What's the difference between commote and compote?

Commote


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To commove; to disturb; to stir up.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Actinic commotion at the surface of the body is often massive in degree and extent and may be expected to exert a deleterious autoimmune impact on the essential elastic tissues of the arterial system.
  • (2) Instead the commotion was caused by the hulking figure in the front row who, after Haye had taken the plaudits for his fifth-round stoppage of Chisora, and his beaten opponent had accepted he had been floored by the better man, walked over to the top table and challenged the victor to a fight of their own.
  • (3) "We heard the commotion downstairs, but they weren't the kind of family to scream and yell," she says.
  • (4) In the commotion that followed Xiros's escape, Alexandros Giotopoulos, the French-born academic believed to have founded the gang, and Dimitris Koufondinas, its chief hitman, have declared, in letters written from prison, that "17 November is dead".
  • (5) That was where Tree was dancing in the early hours of 28 June 1969, when he heard and saw a commotion through the archway.
  • (6) When Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt took a " selfie " on her smartphone last week, like millions of people do every day, she doubtless had little idea of the commotion that would ensue.
  • (7) My neighbours (poor things) do not listen to The Archers or they would have known that the commotion they heard was my response to evidence being given by Kirsty Miller at the trial of Helen Titchener.
  • (8) If they had, there would have been too much commotion.
  • (9) The incident does not bode well – even if this is not the first time a Golden Dawn MP has caused commotion in the House.
  • (10) Commotion Wireless may prove to have been presciently named.
  • (11) But Victoria Square, named after Britain’s long-reigning monarch, has also come to represent something else: a fear of the chaos and commotion that the stranded migrants have brought with them.
  • (12) Someone was angry enough to drive a cement mixer into the gates of the country's parliament yesterday, but there was much more commotion earlier this month when Tony Blair – an ex-prime minister of a foreign country – came to town .
  • (13) That was the poachers’ luck.” In the commotion and darkness, the villains made their escape.
  • (14) Look, Richard says, they never set out to cause a commotion.
  • (15) In patients with brain commotion in the first week after trauma only 24-hours EEG revealed changes.
  • (16) Suzy Mitchell, 26, said she heard the commotion from her bedroom at the back of an apartment block opposite the venue: “Everyone was running away in big crowds.” Police were alerted to the explosion at 10.33pm.
  • (17) According to ABC News , the suicidal woman was on the edge of a balcony and threatened to jump when the three men heard the commotion and rushed into the building to rescue her.
  • (18) When gay radiologist Jorg Thieme had the temerity to kiss his male partner there, a scandalised Canary Wharf security guard intervened to prevent "a commotion".
  • (19) Some sudden movement attracted her attention, a commotion, and she could see Lawrence on the ground, a group of men surrounding him and kicking, holding him down, she remembers.
  • (20) Cool-headed, as if oblivious to the commotion around her, she was earnestly engaged in formulating a policy phrase that would distinguish government borrowing (for a fiscal stimulus to get us out of the financial crisis) from personal borrowing (of the sort which got us into it).

Compote


Definition:

  • (n.) A preparation of fruit in sirup in such a manner as to preserve its form, either whole, halved, or quartered; as, a compote of pears.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recipe supplied by Olia Hercules, oliahercules.com Germknodel with custard These Austrian sweet dumplings are also lovely served with fruit compote.
  • (2) Addition of 10 g of cellulose dispersed in 150 g of apple compote to the daily diet with a low fiber content for a 20-day period caused the fecal excretion of calcium and zinc of three men to increase significantly.
  • (3) sonnei in experimentally infected stewed fruits and berries are described and the ways for educing the epidemiological hazards of a compote prepared by failing to comply with proper heat treatment - idicated.
  • (4) The presently proposed by the author procedure for bacteriological analysis of an infected compote is shown to be sensitive enough, for it enables one to count 10(2) and more Shigella cells in 1 ml of compote.
  • (5) Fruit, vegetables and fruit and vegetable product were artificially infected with Penicillium expansum, P. urticae and Byssochlamys nivea; patulin was subsequently found in peaches, apricots, greengages, bananas, strawberries, honeydew melons, tomatoes, red and green paprika, cucumbers and carrots; in several kinds of compot, in tomato juice and tomato pulp --but not in ketchup.
  • (6) • Simmering gives you the moistness you need for compotes or purees.
  • (7) At Pollen Street Social , if we want to add a bit of sharpness to a fruit dessert, such as a blackberry parfait with a sweet apple sorbet, we'll cook an apple compote with a few splashes of cider vinegar to serve with it.
  • (8) Patulin was found in fruit with spontaneous brown rot (bananas, pineapples, grapes, peaches, apricots) as well as in moldy compots and in sallow-thorn juice.
  • (9) "For dinner I order the shad-roe ravioli with apple compote as an appetiser and the meat loaf with chèvre and quail-stock sauce for an entrée".
  • (10) The greatest epidemiological danger can be found in compote prepared through heating without subsequent boiling, since it contains intact viable Shigella cells, introduced into the compote prior to its heating.
  • (11) Tuesday 13 October Starter: Pork liver mousse and cornichon pickle [or chicken pâté] with navette (Marseille orange-flower biscuit) Main course: Organic blanquette de veau (veal stew), rice Dessert: Organic apple Thursday 15 October Starter: Potted salmon and Swedish bread Main course: Roast pork [or turkey ham], peas and carrots in yoghurt sauce Dessert: Banana Thursday 22 October Starter: Green salad with vinaigrette dressing Main course: Tartiflette (a traditional Alpine gratin of potato mixed with bacon and reblochon cheese) [or pork-free tartiflette] Dessert: Natural yoghurt, low-sugar apple and vanilla compote

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