What's the difference between spoof and spool?

Spoof


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rather, the two participated in a clever spoof of the show’s overly serious and die-hard tone.
  • (2) James Hornsby Abington, Northampton • Every 1 April, Guardian readers need to beware of the spoof story.
  • (3) Even so, the whole thing was knocked together for a fraction of a normal commercial and it's a pretty funny spoof of a cliché-ridden car advert.
  • (4) Private Eye's all-time sales high came in 1986, when it recorded a circulation of 238,000 at the height of the popularity of the Dear Bill letters that spoofed Denis Thatcher.
  • (5) Bowie’s 1980 track Fashion has provided the soundtrack for more catwalk shows than I could ever hope to list here, and of course Bowie made a cameo appearance – judging a walk-off between two competing male models – in Ben Stiller’s brilliant 2001 fashion spoof Zoolander.
  • (6) Michelle Dockery, who plays Lady Mary, has shown she can tackle comedy by appearing in a spoof trailer for a Law & Order-style cop show called Tough Justice.
  • (7) Her spoof video I'm Fucking Matt Damon became a YouTube mega-hit and last month won her a Webby award for "best actress" .
  • (8) Even if you don't get the gag on the way in – the doormen wear tattered clothes – then the penny drops when you enter the L-shaped, 200-capacity basement and see the satirical murals spoofing Manhattan's high-society swells.
  • (9) The crsA47 suppressor restores sporulation of spoOE, spoOF, spoOK and spoIIG mutants to levels near those of wild type bacteria and substantially improves the sporulation of a spoOB strain.
  • (10) The Conservatives last week turned to M&C Saatchi to reinvigorate their election campaign after two much- lampooned and spoofed efforts, while the launch of a guerrilla ad campaign, positioning Labour and the Tories as failed political facsimiles, is thought to have helped the Lib Dems.
  • (11) The instruction came via a spoof Twitter account using the name of the parent company’s Japanese chief executive, Kazuo Hirai.
  • (12) Spoofs are no longer one-off scrawls that fade on individual walls, but community in-jokes that take on a virtual life of their own.
  • (13) That weakness could theoretically allow a hacker to receive the email by spoofing the server.
  • (14) Press Association BBC radio station defends spoof M&S job cuts clip The BBC has caused anger after broadcasting a spoof advertisement that seemed to make fun of Marks & Spencer staff who have lost their jobs.
  • (15) In Colorado, the National Republican Senatorial Committee released a video called “The Mark Udall Dynasty” that spoofs the opening credits of the hit 1980s TV show Dynasty as the narrator says: “Wealthy, comfortable and established.
  • (16) A spoof article in the Economist last year portrayed Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, ruminating on western nations' obsessive posturing towards his country.
  • (17) James Corden can sing and, although it’s a spoof, the performances are really good.
  • (18) The same deletion in the upstream region of the functional spoOF gene results in cells which sporulate very poorly, although they are not blocked at the onset of sporulation, as in an spoOF null mutant.
  • (19) Open reading frame 2 encodes a 26,000-dalton polypeptide that is similar to a family of transcriptional activators, including the products of the Bacillus subtilis spoOA and spoOF and the E. coli ompR and dye genes.
  • (20) They then pretend to be their target, using a technique known as internet protocol address spoofing.

Spool


Definition:

  • (n.) A piece of cane or red with a knot at each end, or a hollow cylinder of wood with a ridge at each end, used to wind thread or yarn upon.
  • (v. t.) To wind on a spool or spools.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Three possible cases for the ejection process friction are considered: friction in the tail-part channel, that of DNA segments with each other in the whole globule volume (it is essential for the collective way of the globule decondensation with simultaneous movement of all the loops--the first type way), the globule friction with internal capsid surface (it is most essential for the decondensation by the way of the globule rotation as a whole "spool"--the second type way).
  • (2) Colonel Steve Warren, the spokesman for the command operating the war against Isis, said that Keating was part of a quick reaction force (QRF) spooled up in support of a US “advise and assist” mission that “just happened to be in that village” meeting with peshmerga leaders at Tel Osqof, less than four km behind the front.
  • (3) Subsequently, the acceptor region spools up single-stranded polypyrimidines as they are released by progressive denaturation of the donor region; both the spooling and the denaturation result in relaxation of negative supercoils in the rest of the DNA molecule.
  • (4) The patients were dialysed with a spool dialysator with cuprophan membrane of a surface of 1 m2.
  • (5) This graft is flexible during insertion but becomes rigid after proper intraaortic placement as the spool is dilated and the ratchest lock into position.
  • (6) Under Nény’s insistent questioning, the quietly spoken Benhaim repeats that “that version of events is wrong” Eventually, the spooling, repetitive question-and-answer becomes hard to follow.
  • (7) Spool forward through a most unusual period in BBC history when all three main output divisions – TV, Radio and News – were being run by candidates for Mark Thompson's job; and also a contender was No 2, Caroline Thomson.
  • (8) Recent events in Shanghai’s stock markets have been all too reminiscent of the tales that have entered American folk memory from the days of the Wall Street crash in 1929: of stock-tipping shoeshine boys, exhausted traders, and ticker-tape machines spooling late into the night.
  • (9) A device containing a spool of fine line was carried by released mammals so that the line unwound under minimum tension as the animal proceeded and could be followed the day after release.
  • (10) Tape spools from her ears as sparks fly from her open mouth.
  • (11) The results of both search routines are spooled and stored in a retrievable file.
  • (12) After covering the radioactive filter positions with an adhesive plastic foil from both sides, the film spool is directly inserted into a specially constructed gamma-counter.
  • (13) The third is the globule friction with the capsid inner surface, that is most important when decondensation proceeds via the globule rotation as a whole spool (mechanism 2).
  • (14) The core may be a protein spool about which the phage DNA is wound.
  • (15) We now are using this device whenever possible in all substitutions of the aorta, although in approximately 40% of patients, it is necessary to remove one of the spools and suture either the proximal or distal end of the graft owing to the close proximity of the aneurysm to the coronary ostia or the origin of the subclavian artery.
  • (16) Studies on negatively stained preparations of purified capsids suggest that the toroid consists of DNA arranged as if it were spooled around the cylindrical mass.
  • (17) From our results we have proposed a double-helix model for the gene 5 protein-DNA complex in which the protein forms a spindle or core around which the DNA is spooled.
  • (18) When metacarpal epiphyseal cartilage (growth plates) ossifies with age, break joints on the distal end of the metacarpals fuse and the end of the bone then appears as a spool joint rather than as a break joint.
  • (19) In the streets and lifts of nearby office blocks, everyone seems to be carrying reels of old-fashioned tape recorder spools.
  • (20) The initial rather trivial complaint spooled into a much more robust discussion in the comments and elsewhere online, about how much Facebook already influences how news is shaped and delivered.