What's the difference between jockey and woo?

Jockey


Definition:

  • (n.) A professional rider of horses in races.
  • (n.) A dealer in horses; a horse trader.
  • (n.) A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.
  • (v. t.) " To jostle by riding against one."
  • (v. t.) To play the jockey toward; to cheat; to trick; to impose upon in trade; as, to jockey a customer.
  • (v. i.) To play or act the jockey; to cheat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As demonstrated here, a 2.23 kb DNA fragment from the region of jockey encoding the putative reverse transcriptase was stably introduced into an expression system under inducible control of the Escherichia coli lac regulatory elements.
  • (2) The extent of suppression increases, depending on the orientation of the jockey in mdg4 up to the point, when su(Hw) alleles known as recessive become semi-dominant.
  • (3) All mutations containing mdg4 with the jockey (ctMRpN) are suppressed by a classic suppressor su(Hw)2 and two new alleles obtained in this work.
  • (4) And what does this continual jockeying over the leadership – which is not restricted to the ALP or federal politics – say about the wider Australian political landscape?
  • (5) At 39, McCoy is long past the sort of age at which most jump jockeys retire.
  • (6) The panel has also prompted fierce behind-the-scenes jockeying between the NSA and its critics surrounding the scope of its highest-profile recommendation : ending the NSA’s collection of data on every phone call made in the United States.
  • (7) The existence of a large number of jockey copies with a deletion in the second frame may indicate that they can use reverse transcriptase in trans.
  • (8) Outside the D. melanogaster group jockey was detected only in the distantly related species Drosophila funebris.
  • (9) The jockey polymerase demonstrates RNA-directed and DNA-directed DNA polymerase activities, but lacks detectable RNase H, has a temperature optimum at 26 degrees C, requires Mg2+ or Mn2+ as a cofactor and is inactivated by sulfhydryl reagent.
  • (10) As seen from in situ hybridization analysis, transitions to the normal phenotype correlate, as a rule, with the excision of mdg4 and the jockey from the cut locus.
  • (11) After a period on Radio Luxembourg he was offered the freelance job of disc jockey on the radio programme Housewives' Choice, on which Jacobs had to play record requests and punctuate them with anodyne chat.
  • (12) Vinterberg's version stars Carey Mulligan as headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, while Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge and Matthias Schoenarts play the contrasting suitors who jockey for her attention.
  • (13) Some analysts suspect political players have deliberately leaked information amid the jockeying for position; and that details – such as a claim that the two young women were wholly or semi-naked – may have been embellished for maximum damage.
  • (14) Satellite trucks sprouted around the square, and television reporters lined up, jockeying for position with their backs to the flag.
  • (15) Republicans were in the grip of an intense power battle on Wednesday as rival factions in in the House of Representatives, which the party controls, jockeyed to replace the outgoing majority leader Eric Cantor.
  • (16) And not like any of this BS remote-controlled bombing where we only admit to it two weeks later, after photos surface of some remote-control jockey from the 38th Chairborne precision-striking a Yemeni funeral.
  • (17) But the Brits announcement has not come in isolation; it follows the collapse in the last two years of three dance music magazines (Muzik, Ministry and Jockey Slut), the news that London superclub Ministry of Sound's revenues have fallen by more than a third since 2001, and, most recently, the commercial failure of the latest albums from Britain's two biggest dance acts, Fatboy Slim and the Prodigy.
  • (18) Gavin Venter, a former jockey who worked for Steenkamp's father, said: "Without a doubt he's a danger to the public.
  • (19) The high degree of similarity between the D. melanogaster and the D. funebris jockey and the absence of jockey from other sibling species of the D. funebris group provide evidence for the horizontal transmission of jockey into D. funebris.
  • (20) In the past month the Tories and Labour have been jockeying for position over their commitment to creating more accessible online government services, broadband and also public access to non-personal government data, with the Tories saying they would introduce a "right to public data" bill to let people request and receive public datasets, publishing details of government contracts worth more than £25,000 online, encouraging use of free open-source software in government development, and encouraging telecoms companies to offer superfast broadband.

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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