name is Isle of the Big Women, so most probably it will be an effigy of a woman with giant boobies."
  • (14) It's not an insurance policy, it is a potential booby trap," he said.
  • (15) These disgruntled republicans were responsible for murdering the Catholic PSNI constable Ronan Kerr with an under-car booby trap in April 2011.
  • (16) The walls and entrances were also booby-trapped, and two large plastic containers were put in the middle of the floor.
  • (17) An advisory position held by Boobis at Efsa was discontinued in 2012.
  • (18) We have seen letter bombs, under-car booby traps, blast bombs, hijackings.
  • (19) Thus, expression of this DNA construct generates a pool of CD4+ booby-trapped cells that, as a population, are resistant to HIV infection.
  • (20) It took several hours, and a bomb-disposal robot that checked Sonboly’s body for booby-trap explosives, to confirm that in fact there was only one attacker, and he had committed suicide early on in the evening.

Person


Definition:

  • (n.) A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character.
  • (n.) The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person.
  • (n.) A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child.
  • (n.) A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present.
  • (n.) A parson; the parish priest.
  • (n.) Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis.
  • (n.) One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject.
  • (n.) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals.
  • (v. t.) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Correction for within-person variation in urinary excretion increased this partial correlation coefficient between intake and excretion to 0.59 (95% CI = 0.03 to 0.87).
  • (2) The analysis is based on the personal experience of the authors with 117 cases and the review of 223 cases published in the literature.
  • (3) This finding is of major importance for persons treated with diltiazem who engage in sport.
  • (4) 119 representatives of this population were checked in their sexual contacts; of these, 13 persons proved to be infected with HIV.
  • (5) Large gender differences were found in the correlations between the RAS, CR, run frequency, and run duration with the personality, mood, and locus of control scores.
  • (6) The idea that 80% of an engineer's time is spent on the day job and 20% pursuing a personal project is a mathematician's solution to innovation, Brin says.
  • (7) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
  • (8) But becoming that person in a traditional society can be nothing short of social suicide.
  • (9) The results suggest that RPE cannot be used reliably as a surrogate for direct pulse measurement in exercise training of persons with acute dysvascular amputations.
  • (10) Polygraphic recordings during sleep were performed on 18 elderly persons (age range: 64-100 years).
  • (11) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
  • (12) Caries-related bacteriological and biochemical factors were studied in 12 persons with low and 11 persons with normal salivary-secretion rates before and after a four-week period of frequent mouthrinses with 10% sorbitol solution (adaptation period).
  • (13) Hypnosis might be looked upon as a method by which an unscrupulous person could sustain such a state of powerlessness in a victim.
  • (14) Urine tests in six patients with other kidney diseases and with uraemia and in seven healthy persons did not show this substance.
  • (15) Size of household was the most important predictor of both the total level of household food expenditures and the per person level.
  • (16) An additional 1.3% of the persons studied needed this operation, but were unfit for surgery.
  • (17) The results indicated that 48% of the sample either regularly checked their own skin or had it checked by another person (such as a spouse), and 17% had been screened by a general practitioner in the preceding 12 months.
  • (18) Of 573 tests in 127 persons, a positive response occurred in 68 tests of 51 patients.
  • (19) Also, it is often the case that trustees or senior leadership are in said positions because they have personal relationships with the founder.
  • (20) Fifteen patients of acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) were detected out of 2500 persons of Maheshwari community surveyed.