What's the difference between stomp and tromp?

Stomp


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To stamp with the foot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nearest to Camburi and swimming distance from Praia Preta (Black Beach), this discerning, four-suite luxury home in Barra do Sahy is overseen by a Texan, who has stomped her Big-Oil-Meets-Brazil footprint all over it.
  • (2) I’m not sure that France or Italy would be our stomping ground, but I wouldn’t mind giving it a go.
  • (3) Images of her being dragged and stomped on - her black abaya cloak torn open to reveal her naked torso and blue bra - became a rallying symbol for the revolution and undermined the interim military rulers who held power between Mubarak's fall and Morsi's rise.
  • (4) The documentary moves beyond the charity's work to show British expatriates in Kenya; one stompingly posh woman remarks they have "a wildly gay time" there, and she feels that "even in their poverty, [the Kenyan people] are basically happy".
  • (5) She's like a bull stomping its hooves before a charge.
  • (6) One undercover officer, Peter Francis , who infiltrated anti-racist groups for four years, has described how he felt as if he was “stomping on the grave” of the four-year-old boy whose identity he used .
  • (7) In 2007 he was a convincing lead in Puppet Rapist , a five-part mock-cop show also scripted by Ford, which shares thematic stomping ground with Robot & Frank.
  • (8) Since Scott’s death it has also emerged that the second officer on the scene, Clarence Habersham – an African American – is the subject of a separate lawsuit in which the complainant states he was stomped in the face while handcuffed by a group of officers .
  • (9) The fight ends with you stomping the last remaining vitality from the hapless construction worker's blood-squirting body.
  • (10) The models' hair was styled into outsize saucers, their lashes and brows powdered white; they wore Black Watch tartan and scowled as they stomped.
  • (11) One component of precopulatory behavior (foot stomping) was not affected by EB.
  • (12) A very sharp-suited Alex Turner and band stomp through Do I Wanna Know?.
  • (13) Wilson described Brown as a “demon” – as an “it” – as a monstrous creature, stomping and huffing, and building up momentum for a final assault, like the Incredible Hulk – all comic-book id and no superego.
  • (14) Teachers demonstrated this by sending the wrapped present around and having each student stomp on it.
  • (15) "You'd get stomped while you were trying to figure out which setting to use," he concludes.
  • (16) Watching X Factor stars dodge foul-smelling flying objects Last year, Cher Lloyd got a soaking thanks to some airborne bottles of urine and stomped off after only two songs.
  • (17) Newspaper cartoonists made hay with the idea of Bill stomping all over his wife’s campaign.
  • (18) Pussy Riot are feted by the British establishment, but what would happen if a female punk band was prosecuted for stomping on the altar steps of St Paul’s Cathedral, singing abuse of the Queen?
  • (19) Back in Budapest, watching Charli and her all-girl band on stage, it's easy to see the appeal: live, she is a force, years of arena support slots whirled into a show full of wild mane-flicking, stomping, impressive back bends and tongue-waggling.
  • (20) Gerbils with either large anterior or posterior lesions were compared with normal gerbils by administering a battery of tests of rodent behaviours such as grooming, eating, social interaction, ventral marking and foot-stomping.

Tromp


Definition:

  • (n.) A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace.
  • (n.) Alt. of Trompe

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tromp made investigations of a weather effect on erythrocyte sedimentation rates (ESR) of human blood by routine checks of the blood of donor groups in Leiden from 1955 to 1985.
  • (2) This week, Victoria was chatting backstage about the "huge juggling act" of working motherhood, and singing the praises of her trompe l'oeil skirt-and-shirt dresses: "It's great to have something that you can just stand in, zip up and go."
  • (3) With co-founder Kim Deal having left the band last year, the new album was created by Black Francis, Joey Santiago and David Lovering, with help from long-time producer Gil Norton, who worked on Doolittle, Bossanova and Trompe le Monde.
  • (4) In contrast, no aggregation of TROMP was present in treponemes incubated in normal rabbit serum for 16 h or in treponemes incubated in IRS for 2 h. These findings suggest that the rate of C activation leading to in vitro treponemicidal activity is limited by the time required for aggregation of antibody-bound TROMP molecules.
  • (5) An influence of the weather on ESR was also found, but this seems to be more complicated than Tromp supposed.
  • (6) Playing the stricken Ron Woodruff, in Dallas Buyers Club , McConaughey is reptilian, feverish and emaciated, containing just the element of trompe l’oeil the Academy has learned to consider “acting”.
  • (7) The Pixies have confirmed details of their first studio album since 1991's Trompe le Monde.
  • (8) My favourites are a trompe l'oeil elephant on a rock and a giant spindly woman holding a waterfall.
  • (9) Field and laboratory studies established the development time of all the phases of Oedemagena tarandi and Cephenemyia trompe in different climatic zones of their habitat.
  • (10) Fruchtman got round this by half-unbricking the walls of the court and hiding the cameras inside, then employing an ingenious trompe-l’oeil system involving reflective white paint and chicken wire.
  • (11) T. pallidum rare outer membrane protein (TROMP) molecules were shown in freeze-fracture electron micrographs to be consistently aggregated following a 16-h incubation of treponemes in IRS.
  • (12) The first giant trick is Andrea Pozzo 's trompe l'oeil ceiling fresco which uses foreshortening to create an astoundingly realistic vision of the founder of the Society of Jesus soaring towards paradise to be welcomed by Christ (no, the Jesuits never were modest).
  • (13) The marines were surrounded by armed men and captured on Sunday after landing near Sirte in a Lynx helicopter that was on board a navy ship, HMS Tromp, which is anchored off the Libyan coast to help evacuations, Dutch defence ministry spokesman Otte Beeksma said.
  • (14) Photograph: Aitken Jolly for the Observer "Katrantzou can do 'concept'," said Vogue 's Sarah Mower, reviewing her latest collection admiringly, one that veered away from the trompe l'oeil that she's become quietly famous for, and towards prints inspired by fields of tulips and crushed-car sculptures.
  • (15) Chem., in press] and T. brucei 427 [Hensgens, L.A.M., Brackenhoff, J., De Vries, B.F., Sloof, P., Tromp, M.C., Van Boom, J.H.
  • (16) On one artists created a witty trompe l'oeil of a suburban street apparently beyond the wall , an optimistic reminder of what the roads used to be like.
  • (17) "This smacks of over-zealous policemen with little cultural understanding, tromping about the Tate in their hobnail boots, to the cultural deficit of society and this exhibition," Stephens told the Art Newspaper.
  • (18) The phenological and ecological features of O. tarandi and C. trompe in the aforesaid zones were identified which are the basis for scientifically grounded prophylactic measures.