What's the difference between poo and poor?

Poo


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We may as well get some preschoolers to call each other poo-heads and be done with it."
  • (2) The results of the Stamey endoscopic cervicopexy modified procedure (Orozco-Pérez Poo) performed in 20 incontinent female patients are analyzed relative to urethrovesical prolapse, length of urethra, position and mobility of the vesical neck and base, diameter of the proximal urethra, and the configuration of the vesicoureteric junction, including the posterior angle.
  • (3) Photograph: Sanergy Uncertain about an organisation profiting from poo?
  • (4) My youngest texts me to tell me that I am "an ungrateful poo" and I can see why.
  • (5) "People want recognition that they have a perfect life or, if you're me, that you're not the only person who has to clean your children's poo off the floor."
  • (6) Inaperisone injection into the LCa or the PoO had no influence on reflex micturition.
  • (7) According to Sarah Rizk, co-founder of the technology, Vorpal , a cow’s poo can pasteurise 10 times the amount of milk it produces.
  • (8) When linked to a generator the poo can produce electricity.
  • (9) But there is arguably nothing on either list to rival the yuck factor of one of last year's crop – the Doggie Doo , a plastic dog that poos out plasticine.
  • (10) Though predictable, it made for entertainment infinitely more satisfying than “drinking the poo of many animals”.
  • (11) 2005 A student on the Seoul subway refuses to clean up after her dog and is vilified as ‘dog poo girl’ after a photo goes viral.
  • (12) I suspect you would have said that even it wasn’t a pile of poo,” Lidington observed disconsolately.
  • (13) A cousin's offering merits a five-second sniff, but should a stranger from outside the group poo here, a family member will linger over it for twice as long.
  • (14) Treatment of muscle cell cultures with neuraminidase changes the cell surface charge and has been reported to reverse the direction of electromigration for AChRs and concanavalin A binding sites (Orida and Poo, 1978).
  • (15) Secret Aid Worker: After years in the field, I've lost my compassion Read more But I feel like I don’t walk the talk and I’ll have a hard time doing so because it’s all about how I poo.
  • (16) Yes, why can’t female film-makers write some nice, believable stuff, like a movie about an astronaut who survives by planting potatoes in his own poo when abandoned on Mars, or about an alliance of superheroes who save the world from an interdimensional alien invasion?
  • (17) Poo aside, maybe there's light at the end of a long Swedish tunnel.
  • (18) So it's rather a shame that the media now prefers to refer to it as "whale vomit" or, for a bit of variation, "whale poo" – as if the world is a kindergarten.
  • (19) Here are tales of recovery and redemption; interspecies friendships forged during early morning stick-retrieval sessions, with love blooming over a Jumbone livener by the poo bin next to the pond.
  • (20) Stools made from stools Photograph: Terra There are seats made from urine and sand , so it’s almost inevitable that there would be furniture fashioned from poo, or to be more precise, a mixture of horse manure, straw and other agricultural waste.

Poor


Definition:

  • (superl.) Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.
  • (superl.) So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public.
  • (superl.) Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected
  • (superl.) Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness; lean; emaciated; meager; as, a poor horse, ox, dog, etc.
  • (superl.) Wanting in strength or vigor; feeble; dejected; as, poor health; poor spirits.
  • (superl.) Of little value or worth; not good; inferior; shabby; mean; as, poor clothes; poor lodgings.
  • (superl.) Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil.
  • (superl.) Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit; as, a poor discourse; a poor picture.
  • (superl.) Without prosperous conditions or good results; unfavorable; unfortunate; unconformable; as, a poor business; the sick man had a poor night.
  • (superl.) Inadequate; insufficient; insignificant; as, a poor excuse.
  • (superl.) Worthy of pity or sympathy; -- used also sometimes as a term of endearment, or as an expression of modesty, and sometimes as a word of contempt.
  • (superl.) Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
  • (n.) A small European codfish (Gadus minutus); -- called also power cod.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
  • (2) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
  • (3) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
  • (4) Clonazepam was added to the treatment of patients with poorly controlled epilepsy in a double-blind trial and an open trial.
  • (5) "There is a serious risk that a deal will be agreed between rich countries and tax havens that would leave poor countries out in the cold.
  • (6) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
  • (7) Maybe the world economy goes tits up again, only this time we punish the rich instead of the poor.
  • (8) Poor radioresponders of glioblastoma with CEA should be reoperated.
  • (9) Poor lipophilicity and extremely low plasma concentrations impose severe constraints.
  • (10) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
  • (11) Symptoms were poorly localized in all these IPS osteomyelitis patients.
  • (12) Prognosis of patients with these autonomic failures is poor.
  • (13) All patients in Stages I and II (5 out of 26) who developed metastases had poorly differentiated (histological Type III) tumours.
  • (14) This study provides strong and unexpected evidence that one admission to hospital of more than a week's duration or repeated admissions before the age of five years (in particular between six months and four years) are associated with an increased risk of behaviour disturbance and poor reading in adolescence.
  • (15) Patients were divided into two groups: poor outcome, defined by the death or a post-operative Karnofsky index less than or equal to 70 (n = 36), and good outcome defined by a Karnofsky index of 80 or more (n = 60).
  • (16) Improvement of its particularly poor prognosis requires therefore early screening based on reliable biological markers.
  • (17) It has a poor prognosis prior to the current combined treatment of surgical ablation, radiation to the surgical field, and chemotherapy for microscopic metastases.
  • (18) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
  • (19) There were significant differences in the mean erythrocyte transketolase activity of the thiaminase excreting poor animals and the thiaminase free normal animals.
  • (20) In this material the ultrastructural details are very poorly preserved.

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