What's the difference between goober and simple?

Goober


Definition:

  • (n.) A peanut.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His regular punching bags get patented nicknames: Lindsey Graham is “goober”, John McCain is “John McPain”, and he once called Mitch McConnell “ The Benedict Arnold of the US Senate ”.
  • (2) "Playing drums feels like coming home for me," says White, whose last booking as a drummer was with the bluegrass outfit Goober and the Peas, aged 19.

Simple


Definition:

  • (a.) Single; not complex; not infolded or entangled; uncombined; not compounded; not blended with something else; not complicated; as, a simple substance; a simple idea; a simple sound; a simple machine; a simple problem; simple tasks.
  • (a.) Plain; unadorned; as, simple dress.
  • (a.) Mere; not other than; being only.
  • (a.) Not given to artifice, stratagem, or duplicity; undesigning; sincere; true.
  • (a.) Artless in manner; unaffected; unconstrained; natural; inartificial;; straightforward.
  • (a.) Direct; clear; intelligible; not abstruse or enigmatical; as, a simple statement; simple language.
  • (a.) Weak in intellect; not wise or sagacious; of but moderate understanding or attainments; hence, foolish; silly.
  • (a.) Not luxurious; without much variety; plain; as, a simple diet; a simple way of living.
  • (a.) Humble; lowly; undistinguished.
  • (a.) Without subdivisions; entire; as, a simple stem; a simple leaf.
  • (a.) Not capable of being decomposed into anything more simple or ultimate by any means at present known; elementary; thus, atoms are regarded as simple bodies. Cf. Ultimate, a.
  • (a.) Homogenous.
  • (a.) Consisting of a single individual or zooid; as, a simple ascidian; -- opposed to compound.
  • (a.) Something not mixed or compounded.
  • (a.) A medicinal plant; -- so called because each vegetable was supposed to possess its particular virtue, and therefore to constitute a simple remedy.
  • (a.) A drawloom.
  • (a.) A part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
  • (a.) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
  • (v. i.) To gather simples, or medicinal plants.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The accumulation of lipids and enzymes such as simple estarase, lipase, beta-HDH, alpha-GDH and NADPH-reductase in those areas, suggests that lipids are not a simple excretory product.
  • (2) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
  • (3) A new and simple method of serotyping campylobacters has been developed which utilises co-agglutination to detect the presence of heat-stable antigens.
  • (4) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
  • (5) Blatter requires a two-thirds majority of the 209 voters to triumph in the opening round, with a simple majority required if it goes to a second round.
  • (6) Each profile is described by a simple sequence of band transitions (BT-sequence).
  • (7) A simple method for ultrarapid freezing of cell cultures in monolayers was developed.
  • (8) A simple method of selective catheterization of the superficial femoral artery (SFA) following antegrade puncture of the common femoral artery is described.
  • (9) Although the relative contributions of different fuels varies greatly in different organisms, in none is there a simple reliance on stored ATP.
  • (10) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
  • (11) The method of sonicating L3 and Mf fragment antigens used in this study is simple, and its results are easy to observe.
  • (12) Simple cells that are nearly equally dominated by each eye always exhibit strong phase-specific interaction.
  • (13) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
  • (14) When cultures were pulse labeled for 15 min and then incubated under chase conditions for 105 min, the amount of degraded collagen attained a value equal to approximately 20% of the amount synthesized during the labeling period; the data were fit with a simple exponential function that had a 40-min rise time and a 12-min lag time.
  • (15) Treatment was monitored by simple measurements, and it's toxicity proved to be scanty.
  • (16) The presence of a previously unreported dipeptide transport mechanism within blood leukocytes and the selective enrichment of the granule enzyme, DPPI, within cytotoxic effector cells of lymphoid or myeloid lineage appear to afford a unique mechanism for the targeting of immunotherapeutic reagents composed of simple dipeptide esters or amides.
  • (17) The design of a simple dynamic knee simulator is described.
  • (18) Simple interconversion cannot account for the changes in binding that occur upon adding GMP-PNP or removing magnesium, since the increase in [R2]t exceeds the decrease in [R1]t. Moreover, the apparent amount of high-affinity complex exhibits a biphasic dependence on the concentration of [3H]histamine; an increase at low concentrations is offset by a decrease that occurs at higher concentrations.
  • (19) A rapid and simple method has been developed for the nondestructive distinction between aflatoxin B1 and the feed antioxidant, ethoxyquin.
  • (20) The stimuli were two simple tones in experiment 1 and two tonal complexes in both experiments 2 and 3.

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