What's the difference between hooting and looting?

Hooting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hoot

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Just a whisper between us, its about time some of the old guard got a hoot under their perch.
  • (2) Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the first minister accused Cameron of not caring "two hoots about the NHS in Wales" and using it to make political points.
  • (3) You couldn’t make it up, could you?” He hoots with derisive laughter.
  • (4) Lawrence, according to Foster, is variously "ballsy", "a spritely tomboy", "a hoot" and "a gem with a killer stare".
  • (5) In the meantime, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are awash with people forwarding the information, sharing links to foreign websites, expressing opinions – and utterly ignoring those who are making pathetic attempts to turn back the clock to a time before WikiLeaks, and before bloggers who don't give two hoots about the censor."
  • (6) But not one female Galloway voter I spoke to in Bradford this week seemed to give two hoots about what he gets up to in his private life.
  • (7) Quite splendidly, she shows no sign of giving a hoot.
  • (8) There is almost no question that doesn't earn a wail or a hoot.
  • (9) The Labour leader even forgot to mention the deficit in his conference speech , the Conservatives will hoot – tax cuts at the ready – so Labour can’t be trusted with the nation’s finances.
  • (10) Then, he took me to task for things other people had told me about him, hooting uproariously at the notion that any of them was in a position to talk about him.
  • (11) Purves said she was not upset with the Telegraph and would not want to censor anybody, adding that Marchessini is a "hoot" who writes her endless rude letters.
  • (12) He talks about "helping people now while putting public finances on track for the future" and "providing support and protection to families and businesses when they need it most", but a reference to "living within our means" sparks hooting from the Tories.
  • (13) But Fleur is also a novelist, and one day her manuscript of Warrender Chase goes missing ... Sir Quentin's selectively incontinent aged mother is an unforgettable creation; Fleur herself (whose resilient refrain is "I went on my way, rejoicing") is a hoot.
  • (14) Be Free and Chatpot are delightful rhythm games on delicate sax motifs, distant hoots and synthesised vocals, set against Seb Rochford’s clappy drum grooves or soft clatters; the snappy rimshots and lazy tenor-shruggings of They’re All Ks and Qs Lucien are irresistible all the way to their finale.” What they said: “I wanted for there to be a strong rhythmic drive that propels it, and then sometimes for there to be the feeling of pure space.” – Tom Herbert.
  • (15) Questions concerning which coach had meant most to Smith was hooted off court by all except the conscientious interpreters, who went through question and formal reply in all three languages.
  • (16) I don’t want to get strong, but I want to be definitive about that.” “The recommendation was made by people who didn’t give a hoot about politics,” added Comey.
  • (17) You may find bitterns making their basso profundo hoot, or you could see otters, dragonflies and adders.
  • (18) she hoots at her gulping husband, woggle quivering with horror.
  • (19) Meanwhile, Howard Shapiro of the Philadelphia Inquirer writes "One Man, Two Guvnors is the hoot of the season" .
  • (20) We know that some Lib Dem backbenchers will defy whatever instructions they are given and vote against, but if the frontbench are voting with the government, then it doesn't matter a hoot how many of their backbenchers defy the whips.

Looting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Loot

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
  • (2) There were numerous reports of looting and tampering with evidence, although rebel authorities angrily denied them.
  • (3) Photograph: Polish Government Despite his clear-eyed approach to the looted artworks, Wächter maintains that his father was an unwilling cog in the Nazi killing machine, a position that has won him many critics.
  • (4) This might be because they have not been paid and are motivated by a desire to loot, as well as to settle old and new scores with the opposing force.
  • (5) We want the painting back, with the admission that it was looted art,” he said.
  • (6) Ursula Nevin, 24, of Stretford, slept through the riots, but was jailed for five months after admitting handling stolen goods looted by her lodger.
  • (7) The primary need of the people is not western-style educational patronage, but an end to the arms trade and multinational looting of resources.
  • (8) Neither do we accept the owner could not have known it was looted.
  • (9) They just hear bullets and are on the loose running anywhere, looting, raping and doing anything.
  • (10) 'A n excessive sense of entitlement" was what the mayor of London ascribed to those looting their way across our sceptred isle – but he could have been referring to himself.
  • (11) They were looting, not shoplifting, and challenging the police for control of the streets, not stealing [policemen’s] hubcaps.
  • (12) And while large stores were targeted, some smaller shops had not escaped the looting.
  • (13) Parts of the town have been burnt, our facilities were completely looted, but people are coming back and are not afraid any more.
  • (14) Fred Abrahams of Human Rights Watch, who is in Tripoli, said anti-tank missiles were among weapons looted by Libyans before anti-Gaddafi militias overran western towns.
  • (15) On Wednesday the town of Mubi, home to Adamawa State University, was overrun by Boko Haram insurgents and Nigerian soldiers fled, leaving its barracks to be looted of weapons.
  • (16) Photograph: Dr Oetker “This is an outstanding example of a private company doing the right thing with regards to Nazi-looted art and sets a standard of best practice in this field,” he said.
  • (17) Belgium was arguably the cruellest of all colonisers, the dictator Mobutu Sese Seko looted the nation's wealth for 32 years, then a civil war sparked by genocide in neighbouring Rwanda left more than 4 million people dead and brought about the biggest peacekeeping operation in UN history.
  • (18) The judge said – in a written ruling – that the Sony distribution warehouse had been destroyed and looted shortly before midnight on 8 August 2011 during "the widespread civil disorder and rioting which took place in London and elsewhere" after a man was shot and killed by police in Tottenham, north London.
  • (19) The looted art trove may help to shed light on one of the more obscure chapters in Nazi Germany's history.
  • (20) Saunders also attacked a branch of Tesco with a shovel and handed out looted property to other rioters.