What's the difference between aitch and itch?

Aitch


Definition:

  • (n.) The letter h or H.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 10.12pm GMT Patriots 3-20 Broncos, 2:25, 3rd quarter Dan Aitch (@aitch_dan) @HunterFelt It's over.
  • (2) In the gloom of Aitches ale house, a favourite watering hole for oilmen coming ashore after working on the North Sea rigs, the barman spoke for well-paid customers who want things to stay the way they are: " It's all no in here, mate.
  • (3) Updated at 10.26pm GMT 10.14pm GMT Dan Aitch (@aitch_dan) @LengelDavid Can't wait to see Philip Rivers 'scream and scream until he's sick' next time there's a delay of game.
  • (4) Updated at 11.21pm BST 11.19pm BST QPR have signed Niko Kranjcar and Benoit Assou-Ekotto and Tom Carroll, Aitch confirms through his car window, natch.
  • (5) A few days later, drop your aitches, or talk as if English is not your first language, and see if you receive the same service.
  • (6) Dan Aitch (@aitch_dan) @HunterFelt @Paolo_Bandini "Unsportsmanlike Premiership-style simulation, no.1, offense."
  • (7) Dan Aitch (@aitch_dan) @GdnUSsports @HunterFelt @LengelDavid The baseball season is still going?
  • (8) Iain Aitch, a Margate-born journalist, has helped make a series of “Ukip put me off my beer” beermats to distribute around local pubs.
  • (9) 10.48pm BST Tweets Dan Aitch (@aitch_dan) @HunterFelt Akin to last night, RISPs and LOBs will make or break @Dodgers tonight.
  • (10) Maggie Aitch (@FreeBesieged) Seems to me #Miliband is talking about things that REALLY matter to ordinary folk - not the scapoegoats being pushed by #Tory media .
  • (11) Dan Aitch (@aitch_dan) @HunterFelt This just doesn't look like the Dodgers night, again.
  • (12) Dan Aitch (@aitch_dan) @HunterFelt Kershaw needs to stop bouncing pitches or, with men on base, 'there may be trouble ahead'.
  • (13) As we have seen with the “three aitches” – Hinkley , Heathrow and HS2 – May is putty in the hands of any costly pressure group that pops over the horizon and gets itself tabloid support.

Itch


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.
  • (v. i.) To have a constant desire or teasing uneasiness; to long for; as, itching ears.
  • (n.) An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic mite (the Sarcoptes scabei), and attended with itching. It is transmissible by contact.
  • (n.) Any itching eruption.
  • (n.) A sensation in the skin occasioned (or resembling that occasioned) by the itch eruption; -- called also scabies, psora, etc.
  • (n.) A constant irritating desire.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The effects of the depth of injection and of skin temperature on the latency, magnitude, and duration of itch were examined.
  • (2) It was found that medrysone (1%) significantly improved the symptoms of itching, watering, photophobia and hyperaemia, while sodium cromoglycate (2%) was found to be ineffective.
  • (3) Treatments for jock itch include anti-fungal ointments and lotions, or anti-fungal pills for severe cases.
  • (4) The speediest effect was registered for sneezing, followed by nasal catarrh, nasal itching, and blocking.
  • (5) We reviewed 52 reports in the literature of the use of epidural and spinal opiates to assess the incidence of itching and found an overall incidence of 8.5% in patients receiving epidural opiates, and 46% in patients receiving spinal opiates.
  • (6) Side effects with OTFC were more frequent: nose itching occurred in 65%, body itching in 10%, and vomiting in 30%.
  • (7) Itching appeared before erythema in 83% of subjects and within 5-8 min after instillation of the allergen.
  • (8) Topical BDP by both methods of delivery was rapidly effective in decreasing mean nasal obstruction, rhinorrhea, sneezing, and itching symptoms as well as mean eye symptoms with no statistically significant differences between them.
  • (9) Chlorpheniramine given alone produced no significant benefit whilst cimetidine alone produced a marked exacerbation in itching in nearly half the patients who initially entered the study and was sufficient to require withdrawal.
  • (10) But the ad any American politico worth his salt would be itching to make would open thus.
  • (11) The treatment proved to be effective in those with toxicoderma, secondary xanthomatosis, porphyria cutanea tarda, skin itching, and urticaria, particularly in the cases when toxic exposures and gastrointestinal conditions contributed to the disease pathogenesis.
  • (12) Degrees of itching were estimated before and for 6 months after a fourth dose of ivermectin or placebo was given to 97 subjects in Sierra Leone.
  • (13) "Itching" was the most frequent complaint, encountered in 20 (69%) of the study patient.
  • (14) For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths."
  • (15) And even more scary, I have a drillion moles all over my body, some of which have now started itching, on my back.
  • (16) PUPP is a specific eruptive dermatosis in pregnancy, clinically characterized by erythematous papules and plaques with intense itching in periumbilical localization.
  • (17) Severity of itching was determined by a visual linear analogue scale.
  • (18) Giant papillary conjunctivitis (GPC) is largely a soft contact lens-related syndrome, characterized by the formation of giant papillae on the upper tarsal conjunctiva, itching, excess mucus, erythema, and contact lens intolerance.
  • (19) Therapeutic response was assessed according to the suppression of symptoms and symptom diary scores of daily itching and frequency, number, size, and duration of hives.
  • (20) The study which was carried out in 20 patients confirmed the lack of collateral effects on the fetus, mother (except for slight itching in 25% of cases) and the progress of labour.

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