What's the difference between goo and slippery?

Goo


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The 64 patients who remained at risk for GOO are the subject of this report.
  • (2) This review was undertaken to determine whether there are specific factors which predict the development of gastric outlet obstruction (GOO) in patients with pancreatic carcinoma.
  • (3) Twenty-three percent of the 17 patients with GOO complicating CGD described in the literature were found to present with GOO before any other clinical manifestations of CGD.
  • (4) "'It was all whirlwind, heat and flash'," he adds, quoting a line from Sonic Youth's Goo sleeve.
  • (5) You can structure your sweet eating so that every mouthful contains cloying pink goo.
  • (6) We stepped back into the cab and he offered me the container of thick herbal goo, with an enamel straw.
  • (7) Ang, a thoughtful man though prone to the occasional attack of the giggles, usually brought on by Goo Kha Tauko is our guide.
  • (8) 8.49pm BST Goo is being piped in zigzag patterns which can only mean we're on the final straight.
  • (9) The team at Rochester discovered that the presence of the "goo" enabled a gene identified in an earlier study to activate, causing cancer cells effectively to self-destruct and tumours never to form.
  • (10) After supper we play cards – Shithead, Goo Kha Tauko in Nepali – with the Sherpas until it's too cold not to be zipped up in a down sleeping bag.
  • (11) The indie games scene grew; fostered by the inclusion of titles like Braid and World of Goo on mainstream consoles.
  • (12) These data indicate that accurate prediction of subsequent GOO is not possible based on available objective data.
  • (13) It’s as if Young were not some hilarious goo-goo gah-gah pastiche but actually the godfather of a new generational mindset.
  • (14) We will be taking requests throughout the trip, so tell us what you want to hear, and we'll put it up on our daily playlists - in the comments below, or @GuardianTravel , #TwiTrips 2.38pm BST Goo-oo-d mor-n-ing Chicago!
  • (15) Everyone's smiling and lazily stirring sticky goo in their milk pans while enjoying the presenter patter.
  • (16) The goo is a natural by-product of any attempt to grow naked mole rat cells in a Petri dish.
  • (17) The molecular structure of their HMW-HA is many times larger, and they are slower at recycling it, meaning that the hyaluronan "goo" builds up in a unique way, giving the naked mole rat the ability, among other things, as Faulkes says, of "almost turning a full somersault within its own skin".
  • (18) A patient was diagnosed with gastric outlet obstruction (GOO) 17 months after the neonatal diagnosis of chronic granulomatous disease (CGD).
  • (19) Exploding ammunition such as the Israeli Frag 12 can cause even more fearsome wounds - Amnesty nicknamed it "the hamburger weapon" because it could reduce targets to meat, gristle, testicle, brain and goo.
  • (20) Seven of those patients developed GOO in the postoperative period and were compared with the 57 who did not.

Slippery


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the quality opposite to adhesiveness; allowing or causing anything to slip or move smoothly, rapidly, and easily upon the surface; smooth; glib; as, oily substances render things slippery.
  • (a.) Not affording firm ground for confidence; as, a slippery promise.
  • (a.) Not easily held; liable or apt to slip away.
  • (a.) Liable to slip; not standing firm.
  • (a.) Unstable; changeable; mutable; uncertain; inconstant; fickle.
  • (a.) Uncertain in effect.
  • (a.) Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We should be grateful the School Food Trust has established this now, before we end up falling down a slippery slope back towards the dreaded Turkey Twizzler that Jamie Oliver campaigned to banish," he added.
  • (2) Confronted on that slipperiness in an interview this morning with Bloomberg, Ryan said ending special-interest tax breaks would make up for lost revenue, and that the Tax Policy Center study did not take economic growth effects into account.
  • (3) In association with the watery amniotic fluid of llamas, the epidermal membrane is slippery, facilitating delivery of the fetus.
  • (4) That formula goes: “Now is not the time.” This is another of those May constructions that superficially sound definitive, but are really quite slippery.
  • (5) I would favour it, others wouldn't, but it's a new discussion on another law, not a slippery slide.
  • (6) At this point, it is clear we are standing on a slippery slope,” he said, adding that fresh lethal attacks could “release violent energies that the two sides have generally managed to keep on a low flame over the past decade”.
  • (7) It is shown that the size of the slippery context effect depends on the frequency difference between the tones: Small frequency differences (less than a critical bandwidth) produced essentially no slippery effect; much larger differences produced substantial effects.
  • (8) These led to the formation of rapid slippery and thready pulse.
  • (9) ); greases up to wealth and power and lets the poor go to hell; he is ruthless, mendacious, slippery and shameless.
  • (10) Effectively, we are on a slippery slope now, and ignoring this problem won't make it go away.
  • (11) Analysis of the "slippery site" suggests that a low probability of unpairing of the aminoacyl-tRNA from the 0-frame codon at the ribosomal A site reduces the efficiency of frameshifting more than the reluctance of a given tRNA to have its wobble base mispaired.
  • (12) Even the ones who you think are American are probably Canadian.” In its profile of Whishaw, the New York Times noted how, as an actor, he rejects the idea of type and has a “slippery way of inhabiting heroes and antiheroes alike, of seducing women and men on screen and on stage with equal ease”.
  • (13) The crew tried pulling the exhausted survivors aboard, but they were naked and their arms and legs covered in slippery diesel.
  • (14) Interestingly, honest individuals were initially shielded from taking antisocial decisions – but, with time, even they slid down the slippery, corrupting slope of power.
  • (15) All that slippery chocolate makes it almost impossible for them to stand erect under the studio lights.
  • (16) How Spurs craved someone similarly streetwise 7 Tottenham Hotspur Hugo Lloris Wrongfooted by deflections for both Chelsea goals, with the reality he did well to deny Cahill and Fàbregas scant consolation 6 Kyle Walker Eager to push on down the flank but exposed by Hazard’s slippery running and not tight enough to Costa at Chelsea’s second 5 Chelsea old guard triumph but Spurs academy talent point to future | David Hytner Read more Eric Dier Riled by Costa from the moment they clashed five minutes in.
  • (17) Such as: “Ted Cruz sent shockwaves through the Republican Party today when he announced he would endorse Donald Trump for President, but only if the GOP nominee would publicly support a ban on masturbation , (saying) without ‘swift action … the country was doomed to slide down a slippery slope of debauchery and self-satisfaction’.” Snopes sourced this to a site that mimicked ABC News to lure clicks to an underlying malware site, generating advertising revenue.
  • (18) Or they have settled for grilling him as a way of getting at the slippery Cameron.
  • (19) Weidmann sees this as playing politics – unwarranted, dangerous, the slippery slope.
  • (20) The continued development of smaller deflated balloon profiles with slippery surfaces and better power transmission characteristics will undoubtedly make the vigorous techniques mentioned above less necessary to master in the future.

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