What's the difference between doom and toom?

Doom


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.
  • (v. t.) That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty.
  • (v. t.) Ruin; death.
  • (v. t.) Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision.
  • (v. t.) To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
  • (v. t.) To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death.
  • (v. t.) To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
  • (v. t.) To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
  • (v. t.) To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) NGOs and even the Red Crescent are unwelcome: peacekeepers are rebuffed, hospitals doomed to failure.
  • (2) They’ve already collaborated with folks like DOOM, Ghostface Killah and Frank Ocean; I was lucky enough to hear a sneak peek of their incredible collaboration with Future Islands’ Sam Herring from their forthcoming album.
  • (3) The doom-laden voiceover claims Miliband could only secure power through a deal with the SNP and that Salmond would be able to “call the tune”.
  • (4) With the White House backing away and fellow Republicans openly considering successors, Mr Lott's hard-fought campaign to sit out the controversy appeared doomed.
  • (5) Some of them, pulled together for the manifesto, are silly, or doomed, or simply there for shock value - information points in the form of holograms of Dixon of Dock Green, the legalisation of soft drugs, official brothels opposite Westminster, complete with division bells.
  • (6) Dombey treads proudly towards his doom with the author's unheard warnings ringing in his ears.
  • (7) Rather than suggest paid-for content was doomed, they called for a new model to collect revenues.
  • (8) Ross loved a girl of 17, so he married her when he was 28; a field-day for predictors of doom who must now be bewildered that two decades and three children proved them wrong.
  • (9) Iran’s supreme leader has accused Saudi Arabia of committing genocide in Yemen and said air strikes against Houthi rebels are doomed to fail, in a sharp escalation of tensions between the two rivals over the outcome of yet another bruising conflict in the Middle East.
  • (10) Stephen King tried it, and gave up the effort because he thought it was doomed.
  • (11) We did not all travel together because I want focus in my squad.” Louis van Gaal was doomed at Manchester United by refusal to adapt | Amy Lawrence Read more Alan Pardew was a disappointed runner-up, as might be expected, though at least he did not have to face questions about not being in the same job next season.
  • (12) Lord of the Rings made him the doomed anti-hero , he was easily the best thing in the disastrous Troy, giving Odysseus guile, wit and that familiar, rough-edged charm, and he terrified TV viewers as property developer John Dawson in the dark and brilliant Red Riding .
  • (13) Hemsworth cut his chops on Home And Away before quitting in 2007, moving to LA and almost immediately being cast as Kirk's doomed dad in JJ Abrams 's Star Trek.
  • (14) There has to be a better way.” I n the winter of 2013, soon after Hartgerink began working with Van Assen, they began to investigate another social psychology researcher who they noticed was reporting suspiciously large effect sizes, one of the “tells” that doomed Stapel.
  • (15) : "Of all the cells you've been in, your first cell is a very special one, the place where you first encountered others like yourself, doomed to the same fate.
  • (16) Although it's not nearly as surprising as the Pittsburgh Pirates fighting toward the playoffs after 20 years of losing seasons , or the Kansas City Royals playing meaningful, September baseball for the first time in over a decade , but since stealing manager John Farrell away from the Toronto Blue Jays, the Red Sox have established themselves as the best team in the American League despite preseason predictions dooming them to repeat as the worst.
  • (17) Unfortunately, the commercials are so bland and empty that they’re almost certainly doomed to failure.
  • (18) • Facebook gets in a row with games firm Zenimax over who actually owns key parts of technology behind Oculus Rift, with Doom-creator John Carmack at its heart
  • (19) Despite fears that large carnivores are doomed to extinction because of rising human populations and overconsumption, a study published in Science has found that large predator populations are stable or rising in Europe.
  • (20) Clegg urged the Conservatives not to shift to the right in a doomed bid to head off Ukip.

Toom


Definition:

  • (a.) Empty.
  • (v. t.) To empty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) but is distinct from the VIP analog in the position of the first helix, which is shifted by 2 residues toward the C-terminus, and in the form of the second helix [Fry, D.C., Madison, V.S., Bolin, D.R., Greeley, D.N., Toome, V. and Wegrzynski, B.B.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Squeeze, 24 September, 1993 The third episode introduces Doug Hutchison as serial killer Eugene Victor Tooms, one of the series' most memorable monsters.
  • (3) Phospholipase A I, the major form, seems to be identical with phospholipase A reported previously (Tu, A.T., Passey, R.B., & Toom, P.M. (1970) Arch.

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