What's the difference between golf and goof?

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.

Goof


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Seldom has he goofed around with more serious a purpose.
  • (2) This time it was Cherundolo who goofed, kicking air as a long ball flew through to Djebbour, who again lacked composure and plopped a ridiculous shot into the sidenetting.
  • (3) Five-year-old Raghat loved singing, nail polish, teasing her toddler sister, the alphabet she was starting to learn at nursery, and goofing for the camera.
  • (4) It's easy to forget, watching him talk, viewing old films, even seeing him goof about with a gaggle of kids in Fading Gigolo, that Allen is the product of pre-war New York.
  • (5) Kjaer goofed by passing straight to Kuyt, who quickly played in Van Persie.
  • (6) You know, it could be for some epic ride – attach it to the board, maybe, or just goofing off and doin' pranks, like, hey, there's a shopping cart, climb on in and we'll push ya down this steep hill and into that big bush, and film it!
  • (7) "When I was your age," Obama said, "I was a little bit of a goof-off.
  • (8) He also admitted: "When I was your age, I was a little bit of a goof-off.
  • (9) Days before the polls opened, the Tories tried to make hay by supplying the press with an exhaustive dossier of kerr-azy online goofs committed by Ukip candidates.
  • (10) The press officer concerned has apparently admitted: "Oops, I goofed, the president is mad with me."
  • (11) The aim of the present study was to investigate the accuracy of an electro-odontometric device "Odontometer" (Goof, Denmark) in the determination of the exact location of the apical constriction in root canals of extracted teeth in experimental conditions.
  • (12) In general, her inner experience was predominantly visual, and those images were frequently "goofed up", i.e., tilted, obliterated, or inaccurate in detail.
  • (13) I quaked and hoped and goofed through my teens, emerging into adulthood as someone who gave a good impression of being, if not exactly relaxed, then able to cope.
  • (14) It all started with an email chain This article from New York magazine explains how the seeds of BuzzFeed were sown with one email thread: In 2001, [founder Jonah] Peretti, then 27, was supposed to be writing his master’s thesis but instead diverted himself by goofing off online.
  • (15) So, again, the private sector stepped in when the NHS – and the government – had goofed.
  • (16) 9.11pm GMT 68 min: Neuru goofs, hitting a pass straight to Giroud, who tries to pick out Rosicky.
  • (17) Committed as ever to her cause, but I would imagine feeling somewhat defeated, tired, and pissed [off]”, while Abrams revealed: “There’s not much goofing around where Leia’s concerned.” Daisy Ridley’s Rey hasn’t seen her family since she was five years old We already knew that Rey was abandoned, but now there are a few extra details about her life on Jakku – described as a “junkyard planet” – that explain the character’s employment as a scavenger.
  • (18) Instead of saying I just goofed and have had no internal consistency I'm going to say I'm mixing things up like I'm a NBA coach.
  • (19) I was watching and I think he goofed the words in the second verse of Let Me Entertain You.
  • (20) "I think his job was so serious that he couldn't goof off.