What's the difference between tout and tut?

Tout


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To act as a tout. See 2d Tout.
  • (v. i.) To ply or seek for customers.
  • (n.) One who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training, to get information about their capabilities, for use in betting.
  • (v. i.) To toot a horn.
  • (n.) The anus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The party she led still touts itself as the bunch you can trust with the nation's money.
  • (2) Nevertheless, the historic poll is being touted by foreign governments as the first credible election in half a century.
  • (3) For example, the Basics Card is touted as an innovative policy when in fact it offers repugnant flashbacks to last century’s mission days when Aboriginal people had their bank accounts controlled by the state.
  • (4) If the Bicep2 result stands, the observation will be touted as evidence for cosmic inflation, the rapid expansion of the universe around a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second after the big bang.
  • (5) Adelson has touted the merits of a Trump trip to Israel and is working with conservative allies to lay the groundwork for a visit this summer, according to multiple sources close to the casino owner.
  • (6) The American musician’s unexpected political intervention came in the wake of a much-touted but ultimately disappointing dialogue between government officials and student leaders.
  • (7) Both tout their domestic credentials and experiences of motherhood.
  • (8) Bush marked his 100 days with a barnstorming tour of six states in four days to tout his achievements.
  • (9) In their zeal to tout their faith in the public square, conservatives in Oklahoma may have unwittingly opened the door to a wide range of religious groups, including Satanists who are seeking to put their own statue next to a Ten Commandments monument outside the statehouse.
  • (10) The coalition's much-touted manufacturing renaissance is so far confined to a roundabout of hi-tech firms in east London, and British industry remains largely a bit-player, making and assembling parts for foreign companies.
  • (11) Culture secretary Sajid Javid has said that ticket touts are “classic entrepreneurs” and their detractors are the “chattering middle classes and champagne socialists, who have no interest in helping the common working man earn a decent living by acting as a middleman”.
  • (12) Indeed, politicians of all stripes love to tout the adversity their parents overcame so that their children could be successful and live comfortably.
  • (13) At the event on Wednesday, Giuliani touted his record of surveilling mosques after the 1993 World Trade Center attack “I put undercover agents in mosques for the first time in January 1994,” he said.
  • (14) When Zuley came down, they were able to tout him as ‘Hell yeah, he’s just like you guys, he’s a detective’ and this and that,” Fallon said.
  • (15) Due to a decade of tri-annual BBC2 exposure, dogged Dantean circuits of provincial comedy venues, conscious manipulation of vulnerable broadsheet opinion formers and undeserved good luck, I am now popular enough to have caught the eye of touts or, as we now dignify them, Secondary Ticketing Agents™.
  • (16) Fiber is currently being touted as protection against colon cancer.
  • (17) Worthy accoucheurs will have planned for this event and will have selected from the numerous procedures touted for its correction that group he or she intuitively feels will be most effective or, at a minimum, most easily remembered.
  • (18) When blatant falsehoods are presented as truth on critical questions - by a film that touts itself as a journalistic presentation of actual events - insisting on apolitical appreciation of this "art" is indeed a reckless abdication.
  • (19) Numerous documents prove that executives at leading banks, credit agencies, and mortgage brokers were falsely touting assets as sound that knew were junk: the very definition of fraud.
  • (20) Three possible candidates touted to become Iran’s next supreme leader: Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani: The 80-year-old moderate politician was among the founding members of the Islamic republic and its president, from 1989 to 1997.

Tut


Definition:

  • () Be still; hush; -- an exclamation used for checking or rebuking.
  • (n.) An imperial ensign consisting of a golden globe with a cross on it.
  • (n.) A hassock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He would later tut-tut about this, as an error of judgment, and as a cause of relief to him that he was outbid.
  • (2) This manifests itself as a bit of a grimace when a kiddie pops up in front of his gun, a tut when colleagues show a lack of concern for collateral damage. "
  • (3) Menogaril (TUT-7) is a novel antitumor antibiotic belonging to anthracyclines.
  • (4) Shorter operative time and less post-operative bleeding were found in the TUT group, which included 3 failures.
  • (5) The chorus of tut-tutting reached such a volume – from small-town gossip to high politics – that her friends felt duty bound to intervene.
  • (6) In mouse L 1210 leukemia system, antitumor activity of TUT-7 administered orally was as good as that by i.v.
  • (7) Nothing of it shows above ground; 20ft down is a confused, inaccessible jumble of rooms, corridors and frescoes, buried beyond the reach of the public, an enormous Tut's tomb with nothing of value in it.
  • (8) Their successors tut at Cameron’s talk of swarms.
  • (9) Fantasy fancies Recent discussion of Kristen Stewart , the actor whose mother may or may not have confirmed her bisexuality, has been accompanied by clapping and tutting – but not a lot of self-examination.
  • (10) routes, were better than that of adriamycin administered i.v.. TUT-7 showed antitumor activities against various mouse tumors (L 1210 leukemia, P 388 leukemia, colon 38 adenocarcinoma, B 16 melanoma), LX-1 human tumor xenografts, and Yoshida sarcoma in rat.
  • (11) It was like trying to get into King Tut’s Tomb, downloading five apps to access the fucking thing.” The particular structure of the film, she said – one scene in the final reel especially – had her weeping with nerves as to whether she would be able to manage such extended sequence without recourse to easy edits.
  • (12) The antitumor activity of TUT-7, a new anthracycline compound, was compared to that of adriamycin in the screening system with rat ascites hepatomas.
  • (13) In some quarters, Celebgate prompted hand-wringing and tut-tutting about contemporary mores from Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells.
  • (14) You know how frustrating it is when you put a cartridge in your printer, and it tuts at you about “not an approved part”, after which, printing becomes even more of a lottery than usual?
  • (15) If you are lucky, he might even tut at you for joining the wrong queue (it's a confusing system, OK, Mr Katsouris?
  • (16) TU3 was as effective as TUT-cocktail in inhibition of PHA response and CTL generation but unlike TUT spared NK effectors.
  • (17) Enter, tutting, Gillian Anderson , an Arctic roll in a pencil skirt.
  • (18) But more than anything, it's about the sense of entitlement, the presupposition that an entire page of a national newspaper should be given over to the sexual gratification of men, and we should tut and tolerate and turn the other cheek while the Sun's anti-rape campaign languishes in the women's section, as our problem.
  • (19) When it didn't run on time, I was shouted at, tutted at, and reminded of how much money I'd lost the company.
  • (20) Mascherano doesn’t laugh, but he tuts instead, shaking his head in that way players do when the possibility of Brazil exiting a World Cup is mentioned.

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