What's the difference between disgust and poh?

Disgust


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by.
  • (v. t.) Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion or displeasure produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste; -- said primarily of the sickening opposition felt for anything which offends the physical organs of taste; now rather of the analogous repugnance excited by anything extremely unpleasant to the moral taste or higher sensibilities of our nature; as, an act of cruelty may excite disgust.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The first was a passive avoidance task in which the chicks were allowed to peck at a green training stimulus (a small light-emitting diode, LED) coated in the bitter liquid, methylanthranilate, giving rise to a strong disgust response and consequent avoidance of the green stimulus.
  • (2) Black males with low intentions to use condoms reported significantly more negative attitudes about the use of condoms (eg, using condoms is disgusting) and reacted with more intense anger when their partners asked about previous sexual contacts, when a partner refused sex without a condom, or when they perceived condoms as interfering with foreplay and sexual pleasure.
  • (3) He praised the obvious disgust of local people in parts of south and west Manchester, where gang problems have been concentrated.
  • (4) That's completely and utterly grotesque and, no matter how proud we all are in the labour movement that the minimum wage exists, not a single day goes by that we shouldn't be disgusted with ourselves for that.
  • (5) Charlie Morris described the column as "vile and disgusting", adding that she hoped the writer "gets the sack".
  • (6) The Fifa ethics investigator who spent 18 months and £6m compiling a report into the controversial 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding race has quit his post in disgust, departing with a broadside against the organisation’s culture and practices.
  • (7) He is also a vocal proponent of the benefit cap , finding it disgusting that some families can claim more in benefits than the average person earns, even while he finds it intolerable that he can only claim in accommodation expenses £2,000 more than the cap .
  • (8) However, among 27 patients examined by means of intracranial EEG recordings, it was evident that a disgust expression occurred with oro-alimentary automatisms at the beginning of mesial temporal lobe seizures, whereas a happy one occurred without oro-alimentary automatisms at the beginning of lateral temporal lobe seizures.
  • (9) 2.09pm GMT Hester: it disgusts and deeply depresses me RBS has issued a video clip of its chief executive, Stephen Hester, talking about today's fines.
  • (10) A spokesperson for Boycott Workfare, a grassroots organisation that has campaigned to stop forced unpaid work schemes, said the move was disgusting.
  • (11) He adds that he's "disgusted" at planned cuts to housing benefit, which he believes will result in greater homelessness.
  • (12) Ivens's apology was issued after a meeting with Jewish community organisations including the Board of the Deputies of British Jews, which had complained to the Press Complaints Commission on Sunday, describing the cartoon as "appalling" and "all the more disgusting" for being published on Holocaust Memorial Day, "given the similar tropes levelled against Jews by the Nazis".
  • (13) During the first Republican presidential debate, Kelly questioned whether Trump had the temperament for the job, given that he had called women he disliked “fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals” in the past.
  • (14) And while Altmejd presents sexual scenes of cartoonish horror and disgust, Lucas's art has embraced lavatorial humour, abjection, self-denigration, the pithy sculptural one-liner and the obscene gesture.
  • (15) Far from being disgusted with her physicality, Ruskin – a rigorous Christian and idealist – felt anxious and subconsciously betrayed by the realisation that his love for Effie was a one-sided affair.
  • (16) According to the New York Times , he told its reporter Emily Steel that if he did not approve of her resulting article “I’m coming after you with everything I have,” adding: “You can take it as a threat.” The 65-year-old anchor – who earlier dismissed the Mother Jones article as “total bullshit”, “disgusting”, “defamation” and “a piece of garbage” – had promised that the archive tapes would comprehensively disprove the charges against him.
  • (17) However, the barrister says they could link up with others in Northern Ireland and Britain, such as the Occupy movement and UK Uncut, who are equally disgusted at the banks' behaviour during this long recession.
  • (18) Disgusting.” Shame worked on me where the fear of distant, hacking death had failed.
  • (19) The items included normal adult foods and exemplars of different adult rejection categories: disgust (e.g.
  • (20) His staunch refusal to sell his nine hectares of land needed for the development angered Trump, who described the piece of land as "disgusting".

Poh


Definition:

  • (interj.) An exclamation expressing contempt or disgust; bah !

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The livers of 15 rabbits were perfused in situ with prednisone (PO) or prednisolone (POH) over a wide range of steady state concentrations, resulting in multiple experimental measurements per organ.
  • (2) Water-perfused thermodes were chronically implanted around the preoptic nuclei and hypothalamus (POH) of kangaroo rats (Dipodomys ingens).
  • (3) Ahypothesis accounting for high POH and low peripheral thermosensitivities in small mammals is presented.
  • (4) All presented with or developed chorioretinal scars or neovascularization similar to that seen in multifocal choroiditis or pseudo POHS.
  • (5) Herein we describe a patient with POHS in which laser treatment regressed a parafoveal subretinal neovascular membrane.
  • (6) POH perfusion yielded no detectable PO in the exiting perfusate.
  • (7) The available fraction of PO from POH averaged 44 per cent at the low infusion rate decreasing to 16 and 20 per cent at the medium and high infusion rates.
  • (8) Disruption of normal vasculature was seen at mesenteric and antimesenteric sites; ingrowth of vessels, reformation of vascular plexuses, and development of collateral circulation were observed at POH 96.
  • (9) The therapy of postoperative hypertension (POH) after head and neck surgery was evaluated in a prospective, randomized, double-blind trial.
  • (10) Bolus doses of POH and PO were also administered to four of the rabbits.
  • (11) Deposition of new collagen was not appreciable in any section at POH 48 or 96.
  • (12) The median eminence (ME) and a tissue block containing the preoptic area and hypothalamus (POH) were dissected separately.
  • (13) The modification of holoenzyme by Br[14C]AcNEtS-Rif in the presence of p-hydroxymercuribenzene sulfonic acid (pOH-HgBzSO3H) or 4 M LiCl occurred with faster kinetics and led to a higher degree of substitution.
  • (14) It is suggested that a specific site, designated poh+ (permissive on Hfr), is located in this region, and is essential for these plasmids to replicate in Hfr cells.
  • (15) The authors' first 15 patients with POHS and 19 patients with ARMD were followed for an average of 4 months postoperatively.
  • (16) There was approximately 1.6-fold more LHRH-like IR in the ME than in the POH.
  • (17) Presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome (POHS) is a commonly observed fungal infection.
  • (18) These have included the multiple evanescent white dot syndrome, acute macular neuroretinopathy, acute idiopathic blind spot enlargement syndrome, and multifocal choroiditis or pseudo presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome (pseudo POHS).
  • (19) In patients with multifocal choroiditis, presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome (POHS) is often diagnosed.
  • (20) These findings suggest that the presence of peripheral linear streaks cannot be used to differentiate the POHS from MCP.