What's the difference between hurry and scoot?

Hurry


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
  • (v. t.) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
  • (v. t.) To cause to be done quickly.
  • (v. i.) To move or act with haste; to proceed with celerity or precipitation; as, let us hurry.
  • (n.) The act of hurrying in motion or business; pressure; urgency; bustle; confusion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And while teaching unions wanted him to slow down, they totally missed the point – all the hurry and the change and the disruption were intentional.
  • (2) Sometimes the person who is going to die will appear to be angry and quite bossy, and tell me to hurry up, but I know it is not how they are feeling inside," she says.
  • (3) Kevin Rudd's election campaign in 2007 was dubbed "hurry up and wait" by some wags.
  • (4) Cardiff City waited 51 years for this day but it turned out to be one they would rather forget in a hurry.
  • (5) Home is his other haven, but so hurried was his departure, he did not have time to bring anything with him.
  • (6) Inflation rises, but we should still fear deflation Read more Sharply lower oil prices are set to keep a lid on inflation, leaving the UK central bank in no hurry to raise rates above 0.5% , where they have remained for nearly seven years.
  • (7) The French said they were in no hurry to reach a deal, indicating that the summit could collapse in failure over the next 48 hours.
  • (8) It reminded me to look at the sky, absorb the air, and listen to the wind that bristles as it hurries by.
  • (9) But, in a hurry as ever, his eye had wandered beyond the Arno to an altogether different place: the headquarters of the PD.
  • (10) And still an estimated 42,000-50,000 refugees across Germany are being housed in the tent cities that were erected hurriedly over the summer and autumn.
  • (11) Why would any loving parent be in a hurry to rob their child of such potent relief?
  • (12) Spicer, who so viciously attacked the press on Saturday, had to hurriedly walk back the comments of his boss when Trump, during an interview with the Washington Post before the inauguration, promised “insurance for everybody”.
  • (13) The brief said: "It is unsatisfactory that personal and constitutional questions of such high importance should still depend on the operation of an 18th-century statute which was admittedly passed hurriedly, and in the face of considerable opposition, to deal with an ad hoc situation created largely by the unsatisfactory conduct of King George III's brothers."
  • (14) Racism has been normalised in Sweden, it’s become okay to say the N-word,” she says, recounting how a man on the subway used the racial slur while shouting and telling her to hurry up.
  • (15) The US Congress has made attempts, passing several stimulus measures, but almost all were hurried and ill thought-out.
  • (16) He stumps at the dump on Sundays, Woodmansee explained – not on Saturdays or Wednesdays – because “they have a cup of coffee in their car, they’re not in a hurry and willing to talk about Trump”.
  • (17) "The problem won't be solved unless you let them hurry up and die."
  • (18) I seesaw-grunted out of bed at 8.30am and had a bird bath, soaping mainly the naughty bits, for I was in a hurry that Wednesday: it was the day I filed my Observer TV review.
  • (19) Crunching their way gingerly along pavements scattered with de-icing salt, they hurried from shop to shop – young mothers wheeling pushchairs, older women leaning heavily on shopping trolleys, men trudging alongside their partners, laden with carrier bags.
  • (20) The Nobel prize has a cachet that will not be surpassed in a hurry.

Scoot


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To walk fast; to go quickly; to run hastily away.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The resulting corner is dealt with easily by Real, who scoot upfield through Di Maria.
  • (2) During catalysis in the scooting mode the enzyme does not leave the surface of the vesicle to which it is bound.
  • (3) Similarly, anomalous kinetic effects of the thermotropic gel-fluid phase transition or of a change in the general disorder of the bilayer organization (fluidity) has a minor effect on the kinetics of hydrolysis in the scooting mode.
  • (4) Updated at 4.44pm BST 4.39pm BST Second set: Djokovic 4-6, 4-2 Nadal* (*denotes server) After much head-shaking, Djokovic nails a forehand, before drawing Nadal to the net with a drop-shot, Nadal scooting to the backhand wing and force-scooping a winner crosscourt.
  • (5) I'm going to scoot off now -- my colleague Nick Fletcher will see you home :).
  • (6) 27 min: Park Chung-yong attempts to break down the right, but falls over just as he's nearly scooting past Fucile.
  • (7) Its occurrence is most probably related to the new "scoot foot" or "sitting back" technique in downhill skiing.
  • (8) It was shown that the hydrolysis of these mixed lipid vesicles occurs in the scooting mode in which the enzyme remains tightly bound to the interface and only the substrate molecules present on the outer monolayer of the target vesicle became hydrolyzed Thus the phenomenon of scooting mode hydrolysis was not restricted to the action of PLA2 on vesicles of pure anionic phospholipids, but it was also observed with vesicles of zwitterionic lipids as long as a critical amount of anionic compound was present.
  • (9) I hire a bike and scoot around the city as if I live there.
  • (10) A keen skier, the president attended its 2006 launch, where he was filmed scooting along the snow.
  • (11) The kinetic data of P. glumae lipase have been analyzed in terms of the scooting and hopping models for the action of lipolytic enzymes [Upreti, G.C., & Jain, M.K.
  • (12) Interfacial catalysis in the scooting mode with a high processivity occurs on vesicles of anionic phospholipids, and under these conditions the dynamics and order of the substrate in the interface influences the catalytic turnover only moderately, i.e., about 2- to 10-fold.
  • (13) The couple seemed to enjoy their scoot around the show, with the Queen asking what one work by the New York collective Bernadette Corporation was.
  • (14) Furthermore, relative to native enzymes, manoalogue-modified enzymes retained significantly higher catalytic activities when acting on water-soluble substrates than when acting on vesicles in the scooting mode.
  • (15) The interfacial turnover rate constant for scooting kinetics, ki, for the various phospholipids were from less than 0.1 to 1 per min.
  • (16) Messi skidaddles down the middle, shifts the ball a tad left to scoot past Schweinsteiger, and Lampards it at goal.
  • (17) This rigorous description of interfacial catalysis was made experimentally possible by examining the action of PLA2 in the scooting mode under conditions of at most one enzyme per vesicle, where it hydrolyzed all of the substrate in the outer monolayer of vesicles without leaving the surface.
  • (18) This difficulty can be overcome by monitoring interfacial catalysis in the scooting mode where the enzyme does not leave the interface.
  • (19) Then scoot over for a look at the many marvellous recipes in his New Vegetarian column .
  • (20) Acta 860, 435-447), hydrolysis of anionic vesicles occurs by interfacial catalysis in the scooting mode, i.e., the catalytic turnover is fast relative to the off-rate of the enzyme from the interface.

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