What's the difference between loo and privy?

Loo


Definition:

  • (n.) An old game played with five, or three, cards dealt to each player from a full pack. When five cards are used the highest card is the knave of clubs or (if so agreed upon) the knave of trumps; -- formerly called lanterloo.
  • (n.) A modification of the game of "all fours" in which the players replenish their hands after each round by drawing each a card from the pack.
  • (v. t.) To beat in the game of loo by winning every trick.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is basically a large tank (the bigger the better) that collects rain from the house guttering and pumps it into the home, to be used for flushing the loo.
  • (2) Analysis of data obtained after oral administration of the drug by the Loo-Riegelman method showed that the pindolol absorption kinetic was non-linear.
  • (3) Composting loos should be the answer to the world's toilet crisis Read more The water and sanitation target is simple and unambiguous: by 2030 every man, woman and child – whether at home, school, hospital or their workplace – should have access to a safe water supply and be able to go to the toilet in a clean space with privacy.
  • (4) The normal cytoarchitectonic pattern of barrels in layer IV of mouse SmI face cortex is altered by early damage to the mystacial vibrissae (Van der Loos and Woolsey, '73).
  • (5) Unlike my little brother, who used to store his peas in his cheeks like a hamster – he would then ask to be allowed to go to the loo where he would spit and flush – I always liked vegetables as a child (and yes, I know that, technically, avocado is a fruit; but its savoury qualities are such that I am going to count it, in this instance, as a vegetable).
  • (6) Envirolet offers a basic model from ¤1,175 (£1,040) plus €149 shipping, while its FlushSmart system, which looks like a normal loo, costs €2,900, plus shipping, and uses some electricity to process the waste.
  • (7) "But this year was the first time there was a line for the ladies' loos.
  • (8) I picked the strawberries growing up the side of my compost loo for breakfast; physalis and ferns were growing inside my shower; I snacked on pitanga, a delicious sweet-sour berry.
  • (9) I would be flabbergasted that if anyone bothered to test the loos of some of our most uptight rightwing papers they didn't find some traces of Class A drugs.
  • (10) Rebecca Loos would be a fine example of a story; Clifford looked after her for six months following her alleged affair with David Beckham.
  • (11) "I only had one unpleasant experience, when I was stupid enough to pick up someone in a loo at Piccadilly.
  • (12) The randomness of the impregnation of layer IV cortical neurons by the Golgi-Cox method (Van der Loos, '56) has been assessed directly in Barrel C-1 of the mouse SmI.
  • (13) By contrast, the elegant experiments of Woolsey, Van der Loos, and collaborators (Van der Loos, H., and T. A. Woolsey.
  • (14) "When you needed the loo, it wasn't that great but it was worth it – it's the best thing I've ever seen at Glastonbury."
  • (15) If you have ever been on "close obs" yourself, you will know that the particular skills and attitude of the people tasked with tailing you 24 hours a day – sitting by your bed while you sleep (or don't), following you when you go to the loo, taking you out for a cigarette – will make the most enormous difference to your experience as a patient.
  • (16) The absorption profile of the various oral formulations was analysed pharmacokinetically, using the Loo-Riegelman procedure.
  • (17) followed by protonation of LOO- and dimerization of the DDC.
  • (18) The absorption kinetics after the buccal treatment were evaluated using the Exact Loo-Riegelman Method (ELRM).
  • (19) No, flying toilets are the outcome of people forced to go to the loo in a bag before throwing it into the streets because no better option exists.
  • (20) Clifford – who has made millions looking after clients as varied as Frank Sinatra, Freddie Starr, Jade Goody, Rebecca Loos and Kerry Katona – argued that there needs to be a clear "halfway house" between protecting privacy and freedom of speech, and newspapers should be forced to justify publishing stories about people's personal lives.

Privy


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to some person exclusively; assigned to private uses; not public; private; as, the privy purse.
  • (a.) Secret; clandestine.
  • (a.) Appropriated to retirement; private; not open to the public.
  • (a.) Admitted to knowledge of a secret transaction; secretly cognizant; privately knowing.
  • (n.) A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished from party.
  • (n.) A necessary house or place; a backhouse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He or she is privy to all facets of care that are being administered to the patient.
  • (2) A system for detecting such cases was established through liaison with other hospital peer review committees or any physician or nurse who was privy to specific information and willing to submit it in writing.
  • (3) He privately told the privy counsellors' committee of inquiry set up to review the events leading up to the invasion: "If I may be very frank and rather rude, you had to keep the ball in the air with the Argentines.
  • (4) I can therefore tell all members of this house that the cross-party charter will be on the agenda at a specially convened meeting of the privy council on 30 October.
  • (5) The use of self-topping aqua privies, discharging through sewers to oxidation ponds, has made possible the economic installation of water-carriage systems of waste disposal in low-cost high-density housing areas.In the oxidation ponds, typhoid bacteria appear to be more resistant than indicator organisms; helminths, cysts and ova settle out; there are no snails and, if peripheral vegetation is removed, mosquitos will not breed.
  • (6) The privy council’s antiquated oath, which is supposed to remain secret, also requires members to promise “not (to) know or understand of any manner of thing to be attempted, done, or spoken against Her Majesty’s person, honour, crown, or dignity royal”.
  • (7) They were challenged by Democratic senator Ron Wyden who, as a member of the committee, has for years been privy to classified briefings that he cannot discuss in public.
  • (8) Under the agreement, the royal charter must be granted by the Privy Council which meets on 8 May and then sealed by the Queen.
  • (9) Asked about the invitation, Cameron’s official spokesman would only say that the prime minister had been clear in public that all privy counsellors were entitled to security briefings if they asked for them.
  • (10) "So why are the government rushing it through to the privy council, which they control through the cabinet?
  • (11) "Creating some sort of privy power seems quite an interesting alternative to Leveson's recommendations for statue, which we oppose," said Cooper.
  • (12) The privy council only provides the flummery which camouflages their autocracy.
  • (13) Not being privy to the processing and presentation of SPZ Ag, we postulated that a different order of processing of the authentic, i.e., SPZ-associated CS protein vs soluble rCS protein might be responsible for the generation of different T cell specificities.
  • (14) Today, the privy council is headed by Nick Clegg and is made up of all cabinet ministers and a number of junior ministers.
  • (15) I believe in having all the information, as much of it as I possibly can, rather than making a decision or statement about whether I totally agree or disagree when I wasn't privy to the situation."
  • (16) He was also considering a new bill which would ensure the charter could not be changed by the Privy Council and could only be changed by a "super majority" – perhaps two thirds – vote in the Lords and the Commons.
  • (17) There is the scope for members of the national security council, privy councillors, to ask questions and the like to better understand the work that the agencies do.
  • (18) But Ashworth said the public deserved answers, "given that Mr Rock had a senior role at the heart of government and was privy to the most sensitive information".
  • (19) Speaking to journalists at a Broadcasting Press Guild lunch in London, Whittingdale said: "There is a real possibility that the Queen or privy council will refuse to recommend any royal charter when there is disagreement between the parties or disagreement between the government and industry.
  • (20) During the time of the Norman kings the privy council was the main body which governed Britain, fulfilling the kind of role that cabinet performs today.

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