What's the difference between shod and shoo?

Shod


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) f Shoe.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Shoe

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By using a rubber shod Bainbridge type vascular clamp during myomectomy, the uterine blood supply coming from the ovarian artery can be interrupted medial to the ovary, allowing for adnexal perfusion.
  • (2) Competition experiments with unlabeled compounds shod d that the binding was reversible and saturable as well as stereo- and regiospecific.
  • (3) It is also hypothesized that the known inability of this arch of the shod foot to deflect without failure (foot rigidity) is responsible for the high injury frequency in shod populations.
  • (4) This sad and dreary episode, when Finnish soldiers were compelled to fight their former comrades-in-arms, is, for example, the subject of Antti Tuuri's bestselling novel of 2012, Rauta-antura (Iron-shod).
  • (5) Significant differences between the predominance in shod and unshod children were noted in all age groups, most marked in those with generalised ligament laxity.
  • (6) Keeping Canvas in its current form would be "catastrophic for small-scale services seeking to promote democratic participation and civil society" as the joint venture partners ride rough-shod over the interests of local communities, the company argues in its 70 page submission.
  • (7) Oh, and having shod the entire fashion industry in her cult skate sneakers, she revealed next season’s must-have flat: a neat, elasticated white ballet slipper, flat or with a small block heel.
  • (8) Aristotle offers a very simple example of this: "On he came, his feet shod with his – chilblains."
  • (9) The freshly shod Hamilton moved past Ricciardo and into second place.
  • (10) A number of reports indicate an extremely low running-related injury frequency in barefoot populations in contrast to reports about shod populations.
  • (11) Before surgery the animal wanted to rear after exercise and could not stand on 3 legs for any length of time while being shod.
  • (12) He was my boss – and when, in his anger at my failure to adequately collate the minutes from last week's interdepartmental steering meeting, he stamped his beautifully shod foot (Church's or possibly even Lobb's) on mine … I orgasmed at once, a nerve-shattering orgasm that curled my hair and curdled the low-fat yoghurt drink that was sitting on a nearby desk.
  • (13) I call on politicians in both Holyrood and Westminster to do all they can to stop employers like Mr Ashley thinking they can ride rough shod over workers rights.” Under European legislation the Insolvency Service will have to pick up the bill for the 50 workers, but it is only obliged to pay eight weeks’ worth of the compensation to which they are entitled.
  • (14) I’m very glad that this law firm was able to help the workers involved and call on politicians in both Holyrood and Westminster to do all they can to stop employers like Mr Ashley thinking they can ride rough shod over workers rights.” About 80 workers at the Dundonald warehouse lost their jobs when administrators were called into West Coast Capital (USC), a Sports Direct-controlled entity that owned 28 stores in the retailer’s USC chain.
  • (15) This paper describes the application of foil strain gauges to the hoof wall, and the use of measuring equipment to monitor weightbearing and changes in hoof shape in shod and unshod horses.
  • (16) To shorten the period of non-activity, working ponies were shod and the hoof wall defect was packed with technovit or a combination of glue with cotton cuttings.
  • (17) The distribution of force beneath the plantar foot surface during shod distance running, a kinetic descriptor of locomotion not previously reported, was recorded for ten rearfoot striking runners.
  • (18) Flaubert wished to close the gap not just between words and emotional truths, but between words and things: the sound of Hippolyte's wooden leg in the church ("They heard on the flagstones something like the sharp click of an iron-shod pole tapping them with even strokes"); the lumbering sway of cattle; the scoop of a hand in sugar-white arsenic.
  • (19) However, significant differences were observed when barefoot and shod walking were compared.
  • (20) Normal and abnormal feet, both barefoot and shod, were investigated in sixteen subjects.

Shoo


Definition:

  • (interj.) Begone; away; -- an expression used in frightening away animals, especially fowls.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Currently a junior employment minister, she has been widely tipped as a shoo-in for Ken Clarke's job in the cabinet as minister for TV studios (or minister without portfolio, to give it its official title).
  • (2) 11.07am BST Just think, if this had happened 10 years ago, Martin O'Neill would have been a shoo-in for the job.
  • (3) The world of Eurovision is also strangely comforting: at some level it takes me back to the world of childhood eisteddfods, where I regularly performed public atrocities on a number of alleged artforms believing myself a shoo-in for a guest appearance on Young Talent Time and, in time, a Logie.
  • (4) Conservative Central Office is certainly not assuming that a recession would mean the election is a shoo-in for them.
  • (5) Like American Hustle, another madcap 70s period piece which it somewhat resembles, it could be a shoo-in for major awards come 2015.
  • (6) The frontrunner in the Swedish general election this weekend is scrambling to stop his campaign being damaged after he shooed away a political adversary during a television debate.
  • (7) Poulter is, in fact, a shoo-in to captain this continent in the future.
  • (8) Visiting Corby this week, Ed Miliband was keen to play down expectations that Labour is a shoo-in for the byelection caused by Louise Mensch's resignation, the Guardian reported.
  • (9) Add to that its pretensions to nation-building and the rather woolly hope that this will persuade the likes of South Sudan and North Korea to sign up to the chemical weapons treaty, and the OPCW was a shoo-in.
  • (10) Not only did the drama about King George VI's struggles to overcome a stutter on the eve of the second world war proceed to take the award for best picture and the awards for which it was a shoo-in – best actor for Colin Firth and best original screenplay for David Seidler – it also, in the evening's sole upset, won the best director prize for Tom Hooper.
  • (11) In February 2011 Pinewood announced a partnership deal to shoo movies at a studio in the Dominican Republic which it hopes will give it a foothold in the fast-growing Latin American film and TV market.
  • (12) Stella Creasy is possibly best known to date for being shooed away from a members-only lift in the House of Commons by a Tory minister who refused to believe that this "blonde woman" could be an MP because she looked "too young".
  • (13) But his decision to shoo police officers off the steps of St Paul's 12 days ago and support the peaceful anti-capitalist protest on his doorstep catapulted him into the media stratosphere.
  • (14) If you try to shoo people from each area as they are priced out by rents, at some point they’re going to mind.
  • (15) The 23-year-old Maasai is the 800m world champion and world record holder, and the closest thing there is to a shoo-in for a gold medal on the track at the 2012 Games.
  • (16) Initially, deputy clerk Lana Gordon said she wasn't sure she had the authority and shooed the couples from her office.
  • (17) Bauer is not in active negotiations with BBC Worldwide over the sale of its magazine division, effectively ending months of speculation the German publisher is a shoo-in to become the new owner of titles including Top Gear and Radio Times.
  • (18) Italy need to win to be sure of going through, and that ain't a shoo-in.
  • (19) With Sheen such a shoo-in for the lead, producers will now be busily searching for an actor who looks like 2,500 square miles of spilt crude oil.
  • (20) Were his connections with the most powerful media empire in the land related to the fact that he was an obvious shoo-in?