What's the difference between goo and woo?

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.

Woo


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To solicit in love; to court.
  • (v. t.) To court solicitously; to invite with importunity.
  • (v. i.) To court; to make love.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The striking weakness of Clegg's thesis was what it left out in its attempt to carve out a position for restless party activists as their poll ratings dip (down to 14% according to ICM) as Miliband tones down his own anti-Lib Dem rhetoric to woo them.
  • (2) Apart from a few diehards, it will be hard to mourn the defeat in 2010 of a political party that lost its moral bearings in its bid to woo middle England, slavishly reflecting back what it believed this narrow constituency wanted to hear.
  • (3) The idea of cutting corporation tax was floated in the Sunday Express last month as a way of wooing banks considering leaving the UK because of an impending Brexit.
  • (4) Unless those at the bottom of the heap can represent themselves, and the inarticulate will not know how to woo judges, they will be outlaws.
  • (5) Konstantin Malofeev, a wealthy Russian oligarch, Putin-backer and extreme nationalist who has said Ukraine is an artificial creation, appears to be a central figure in the funding and wooing of Russian support in Europe.
  • (6) The recorded comments emerged on the eve of a general election in which the Tory party is attempting to woo Liberal voters and gain seats in the south currently held by the Liberal Democrats by proving it will be tougher on discrimination and embrace equality.
  • (7) Greene King wooed Spirit in an attempt to expand in London and south-east England, where people have more money to spend on drinking and eating out.
  • (8) A group of ex-miners appear to have been wooed by Osborne when he visited them ahead of a trip to the Thoresby colliery in Nottinghamshire earlier this month to announce the government would underwrite a fuel-benefit scheme.
  • (9) Nevertheless Spielberg “is currently trying to woo me to go over there to do films with DreamWorks”.
  • (10) The dinner was part of efforts to woo the then influential Fifa vice-president Jack Warner, who has since quit football in disgrace.
  • (11) This does not stop further attempts to merge with other Arab nations – Sudan and Egypt decline his wooing as well.
  • (12) But at least they won it, Kim Jung-woo causing mild havoc in the area with a free kick in from the right, Lugano forced to head behind.
  • (13) Bearing in mind that the beaus will be queuing round the block to woo Gigi, perhaps she should bite the bullet and think of the dosh.
  • (14) Using the “golden era” phrase coined by David Cameron and George Osborne in their attempts to woo the Chinese , May said on Thursday: “I am determined that as we leave the European Union, we build a truly global Britain that is open for business.
  • (15) The court ruled that Woolas's claim, in mocked-up newspapers, that Watkins had "wooed" Islamic extremists and failed to condemn radical groups attacks, was deliberately and knowingly misleading.
  • (16) Outcry The Business Birmingham team has been wooing politicians and business people at home and has sent international trade delegations to India, France and five cities across the US.
  • (17) Elwyn Watkins claimed that Woolas knowingly misled voters in Oldham East in a desperate bid to stir up religious tensions in the last days of the election by claiming Watkins had "wooed" Islamic extremists.
  • (18) Rommey's attempt to woo Hispanic voters was further damaged on Thursday with the emergence of a clip from a video of a Romney fundraiser in which he said that illegal immigrants generally "have no skill or experience".
  • (19) For Vona is here to woo the estimated 50,000 Hungarian expats living in the UK, more than half of whom live in London and the south-east of England.
  • (20) On the diplomatic front, Abe is busily wooing his Asian neighbours.

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