Utu vs Ute - What's the difference?
utu | ute |
(New Zealand) Recompense, payback; revenge.
* 2008 , Christina Thompson, Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All , Bloomsbury 2009, p. 129:
* 2011 , Andrew Alderson, New Zealand Herald , 19 Sep 2011:
(Australia, New Zealand) A small vehicle based on the same platform as a family car but with a unibody construction and a built-in open tray area for carrying goods; similar but not identical to a pick-up truck.
* 2007 , Sheryl Persson, The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia , Exisle Publishing, Australia,
* 2008 , Penelope Adams, Why Women Are Stupid , Lulu,
* 2009 , Damian Veltri, Bandt, Louis (Lewis) Thornett (1910-1987)'', entry in Dianne Lingmore, Darryl Bennet (editors), ''Australian Dictionary of Biography , Volume 17 1981-1990: A-K,
As nouns the difference between utu and ute
is that utu is recompense, payback; revenge while ute is a small vehicle based on the same platform as a family car but with a unibody construction and a built-in open tray area for carrying goods; similar but not identical to a pick-up truck.As proper nouns the difference between utu and ute
is that utu is a Sumerian deity, in Sumerian mythology, Utu is the son of the moon god Nanna and the goddess Ningal while Ute is a Native American people of Utah, Colorado and New Mexico.As an initialism UTU
is the Ulster teacher's union.utu
English
Noun
- Utu demanded that both favors and grievances be repaid in kind, but it was the grievances, naturally, that caused the most trouble.
- The match had been touted as a chance for utu after the 1999 and 2007 All Blacks World Cup defeats.
ute
English
Noun
(en noun)page 40,
- The Reverend John Flynn, a man of simple tastes, was always recognisable in the outback, dressed in a suit, driving an old ute and puffing on a pipe.
page 105,
- Still, given the choice between being stuck behind a ute' in tropical scenery and spending four to five hours driving through stretches of semi-desert, I?d rather have the ' ute -plus-heart-attack.
page 55,
- A sample body was made in 1933 and the first utilities, or ‘utes'’, rolled off the production line next year. Dubbed ‘the Kangaroo Chaser’ by Henry Ford when Bandt displayed two examples in Detroit, United States of America, in 1935, the ' ute was quickly recognised as the ideal farmers? vehicle.