What's the difference between goa and goad?

Goa


Definition:

  • (n.) A species of antelope (Procapra picticauda), inhabiting Thibet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The kind of colours that you want to paint your house after a holiday in Goa or Brazil.
  • (2) I have stressed the influence of genetic factors, best exemplified as a single gene aberration in the occurrence of Heberden's nodes, while a polygenetic interplay may be involved in other forms of hand GOA.
  • (3) During the period 1982-86, a total of 657 Salmonella strains were isolated from various clinical samples processed in the Microbiology laboratory of Goa Medical College, Bambolim, Goa.
  • (4) The commission's reports on mining in Goa accused both the state and the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) of allowing illegal mining in the state and putting the region's environment and ecology at risk.
  • (5) What they’d really like is a lottery win so they can forget yuletide altogether and get on a plane to Goa or Istanbul.
  • (6) A marked difference in malaria incidence amongst labour imported for construction and local residents was observed in a study following the outbreak of malaria in Panaji (Goa) in 1986.
  • (7) Testosterone was slightly higher in GOA women aged under 53.
  • (8) Amid her grief and despair, MacKeown still feels anger at the Goa police for the first, botched autopsy.
  • (9) A destructive arthropathy is much more common when generalized osteoarthritis (GOA) and articular chondrocalcinosis (ACC) coexist than in GOA alone.
  • (10) The cDNAs encoding two forms of mammalian G(o) alpha were also isolated and designated GoA alpha and GoB alpha.
  • (11) Two local men, Placido Carvalho and Samson D'Souza, have been charged in connection with the murder, which was seen as a watershed for Goa's tourism industry.
  • (12) When age, weight and height were considered, no significant differences were observed between patients with GOA and normal controls.
  • (13) Patients with pseudoachondroplasia exhibited a grosser type of joint laxity than other subjects while those with GOA represented a relatively stiff group.
  • (14) This, after all, was meant to be the culmination of her efforts over the past two years to get justice for her daughter, whose bruised, semi-naked body was found on Anjuna beach in north Goa while on a family holiday in February 2008.
  • (15) While the parcel cleared customs (expected to take three days) the men insisted Bowles stay in their swanky apartment in Goa and she was accompanied at all times.
  • (16) I can only say that if international tourists come to Goa and are murdered, they have no hope that justice [will be done] in this system.
  • (17) They are either protecting the police officers or protecting the drug trade or the image of Goa."
  • (18) The producers did not obtain official permission to film in Goa, believing it would not be granted.
  • (19) How could she drag them all off to Goa, cries Middle England as her past is raked over and an attempted manslaughter conviction is added to the growing charge list.
  • (20) The model is subjected to sensitivity analysis with reference to data for Salcette Taluka, Goa, India.

Goad


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates.
  • (v. t.) To prick; to drive with a goad; hence, to urge forward, or to rouse by anything pungent, severe, irritating, or inflaming; to stimulate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They have informed, advocated and sometimes goaded participants in a way that will be entirely familiar to people in Europe.
  • (2) Thereby, it serves as a goad to thinking about conflicts between pregnant women and their fetuses in a way that emphasizes relationships rather than rights.
  • (3) The three young men were trying to get to grips with a troubling scene in which they lark about with a baby in its pram, poking it, pulling off its nappy, goading each other until they stone it to death.
  • (4) Francesco Totti has escaped with a spell on the naughty step for goading Lazio fans in the wake of Sunday's Rome derby, but has been fined €10,000 for each thumb he pointed down in a bid to rile them up.
  • (5) The public conscience has been stirred and professional groups--doctors, lawyers, legislators and law enforcement agencies--goaded on many occasions by feminist groups, have deliberated the various aspects of this problem.
  • (6) Where Google News has a sentence that tells you what the story is, Goad notes: "Facebook often has the first paragraph, so they're stealing – if you want to use that word – more of the content."
  • (7) I can’t tell if he’s goading him, or wanting him to join in, or do something differently.
  • (8) We had two young daughters who would goad him into conversation, as children will.
  • (9) He used a number of accounts to goad his victims when they attempted to block his comments, saying police "would do nothing" about his tirade of abuse.
  • (10) Goaded, taunted and tormented by the prosecution, Pistorius was perhaps his own worst enemy during cross-examination, suffering surprising memory lapses and appearing evasive, agitated, petulant and self-contradictory.
  • (11) Baillie, Scottish Labour’s effective interim leader at Holyrood while the party votes on a successor to replace Johann Lamont, had goaded Salmond.
  • (12) To a packed Bundestag, Merkel said it was "absurd" to claim Germany was trying to "dominate" Europe – an accusation which has become ever more widespread after one of her MPs made goading comments that "Europe was now speaking German" .
  • (13) Locals say the gangs were goaded into the violence by others from their factions elsewhere in Rio.
  • (14) We have a president-elect who penned in journalists at his rallies, has continued to goad the press even after his election win, and who has history of threats against journalists.
  • (15) He heard the boos and the goading battle cries: "No Surrender to the IRA", "Judas!
  • (16) But our state must resist the temptation to be goaded into tackling complicated issues with simplistic, divisive laws.
  • (17) "Twitter is no longer purely in the domain of early adopters; rather it is becoming a universal tool which is being used increasingly by all types of internet users, regardless of their online preferences," Goad noted.
  • (18) "A typical website in the UK receives around two in every five visits from search engines and obviously, the vast majority of those come via Google," according to Robin Goad, research director at Hitwise UK.
  • (19) Not like at the Spectator garden party, where one eyewitness described the two cabinet ministers goading each other “like a pair of rutting stags locking antlers”.
  • (20) He has only ever talked about his experiences once and was angry with Frischmann for revealing this in a moment of weakness as she was being goaded about her 'privileged' upbringing.

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