What's the difference between loup and lout?

Loup


Definition:

  • (n.) See 1st Loop.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The weight of a complete binocular prism loupe, including the frame, is from 100 to 110 grammes.
  • (2) With the capsid and membrane proteins, the degree of homology between louping ill and the western subtype was greater than that between the two subtypes, indicating very close evolutionary relationships between louping ill and the western subtype of tick-borne encephalitis.
  • (3) For superficial lesions located near eloquent areas, a 'centered' craniotomy is performed, usually under local anesthesia, and removal is performed using loupe magnification, bipolar coagulation ultrasonic aspiration of the Nd:YAG laser fiber in the contact or noncontact technique.
  • (4) To aid the partially sighted in writing on small areas, such as bank drafts, a clip-on eyeglass loupe (11 diopters, 3.5 inches, Bausch and Lomb) attached to a finepoint felt pen provides adequate vision.
  • (5) A magnifying loupe system has been evaluated for use in emergency medicine.
  • (6) A macroscopic technique was used by 9.5% of the responding urologists, loupes were used by 58.5% and an operating microscope by 32%.
  • (7) For the purpose of understanding the influence of the use of magnifying loupes on the reading process, the reading field is a relevant concept.
  • (8) Most difficulties in reading with a magnifier, especially finding the beginning of a new line, appear to result from the need to move the loupes horizontally in order to read the complete line of text.
  • (9) The Keplerian loupes allowed the physician to visualize the exquisite details of wound configuration and to perform wound closure using microsurgical techniques.
  • (10) Louping ill virus, a tick-borne arbovirus readily established a persistent infection in porcine kidney (PS) cells after initially inducing minor cytopathic changes.
  • (11) For the dermatologist a binocular loupe with magnification of 3X to 4X appears to be the most useful diagnostic magnifying device.
  • (12) Technique for the use of loupe or microscope magnification can also be developed.
  • (13) In this series, no loupe or operating microscope was used.
  • (14) Dissection of both vessels can be done with x2.5 ocular loupes.
  • (15) Seven arteries in 7 grafts were reconstructed with the use of loupe magnification in the Loupe group, while 8 arteries in 7 grafts were anastomosed with microscopic techniques in the Micro group.
  • (16) Nevertheless, it was possible to differentiate the Skalica strain from Langat, louping-ill and Omsk haemorrhagic fever (OHF) viruses by ELISA when monoclonal antibodies and antigens were diluted 1:10,000.
  • (17) Louping ill disease should not be forgotten in cases of unexplained encephalitis in those whose lifestyle exposes them to the virus.
  • (18) The procedure does not require the operating microscope and can be done under standard loupe (1.5 to 3.0 x) magnification.
  • (19) Its optic properties greatest possible distance from the work which can be varied with additional lenses, variable magnification even into the region of the smallest biomicroscopes with a relatively large angle of vision, good mobility with regard to the object of vision with unchanged adjustment, simultaneous possibility of using semispectacles for presbyopia and easy swinging of the instrument out of and into the line of vision with one hand movement make this instrument very appropriate for the reasons for which it was developed and makes possible also - especially in the surgery of injured eyes, exact observation and assessment of the eye and performance of operations where no operating microscope is present with much greater magnification as that obtained with a customary loupe.
  • (20) Sera of wild red deer from 16 localities in Scotland were tested by the indirect fluorescent antibody technique for antibody to Babesia and by the haemagglutination inhibition test for antibody to the virus of louping-ill. Babesial antibody was detected in sera from all localities in proportions ranging from 22 to 100 per cent.

Lout


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To bend; to box; to stoop.
  • (n.) A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin.
  • (v. t.) To treat as a lout or fool; to neglect; to disappoint.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gordon Brown's speech played deliberately and directly to the very real fears of many of those people, whether on drunken louts in the high street or teenage mums or financial insecurity, but the paper ignores all that and lands the blow it has been planning for months.
  • (2) After his meeting with De Villepin, Boubakeur launched a veiled attack on the minister's outbursts, in which he called the disaffected young men on estates 'louts'.
  • (3) Lager louts now have nine months' notice in which to lay in supplies.
  • (4) If in the past the 'louts' were forgotten, it looks like they could now be used as pawns by France's politicians.
  • (5) This was analysed in an equally masterful manner in Que La Bête Meure (The Beast Must Die, 1969) and Le Boucher, both featuring Yanne as, respectively, a nouveau-riche lout who kills a child in a hit-and-run accident, and an emotionally disturbed man who pays court to an equally lonely and repressed schoolmistress (Audran).
  • (6) A recurring encounter between a Muslim cabbie and a lager lout is also deftly played, particularly by Raymond, and surprising.
  • (7) It is clear that in many parts of the world constituted by Australian trade union officials, there is room for louts, thugs, bullies, thieves, perjurers, those who threaten violence, errant fiduciaries and organisers of boycotts,” it said.
  • (8) There he is confronted by a gang of Indian tea louts who - over-stimulated by the Assam - take offence at the honky Norman wearing an Indian cricket shirt and the flag painted on his pallid white face.
  • (9) Put this way, it is easy to imagine another life where the po-faced Islamist preacher Abu Waleed is a beer-swilling lout hurling abuse from the terraces of his underperforming team.
  • (10) The vandalism has simply taken a new turn in the last few days because they feel provoked by [Interior Minister] Nicolas Sarkozy's comments about "louts".
  • (11) Opening night film Café Society (Woody Allen, US) In competition The Salesman (Asghar Farhadi, Iran) Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, German) Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain) American Honey (Andrea Arnold, UK) Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, France) The Unknown Girl (Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Belgium) It’s Only the End of the World (Xavier Dolan, Canada) Ma Loute (Bruno Dumont, France) Paterson (Jim Jarmusch, US) Rester Vertical (Alain Guiraudie, France) Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil) Mal de Pierres (Nicole Garcia, Algeria) I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach, UK) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake.
  • (12) A source, described as a friend, told the Sun that the “entirely random” attack began when a “group of local louts”, with whom the group had no previous contact, appeared “out of nowhere” and one of them punched Márquez in the face.
  • (13) She was caught in the crossfire between me and the louts, and I railroaded her; she left quietly not long afterwards.
  • (14) It has always been said that he did away with Loadsamoney as soon as he realised, to his horror, that Essex boys had mistaken the obnoxious lout for a hero.
  • (15) • Dominic Grieve, the attorney general, has said that f louting European judges over prisoner voting would risk international "anarchy".
  • (16) In the case of a third offence, law-breakers may be made to wear a sign reading “I am a litter lout”.

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