What's the difference between doop and droop?

Doop


Definition:

  • (n.) A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.

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Droop


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like.
  • (v. i.) To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped.
  • (v. i.) To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
  • (v. t.) To let droop or sink.
  • (n.) A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Male volunteers for mass radiography examination, aged 40 or more, were questioned about their sputum production, smoking habits, and, when applicable, their method of smoking cigarettes.Of 5,438 cigarette smokers 460 (8.4%) smoked their cigarettes without removing the cigarette from the mouth between puffs ("drooping" cigarette smokers) whereas the rest smoked in the normal manner.Persons who admitted to producing sputum from their chests on most days of the year or on most days for at least three months of the year for a minimum of two years were classified as chronic bronchitics in the absence of other causative disease.The rate of chronic bronchitis among the "drooping" cigarette smokers (41.5%) was considerably greater than that among those smoking cigarettes in the normal manner (33.6%).
  • (2) Miliband's pedestrian, drooping delivery did no justice to the ambition of his argument, leaving the packed conference hall sometimes flat.
  • (3) One side of my face was drooped, I had hearing loss, and just having the worst headache of my life.
  • (4) The patient has a typical saddle nose and drooping auricles.
  • (5) The local minimum tumour temperature is explicitly estimated from the power required to maintain each member of an array of electrically heated catheters at a known temperature, in conjunction with a new bioheat equation-based algorithm to predict the 'droop' or fractional decline in tissue temperature between heated catheters.
  • (6) Your knees creak, your back aches and your fleshy bits droop more than they used to.
  • (7) They ranged from tail droop to complete lower limb paralysis.
  • (8) Shoulder droop may induce thoracic outlet syndrome and may simulate scoliosis in the athlete.
  • (9) In laterally recumbent dogs the lower kidney glides craniad, whereas the upper kidney tends to droop, yielding radiographs in which the upper kidney is often clearer and more bean-shaped than the lower.
  • (10) A decay that continues rapidly spreads downwards throughout the stalk and the affected plants soon droop.
  • (11) The pqp mutants display zygotic (spread and drooping wings, cross-vein defects, extra bristles) and maternal (embryonic lethality) recessive phenotypes.
  • (12) Get with the programme or your ratings will continue to droop like the sad features of a basset hound.
  • (13) The nose tip should be prevented from drooping by means of columellar supporting grafts.
  • (14) The author stresses the importance of columellar sensation, nasal tip sensation, and the role of the nasalis muscles in determining the postoperative results of corrective rhinoplasty, especially as these have an influence on the "drooping tip" and the columellar base.
  • (15) I mean, I don't think I ever wore a bra to prevent droop (ain't got nothing to droop, honey) or backache.
  • (16) Five normal and 12 droop-winged fledglings were captured, killed, and examined.
  • (17) The excretory urogram showed a left hydronephrotic lower pole with a "drooping flower" and no opacification of the upper pole.
  • (18) The clinical signs were characterised by ear drooping, lip commissural paralysis, sialosis, and collection of food on the paralysed side of the mouth.
  • (19) Symptoms of intoxication in the form of convulsions and tendency of circling in one direction with drooping ears were observed alongwith corneal opacity 40 weeks after the experiment.
  • (20) Complications included oral wound dehiscence (3 dogs), shifting of the mandible toward the operated side (6 dogs), and drooping of the tongue (2 dogs).

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