What's the difference between scent and spoor?

Scent


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does.
  • (v. t.) To imbue or fill with odor; to perfume.
  • (v. i.) To have a smell.
  • (v. i.) To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
  • (n.) That which, issuing from a body, affects the olfactory organs of animals; odor; smell; as, the scent of an orange, or of a rose; the scent of musk.
  • (n.) Specifically, the odor left by an animal on the ground in passing over it; as, dogs find or lose the scent; hence, course of pursuit; track of discovery.
  • (n.) The power of smelling; the sense of smell; as, a hound of nice scent; to divert the scent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rupert Murdoch has a battle on his hands to win over leading shareholders in BSkyB, who scent the opportunity for a high-stakes game of brinkmanship and are pushing for a premium price of well over £10bn for full control of the pay-television company.
  • (2) It is commonly believed that the scent-marking activity of female mammals is elevated when they are sexually receptive, yet urine-marking by female mice does not vary in relation to their estrous cycles.
  • (3) Previous studies have demonstrated gonadal control of mammalian scent glands; castration leads to reduced scent-marking rates and smaller gland sizes.
  • (4) Cruden Farm, Victoria The 54-hectare Murdoch family estate in Langwarrin south of Melbourne, Australia, features magnificent gardens complete with ponds, lemon-scented gum trees and two walled gardens and perennial borders.
  • (5) Male and female scents did not elicit significantly different amounts of scent marking.
  • (6) "Greeks need to unburden their fears," says the comic, the scent of cologne permeating his dressing room after he has danced, sung and quipped his way through another rendition of "Sorry … I'm Greek".
  • (7) Early opportunities to indulge his skill for making unctuousness compelling came in the roles of a school snitch in the Al Pacino vehicle Scent of a Woman (1992), for which Hoffman auditioned five times.
  • (8) As I type I can smell the nauseating scent of death that clings to me still.
  • (9) Primary afferent electrical activity can be recorded from the chemoreceptors on the mantle margin that are responsive to starfish scent and also from other physiologically distinct receptors that are responsive to contact with starfish tube feet.
  • (10) We meet at the headquarters of the Independent and the Evening Standard in Kensington, in an office scented by a Jo Malone orange blossom candle, and groaning with contemporary art.
  • (11) The scent gland secretions of Dumeril's ground boa (Acrantophis dumerili), pooled from two adult males and a female, were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.
  • (12) Four B6 mice, two males and two females, were successfully trained, by water deprivation and reward, to enter the arm scented by B6 or B6-H-2k males.
  • (13) At 120 days of age, field-exposed male offspring exhibited significantly less scent marking behavior than controls.
  • (14) It is shown that the X and Y chromosomes each confer individually of scent related to genotype.
  • (15) Pasting, a stereotypic form of anal gland scent marking, was studied in 2 cohorts (N = 20) of captive spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta).
  • (16) Here lies Baby Addie,” he told us, gesturing to a lumpy patch of earth carpeted in the dry pine needles which scented the air.
  • (17) Deer models baited with CO2 and with CO2 plus 1-octen-3-ol and Deer Trail Scent attracted and induced female Cephenemyia apicata Bennett & Sabrosky and C. jellisoni Townsend to larviposit on them.
  • (18) The urine of these chimeras was tested by the Y maze method, and shown to have acquired a scent indicative of the reconstituting donors' H-2 type.
  • (19) The results suggest that the scents originating from the preputial gland of the juvenile serve as the recognition cue in the social memory paradigm of rats.
  • (20) The GM wheat at Rothamsted is modified to produce a scent undetectable to the human nose, which the main wheat pests, such as greenfly and blackfly aphids, release when under attack from predators.

Spoor


Definition:

  • (n.) The track or trail of any wild animal; as, the spoor of an elephant; -- used originally by travelers in South Africa.
  • (v. i.) To follow a spoor or trail.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Spoors says a number of these countries—for instance Switzerland, Luxembourg and Ireland—are responsible for the loopholes in the system and have an interest in protecting the status quo.
  • (2) While most countries feel the impact of tax avoidance, Oxfam Australia G20 coordinator Claire Spoors says it takes an especially profound toll on low-income countries.
  • (3) The median hearing thresholds as well as the 25 and 75 percentiles are worse in the present study compared with a sex and age matched non-noise-exposed reference group (Spoor and Passchier-Vermeer, 1969 International Audiology, 8, 328 336) and a screened otologically normal reference group (ISO, 7029).
  • (4) The committee believes that intake of natural U in water should be limited by considerations of toxicity to the kidney, and we believe that the metabolic model of Spoor and Hursh with a modified gastrointestinal (GI) absorption (1.4%) should be used to infer kidney content.
  • (5) Oxfam has been concerned that this is an OECD-G20 initiative that clearly leaves out the world’s poorest countries,” Spoors says.
  • (6) Two amputated lower legs were analyzed kinematically, according to Van Langelaan and Spoor's photogrammetric method; dynamically, by measuring moments (M) and recording vertical tibial translations (S); and finally by comparing the stepwise and continuous supination and pronation of one specimen (female 29).
  • (7) Many developing countries are likely to be cut out of that exchange because they do not have the capacity to ensure the confidentiality that is being prescribed,” Spoors says.
  • (8) Allowance for age and sex was made by using the presbyacusis values of SPOOR as the reference.
  • (9) Spoors said the recent leaked tax documents showing how thousands of major companies were legally minimising tax through tax deals involving Luxembourg proved that public reporting of country by country profits would be a much more effective deterrent.
  • (10) Claire Spoors, the G20 coordinator for Oxfam, said the leaked tax documents proved why public reporting of country by country profits would be much a more effective deterrent.
  • (11) They followed the oil rig's mashed-up trail, the rainbow-filmed liquid spoor, the tripod crater prints.
  • (12) But Spoors says developing countries need more than words from the G20: “There are 15 proposals in the BEPS project, and seven of them have been decided on in Cairns.
  • (13) Financial institutions and many other G20 governments do recognise the issue as a threat to growth and among them is next year’s host, Turkey,” said Oxfam spokeswoman Claire Spoors.
  • (14) Claire Spoors, the G20 coordinator for Oxfam, said the recent leaked tax documents showing how thousands of major companies were legally minimising tax through tax deals involving Luxembourg proved that public reporting of country by country profits would be much a more effective deterrent.

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