What's the difference between stoat and stout?

Stoat


Definition:

  • (n.) The ermine in its summer pelage, when it is reddish brown, but with a black tip to the tail. The name is sometimes applied also to other brown weasels.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eagle picked him up when he started to claim that a former Labour MP who supports the health reforms, Dr Howard Stoate, had been defeated at the election by the Tories.
  • (2) Dr Howard Stoate General practitioner; former clinical commissioning group chair; former MP • Any chance the CQC could find the present government “inadequate” and place it in special measures, please ( Prestigious hospital in special measures over staff shortage , 22 September)?
  • (3) Their job involves eradicating animals that might want to eat these small game birds: foxes, stoats, weasels and, in the days when it was legal to do so, birds of prey.
  • (4) Dominance relationships between different categories of stoats (femalefemale, adult and juvenile male male) were examined, as was social dominance between individual stoats of the same sex.
  • (5) With senior Labour figures claiming the prime minister lost his cool because he has lost "the argument over the NHS", the intervention by Stoate– the only practising GP to serve in parliament when he stood down at the general election – robs Andrew Lansley, the health secretary, of a line of attack: that the government reforms have high-profile defenders in the medical profession.
  • (6) There are 370 plant species recorded there and you might spot stoats, yellow necked mice, dormice and badgers too.
  • (7) Mawle employed three keepers whose work included controlling predators (foxes, stoats, crows) by legal means to ensure a healthy wild grouse population.
  • (8) Infection was also not found in 40 stone martens, 5 badgers and 3 stoats.
  • (9) The prime minister regularly plays fast and loose with the facts at prime minister's questions and he got it wrong again yesterday when he claimed that ex Labour MP Howard Stoate had lost his Dartford seat at the general election.
  • (10) Stoate, the former MP for Dartford, writes in the Guardian that doctors do not "glibly accept every aspect of the health bill; it clearly has many inherent problems".
  • (11) Although the stoats and squirrels in question had died of natural causes, the charity Advocates for Animals denounced “perverse” and “out-of-date shock tactics” that “exploited and degraded animals”.
  • (12) And shrinking rivers and lower water levels in ditches and streams expose the burrows of riverbank mammals, such as water voles, leaving these animals vulnerable to predators, such as stoats and weasels.
  • (13) It sold in a limited run of 11 bottles, each artfully stuffed inside a deceased wild animal – seven stoats, four grey squirrels – costing between £500 and £700.
  • (14) – 'reveal overwhelming enthusiasm'," he said, quoting Dr Stoate.
  • (15) Eagle shouted that Stoate had stood down before the election and the PM had got his facts wrong.
  • (16) The original used the spellings Howard Stoat and David Willets.
  • (17) By legally trapping and killing stoats and foxes to ensure plentiful supplies of grouse, he helped conserve endangered birds: woodcock, snipe, golden plover, lapwing, ring ouzel, and “buckets and buckets of curlew”.
  • (18) The flea species did not reflect the status of their usual hosts in the diet of stoats, but did reflect the stoats' use of their usual hosts' habitat.
  • (19) As you report, "Eagle picked him up when he started to claim that a former Labour MP who supports the health reforms, Dr Howard Stoate, had been defeated at the election by the Tories."
  • (20) Howard Stoate, the former Labour MP who left parliament to focus on his work as a GP, has attacked David Cameron for quoting him "out of context" on the government's health bill.

Stout


Definition:

  • (superl.) Strong; lusty; vigorous; robust; sinewy; muscular; hence, firm; resolute; dauntless.
  • (superl.) Proud; haughty; arrogant; hard.
  • (superl.) Firm; tough; materially strong; enduring; as, a stout vessel, stick, string, or cloth.
  • (superl.) Large; bulky; corpulent.
  • (n.) A strong malt liquor; strong porter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Second, Stout felt that the high mitotic rate was the best predictor of malignancy, but he recognized that some tumors, even with low rates, could metastasize.
  • (2) The cell bodies are usually between 8 and 10 mu in diameter and have dividing pseudopodial processes which may be broad or narrow, flat or stout, smooth or varicosed.
  • (3) The Lib Dems and Labour, after frantic consultations, announced they would table alternative amendments to introduce an element of statute and ensure the new press regulatory body was free from industry interference – two issues that the majority of newspaper proprietors have stoutly opposed.
  • (4) It also highlights law professor Lynn Stout’s recent book, The Shareholder Value Myth .
  • (5) Stout – even the name is robust: broad-mouthed and curtly clipped at the end.
  • (6) Tune into BBC1 on Sunday morning and you will find the corporation complicit in Marr's convalescent strategy of stout denial.
  • (7) Against my will I had to keep watching those two black companions who persistently marked out our movements ahead of us, like walking silhouettes, and it gave me – our feelings are sometimes so childish – a certain reassurance to see that my shadow was longer, slimmer, I almost said "better-looking", than the short, stout shadow of my companion.
  • (8) A stout man with close-cropped hair, Jones was dressed in denim, his temples soaked with sweat.
  • (9) Heat the sugar, cocoa powder, double cream, stout and salt in a small pan until scalding.
  • (10) Aside from history enthusiasts and couples seeking privacy from the crowded city, few enter the red sandstone gate between the fort’s stout bastions.
  • (11) Chocolate stout pudding (above) Admittedly, with summer creeping in and temperatures rising, it's hardly pudding season.But I'm a firm believer in the restorative powers of stodge, and I'd hate for the pleasures of pudding – steamed sponges, sticky toffee, spotted dick and custard – to be out of bounds for part of the year.
  • (12) This investigation is a replication and extension of an earlier study by Stout, Holmes, and Rothstein (1977) of the predoctoral clinical psychology intern graduates at the William S. Hall Psychiatric Institute.
  • (13) The differential diagnosis of the morphological substrate is discussed and the preference of the termination introduced by Stout and Lattes is established.
  • (14) The pyriform cells had a short stem from which extended 4-5 stout dendrites, while the fusiform cells extended similar dendrites from the soma.
  • (15) All these characters are fictionalised, but they are based on real people: Frank Stokes is modelled on George Stout ; Campbell on Robert K. Posey ; Garfield on Walker Hancock ; Granger on James Rorimer .
  • (16) There’s nothing flash or trendy about it, just an immaculate, traditionally brewed, higher alcohol stout; a reminder that, for all the cool stuff going on in the beer world today, you can always learn from the past.
  • (17) At the pub on the island there was a concertina-player and we got the feeling – fuelled by pints of rich dark stout – that we were being absorbed into a community.
  • (18) The stout-candied air, high beams and heavy pews are reminiscent of church-scale pubs on Galway’s Quay Street, but the beams are hung with Arthurian standards.
  • (19) Cysteines 358, 421, and 424 are ligands to the Fe-S cluster in the inactive [3Fe-4S] (Robbins, A. H., and Stout, C. D. (1989) Proteins 5, 289-312) and active [4Fe-4S] (Robbins, A. H., and Stout, C. D. (1989) Proc.
  • (20) Solid and traditional, all acres of dark wood and stained glass, it prides itself on its list of around 18 mainly bottled Irish beers from such breweries as Kinsale, Hilden, Station Works, Farmageddon, Clever Man (look out for its Ejector Seat turf-smoked stout) and Hercules.

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