What's the difference between drool and talk?

Drool


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To drivel, or drop saliva; as, the child drools.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Any method employed for the control of drooling must still allow a sufficient volume of flow for mastication, deglutition and oral hygiene.
  • (2) These results are discussed and compared to the alternative drug and surgical approaches to treatment that have been the primary focus of recent research on drooling.
  • (3) The efficacy of a feeding program to decrease drooling and increase vocalizations by promoting mouth closure was explored in two boys with cerebral palsy through the use of oral facilitation techniques.
  • (4) Unhappily, drooling also may lead to several unfortunate medical and psychosocial outcomes for the affected patient.
  • (5) We conclude that drooling, agitation, and absence of cough are predictors of epiglottitis, but clinical findings alone cannot exclude epiglottitis in every child who appears to have laryngotracheitis.
  • (6) I report a series of 20 patients who had excellent results from this, with amelioration of the drooling and minimal postoperative complications.
  • (7) In the case study described, transdermal scopolamine patches were found to be effective for controlling drooling in a traumatic brain-injured patient for whom more conservative methods failed.
  • (8) The calf initially drooled blood-tinged saliva and drank with difficulty.
  • (9) Transposition of the corner of the mouth utilizing the Z-plasty technique has proven to be an effective method to correct the drooling and garbled speech associated with facial paralysis.
  • (10) The bare statistics he provided in various tests and drills left the scouts drooling.
  • (11) At a time when centre-left parties are struggling all across Europe, with the German social democrats reduced to a mere 26% of the vote and Norway's social democratic government pushed into opposition less than two months ago (in spite of a massive oil-based sovereign wealth fund that has Scottish nationalists drooling with envy), Scotland's progressive societal argument based on Nordic and continental models may seem too fanciful for comfort.
  • (12) A tender Théophile wipes the drool from the corner of his mouth, then cries with his mother.
  • (13) He was alert and speaking without difficulty but was drooling, gagging, coughing, and unable to swallow.
  • (14) Transdermal scopolamine patches (1.5 mg) were used to control drooling in a two-year-old boy with severe spastic quadriparetic cerebral palsy and developmental delay.
  • (15) At this point, venture capitalists are drooling over bitcoin and its possibilities,” says Roger Ver, a bitcoin investor and evangelist whose philanthropic donations earned him the nickname “ Bitcoin Jesus ”.
  • (16) This type of medication appears to be useful in the treatment of drooling.
  • (17) We present a case in which troublesome postoperative drooling at the commissures was corrected by a local muscle reconstruction and interdigitation to recreate the normal muscular forces at the angles.
  • (18) We report a 10-year experience with 123 patients who had the surgical treatment for drooling originally described by Wilkie.
  • (19) Simply because he is not begging on a street corner (except when he's busking, which he does with glorious chutzpah) or drooling with a spent needle hanging from his arm, you presume he is doing fine.
  • (20) The surgical procedure resulted in a dramatic decrease in drooling and odor levels.

Talk


Definition:

  • (n.) To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.
  • (n.) To confer; to reason; to consult.
  • (n.) To prate; to speak impertinently.
  • (v. t.) To speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk French.
  • (v. t.) To deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to make a subject of conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk politics.
  • (v. t.) To consume or spend in talking; -- often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening.
  • (v. t.) To cause to be or become by talking.
  • (n.) The act of talking; especially, familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered, especially in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more.
  • (n.) Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war.
  • (n.) Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You lot have got real issues to talk about and deal with.
  • (2) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
  • (3) Another interested party, the University of Miami, had been in talks with the Beckham group over the potential for a shared stadium project.
  • (4) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
  • (5) I remember talking to an investment banker about what it felt like in the City before the closure of Lehman Brothers.
  • (6) Do [MPs] remember the madness of those advertisements that talked of the cool fresh mountain air of menthol cigarettes?
  • (7) Peter Stott of the Met Office, who led the study, said: "With global warming we're talking about very big changes in the overall water cycle.
  • (8) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
  • (9) The surge the prime minister talks about can only be achieved by coordinating assets across 43 forces.
  • (10) Others said it might appeal to Russia, Assad's chief ally, which backs talks between the regime and the opposition.
  • (11) Nick Mabey, head of the E3G climate thinktank in London, said without US action there were risks talks would stall.
  • (12) The local guide led us down a rough, uneven pathway, talking as he went.
  • (13) Pekka Isosomppi Press counsellor, Finnish embassy, London • It may have been said tongue in cheek, but I must correct Michael Booth on one thing – his claim that no one talks about cricket in Denmark .
  • (14) Families believed that physicians would not listen (13% of sample), would not talk openly (32%), attempted to mislead them (48%), or did not warn about long-term neurodevelopmental problems (70%).
  • (15) It's the roughly $2bn in revenue grossed by his blockbuster movies, some of which he had to be talked into making.
  • (16) The only thing the media will talk about in the hours and days after the debate will be Trump’s refusal to say he will accept the results of the election, making him appear small, petty and conspiratorial.
  • (17) Now there is talk of adding a range of ultra-trendy kale chips and kale shakes to the menu as well as encouraging customers to design their own bespoke burger.
  • (18) He said: "I don't want to talk any more about politics for one reason because I'm not in the House[es] of Parliament, I'm not a political person, I will talk about only football."
  • (19) China's relations with the NTC were strained last week when it emerged Chinese arms firms had talked to Muammar Gaddafi's representatives about weapons sales .
  • (20) "I was in the car with Matthew and he held out his phone and said: 'We need to talk about this' with a very serious face, and my immediate thought was somebody had found where I lived and had made a direct threat.