What's the difference between bloat and gloat?

Bloat


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make turgid, as with water or air; to cause a swelling of the surface of, from effusion of serum in the cellular tissue, producing a morbid enlargement, often accompanied with softness.
  • (v. t.) To inflate; to puff up; to make vain.
  • (v. i.) To grow turgid as by effusion of liquid in the cellular tissue; to puff out; to swell.
  • (a.) Bloated.
  • (n.) A term of contempt for a worthless, dissipated fellow.
  • (v. t.) To dry (herrings) in smoke. See Blote.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thorny issues of racism on the catwalk, of the impact of fashion on our relationship with food, of the decreasing relevance of the traditional catwalk show in the digital age, and of the bloated size of the fashion industry are the topics engrossing the front row.
  • (2) Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction is a disorder of gut motility resulting in severe abdominal pain, bloating, nausea, and vomiting after eating.
  • (3) Among those women who complained of side-effects, significantly more in group B complained of headaches and a bloated abdomen.
  • (4) Erythromycin also induced symptoms of upper abdominal pain, bloating, and nausea.
  • (5) Clinical parameters were: abdominal pain, bloating and bowel frequency.
  • (6) Moreover, the gass bloat syndrome seen with the Nissen fundoplication has not been encountered.
  • (7) In an interview with the Guardian’s Charlotte Higgins in February 2014, when he was chairman of the Commons culture, media and sport select committee, Whittingdale said: “The BBC is the most wasteful, bloated organisation on the planet.” He said: “Chris Patten [the BBC Trust’s former chairman] used to make jokes about the army of the People’s Republic of China being the organisation that’s the closest he’s encountered to the BBC: it is just huge numbers of people, many of whom don’t appear to be doing anything.” On Thursday, Whittingdale will unveil a green paper on the future of the BBC that sets a demanding agenda before the renegotiation of the corporation’s royal charter.
  • (8) Infected patients were more likely to complain of abdominal bloating.
  • (9) After this operation symptoms such as dysphagia, inability to belch and vomit, and gas bloating are frequently reported in the literature.
  • (10) But the British prime minister oozed schadenfreude with the result, received strong support from the Germans, the Dutch and the Scandinavians and looked pleased with the stalemate, portraying himself as the scourge of bloated Brussels, the guardian of the British and the European taxpayer.
  • (11) Almost all adverse experiences, as reported by 56 to 76% of patients on acarbose vs 32 to 37% of patients on placebo, were related to the digestive system and included diarrhoea, flatulence, bloating and nausea.
  • (12) The goats vagotomized dorsally showed an increase in body weight and decrease in volume of feces accompanied with repeated bloat.
  • (13) Cookery programmes bloat the television schedules, cookbooks strain the bookshop tables, celebrity chefs hawk their own brands of weird mince pies ( Heston Blumenthal ) or bronze-moulded pasta ( Jamie Oliver ) in the supermarkets, and cooks in super-expensive restaurants from Chicago to Copenhagen are the subject of hagiographic profiles in serious magazines and newspapers.
  • (14) Anti-frothing agents were used in sheep before cattle to treat acute legume bloat.
  • (15) The use of wood-fire smoke for bloating Trachurus did not change its nitrosoamines content at all.
  • (16) Among the improved patients, one experienced a transient gas-bloat syndrome.
  • (17) Instead of displaying an intense fear of obesity and a distorted body image, patients more commonly attributed poor food intake to abdominal bloating.
  • (18) James Criswell said he appreciated Carson’s goal of eliminating “a bunch of government bloated spending”.
  • (19) All the current evidence accumulated from experiments with sheep supports the hypothesis that death due to legume bloat is caused by acute neural, respiratory, and cardiovascular insult resulting from the effect of the distended rumen on thoracic viscera, diaphragm, intercostal muscles, and the abdominal vena cava.
  • (20) Microbial and fermentation changes in the rumen in monensin- and lasalocid-fed cattle grazing bloat-provocative alfalfa pasture were studied using genetically bloat-susceptible, ruminally-cannulated adult cattle.

Gloat


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To look steadfastly; to gaze earnestly; -- usually in a bad sense, to gaze with malignant satisfaction, passionate desire, lust, or avarice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Later, Lucas, also a former party leader, strongly defended Bennett, saying it was a “bad day for Natalie” but there was also “kind of a gloating tone that strikes one as having something to do with her being a woman in there too”.
  • (2) Mourinho's gloating will have done little to soothe Tottenham's anger.
  • (3) Next weekend's sellout UK Feminista summer school should make the gloating critics reconsider.
  • (4) Indeed, as gloating Argentinians poured into Rio, they feared it could become their worst nightmare.
  • (5) Above a fairly straightforward news story about the court’s decision to allow the country’s elected representatives a vote on the biggest constitutional upheaval in a generation, initially the headline read: “Yet again the elite show their contempt for Brexit voters!” Call me ‘remoaner-in-chief’, but I won’t be voting to trigger article 50 | Owen Smith Read more Launched within an hour of the verdict, the headline went on: “Supreme Court rules Theresa May CANNOT trigger Britain’s departure from the EU without MPs’ approval … as Remain campaigners gloat.” The copy itself provided little evidence of gloating.
  • (6) Cue that familiar gloating refrain from Stoke fans when Arsenal are in town: “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” they crooned.
  • (7) Ukip leaflets gloat: “Labour will keep you in.” In Westminster I hear some Labour MPs secretly hoping a Stoke loss would ignite a “Corbyn must go” move.
  • (8) But isn't there a bit of him that wants to gloat; to tell all the kids who thought he was a nerd that he's now this babe magnet, this sex god, this… And now he really is flushed and flustered.
  • (9) After the first clásico of the season the rabidly pro-Barcelona Catalan daily Sport ran a front page that gloated that Bale was a failure who had not justified his €100m fee.
  • (10) They have been sharing stories of Trump voters gloating aggressively at them in the workplace since his victory, or harassing them because they are Mexican.
  • (11) I was personally tasked with writing a gloating follow-up declaring our postmodern victory in "blocking" the non-existent Islamic cisterns of evil.
  • (12) The president gloated : “So they caught Fake News CNN cold, but what about NBC, CBS & ABC?
  • (13) In the short term, Labour’s right and centre must weather the gloating of Corbyn’s supporters, who are loudly demanding that the doubters eat humble pie.
  • (14) The Arsenal support could afford to gloat in the closing stages of this firecracker, which ended with Wigan Athletic being burnt, and they surely knew the answer.
  • (15) No one has forgotten the terrible fate of the Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh , burned alive in a cage by his gloating captors.
  • (16) They gloat about their power "one in every seven quid spent on groceries in the UK is spent by a Sun reader".
  • (17) But the real answer is not to gloat over his bungled mess, but to find a positive alternative that inspires the country.
  • (18) Their president-elect whining about someone being mean about his restaurant, or gloating over The Apprentice’s ratings dip under Arnold Schwarzenegger.
  • (19) While loyalists have deployed Facebook and other social networks not only to organise protests but to issue threats to Alliance councillors , republicans and nationalists have used the sites as well as text messaging to gloat about the union flag coming down from the dome on Tuesday morning.
  • (20) The press - even Bild, which we bought for the flight home as a laugh - was pretty contrite, referring only to post-'66 justice, and far from gloating.