What's the difference between loos and loot?

Loos


Definition:

  • (n.) Praise; fame; reputation.

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.

Loot


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of plundering.
  • (n.) Plunder; booty; especially, the boot taken in a conquered or sacked city.
  • (v. t. & i.) To plunder; to carry off as plunder or a prize lawfully obtained by war.

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.

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