What's the difference between foo and loo?

Foo


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Loo


Definition:

  • (n.) An old game played with five, or three, cards dealt to each player from a full pack. When five cards are used the highest card is the knave of clubs or (if so agreed upon) the knave of trumps; -- formerly called lanterloo.
  • (n.) A modification of the game of "all fours" in which the players replenish their hands after each round by drawing each a card from the pack.
  • (v. t.) To beat in the game of loo by winning every trick.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is basically a large tank (the bigger the better) that collects rain from the house guttering and pumps it into the home, to be used for flushing the loo.
  • (2) Analysis of data obtained after oral administration of the drug by the Loo-Riegelman method showed that the pindolol absorption kinetic was non-linear.
  • (3) Composting loos should be the answer to the world's toilet crisis Read more The water and sanitation target is simple and unambiguous: by 2030 every man, woman and child – whether at home, school, hospital or their workplace – should have access to a safe water supply and be able to go to the toilet in a clean space with privacy.
  • (4) The normal cytoarchitectonic pattern of barrels in layer IV of mouse SmI face cortex is altered by early damage to the mystacial vibrissae (Van der Loos and Woolsey, '73).
  • (5) Unlike my little brother, who used to store his peas in his cheeks like a hamster – he would then ask to be allowed to go to the loo where he would spit and flush – I always liked vegetables as a child (and yes, I know that, technically, avocado is a fruit; but its savoury qualities are such that I am going to count it, in this instance, as a vegetable).
  • (6) Envirolet offers a basic model from ¤1,175 (£1,040) plus €149 shipping, while its FlushSmart system, which looks like a normal loo, costs €2,900, plus shipping, and uses some electricity to process the waste.
  • (7) "But this year was the first time there was a line for the ladies' loos.
  • (8) I picked the strawberries growing up the side of my compost loo for breakfast; physalis and ferns were growing inside my shower; I snacked on pitanga, a delicious sweet-sour berry.
  • (9) I would be flabbergasted that if anyone bothered to test the loos of some of our most uptight rightwing papers they didn't find some traces of Class A drugs.
  • (10) Rebecca Loos would be a fine example of a story; Clifford looked after her for six months following her alleged affair with David Beckham.
  • (11) "I only had one unpleasant experience, when I was stupid enough to pick up someone in a loo at Piccadilly.
  • (12) The randomness of the impregnation of layer IV cortical neurons by the Golgi-Cox method (Van der Loos, '56) has been assessed directly in Barrel C-1 of the mouse SmI.
  • (13) By contrast, the elegant experiments of Woolsey, Van der Loos, and collaborators (Van der Loos, H., and T. A. Woolsey.
  • (14) "When you needed the loo, it wasn't that great but it was worth it – it's the best thing I've ever seen at Glastonbury."
  • (15) If you have ever been on "close obs" yourself, you will know that the particular skills and attitude of the people tasked with tailing you 24 hours a day – sitting by your bed while you sleep (or don't), following you when you go to the loo, taking you out for a cigarette – will make the most enormous difference to your experience as a patient.
  • (16) The absorption profile of the various oral formulations was analysed pharmacokinetically, using the Loo-Riegelman procedure.
  • (17) followed by protonation of LOO- and dimerization of the DDC.
  • (18) The absorption kinetics after the buccal treatment were evaluated using the Exact Loo-Riegelman Method (ELRM).
  • (19) No, flying toilets are the outcome of people forced to go to the loo in a bag before throwing it into the streets because no better option exists.
  • (20) Clifford – who has made millions looking after clients as varied as Frank Sinatra, Freddie Starr, Jade Goody, Rebecca Loos and Kerry Katona – argued that there needs to be a clear "halfway house" between protecting privacy and freedom of speech, and newspapers should be forced to justify publishing stories about people's personal lives.

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