What's the difference between woof and woon?

Woof


Definition:

  • (n.) The threads that cross the warp in a woven fabric; the weft; the filling; the thread usually carried by the shuttle in weaving.
  • (n.) Texture; cloth; as, a pall of softest woof.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Together with his late wife Janet, he wrote 37 titles including perennial favourites The Jolly Postman and Burglar Bill, and by himself he is the author of many more, including The Pencil, and Woof!
  • (2) While the slackening of the woof and the dimension of the meshes are minimal at both the beginning and end of the cycle, they reach a maximum on forteenth day.
  • (3) Well Dave genuinely thought the reptiles would go mad for tantric sex lolz because when he tested it in cabinet people were seriously woof, Govey was so hysterical that Haguey was like, hark at Lady Govina, titter ye not missus & Picklesy kept shouting encore, so Dave said funny you should ask, well they have this position called the BT engineer as in you stay in all day and no one comes.
  • (4) I think the difficult thing is just having to juggle your career and your spare time with a dog,” she tells me when we meet for our cutesily termed “welcome woof”, a brief rendezvous to check all three of us are happy at the prospect of handing over the leash.
  • (5) In some ways the former possibility, the woof-woof hypothesis, is the more entertaining.
  • (6) Smarter pseudonymous writers than I have explained why people like King and network TV hosts simultaneously call America the greatest nation on earth and explain that it’s in dire existential danger at the slightest jihadi woofing, and that’s because it moves the dial.
  • (7) The use of the Scanning Electron Microscope has made it possible through observation to study the human cervical mucus through the various stages of the ovarian cycle, as well as to describe the significant variations of the meshed woof making up the ultrastructure during the ovarian cycle.
  • (8) Last week Sir Nicholas Soames started 'woofing' when SNP MP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh was speaking in the house Davis’s subsequent text messages have now been made public, where he says he wouldn’t hug Abbott because “I am not blind”.
  • (9) Last week Sir Nicholas Soames started “woofing” or making barking noises when SNP MP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh was speaking in the house.
  • (10) He was… woofing ,” she says (Soames later apologised for having “woofed” at Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, an SNP MP).

Woon


Definition:

  • (n.) Dwelling. See Wone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The executive council convenor, Lam Woon-kwong, insisted the Monday deadline was not an ultimatum, but urged protesters to disperse.
  • (2) That leaves the youngest, Kim Jong-woon (also known as Jong-un).
  • (3) As police tear gas rained down on student protesters, Chan Tsz-woon grabbed his Canon 50D camera and raced to the frontline.
  • (4) Subs: Woon-Jae Lee, Oh, Hyung-il Kim, Nam-Il Kim, Bo-Kyung Kim, Ahn, Seung-Youl Lee, Dong-Jin Kim, Yeom, Dong-Gook Lee, Kang, Young-Kwang Kim.
  • (5) Photograph: Chan Tsz Woon In an email to The Guardian, one of Hong Kong’s biggest cinema chains, UA Cinemas, said it had not been approached about screening Yellowing and said it would not “perform any political censorship at all”.
  • (6) I think independent film producers have the responsibility to document what mainstream media failed to report on.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Chan says of the film: ‘I think independent film producers have the responsibility to document what mainstream media failed to report on.’ Photograph: Chan Tsz Woon But on the eve of the protests’ second anniversary, Chan claims all of Hong Kong’s major cinemas are refusing to show his film, the result, he suspects, of creeping self-censorship as businesses shy away from offending Beijing.

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