What's the difference between booting and boozing?

Booting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Boot
  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Boot
  • (n.) Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty.
  • (n.) A kind of torture. See Boot, n., 2.
  • (n.) A kicking, as with a booted foot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
  • (2) The ulcers on seven of ten legs (70%) treated with Unna's boots and on 10 of 14 legs (71%) treated with elastic support stocking healed.
  • (3) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
  • (4) Were he from Iceland, or from the north pole, then I would say he still had his ski boots on.
  • (5) Children as young as 18 months start by sliding on tiny skis in soft supple boots, while over-threes have more formal lessons in the snow playground.
  • (6) Meanwhile, we have boots on the ground in Ferguson, Missouri.
  • (7) That would kickstart the spin again and then some, in doublequick time to boot.
  • (8) Extents of in situ ruminal digestion (72 h residue) for NDF, hemicellulose and cellulose were lower (P less than .05) for full-head than for late-boot-stage bromegrass.
  • (9) Each moment was scripted, from the placement of his riding boots in the stirrups of the riderless black horse that accompanied his procession through Washington, to tonight’s burial at sunset back in California.
  • (10) The 48-year-old, who turned to acting after hanging up his boots, told the Sun on Sunday it is the greatest challenge he has come up against.
  • (11) William Boot's work was done, and it was time to go home.
  • (12) Are we moving from a culture where MPs stayed in parliament until booted out, to one where many do five years and move on, frustrated and exhausted?
  • (13) Its boot always held a bivouac bag, a trenching tool of some sort and a towel and trunks, in case he passed somewhere interesting to sleep, dig, or swim.
  • (14) There's a cute one comparing feelings to children: you don't want to let them drive, but equally you don't want to stuff them in the boot.
  • (15) And for kids born post-smartphone, they’re the diary that us (comparative) olds kept on paper, the disposable camera that cost us £7.99 and seven days to develop at Boots: an inextricable part of how young people live their lives.
  • (16) cc @ kidweil #USMNT March 23, 2013 5 mins of stoppage time we're hearing... 4.00am GMT 88 mins ...Barrantes is over the ball and he drives it low and hard, but Dempsey boots it clear.
  • (17) Politicians On the surface a recession would be a disaster for Labour, yet it doesn't always follow that the government party gets booted out when times are hard.
  • (18) The people were free, the dictator was dead, a mooted massacre had been averted – and all this without any obvious boots on the ground.
  • (19) The player can expect another reminder from the boot manufacturer that “all or nothing” must still only be applied within reason.
  • (20) The box itself is nearly identical to that of the 5S, while a picture of the phone being turned on shows the familiar Apple logo on a boot screen.

Boozing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Booze

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He's Billy no-mates with a Heckler & Koch sniper-rifle, drowning in loneliness, booze and depression.
  • (2) It was always an open house – people would come around at all hours and there would be dancing and card-playing and boozing and singing.
  • (3) It is the fact that the poor spend too much on fags and booze.
  • (4) Snowden disclosed his identity in an explosive interview with the Guardian , published on Sunday, which revealed he was a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton.
  • (5) Article 6 of the EU treaty could not be clearer: “The union is founded on the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law, principles which are common to the member states.” Lest this be regarded as mere rhetoric, Lord Bingham, the former senior law lord and widely regarded as the most outstanding British judge in the late 20th century, wrote in his book The Rule of Law (p67): “The European Commission has consistently treated democratisation, the rule of law, respect for human rights and good governance as inseparably linked.” This is why, today, we can work anywhere in the EU, have health cover throughout, bring back as much booze in the back of the van as we like, travel on cheap EU-based airlines (with the right to claim compensation for any delay), buy the villa in Marbella, and say what we like – and we can do all of these things with our rights fully protected by the law, just as if we were in the UK.
  • (6) A good slug of booze (brandy or calvados) makes for a very adult crumble.
  • (7) There is definitely no money for treats: "I don't smoke or drink but if I get desperate I've got a load of booze in my kitchen from my birthday party last year."
  • (8) Vinny's fame was quick, fickle and fizzled out a generation ago, hence leaving him quite literally sleeping in a skip, pickled by booze.
  • (9) Health workers say many of the resort's problems with booze can be traced to urban deprivation and the decline in tourism.
  • (10) Her parents, the actor Debbie Reynolds and the crooner Eddie Fisher, divorced when she was 18 months old: her father ran off with Elizabeth Taylor, her mother turned to booze.
  • (11) He had gone to religious school as a kid in Kuwait, and as the war closed in on Aleppo in 2012 he sought refuge in Islamic piety (though he could not bring himself to give up booze or cigarettes).
  • (12) The celebration of booze also ensures plenty of hilarious after-dinner anecdotes too, like when Tony Adams set off a fire extinguisher, or the time Stan Collymore set off a fire extinguisher.
  • (13) In February 2012, the US air force suspended Booz Allen from seeking government contracts after it discovered that Joselito Meneses, a former deputy chief of information technology for the air force, had given Booz Allen a hard drive with confidential information about a competitor's contracting on the first day that he went to work for the company in San Antonio, Texas.
  • (14) In 1995, when Williams walked out on his boyband, he bounded into Liam's rock'n'roll life with ease – because although he had once writhed around in jelly , he also had a rebellious side with a penchant for Adidas jackets, booze, birds and fags.
  • (15) And those who aren't able to trip the light fantastic thanks to a fake ID, sample booze purchased by someone's older brother or sneak out the house after dark will have to do all this in their 20s and, believe me, coughing up a lung after one toke of your boss's cigarette is not a good look at the office Christmas party.
  • (16) Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo The Beer Mile – like the Olympics but with boozing Read more Despite initial doubts from city councillors, the beer pipeline has become an urban hit, sparking endless jokes about illegal tapping points and secret home drilling.
  • (17) Clapper worked as vice-president at Booz Allen from 1997 to 1998, while Snowden did a three-month stint at their offices in Hawaii in spring 2013 as a low-level contract employee.
  • (18) Under rapid-mix conditions it was shown that the time scale of radiosensitization by misonidazole can be resolved into two components [S. Kandaiya et al., in Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium on Microdosimetry (J. Booz et al., Eds.
  • (19) He has banned the sale of alcohol from 10pm to 6am, and banished booze from the vicinity of shops and mosques.
  • (20) Gradually, the powders were edged out, to be replaced by booze; there was a final split with his wife, Angie; and his formidable creativity surged back.

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