What's the difference between overshoe and waterproof?
Overshoe
Definition:
(n.) A shoe that is worn over another for protection from wet or for extra warmth; esp., an India-rubber shoe; a galoche.
Example Sentences:
(1) Whenever a qualitative result is sufficient, the samples can be pooled or the flock litter can be sampled using an 'overshoe method', which is a novel, low-cost and rapid technique.
(2) How many people have bought a novel from a bookseller whose entire staff were attired in full crime scene gear: hooded paper suits, overshoes, masks and latex gloves?
(3) Waterproof overshoes Cycling shoes with cleats are the best winter investment you can make.
(4) For our investigations we used only routine methods.The order of importance of the factors in reducing cross-infection would appear to be: (1) single rooms for all septic cases and for those requiring protective isolation; (2) a sister supported in complete authority over anyone entering the unit; (3) a simple, inflexible drill to introduce an impermeable layer between the nurse or doctor and the patient-gloves and apron provide this; (4) overshoes and barrier mats; (5) hygienic disposal of linen; (6) an efficient wet dusting and floor cleaning system.
Waterproof
Definition:
(a.) Proof against penetration or permeation by water; impervious to water; as, a waterproof garment; a waterproof roof.
(n.) A substance or preparation for rendering cloth, leather, etc., impervious to water.
(n.) Cloth made waterproof, or any article made of such cloth, or of other waterproof material, as rubber; esp., an outer garment made of such material.
(v. t.) To render impervious to water, as cloth, leather, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that the thickness of the waterproofing sheath is not a very sensitive variable, assuming the thickness is between 0.5 and 2.0 mm.
(2) Cryoscopic analysis of frozen sections provided indirect evidence for the presence of a waterproof layer limiting evaporation from living epithelial cells in dormant land snails.
(3) In the case of Airbnb, it’s facilitating the buy-to-let marketplace, and lets people like me – who have the assets to sweat – make a profit to cover the cost of more assets, which can then be priced accordingly to cover their own bricks and mortar (or, in my case, fuel and waterproof blacking).
(4) The BBC sessions version of Hey is one of my favourite ever songs and to hear that, as the sun was trying to break through, almost made me forget the fact I'd lost my waterproof and was walking about sopping wet in a glorified bin-liner.
(5) In the meantime, clinicians should be aware of this problem and may choose to prevent these errors by wrapping the connection with waterproof tape.
(6) He issues instructions home for new boots, a waterproof sheet, a lamp, field glasses and a camera.
(7) This material support involved allowing an acquaintance to stay in his apartment for two weeks – an acquaintance who later delivered raincoats and waterproof socks to al-Qaida.
(8) So while in Japan you can easily stumble across a remote-control tissue box or a battery-operated planetarium for your bathroom (by which I mean a waterproof Saturn-shaped orb that floats in the bath and projects the entire visible universe onto the ceiling), the sense of surrounding novelty has diminished.
(9) Below this is a very thin waterproof layer of wax and 'sclerotin' continuous with the contents of the tubular filaments, which is readily removed by adsorptive dusts.
(10) British mountaineer Kenton Cool was sitting in the check-in lounge at Gatwick airport last Thursday with a locked waterproof box that, if all goes according to plan, will not leave his side until he reaches Everest's summit for a 10th time this spring.
(11) He has kitted us out in our super-modern waterproof gear that makes us look like a family of Scandinavian traffic cops, but about which even the teenager doesn't complain.
(12) Let's hope he's not brought his brolly along this time, but invested in a nice waterproof jacket instead, a mac maybe.
(13) Waterproof footwear and clothing should be worn to minimize skin contact.
(14) Make sure you take a waterproof bivvy for your sleeping bag, plenty of warm layers and hot food and drink.
(15) It is also waterproof and would be perfect to use in hydrogen reservoirs.
(16) After struggling into a dry suit, I grabbed a handful of waterproof gear bags and headed down to the beach.
(17) Motorola is promising “all-day battery life” for the Moto E, and has fitted it with features such as Corning’s scratch-resistant Gorilla Glass 3 and P2i’s waterproof nano coating (which makes the phone splash-proof) that are found only on smartphones costing twice as much as the Moto E. As with the Moto G, Motorola will guarantee an upgrade to the next version of Android for the Moto E, something that cannot be said for most of the other smartphones in its class.
(18) Bedding has been constructed with a vapour-permeable waterproof fabric that is impermeable to house dust mite antigen (Der p1).
(19) Patrick Kingsley (@PatrickKingsley) Top priorities before the trip to Europe: change lira into euros; buy a lifejacket; waterproof your electricals.
(20) Try a waterproof picnic blanket, much cheaper and easy to keep clean.