What's the difference between belch and burp?

Belch


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To eject or throw up from the stomach with violence; to eruct.
  • (v. i.) To eject violently from within; to cast forth; to emit; to give vent to; to vent.
  • (v. i.) To eject wind from the stomach through the mouth; to eructate.
  • (v. i.) To issue with spasmodic force or noise.
  • (n.) The act of belching; also, that which is belched; an eructation.
  • (n.) Malt liquor; -- vulgarly so called as causing eructation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A bus belching smoke in Bogotá Pretty dirty.
  • (2) After this operation symptoms such as dysphagia, inability to belch and vomit, and gas bloating are frequently reported in the literature.
  • (3) It describes the advantages of maternal milk by attending the basic principles that should govern the children's feeding, the importance of free scheme breast-feeding to emotional development, as well as ventral and right side-lying position and belching to the prevention of accidents.
  • (4) Air pollution was not the most immediate of problems but the canopy of smoke that belched from industrial and domestic chimneys began to attract attention.
  • (5) The rapid acidification is caused by the massive amounts of carbon dioxide belched from chimneys and exhausts that dissolve in the ocean.
  • (6) Good results included the absence of reflux symptoms, pleasant swallowing, the preservation of a normal capacity for belching and vomiting, minimal flatulence, and a comfortable incision.
  • (7) The vehicle had started belching white smoke and making "popping noises".
  • (8) As the volcano continued to belch smoke above the town, people dusted off the ashes and rebuilt the North Kivu capital.
  • (9) Both controlled release metoclopramide and high and low dose domperidone significantly reduced symptoms of belching, flatulence, distension, heartburn, regurgitation, reflux, nausea and vomiting compared to baseline.
  • (10) We investigated the occurrence of new constipation, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, visible blood in stool, abdominal pain, black stools, belching, and flatus in 324 outpatients following upper or lower gastrointestinal tract barium procedures.
  • (11) The diagnosis of myocardial infarction by the nature of the resultant pain or discomfort was unreliable in contrast to the associated symptoms sweating, nausea, belching and vomiting.
  • (12) It takes away the authenticity.” Mau Mau was subject to one of the most high-profile acts of Olympic censorship, when his legal street painting of a zombie Ronald McDonald, clad in the logos of the Olympic sponsors and running with a Coke-branded torch belching clouds of black smoke, was hastily painted over by Ealing council .
  • (13) Subjective ratings of the severity of abdominal cramping, belching, flatulence, and diarrhea were lower during the first eight hours after challenge in lactase-treated subjects; ratings for bloating were lower during the next eight hours.
  • (14) Belching and passage of flatus were the most frequently reported symptoms after barium enema, both single- and double-contrast.
  • (15) Twelve have now been built, their slender white poles and delicate blades dwarfed by the massive cooling towers of Drax power station belching clouds of steam into the Yorkshire sky – old and new energy in striking juxtaposition.
  • (16) The appropriately titled Elektrownia Belchatow – a massive coal-fired power station – belched out 30,862,792 tonnes of CO 2 last year and by 2010 the whole generating facility will have grown by 20%.
  • (17) The time and pressure profiles of transient lower esophageal sphincter relaxations induced by gastric insufflation were similar to those relaxations seen with spontaneous postprandial gastroesophageal reflux and belching in dogs.
  • (18) Compared with normal subjects, achalasia patients were significantly less likely to have an esophageal belch for all volumes tested and were more likely to have an increase rather than a decrease in upper esophageal sphincter pressure in response to air injection.
  • (19) Reflux episodes were usually associated with belching.
  • (20) Eruptions belch from impacts of Grad rockets and tank shells across swaths of this dun-coloured city.

Burp


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "When I burp and pass wind the smell is absolutely horrendous.
  • (2) Emissions from livestock, largely from burping cows and sheep and their manure, currently make up almost 15% of global emissions.
  • (3) A 'mere' three hours per week on Radio 2 earn him £530,000 a year, which works out at £3,397 an hour, which, if you are inclined, you can break down into pounds per minute or pennies per burp.
  • (4) ITV's coverage of the tournament to date may or may not provide some fodder for Harry Hill's TV Burp, which returned with 4.4 million viewers, rising to 4.61 million when ITV1+1 viewers were included – a 19.3% share of the audience.
  • (5) In some ways these films are a straightforward response to box-office disenfranchisement: a burp from the bible belt, ignored by an industry set on manufacturing global blockbusters.
  • (6) Let's Dance was up against ITV1's New You've Been Framed, with 4.112 million (18.3%) and Harry Hill's TV Burp, which had 5.278 million (22.2%).
  • (7) In one species of vocalizing fish, the plainfin midshipman (Porichthys notatus), large, nest-guarding males ('type I') use striated muscles to produce acoustic communication signals that include short duration (less than 1 s) 'burps' important in agonistic encounters and long duration (in the order of minutes) 'hums' which function in attracting females to nest sites during the breeding season.
  • (8) Like, she wouldn't know that it's not OK just to burp in someone's face at the dinner table, which allowed me to play her with a measure of black comedy.
  • (9) It is effective in prevention of reflux and the patient is able to burp and vomit if necessary.
  • (10) Jack And The Beanstalk, SECC, Glasgow, to 6 Jan Harry Hill Harry Hill Ex-Burp man 1 Binoculars To check that I've legally parked from the office window.
  • (11) I miss Harry Hill's TV Burp [on ITV] and [BBC1's] Total Wipeout."
  • (12) drew 4.1 million and 19% at 7pm, while at 7.30pm Harry Hill's TV Burp brought in 5.3 million and a 23% audience share, down 1 million and five share points on last week.
  • (13) At the same time on ITV1, 4.5 million were watching Harry Hill's TV Burp.
  • (14) Burping (44.53%) and proper posturing (92%) of the child is not being practiced.
  • (15) Females, and a second group of smaller reproductively active males ('type II') that 'sneak' spawn, do not generate hums, although they produce burps.
  • (16) As executive chairman Michael Grade said he would move upstairs to become non-executive chairman of the cash-strapped broadcaster, his content-led recovery policy bore fruit with singing contest The X Factor winning best entertainment programme, while Harry Hill beat Ross to take home the Bafta for entertainment performance for the second year in a row, for his often-hilarious look at the week's television, TV Burp.
  • (17) W e will then live with the statistical risk of some gigantic underground burp.
  • (18) Decision Rules and Regulating Functions were associated only for burping during a feeding.
  • (19) 42% had no knowledge about the proper technique for feeding; 74%, burping; 90%, weaning; and 75%, colostrum.
  • (20) It was enough to put ITV1's lineup to the sword, including New You've Been Framed, which had 3.9 million viewers (17.2%) between 7.20pm and 7.50pm, and Harry Hill's TV Burp, with 4.3 million viewers (18.9%) between 7.50pm and 8.20pm.