What's the difference between goff and golf?

Goff


Definition:

  • (n.) A silly clown.
  • (n.) A game. See Golf.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We can welcome it as the beginning of something, just not necessarily as the end of the conversation.” Phil Goff, a critic and president of the Center for Policing Equity thinktank, was more blunt.
  • (2) That’s not a policy.” Goff said research on policing and crime also did not support the sweeping conclusions Trump drew – particularly when it came to blaming immigrants for an increase in violence.
  • (3) "It's like a personal fundraising thermometer, but at scale and applied to field organising," Teddy Goff, the Obama campaign's digital director told Rolling Stone earlier this year.
  • (4) Unfortunately for the former Helen Lyndon Goff (and I would genuinely apologise if she were standing next to me), I've been working on a documentary, due for broadcast this Saturday, which tells those stories too.
  • (5) The MoMLV integration apparatus carried out integration of the mini-HIV substrates correctly; the terminal nucleotides of the viral substrate were removed, and a 4-base-pair duplication of the target DNA flanked the inserted viral DNA (C. Shoemaker, S. P. Goff, E. Gilboa, M. Paskind, S. W. Mitra, and D. Baltimore, Proc.
  • (6) The Dashboard project is being led by Michael Slaby, one of Obama's digital gurus , along with Joe Rospars and Teddy Goff and Obama's director of field organizing Jeremy Bird.
  • (7) Goff said this during a conversation on the front lawn of his black neighbour and friend, Don Williams.
  • (8) Phillip Atiba Goff, a leading researcher on racial bias in policing and the president of the Center for Policing Equity, told the Guardian in April that it would a “reasonable hypothesis” to suggest “the decay in police legitimacy is harming both police morale and community morale”.
  • (9) Ron Goff, 67, a retired postman and perhaps the only other white resident of Vickie Place, had little sympathy for black motorists who cried racism when stopped and fined.
  • (10) Accurate calculation of water vapor pressure for systems saturated with water vapor can be performed using the Goff-Gratch equation.
  • (11) Such talk baffles many white people, even Ron Goff, 65, a retired mailman who lives just five minutes away amid black neighbours he considers friends.
  • (12) The subunit structure of Neurospora chromatin which contains a full histone complement (Goff, 1976) exhibits both differences and similarities to chromatin of higher eucaryotes.
  • (13) As he prepared to watch the flag come down, a joy came uncoiled in Wiggins; he shot an index finger to the sky and hollered, “WHEEEYEWWW!” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Governor Nikki Haley reaches out to hug the Rev Norvel Goff, pastor of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, before the Confederate battle flag is permanently removed from the South Carolina statehouse grounds.
  • (14) The genus Parasecia Loomis, 1966, is redefined, and Parasecia bulbocalcar Goff is described as new from specimens collected off a Yellow-shouldered Bat, Sturnia ludovici Anthony, taken in Morelos, Mexico.
  • (15) Misrepresenting these facts only makes our job harder.” Trump’s answer to the increase in violence in a few cities is the wrong one, said Phillip Atiba Goff , a leading researcher on racial bias in policing and the president of the Center for Policing Equity .
  • (16) Methods for demonstrating antibody to wart virus by complement fixation and passive haemagglutination tests are described and compared with the precipitin test of Almeida & Goffe (1965).
  • (17) Here's the FT's Sharlene Goff: Sharlene Goff (@SharleneGoff) John Mann loses it with Andrew Tyrie, CM of TSC..."You're out of order with your questioning and you're out of order with your chairing."
  • (18) In fact, the only time Dornan has been able to stop the tethering in 11 months of relentless filming has been playing Abe Goffe in Peter Flannery's Restoration drama, New Worlds .
  • (19) Precise values for water vapor pressure in saturated systems may be computed using the Goff-Gratch equation.
  • (20) Surprisingly, however, an open reading frame encoded within the approximately 3.6-kb PstI fragment had a sequence identical to that of ELFT, an alpha(1,3)-Fuc-T previously reported to confer ELAM-1 binding on a previously reported to confer ELAM-1 binding on a CHO transfectant (Goelz, S. E., Hession, C., Goff, D., Griffiths, B., Tizard, R., Newman, B., Chi-Rosso, G., and Lobb, R., (1990) Cell 63, 1349-1356).

Golf


Definition:

  • (n.) A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Sports Network broadcasts live NHL, Nascar, golf and horse racing – having also recently purchased the rights for Formula One – and will show 154 of the 196 games that NBC will cover.
  • (2) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
  • (3) This is what we hope is the best golf tournament in the world, one of the greatest sporting events, and I think we will have a very impressive audience and have another great champion to crown this year."
  • (4) "My great ambition is to be president of a golf club where I am playing," he teased .
  • (5) Two field experiments are reported in which highly skilled miniature golf players varying in age were examined during training and competition (Swedish championships).
  • (6) Families picnic between games of crazy golf or volleyball, bathers brave the shallows, children splash in the saltwater lido.
  • (7) Donald Trump refuses to release birth certificate and passport records Read more Firing back at Univision for its refusal to air his Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants , the outspoken mogul and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has barred anyone who works for Univision from the greens of his Miami golf course.
  • (8) Golf is a different sport from all others discussed in this issue in one important aspect: Almost all of its practitioners play more, rather than less, as they mature.
  • (9) The cars are VW Golfs and all I have to do is turn up with my smart card, get in and drive off.
  • (10) The Maharajas once had private hunting grounds; now executives have golf courses.
  • (11) The transition temperature has been determined at 38 degrees C for 'Rosa Krone' and at 40 degrees C for the variety 'Golf'.
  • (12) That we're about to embark on such a spectacle is a gift, considering that the defending Stanley Cup champs from Chicago looked destined for the golf course just days ago.
  • (13) Read more The FEC forms count any asset worth more than $50m as the same – and Trump has close to two dozen of those, including his Scottish golf course and the Mar-A-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
  • (14) Three field experiments are reported in which skilled miniature golf players varying in age were studied in three types of activities: training, minor competitions, and large competitions.
  • (15) Obama and his family vacation every August on Martha’s Vineyard, and he has spent most of this year’s trip on the golf course, at the beach and dining at the island’s upscale restaurants.
  • (16) They are bringing drugs, and bringing crime, and their rapists.” Responses included official condemnation, the withdrawal by TV network Univision from Trump’s Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants , a golf course ban and the creation in Mexico of a Donald Trump piñata .
  • (17) He doesn’t want to get together and make laws because that’s too much work and he wants to get back to playing golf,” Trump said at the time.
  • (18) Golf balls, bottles, fireworks, umbrellas and even cast iron rain gutter was thrown at republicans marching along Royal Avenue.
  • (19) 8.53pm BST "I'm surprised 'table management' hasn't bled across from golf's 'course management'", volunteers Gary Naylor.
  • (20) Suharto, meanwhile, claimed to spend his time fishing, playing golf and getting closer to God.

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