What's the difference between romp and roup?

Romp


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play.
  • (n.) A girl who indulges in boisterous play.
  • (n.) Rude, boisterous play or frolic; rough sport.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Patriots eventually beat the Colts 43-22, but it wasn't quite the romp that that final tally would suggest, as the Colts cut it to a one-score game in the third quarter.
  • (2) Our assays amplified a 500 bp fragment from the gene encoding the rOmp B protein of Rickettsia rickettsii.
  • (3) The first part of the evening saw the singer romp through hits including Let's Go Crazy alongside new songs such as Fixurlifeup with his band 3rdEyedGirl.
  • (4) Arevalo flicks a couple of one-twos down a romp along the inside-left channel, first with Forlan, then with Suarez.
  • (5) Jen (from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) In Ang Lee's gravity-defying martial arts romp, women take most of the major roles, virtuous or villainous.
  • (6) It was a sado-masochistic romp and I was given a copy in France in the 1960s when it was probably illegal in England.
  • (7) With nine out of 10 Greater Manchester councils run by or dominated by Labour, the Labour candidate is expected to romp to victory unless a celebrity Mancunian like Noel Gallagher comes to the fore and steals the show.
  • (8) The votes are in for next month's Reading Group choice, and following a late surge, Bleak House has romped home.
  • (9) Welbeck romps down the inside-left channel but slices a poor shot high into the stands.
  • (10) Running against the US's Tyson Gay, who has disappointed in these Games, you had the feeling that Blake was never going to allow his friend and training partner anything other than a victory romp to the line.
  • (11) A romp through the kinky silliness that’ll be marketed at our grown grandchildren, their poor glazed eyes consensually replaced with tiny computers.
  • (12) Ronald Koeman collected that prize in the run-up to this game, and then watched his team romp to their biggest victory for nearly a century, inflicting a defeat that Sunderland will struggle to forget.
  • (13) Iam a bit worried I might be a massive racist because last week at a preview screening* I laughed like a hallucinating pig several times during Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained , a preposterous cartoon romp through the laugh-a-minute world of slavery.
  • (14) Southampton’s Sadio Mané joins treble of doubles in 6-0 romp at MK Dons Read more Asamoah, selected ahead of Carlisle’s leading goalscorer Jabo Ibehre, had gone close to converting Alex McQueen’s low cross as his side responded to their manager’s call for greater intent.
  • (15) He has also romped as Casanova , probed as DI Carlisle in the TV musical-drama Blackpool , theorised as cerebral scientist Arthur Eddington in Einstein And Eddington (stick a pair of specs on him and he's as dull as the next man), played Hamlet quite beautifully (awkward and paranoid, yet graceful) and appeared in a number of none-too-impressive movies.
  • (16) 65 min: Di Maria dances, shimmies, shakes and makes other disco-friendly movements down the right, before cutting inside, romping into the area, and whacking a low shot goalwards.
  • (17) From finally breaking his two year drought in the friendly against Germany (which lest we forget came on the back of a worryingly easy romp of a win for Belgium in the first friendly of this five game sequence), Altidore's goals turned out to be worth 7 of the 9 points the US amassed in their surge to the top of the standings.
  • (18) Smith romped home with an 11% swing and immediately, national Liberal poll ratings almost doubled.
  • (19) It's not something that has been done before: even Whedon opted for a breezy romp which used humour to paper over the preposterous logic cracks in his bombastic superhero ensemble.
  • (20) Yet Klopp still managed to be a breath of fresh air, a ball of pent-up fury when Liverpool were wayward in the early exchanges, a beaming, tracksuited, slightly messy creator of happiness and fun when they romped away with the points thanks to late goals from Coutinho and Benteke.

Roup


Definition:

  • (v. i. & t.) To cry or shout; hence, to sell by auction.
  • (n.) An outcry; hence, a sale of gods by auction.
  • (n.) A disease in poultry. See Pip.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hungary re-rouped to great effect, Czibor moving inside to take Puskas' role, but when the team eventually reached the final, in Berne, Puskas insisted he should play.
  • (2) Patency of the vasa was confirmed by asogram in both g roups.
  • (3) The intensity of neuromusclar blockade of the forearm muscles after AH 8165 was similar in the two groups, and there was no significant difference in recovery rates; roup I patients were 80 per cent recovered in 36.6 min, group II patinets in 47.3 min.
  • (4) The type III polysaccharide of -roup B Streptococcus has been isolated and purified by a method that employs washing of intact cells at neutral pH.
  • (5) Salmonella poona (roup G) was isolated in 154 patients: 122 in stool cultures, 23 in blood cultures and 9 in meningitis; out of the latter, 6 were newborns under 2 months of age.
  • (6) A control roup of 153 Portuguese residents in Mozambique have also been phenotyped.