What's the difference between toed and towed?

Toed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Toe
  • (a.) Having (such or so many) toes; -- chiefly used in composition; as, narrow-toed, four-toed.
  • (a.) Having the end secured by nails driven obliquely, said of a board, plank, or joist serving as a brace, and in general of any part of a frame secured to other parts by diagonal nailing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Scottish defence did well not to panic, there, as Walcott's twinkle-toed run had penalty written all over it.
  • (2) The repair tissue then grows along and over the "toed-in" catilage.
  • (3) Although the retinal organization differs from that of the closely related three-toed sloth, the presumed function of retinal specializations in both species is to guide limb movements by permitting visualization of the branch along which the animal is climbing.
  • (4) Fiona, by email Well, Fiona, I could, I guess, regale you with the usual guff about pointy-toed flats and midi-length skirts, and all that would be true, to a certain point.
  • (5) Streatfeild has said he now feels "ashamed" at the way he had previously toed the line for the MoD, defending kit that he knew was inadequate for the task at hand.
  • (6) It was with the Emilia-Romagna outfit that Berardi first broke through as a twinkle-toed teenager and it is with them that he remains, in spite of a goalscoring record that even the greats would envy.
  • (7) The cellular composition and relative frequency of the occurrence of pancreatic endocrine cells were studied immunohistochemically in a primitive eutherian and arboreal folivore, the three-toed sloth, since previous histochemical and ultrastructural studies on the endocrine pancreas of the sloth have detected only a single islet cell type, the A cell.
  • (8) The intestinal of the 3-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, was studied macroscopically, with light microscope and with histochemical methods for mucosubstances.
  • (9) Media meddling Since Sisi’s overthrow of Morsi, most of Egypt’s media has largely toed the government line.
  • (10) Congenital metatarsus adductus, a deformity at the tarsometatarsal joints in which the metatarsals are deviated internally in relation to transverse plane, predisposes to "pigeon-toed" gait.
  • (11) The United team was strong on paper, with Rooney and Van Persie supported by the twinkle-toed Juan Mata and Adnan Januzaj.
  • (12) "She strapped up, toed the line and broke the junior record.
  • (13) It has recently been the source of three new kinds of plant, a trapdoor spider , another snail and new kind of Bent-toed Gecko .
  • (14) Physical measures to prevent tick bites include avoiding tick-infested areas, wearing light-colored clothing for easy identification of crawling ticks, regularly checking the body and pets for ticks, wearing protective garments and closed-toed shoes, and removing attached ticks promptly by using tweezers or forceps to apply a steady upward pull.
  • (15) Antibodies were detected in eight species of birds (Aves, Passeriformes) and in 22 mammalian species: one species of marsupiales (Marsupialia), 3 species of carnivores (Carnivora), seven species of rodents (Rodentia), two species of rabbits and hares (Lagomorpha), in 8 species of even-toed ungulates (Artiodactyla) and one species of odd-toed ungulates (Perissodactyla).
  • (16) The known Amazonian mammalian species with natural histoplasmosis now total five, the previously reported species being the spiny rat Proechimys guyannensis, the two-toed sloth Choloepus didactylus and the nine-banded armadillo Dasypus novemcinctus.
  • (17) The ladies did not mind, even though their shoes were all open-toed.
  • (18) Cold bites my double-socked feet within steel-toed wellies.
  • (19) Dirofilaria panamensis, parasite of the two-toed sloth, Cholopeus hoffmanni, in Panama, was previously described as Dirofilaria incrassata by Caballero (1947), but can be distinguished from both D. macrodemos and D. incrassata on the basis of body size (female 66 mm long by 360 micron wide, male 34 mm long by 250 micron wide), tail length (female 80 micron, male 80 micron), and number (6 pairs) of caudal papillae in the male.
  • (20) Four artiodactyl (even-toed hoofed mammal) papillomaviruses, the cottontail rabbit papillomavirus, and avian (chaffinch) papillomavirus type 1 formed a third major branch.

Towed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Tow

Example Sentences:

  • (1) About tow amyloid tumors diagnosed because of oropharyngeous signs, the authors remind the main symptoms at the upper airway and ENT tracts; the local, regional and general treatment will be discussed.
  • (2) Rebels succeeded in hitting one of the helicopters with a Tow missile, forcing it to make an emergency landing.
  • (3) The incidents allegedly occurred after Australian authorities were called to assist an asylum seeker boat that ran aground on an island near Darwin on New Year’s Day, and towed back to Indonesia, as part of the Abbott government’s policy of “turning back the boats”.
  • (4) Newly arrived in London from upstate New York, Ruthie remembers Rose, who was 10 years older, as bohemian, exotic and exciting, bursting with energy, despite the three young children in tow.
  • (5) Maritime search experts said this meant acoustic hydrophones would usually be towed in the water at depths of up to 2km in order to have the best chance of hearing the signals.
  • (6) But police are now using any means to crack down on the growing number of sex-work vans, namely parking tickets and tow-trucks.
  • (7) It was then towed out to sea by a navy vessel and has not been seen since.
  • (8) Twenty two cases of Guillian-Barré syndrome were studied at the Children's Hospital of the City of Morelia (State of Michoacán, México), in a four-year period; such that number represents tow out 1 000 of the patients hospitalized in that length of time.
  • (9) Recent media reports stated that boats had been towed back towards Indonesia.
  • (10) The TPL-25 Towed Pinger Locator System is able to locate black boxes on downed Navy and commercial aircraft down to a maximum depth of 20,000 feet anywhere in the world.
  • (11) With the tow substrates, 1-palmitoyl-2[9,10-3H] palmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine and 1,2(1-14C) dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine, the majority of organically extracted label, after thin-layer chromatography, was recovered as radiolabeled diglyceride, confirming the presence of phospholipase C. Diglyceride levels were found to be closely correlated with [3H]choline (slope, 0.9820; r = 0.9844).
  • (12) The reduction in content of unsaturated fatty acids concerned all phospholipid classes in one patient and only the choline phospholipids in the tow other patients who were related to each other.
  • (13) Government soldiers who were trying to tow a damaged ambulance out of the partly ruined town of Luhanske admitted that anyone who went further down the highway towards Debaltseve would come under heavy fire from rebel small arms and artillery.
  • (14) "Chisora climbed down from the top table," he said, "removed his robe and then walked towards me, entourage in tow, in an aggressive manner.
  • (15) But this is not that occasion, and in the beige-on-beige meeting room at Burberry's HQ in London, with David Yelland, the ex-editor of the Sun, and her PR minder in tow, it's not quite so chummy.
  • (16) A tow-compartment open model was used in the pharmacokinetic analysis of the data.
  • (17) So I towed my little oil platform all the way down to the south again.
  • (18) The intrinsic processes contributing to the three discharge patterns of proprioceptive cuneate neurons described by Surmeier and Towe were studied experimentally and with computer simulation.
  • (19) The drag coefficient was high compared with that of phocid seals examined during gliding or towing experiments, indicating an increased drag encumbered by actively swimming seals.
  • (20) They also produced soft boots with Velcro straps, parent-friendly, one-strap bindings (though kids can also ride without) and a Riglet Reel tow rope that tacks on to the front of the board so that you can pull your toddler along like an errant spaniel, while giving them a good idea of the snow-riding sensation they are aiming for.

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