What's the difference between bour and bout?

Bour


Definition:

  • (n.) A chamber or a cottage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Using stock isolates of each of the 15 serovars (A to K, Ba, L1, L2, and L3) of C. trachomatis, the lower limit of sensitivity for the DNA probe ranged between 1,086 inclusion-forming units (IFU) for serovar E (Bour) to 2,930 IFU for serovar L1 (440), with the only exception being serovar C (TW-3), with which 99 IFU was detected.
  • (2) Pressed on the details of the policy, Louise Bours, Ukip’s health spokeswoman, said it was “not beyond the wit of man” to devise a workable scheme.
  • (3) Four mortar shells also hit homes in Sabaa al-Bour, just north of Baghdad, killing three people and wounding six, police said.
  • (4) Meanwhile on Sunday, police said mortar shells slammed into several houses in the Shia village of Sabaa al-Bour, about 20 miles (30 kilometres) north of Baghdad, killing four people and wounding seven.
  • (5) Prior C. pneumoniae infection did not prevent subsequent C. trachomatis serovar E (Bour strain) infection.
  • (6) The audience also cheered Peter Whittle, the culture spokesman, who decried multi-culturalism; Jane Collins, the employment spokesman for saying Ukip would stop employers being sued for discriminating in favour of British workers; and Louise Bours, the health spokesman, as she called for NHS managers to be regulated and foreigners to have medical insurance.
  • (7) Ukip dominated much of Thursday night's edition of Question Time – which featured Ukip MEP Louise Bours on the panel – causing much chatter on Twitter.
  • (8) Other parked car bombs went off in quick succession in the Shia neighbourhoods of New Baghdad, Habibiya, Sabaa al-Bour, Kazimiyah, Shaab, Ur, Shula as well as the Sunni neighborhoods of Jamiaa and Ghazaliyah.
  • (9) However, the same sera effectively neutralized a trachoma serovar, E(Bour).
  • (10) Primary and serially passaged cells were found to be highly refractory to infection by Chlamydia trachomatis strains TW-3, Bour, and LGV 440L and Chlamydia psittaci strains meningopneumonitis and 6BC and insusceptible to poliovirus type 1.
  • (11) When Louise Bours, the health spokeswoman, decided to resign in the middle of one of Farage’s rallies in a row over NHS spending .
  • (12) Whether Ukip’s new female spokespersons, such as Suzanne Evans and Louise Bours, will stem this decline remains to be seen.
  • (13) In a more surprising move, Bours also committed the party to working with the Unite union to stopping the transatlantic trade and investment partnership (TTIP), a trade deal opening up the NHS to US health providers, although the government has already promised this will not happen.

Bout


Definition:

  • (n.) As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round.
  • (n.) A conflict; contest; attempt; trial; a set-to at anything; as, a fencing bout; a drinking bout.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A 61-year-old man experienced four bouts of pancreatitis in 1 year.
  • (2) Repeated bouts of heavy treadmill exercise (6 min at 95% VO2 max) were performed once per hour for 24 h in order to promote a shift in energy substrate from carbohydrate to fat.
  • (3) An epidemiologic background appropriate to "serum" hepatitis, either transfusion (one bout) or illicit self-injection (46 bouts), was associated just as frequently with serologically non-B episodes as with identified type B disease.
  • (4) World stock markets suffered another bout of heavy losses when trading began on Thursday, with the FTSE 100 falling 57 points within the opening minutes to 5879.
  • (5) Jeremain Lens, signed from Dynamo Kyiv, was fortunate to escape dismissal for a second yellow card, while Yann M’Vila, on loan from Rubin Kazan, followed his headbutt in the reserves by raising arms to Graham Dorrans during an unpunished, but unwise, bout of push ’n’ shove.
  • (6) Compared weight losses during first and second bouts of a very low calorie diet (VLCD) and examined whether decreased compliance might in part explain the decrease in weight loss during the second bout.
  • (7) Length, size, and interval between eating bouts were determined for four forages with two lactating dairy cows.
  • (8) Euthanasia was done before the end of the 10-day experimental period if the cats had two bouts of urethral obstruction or if the cats became uremic for causes unrelated to urethral obstruction.
  • (9) Log-survivor analysis of inter-pellet intervals was used to define feeding bouts, and this was then used to compute measures of bout frequency, bout size, bout duration and eating rate.
  • (10) A bout a year ago, a few months before she left sixth-form college, my youngest daughter asked cheerily: "What will you feel when you have no one left to wave goodbye to in the morning?"
  • (11) Single or repetitive supraventricular premature beats were found in 65 (41%), paroxysmal atrial or junctional tachycardias in 20 (12%), bouts of atrial flutter or fibrillation in 3 (2%).
  • (12) ), and another bout of jitters over when the US Federal Reserve will start to slow its own stimulus programme.
  • (13) Only the rats with a 30-min hiatus between the 15- and 25-min bouts of RAO had significantly worse renal failure than controls subjected to a single 25-min ischemic event.
  • (14) Detailed clinical and psychological experimental study of 103 schizophrenia patients with anorexia nervosa revealed its most characteristic correlations with a specific variant of the pathology of drive--bulimia bouts and induced vomiting.
  • (15) A bout three in every 10 people in Britain think social workers help with household chores like cooking and cleaning, with personal care like washing and dressing, and with childcare.
  • (16) Finally, a single bout of exercise does not influence either the beta-cell response to intravenous glucose or glucose-induced thermogenesis.
  • (17) Nine well-trained subjects performed 15-, 30- and 45-s bouts of sprint exercise using a cycle ergometer.
  • (18) The permeability of rat epitrochlearis muscle to 3-O-methylglucose (3-MG) was measured after exposure to a range of insulin concentrations 30, 60, and 180 min after a bout of exercise.
  • (19) Antemortem steroid therapy and bouts of violent coughing may explain these unusual findings.
  • (20) On why this bout is so big: It's very important to get the public perception and the media perception, especially after the first fight.

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