What's the difference between rood and rook?

Rood


Definition:

  • (n.) A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with Christ hanging on it.
  • (n.) A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a perch; a pole.
  • (n.) The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The two-color method originally described by Van Rood et al.
  • (2) Rood (1980) stated that many people want a "womb with a view," so that they remain protected and yet passively observe the outside world.
  • (3) (R. G. Duggleby, H. Kinns and J. I. Rood, A computer program for determining the size of DNA restriction fragments.
  • (4) The current study expands exploratory findings of S. W. Brown with Rood in 1982 and Yakimowski in 1987, using confirmatory factor analytical procedures.
  • (5) Children are welcome to ring the bell held by the medieval figure of Jack-smite-the-clock while you inspect the damage wrought by the Suffolk-born iconoclast William "Basher" Dowsing during the civil war: he scrubbed the faces from all the finely painted apostles and saints on the rood screen.
  • (6) The catQ gene contained internal HindII, HaeIII, and DraI restriction sites and was distinct from the catP gene, which was originally cloned (L. J. Abraham, A. J. Wales, and J. I. Rood Plasmid 14:37-46, 1985) from the conjugative C. perfringens R plasmid, pIP401.
  • (7) Although references to Saint Apollonia are common on the Continent, references to the saint are extremely rare in Britain--with the exception of representations in rood screens or elsewhere in churches.

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.