What's the difference between tot and trot?

Tot


Definition:

  • (n.) Anything small; -- frequently applied as a term of endearment to a little child.
  • (n.) A drinking cup of small size, holding about half a pint.
  • (n.) A foolish fellow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Press Association tots up a total of £26bn in asset sales last year – including the state’s Eurostar stake, 30% of the Royal Mail and a slice of Lloyds.
  • (2) In Experiment 1, the definitions that Jones used with phonological interlopers created more TOTs even when no interlopers were presented.
  • (3) The results showed that both the TOT and NC were decreased by changing the body position from erect to recumbent.
  • (4) "Pulpit poofs" were hounded from the church, playground workers were exposed as "lesbians plotting to pervert nursery tots", celebrities such as Kenny Everett, Russell Harty and Freddie Mercury were hounded as diseased vermin.
  • (5) Following responses of No, TOT, and Yes to "Do you know his name?
  • (6) VOTs were identified more quickly than TOTs, and the two ears did not differ in consistency or speed of identification for either condition.
  • (7) Around the same time, the motor racing heiress Tamara Ecclestone totted up a champagne bill of £30,000 in one evening.
  • (8) A more uniform response in ventilatory timing was found at CO2 loaded ventilation and T degree max as well as the total duration of the ventilatory cycle (T degree tot) were significantly longer than (T1) (P less than 0.01) and (Ttot) (P less than 0.05) respectively.
  • (9) In so far as can be gleaned , the 120,000 families whose feral ways Mr Pickles and the prime minister like pointing to were totted up using outdated surveys concerned not with the school skiving, crime and loutishness that dominated yesterday's spin.
  • (10) New TOT-efficient lines were more readily established from parenterally infected Ae.
  • (11) Highly significant (p less than 0.001) synchronous sinusoidal seasonal cycles, peaking in the first month of winter, were demonstrated for plasma levels of total (TOT-C), low-density lipoprotein (LDL-C), and high-density lipoprotein (HDL-C) cholesterol.
  • (12) In contrast tot he healthy children (mean PCV 35.90%), the sick children had a mean PCV of 31.70 +or- 6.95%.
  • (13) Significant morbidity, particularly neurologic deficit and hemorrhage, may occur due tot the nature and location of lateral skull base tumors.
  • (14) Back-hybridization of poly(A(+))-RNA(tot) and poly(A(+))-RNA(11S) to their respective (3)H-cDNA revealed a highly abundant class representing 41% and 85% of the sequences in their respective (3)H-cDNA's.
  • (15) Results confirmed both expectations: (1) for the brain-injured group, TOT was lower and did not improve across trials; moreover, the number of recall errors was higher, increasing across trials; (2) for the control group, the number of recall errors was negligible across trials and TOT improved with time; (3) the normal trade-off between two simultaneous difficult tasks was not observed in the brain-injured group as they failed in both tasks; (4) the number of recall errors of the brain-injured subjects markedly increased towards the end of each trial, suggesting rapidly increasing fatigue.
  • (16) Part of this disparity may be due tot he inefficiency to previous sizing methods in measuring ultrafine size range, to evaluate size distribution of smoke from standard research cigarettes, commercial filter cigarettes, and from marijuana cigarettes with different delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol contents.
  • (17) They reported that interlopers that were phonologically related to the target word increased the incidence of TOTs and concluded that this supported Woodworth's position.
  • (18) Last month I was given unrestricted access to the enormous archive the PCGG has assembled in its years of global detective work: the president’s handwritten diary, frequently puffed with self-regard; the notepaper headed “From the office of the president”, with scribbled sums endlessly totting up his cash; minutes of company meetings with his comments scrawled in the margins; contracts; “side agreements”; records of multiple bank accounts; hundreds of share certificates; private investigators’ reports; and tens of thousands of pages of court judgments.
  • (19) Analysis of poly(A(+))-RNA(tot) and poly(A(+))-RNA(11S) under denaturing conditions on 2% agarose gel electrophoresis demonstrated two major components in both poly(A(+))-RNA populations.
  • (20) Our kind waiter, Paul, delighted our tot with her own special jug and cup, and steaming bowlfuls of spätzle pasta.

Trot


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.
  • (n.) Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry.
  • (v. t.) To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
  • (v. i.) The pace of a horse or other quadruped, more rapid than a walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, in which one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side are lifted at the same time.
  • (v. i.) Fig.: A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying.
  • (v. i.) One who trots; a child; a woman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All horses underwent a gradually increasing exercise programme consisting of walking and trotting beginning one week after the first injection and continuing for 24 weeks.
  • (2) In the rotatory and transverse gallop (examples of the in-phase form of locomotion) the coupling is asymmetrical: on one side it is comparable to pacing (forelimb flexion precedes hindlimb extension), and on the other side to trotting (forelimb flexion follows extension).
  • (3) Simeone, despite having received his marching orders, trots up to accept his gong from Michel Platini.
  • (4) Taken together, these results are consistent with the notion that, in normal cat locomotion up to a medium trot, anterior thigh motoneurons are progressively recruited in an orderly fashion.
  • (5) For example, as a junior working in the neonatal intensive care unit at King’s College hospital in 2004, I worked seven 15-hour night shifts on the trot.
  • (6) They trot through the car park to the Merc and are on the motorway in minutes.
  • (7) The sea I could take or leave, but the trotting was amazing.
  • (8) The trotting category (Civettictis civetta, Ichneumia albicauda) is characterized by longer epipodials and metapodials and a more proximal position of muscle bellies.
  • (9) US network ABC has commissioned a new documentary-style series following Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear et al, and their everyday travails rather than the globe-trotting, song-and-dance adventures that have characterised their film outings.
  • (10) The timing interval between the onset of knee extensor EMG (vastus lateralis) and the onset of the ipsilateral elbow flexor EMG (brachialis) was studied in adult cats during overground walking, trotting and galloping.
  • (11) An attack on Syria or Iran or any other US "demon" would draw on a fashionable variant, "Responsibility to Protect", or R2P – whose lectern-trotting zealot is the former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans , co-chair of a " global centre " based in New York.
  • (12) Evidence used to convict the trio included photographs of Greste’s parents; a song by the musician Gotye; footage of trotting horses; and a press conference in Kenya.
  • (13) The luteal activity in mares was studied in the Equine Research Station (ERS) and in trotting stables (TS) in South-Finland.
  • (14) Of all the excuses for doing nothing, the argument most often trotted out is that whatever contribution Britain, or even the whole EU, made to reducing carbon emissions would be more than offset by the rapid growth of coal-fired power stations in China.
  • (15) A brief blast of hot heat, but soon everyone's smiling as they trot back up the pitch.
  • (16) The new commissions come on top of a number of forthcoming dramas, including Dahl’s Esio Trot and an adaptation of JK Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy.
  • (17) Clinton, while trotting out her plan on college affordability , has been robust in her attacks on Republican candidates of late – speaking out against gaffes on women’s reproductive rights from Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio.
  • (18) The interlude lasted barely 10 seconds before the vixen trotted out and resumed her nocturnal warbling.
  • (19) Paul Ryan gave a speech as well, and it delivered hormone-injected red meat to a hungry crowd, but it didn't show anyone anything new: In fact, he has been trotting out pieces of it to the stump ever since he accepted the position.
  • (20) Interlimb co-ordination typical of swimming (or trotting) in adult quadrupedal vertebrates was already present on postnatal day 1, and so apparently the neural pattern generating circuitry for this behaviour is already established by this stage.

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