What's the difference between foe and toe?

Foe


Definition:

  • (n.) One who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge, or malice, against another; an enemy.
  • (n.) An enemy in war; a hostile army.
  • (n.) One who opposes on principle; an opponent; an adversary; an ill-wisher; as, a foe to religion.
  • (v. t.) To treat as an enemy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mohammed Salama, 23, an Al Ahly ultra whose leg was broken in the stadium riot, said it became clear at half-time in the match between the two historical foes that trouble was brewing.
  • (2) Pandas have long been an important symbol of Chinese diplomatic overtures to both allies and former foes.
  • (3) In toxicological studies, the test compound FOE 3440 A, a [(3,5-dichloro-2-pyridyl)oxy]phenoxypropanoate with herbicidal properties, produced a severe increase in weight and an intensive induction of monoxygenases activity in the mouse, but not in the rat.
  • (4) For example, when Baghdad recently moved to revise an earlier version of an oil and gas law to the detriment of the Kurds, the Kurdistan regional government recalled Kurdish officials in Baghdad and, at the same time, invited Maliki's foe, Allawi, to Erbil for emergency talks.
  • (5) Instead, Trump targeted a familiar foe, the media, whom he characterized as responsible for spreading “fake news” about the ACA.
  • (6) As a previous Guardian piece said, the two organisations are foes ( Why ban Hizb ut-Tahrir?
  • (7) Add to that a dangerous nuclear deal with Iran (as Republicans and Israel’s government see it) and the apparent impotence in the face of Islamic State and the Afghanistan volte-face looks, to political foes at least , like clinching proof of serial failure by the commander-in-chief.
  • (8) Someone close to the trust told me in the autumn, "Both parties are bashing the BBC – it used to alternate – but the Tories may have done a bigger deal with [longstanding BBC foe Rupert] Murdoch than Labour did in the mid-90s.
  • (9) But in addition to providing clearer guidance to doctors, the change could have the effect of undermining several state laws, supported by abortion foes, that force clinicians to administer mifepristone according to the old regimen that the FDA approved in 2000.
  • (10) A puppet Government set up at Vichy which may at any moment be forced to become our foe; the whole western seaboard of Europe, from the North Cape to the Spanish frontier, in German hands; all the ports, all the airfields upon this immense front employed against us as potential springboards of invasion.
  • (11) In one way they were right to state the obvious – because Celtic were utter plod at the back – but hubris is best not displayed until you are beyond the reach of vengeance, as opposed to being about to walk into the fortress of the foe you have just mocked.
  • (12) A simple rocket immunoelectrophoresis method foe mu-CD screening is also shown.
  • (13) Syria • President Barack Obama is meeting Senator John McCain at the White House today hoping his foe in the 2008 presidential election will help sell the idea of a US military intervention in Syria .
  • (14) Isis’s violence is far from being nihilistic – a charge usually levelled by those who are wishfully blind to the attraction of their foes.
  • (15) It is useful foe evaluating the effect of antacids after stimulation of acid secretion with a test meal.
  • (16) Then Murray goes on the front foot, jabbing away a volley to make it 40-15, but Federer then wrong-foots his foe with a feathery forehand at the net to hold.
  • (17) But even as Turkey is increasingly drawn into the firing line of Syria’s civil war and the region-wide struggle against Sunni Muslim extremism, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s combative and choleric president, remains stubbornly fixated on a wholly different foe – the Kurds .
  • (18) Have they shamed intransigent foes into seeking a political solution?
  • (19) He concedes that there are several Russians who have annoyed Putin more but says “among foreigners” he’s probably the President’s biggest foe.
  • (20) But on Wednesday morning the eyes of the Russian elite – from ministers to Kremlin critics – will be on an unassuming courthouse in the centre of this city, where Alexey Navalny, Vladimir Putin's loudest foe, will go on trial charged with embezzlement.

Toe


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the terminal members, or digits, of the foot of a man or an animal.
  • (n.) The fore part of the hoof or foot of an animal.
  • (n.) Anything, or any part, corresponding to the toe of the foot; as, the toe of a boot; the toe of a skate.
  • (n.) The journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step.
  • (n.) A lateral projection at one end, or between the ends, of a piece, as a rod or bolt, by means of which it is moved.
  • (n.) A projection from the periphery of a revolving piece, acting as a cam to lift another piece.
  • (v. t.) To touch or reach with the toes; to come fully up to; as, to toe the mark.
  • (v. i.) To hold or carry the toes (in a certain way).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Five cases of mycetoma of bone involving patella, shaft of tibia, medial malleolus, calcaneum and phalanx of great toe are presented.
  • (2) Doctors, who once treated human body as an entity, are so specialized that none seems to know any more that the head bone is still indirectly connected to the great toe.
  • (3) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
  • (4) The present study includes six patients, (involving ten feet), who developed hallux varus and great toe clawing after McBride procedures were performed by various orthopedic surgeons.
  • (5) Impairments of hearing, of mobility, of cutting toe-nails and of general physical activity were the conditions which were most frequently named.
  • (6) Despite the 2 operations and extensive medical treatment with vasodilators, anticoagulants, and other medication, the pain and limp persisted and a cutaneous necrosis of the 1st and 5th left toes was observed.
  • (7) We present our results with 8 free transfers of the toe pulp and demonstrate the successful restoration of a well-padded and sensitive fingertip.
  • (8) Finally, secondary reconstruction techniques are presented, always compared with classical techniques (free 2nd toe transfer versus pollicization).
  • (9) An equal increase in the number of eroded joints in hands and toes was seen in the penicillamine and the gold group.
  • (10) Economic analyses were also adjusted for hatchery toe-clipping costs.
  • (11) The core temperature is taken from the rectum, the nasopharynx or tympanic membrane, and the peripheral temperature from the great toe.
  • (12) As Cavani was shunted of the ball, it broke to Suarez, who aimed a quick-witted toe-poke at the bottom corner from 15 yards, only to be denied by Buffon, who showed tremendous agility to plunge to his right and tip it around the post!
  • (13) Computer digitization revealed that distal anastomotic intimal hyperplasia occurred exclusively at the heel and the toe of the graft and the floor of the host artery.
  • (14) These tests include measurement of the ankle-brachial systolic pressure ratio, a treadmill exercise test, a reactive hyperaemia test, and assessment of toe-pulse reappearance time.
  • (15) In analogy to tip-toeing movements, it is concluded that the coactivation pattern is typical for stance conditions with a restricted area of support in order to reduce body sway.
  • (16) The forms of lutein in the toe web were diester (66%0, free alcohol (26%), and monoester (8%) and their sensitivity to aflatoxin followed the same order.
  • (17) Therefore, the plantar forces acting under the metatarsal heads of the 1st, 2nd and 5th rays and under the pads of the 1st and 2nd toes were measured during walking, so that with the aid of anthropometric information pertaining to the forefoot, reaction forces in the flexor tendons and in the joints could be estimated.
  • (18) On other days, she dresses head to toe in bright pink.
  • (19) Both lower limbs were abnormal: the left had a single slender long bone articulating with the foot, which was markedly dorsiflexed and had only 2 toes; on the right the femur was angulated, the fibula was absent, and only 4 metatarsals were present with 4 toes.
  • (20) The time course of the ionic outflow from the toe web was determined by conductance measurements in the fluid surrounding the web and compared with the visually observed phenomena.

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