What's the difference between foo and for?

Foo


Definition:

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  • (1) 32 cases of FOO were found, but only the 30 which had been studied previously in another hospital were considered for analysis.
  • (2) For Foos, arousal often competed with despair and sadness at what he witnessed.
  • (3) These questions became particularly pointed when he received Foos’s account of the murder he claims to have witnessed, a drug dealer attacking his girlfriend, who was found dead in the morning.
  • (4) Talking last month on his late-night HBO show Last Week Tonight , Oliver ridiculed Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha's "dystopian nightmare" of a government, called Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn a "buffoon" and an "idiot", and ridiculed a clip of a contentious home video of the prince and his semi-naked wife at a poolside birthday party for their pet poodle Foo Foo.
  • (5) There are highlights, among them the Foo Fighters' energising effect on a flagging audience, the noise the same audience makes when James Blunt appears - half cheer, half menacing low growl - and Madonna's unexpected duet with Eugene Hutz of thrillingly dissolute gypsy punks Gogol Bordello.
  • (6) The original method described by Rosalki and Ying Foo (Clin Chem 1984;30:1182-6) was somewhat simplified.
  • (7) Throughout the New Yorker extract, Talese grapples with the knowledge that Foos is a sometimes unreliable source.
  • (8) Foos was fascinated by the patterns of behaviour he saw, as well as the sex: “Wives who cheat on their husbands and vice versa.
  • (9) The idea behind The Foos: Free Code Hour is that children guide the colourful Foos characters to the end of each level by dragging instructions into place in their mini-routines.
  • (10) In February 2007, at the Super Bowl half-time show in Miami, one of the highest-profile showcases a US artist can achieve, he played some Purple Rain songs alongside cover versions of pieces by Queen, Bob Dylan, Creedence Clearwater Revival and the Foo Fighters.
  • (11) Foos obsessively spied on the hotel guests in his care, taking notes and studying their sex lives.
  • (12) He acknowledged that, given his pathological need for accuracy, he had been “deeply upset” by the allegations, and had called Foos to have him explain in person to the Washington Post reporter the discrepancies in his account.
  • (13) (Foos claimed in that subsequent conversation that “everything in the book was true”.)
  • (14) He further argued he went to inordinate lengths to try to prove other elements of the story; his publisher and the New Yorker both had access to Foos’s diary and journals; and he himself had of course “visited Foos in his motel and witnessed his ‘observation platform’.” Anyhow he believed “Foos was and is an unreliable narrator, and was always portrayed this way in my book”.
  • (15) Many people questioned Talese’s moral judgement in not exposing Foos before.
  • (16) When the book comes out I’ve told the publicist: I don’t want this guy on television, some Jesus freak will blow him up.” In the event, when the New Yorker piece came out some people threw eggs at Foos’s house, but so far that has been it.
  • (17) Grove Press said that the majority of events in the book took place before the motel was sold by Foos in 1980, but that the company would consider including a note in future editions explaining any errors or missing information.
  • (18) The bookies' favourites are Oasis, the Foo Fighters and David Bowie.
  • (19) What did he think would become of Foos, I wondered at one point?
  • (20) Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has joined the likes of Public Enemy’s Chuck D, Iggy Pop and Ozzy Osbourne as a Record Story Day ambassador.

For


Definition:

  • (prep.) In the most general sense, indicating that in consideration of, in view of, or with reference to, which anything is done or takes place.
  • (prep.) Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action; the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state; the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done.
  • (prep.) Indicating the remoter and indirect object of an act; the end or final cause with reference to which anything is, acts, serves, or is done.
  • (prep.) Indicating that in favor of which, or in promoting which, anything is, or is done; hence, in behalf of; in favor of; on the side of; -- opposed to against.
  • (prep.) Indicating that toward which the action of anything is directed, or the point toward which motion is made; /ntending to go to.
  • (prep.) Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a compensation, or the like, is offered or made; instead of, or place of.
  • (prep.) Indicating that in the character of or as being which anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being.
  • (prep.) Indicating that instead of which something else controls in the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to notwithstanding, in spite of; -- generally followed by all, aught, anything, etc.
  • (prep.) Indicating the space or time through which an action or state extends; hence, during; in or through the space or time of.
  • (prep.) Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.
  • (conj.) Because; by reason that; for that; indicating, in Old English, the reason of anything.
  • (conj.) Since; because; introducing a reason of something before advanced, a cause, motive, explanation, justification, or the like, of an action related or a statement made. It is logically nearly equivalent to since, or because, but connects less closely, and is sometimes used as a very general introduction to something suggested by what has gone before.
  • (n.) One who takes, or that which is said on, the affrimative side; that which is said in favor of some one or something; -- the antithesis of against, and commonly used in connection with it.

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