What's the difference between upshoot and upshot?

Upshoot


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To shoot upward.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Head turn, upshoot or downshoot of the adducted eye, and bilaterality may occasionally be present.
  • (2) An 11-year-old girl had Duane's retraction syndrome type III and upshoot and downshoot of the left eye.
  • (3) We conclude that some of the cases diagnosed as congenital superior oblique palsy, having a hypertropia increasing in adduction, in downgaze, in adduction-and-downgaze and on ipsilateral head-tilt, are in fact cases of unilateral strabismus sursoadductorius (upshoot in adduction), a non-paretic motility disorder.
  • (4) found in normal monkeys that disruption of fusion by one week of occlusion of one eye allowed abberrations of conjugate horizontal and vertical eye movement like upshoot-in-adduction to become manifest.
  • (5) Minimal vertical displacement of the lateral rectus muscle in relation to the orbit was noted both on upshoot and downshoot.
  • (6) Upshoot and downshoot of the adducted eye in Duane's retraction syndrome is thought to be caused by a bridle effect of the co-contracting horizontal recti muscles.
  • (7) Patients with Duane's retraction syndrome may have an associated upshoot or downshoot of the involved eye in adduction.
  • (8) A recession of both of these muscles transposes their insertions posteriorly in relation to the center of rotation of the globe, which reduces the bridle effect and decreases the upshoot and downshoot.

Upshot


Definition:

  • (n.) Final issue; conclusion; the sum and substance; the end; the result; the consummation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One upshot of this alliance is a weekly, free HIV testing and support service for sex workers in the Westminster area.
  • (2) The upshot of that is that the government's finances did the splits: the tax take collapsed just as welfare spending shot upwards.
  • (3) Perhaps the principal upshot of this was what would become known as the "impasse" in development studies.
  • (4) 39 min: After a 22-man debate about the rights and wrongs of the red card, hot heat particularly emanating from Puyol, the upshot of it all is that Barcelona have a free-kick just outside the Chelsea area.
  • (5) The New York Times Upshot model gives Democrats a 57% chance of winning the Senate, and may even seriously erode the Republican party’s tighter grip on the House of Representatives.
  • (6) A debt-to-GDP ratio in excess of 200% is the upshot of more than two decades of sluggish growth and repeated attempts to pump-prime the economy.
  • (7) The upshot of all this is simple, but so at odds with Westminster groupthink that it feels almost funny.
  • (8) The upshot is that fans will get a full day's action to watch in Paris .
  • (9) The upshot is that the Bank of Japan still has plenty of work to do to boost price pressures.” The Nikkei benchmark index opened sharply higher on Monday, gaining more than 3% off the back of gains on Wall Street and in Europe on Friday, as well as encouraging US retail sales figures.
  • (10) That’s what appears to be the upshot of the Gawker v Hulk Hogan trial so far.
  • (11) The upshot is that it's hard to compare this year's result to previous years.
  • (12) She depicts an exquisitely awkward meeting during which the dads had to be set to DIY, otherwise they would all have just sat around wondering whether or not to talk about cancer – the upshot of which was that they assembled her an exercise bike, which sits pristine in the corner of the room.
  • (13) But the upshot was that the elders allegedly said, 'Go back to Ann Cryer and tell her it's nothing to do with us.
  • (14) The upshot was that she had to go through a very challenging and upsetting complaints procedure over many, many months, even though the outcome was sanction of the old male academic in question.
  • (15) I've just spent half an hour on the phone to various Labour party people, and here is the not-exactly-revelatory upshot: " bigotgate " – if you want to call it that – is beyond grim.
  • (16) The upshot is that we would not necessarily expect a sustained rise in Treasury yields even if the Fed, perhaps mindful of the implications for its balance sheet and eventual exit strategy, does scale back its purchases later in the year.
  • (17) One upshot, some would argue, is that he fits bill of a classic lone wolf – a profile that had been much feared by security officials.
  • (18) The upshot, after a second meeting the following year, was an experiment: could they get to know each other by number-crunching their lives, one topic per week, with only a handful of coloured pens to bring their data to life?
  • (19) This is something that we can go out and make a real impact by casting a vote directly for the issue.’ I think the voters get that.” The upshot of the 2014 midterms: minimum wage is an issue that draws voters even without the multimillion-dollar campaigns devoted to other issues, like labelling genetically modified foods .
  • (20) While it may be the only standalone data journalism website, it’s competing with sections in numerous other newspapers: The Upshot, in the New York Times; Wonkblog in the Washington Post; and the Guardian’s own data blog (now five years old) to name just a handful.

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