What's the difference between cool and coot?

Cool


Definition:

  • (superl.) Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness.
  • (superl.) Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater.
  • (superl.) Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress.
  • (superl.) Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.
  • (superl.) Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior.
  • (superl.) Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
  • (n.) A moderate state of cold; coolness; -- said of the temperature of the air between hot and cold; as, the cool of the day; the cool of the morning or evening.
  • (v. t.) To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water.
  • (v. t.) To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate.
  • (v. i.) To become less hot; to lose heat.
  • (v. i.) To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more moderate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Do [MPs] remember the madness of those advertisements that talked of the cool fresh mountain air of menthol cigarettes?
  • (2) "In a sea of bubblegum-cute popsters, Sistar stand out for their cool and sexy image," says Scobie.
  • (3) The fact that proteolytic activity could be detected within 2 days at 7 degrees C is significant, since bulk cooled milk is normally held for 3 to 4 days at temperatures between 4 and 7 degrees C at farms or factories prior to processing.
  • (4) The rise of the membrane resistance during cooling was unaffected.
  • (5) Cooling of the necrotic limb with the application of a tourniquet and general nonoperative treatment were conducted in preparation for amputation.
  • (6) A study was carried out to evaluate the effects of direct cooling on the exocrine pancreas.
  • (7) Day-0 rabbits kept for 1 h in a warm (41 degrees C), neutral 39 degrees C) or cool (28 degrees C) environment selected a different TE at 39.8, 39.5 and 37.3 degrees C, giving colonic temperatures (TC) of 40.8, 39.9 and 37.7 degrees C, respectively.
  • (8) Single postganglionic neurones to hairy skin and hairless skin of the hindleg were investigated on spinal cord heating and spinal cord cooling in chloralose anesthetized cats.
  • (9) During suction a flow of cold, dry room air replaces the warm, moist cavity air, causing cooling both directly and by vaporization of water.
  • (10) The conformational similarity between tubules, sheets, and the dry powder is corroborated by calorimetry, which reveals a cooling exotherm at the same temperature where tubules form upon cooling hydrated sheets.
  • (11) The mechanism of action of cooling was investigated.
  • (12) There was a best negative correlation between latencies (P27, P40 and the interpeak latency between P40 and P27 (P40-P27)) and nasopharyngeal temperature, but no correlation was found between latencies and plantar temperature during cooling and rewarming (27-37 degrees C) with cardiopulmonary bypass.
  • (13) Breath was passed through a cooled loop of alumina to adsorb, concentrate, and release, on heating, pentane.
  • (14) Napthine chose not to directly criticise Tony Abbott – it’s not his style – but the coolness was clear.
  • (15) It would appear that there was airborne spread of the organism from these cooling water systems which had not received conventional treatment to inhibit corrosion and organic growth.
  • (16) Observed proliferations of E. coli inocula in cooling cartons of product were compared with the proliferations calculated from temperature histories obtained from sites close to inocula.
  • (17) Recent experiments involving cooling of the human arm are then described.
  • (18) But Matt Collins of Exeter University said it was unlikely to cause an absolute cooling: "It could offset some of the warming, but really the greenhouse gas signal wins over the AMOC.
  • (19) To examine the effects of focally cooling three areas (rostral, intermediate, and caudal) of the ventral medullary surface (VMS) on respiratory oscillations in cervical sympathetic and phrenic nerve activity, 12 cats were anesthetized, vagotomized, paralyzed, and artificially ventilated with 7% CO2 in O2.
  • (20) The other method allowed the castings to bench cool to room temperature.

Coot


Definition:

  • (n.) A wading bird with lobate toes, of the genus Fulica.
  • (n.) The surf duck or scoter. In the United States all the species of (/demia are called coots. See Scoter.
  • (n.) A stupid fellow; a simpleton; as, a silly coot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was at least one happy tale, after a coot family miraculously escaped from the floods.
  • (2) The timing of upper lip protrusion movements and accompanying acoustic events was examined for multiple repetitions of word pairs such as "lee coot" and "leaked coot" by four speakers of American English.
  • (3) Andrew Coote (@ACunit) @DanLucas86 Endless Blue by @horrorsofficial - he should have remained blue, he blue the season for @ManUtd & because he will be blue April 22, 2014 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 2.26pm BST The severance package Here's some information courtesy of someone who wishes to be known as Handsome B.
  • (4) This calls for a specific HP48SX implementation with ASCII text output of the algorithm presented by Roberts and Coote (1965), and extended by Roussel and Husson (1991).
  • (5) John Coote describes these treatments and their possible mechanisms of pharmacological action.
  • (6) The duo – "two old coots", in Bowles' own quip this week – are the elder statesmen of federal budget battles.
  • (7) There is a proven link, says Coote, between shorter working hours, health and wellbeing, and freeing up time to take part in voluntary and democratic action.
  • (8) Bacteria of the genus Campylobacter were isolated from 28 Rooks (Corvus frugilegus), 1 Red Kite (Milvus milvus), 1 Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), 1 Coot (Fulica atra), 1 Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) and 1 Northern Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos).
  • (9) This included white crowned sparrows, Zonotrichia leucophrys, gold crowned sparrows, Z. atricapilla, and English sparrows, Passer domesticus, (68% in the composite); coots, Fulica americana, (29%); blackbirds, Euphagus cyanocephalus, (33%); crows, Corvus brachyrhyncos, (29%); robins, Turdus migratorius, (16%); pigeons, Columba fasciata, (10%); and mallard ducks, Anas platyrhynchos, (7%).
  • (10) There was evidence for a sequential mortality similar to that reported previously at this site: coots were the first birds to die, followed by American wigeon (Anas americana) and northern pintails (A. acuta acuta); northern shovelers (A. clypeata) and mallards (A. platyrhynchos) died late in the epizootic.
  • (11) There was evidence for a distinct sequence in the bird species dying at one site; American coots (Fulica americana) appeared to be the first species to die.
  • (12) At the height of the carping, Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker likened Clinton to an “ill-tempered coot driven a little mad by Obama’s success”.
  • (13) This report analyzes a large data set (1906 individuals, 15 allozyme loci) from a single field collection of the coot clam Mulinia lateralis and demonstrates (1) significant heterozygote deficiencies at 13 of 15 loci, (2) a correlation between the magnitude of heterozygote deficiency at a locus and the effect of heterozygosity at that locus on shell length, and (3) a distribution of multilocus heterozygosity which deviates from that predicted by observed single-locus heterozygosities.
  • (14) Anna Coote, Nef's head of social policy, believes that if larger charities moved to four day weeks they would be rewarded with "a more rounded and balanced workforce, less prone to absenteeism and sickness, and more productive hour-for-hour."
  • (15) Her organisation previously talked about a 21-hour working week as being the right option for the economy and society, but Cootes believes this is too radical for many organisations to get their head around at the moment.
  • (16) The causative agent of ornithosis was isolated in virological examination of the organs of a coot.
  • (17) Se concentrations in kidneys and livers of American coots (Fulica americana) were significantly correlated (r = 0.9845); Se concentrations in breast muscles and livers of juvenile ducks (Anas spp.)
  • (18) My own first encounter with Norfolk in literature came in the form of the heroic and crime-solving adventures of Arthur Ransome's Coot Club , a plucky little gang of boys and girls who live around Horning on the Norfolk Broads, in the Swallows and Amazons series of novels, a world as far from my own upbringing as was imaginable.
  • (19) (Actually, it had a bucolic view of Regent’s canal in London: houseboats, joggers, coots.)
  • (20) At Nef, Coote questions whether pay should be seen as a limiting factor.

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