What's the difference between roo and rook?

Roo


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With electrophilic substrates (organic halides and carbonyl carbons) O2- displaces a leaving group to form a peroxy radical (ROO.)
  • (2) AFL backs Lewis Jetta and calls for end to 'draining' booing of Adam Goodes Read more Swans chairman Andrew Pridham has labelled the booing racist and Goodes received strong support on Monday night from rival coaches Nathan Buckley and Paul Roos.
  • (3) Moreover, the chelators exhibited for the quenching of ROO.
  • (4) However, on a molar basis VIP was 2-3 times more potent than PHI in causing cessation of activity of the ROO.
  • (5) It was found that, with the exception of roo, the copy number per chromosome followed a Poisson distribution.
  • (6) Such free radical generation in feces could provide a missing link in our understanding of the etiology of colon cancer: the oxidation of procarcinogens either by fecal HO., or by secondary peroxyl radicals (ROO.)
  • (7) Both HOO.- and ROO.-initiated peroxidations of linoleic acid were promoted by increases in solution ionic strength: the inclusion of 0.1 M of various alkali metal salts in the reaction resulted in up to a 4-fold increase in the overall peroxidation rate.
  • (8) In the presence of glycylglycylhistidine (GlyGlyHis), however, Ni2+ generated cumene peroxyl (ROO.)
  • (9) Inactivity of the EMG of the ROO still developed when lambs sucked milk after administration (I.V.)
  • (10) The main result is the detection of a specific "tumor signal" (asymmetrical singlet deltaH = 6, Oe, g = 2.005) and peroxide radical ROO.
  • (11) In Western blots, mAb 449, directed against the cytoplasmic epitope of the alpha-subunit, identified a 23-kDa protein; and mAb 48, raised against the large (beta) subunit of cytochrome b558 of human neutrophils (Verhoeven, A. J., Bolscher, B. G. J. M., Meerhof, L. J., van Zwieten, R., Keijer, J., Weening, R. S., and Roos, D. (1989) Blood 73, 1686-1694), detected a smear between 75 and 100 kDa in denatured HMC membrane protein.
  • (12) The outflow of digesta, made possible by the opening of the ROO during the second phase of the reticular contraction, is highly selective.
  • (13) The Roos test was positive for 8% of the subjects and X-ray was abnormal for 13% of the subjects.
  • (14) He painted The Kongouro from New Holland from sketches by the voyage's official artist – who had died on the way back – and a kangaroo's skin, which it is thought he inflated, no doubt leading to his roo's somewhat rotund appearance.
  • (15) We have previously reported that the phorbol ester, 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol 13-acetate (TPA) induces, in the TT cell line of human medullary thyroid carcinoma, decreased cellular proliferation, increased calcitonin secretion, and enhanced calcitonin gene transcription (deBustros, A., Baylin, S. B., Berger, C. L., Roos, B.
  • (16) The FCA did not name names but the Guardian understands that UK payday lender Speedy Cash has been distributing colouring-in sheets showing its kangaroo mascot, Speedy Roo , holding wads of cash, along with pamphlets promoting its loans, which have a representative interest rate of 2,115.69% APR.
  • (17) There was always complete cessation of activity of the ROO with infusion of VIP at 1.5-3.0 nmol min-1.
  • (18) Intra-arterial infusions of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) were made in anaesthetized lambs in which activity of the reticulo-omasal orifice (ROO) was recorded manometrically and in conscious lambs in which activity of the reticulum, ROO and abomasum were recorded by electromyographic (EMG) techniques.
  • (19) Infusions of VIP at 8-10 nmol min-1 produced a more prompt cessation of EMG activity of the ROO.
  • (20) On my first day at primary school, my teacher, Mr Smith, said in front of the class, “What kind of person calls their child Roo-pert?” Put me off school for ever.

Rook


Definition:

  • (n.) Mist; fog. See Roke.
  • (v. i.) To squat; to ruck.
  • (n.) One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.
  • (n.) A European bird (Corvus frugilegus) resembling the crow, but smaller. It is black, with purple and violet reflections. The base of the beak and the region around it are covered with a rough, scabrous skin, which in old birds is whitish. It is gregarious in its habits. The name is also applied to related Asiatic species.
  • (n.) A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper.
  • (v. t. & i.) To cheat; to defraud by cheating.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Veronica investigated her classmates, and that still matters In Mars vs Mars, the 14th episode of season one, Veronica’s classmate Carrie (Leighton Meister) claims she slept with their teacher, Mr Rooks (Adam Scott).
  • (2) Rooke said dredging was part of the solution, "but not the whole solution".
  • (3) In their 125th year, the Rooks fended off bankruptcy to become Lewes Community Football Club, thus joining AFC Wimbledon, FC United of Manchester and Exeter City, among others, as collective entities.
  • (4) · Denis Eric Rooke, industrialist, born April 2 1924; died September 2 2008
  • (5) David Rooke, director of flood and coastal risk management at the agency, said residents should be "braced for some of the most serious coastal flooding we have probably seen for at least 30 years and in some cases for over 60 years".
  • (6) Across eight cask pumps, seven keg lines and three hand-pulled ciders, the Rook runs the gamut from exotic European imports (Opat's self-explanatory orange and mandarin Czech pils) to beers from lesser-spotted UK micros, such as Grafters and Jurassic Brewhouse.
  • (7) Coagulase-positive staphylococci were found in the throats of 46 rooks (69 per cent) and 47 gulls (21 per cent) out of totals of 67 and 229 birds, respectively.
  • (8) Rooke added: "We are talking about today [Thursday] and tomorrow.
  • (9) It was a phase in Rooke's experience that he never forgot, though never exulted in nor even willingly discussed.
  • (10) In a free living rook (Corvus frugilegus) a well differentiated squamous cell carcinoma without keratinization arising from the oesophageal mucosa was found.
  • (11) Take the well-known example of Rookes v Barnard , decided by the law lords in 1964.
  • (12) As the rook moves on the chess board, it reaches all 64 squares in the ordering of the codon numbers, which prescribe the codons by a simple formula based on the position and size of the nucleotides in a triplet.
  • (13) Bacteria of the genus Campylobacter were isolated from 28 Rooks (Corvus frugilegus), 1 Red Kite (Milvus milvus), 1 Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), 1 Coot (Fulica atra), 1 Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) and 1 Northern Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos).
  • (14) Rooke had already been in charge of trial runs across the Atlantic - once in a 23-day battle against continous gales because they had to avoid normal shipping lanes, especially in bad weather.
  • (15) Now, it is said, it may be hard to find new senior executives at the corporation's successor, Centrica , because Rooke's equivalent, Sam Laidlaw, earned just £2.2m last year (after a £5.7m payout 12 months earlier).
  • (16) and 21 Rxe6!, a temporary rook offer which gave White a raging attack.
  • (17) Brought up on the slopes of the Quantocks and Exmoor, hence, perhaps, his love of game, fishing and the odd rook for the pot (his father was a keen field sportsman), he was educated at Wellington school, in Somerset, where a fellow pupil was Jeffrey Archer.
  • (18) Case study: 'We want to bring him up in a household with working parents' Once the rent, council tax and utility bills have been paid, Kristie Locke, 20, and her partner, David Rooks, 25, are left with £7.70 a day to buy food, clothes and other essentials for themselves and their eight-month-old baby, Leyton.
  • (19) As Rooke remarked to an interviewer 10 years later, "There isn't any doubt, it was a hell of a battle.
  • (20) In rooks the residues of chlorinated pesticides and PCB were dependent on the land use of the regions compared (e.g., industrial, agricultural), but no such correlation was found for the HCB residues.

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