What's the difference between ketch and retch?

Ketch


Definition:

  • (n.) An almost obsolete form of vessel, with a mainmast and a mizzenmast, -- usually from one hundred to two hundred and fifty tons burden.
  • (n.) A hangman. See Jack Ketch.
  • (v. t.) To catch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A bedroom at JP Ketch cottage, St John’s Point.
  • (2) Photograph: Alamy There are whales and dolphins just off the coast, and it is possible to avoid the more commercial whale-watching trips; I sailed with skipper João Vieira on the Ilhéu , an elegant 1946 ketch.
  • (3) They were refused passports, but Mosley stood by his rights under Magna Carta and bought a 60-ton ketch to sail to Lisbon in 1949 (the day before departure, passports arrived in the post).

Retch


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.
  • (v. t. & i.) To care for; to heed; to reck.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have compared the ability of drugs to induce chewing and retching or emesis in squirrel monkeys; such studies are not possible in rodents, which do not vomit.
  • (2) No dose produced retching, vomiting, diarrhea or other behavioral signs of toxicity.
  • (3) Nausea was assessed by a patient-completed visual analogue scale and episodes of retching recorded by the patient and an independent observer.
  • (4) Straining and retching behaviors exhibited by the nerves innervating other thoracic accessory inspiratory muscles (the intercartilagineus, rectus thoracis, scalenus) varied from dog to dog.
  • (5) In contrast, none of the inspiratory units from the external intercostal nerves exhibited such intense discharges with straining and retching.
  • (6) Incidence and severity of emesis (none, nausea, retching or vomiting) was assessed during the first 24 hours after operation.
  • (7) Vomiting, induced by stimulation of the lower thoracic vagi, consisted of a series of synchronous bursts of diaphragmatic and abdominal activity (retching) followed by a prolonged abdominal discharge after the cessation of diaphragmatic activity (expulsion).
  • (8) Fictive vomiting was defined as a series of large bursts of synchronous activity in the phrenic and abdominal (expiratory) nerves (retching) followed by a burst in which the abdominal activity was prolonged (expulsion).
  • (9) Nous sommes tous Français (We are all French).” By contrast, Hollande said that Trump’s excesses “make you want to retch” .
  • (10) Internal intercostal (expiratory) muscles contract out of phase with these muscles during retching and are inactive during expulsion.
  • (11) When James lay down to sleep, he retched from the smell then ran out the door with his pillow to throw it away, everyone laughing.
  • (12) 3 Doses of apomorphine that caused a decrease in blood pressure on intravenous injection, had no effect on blood pressure or caused retching accompanied by an increase in blood pressure on intravertebral or intracisternal administration.
  • (13) All patients were monitored for emetic episodes (vomiting or retching), adverse events, and laboratory safety parameters.
  • (14) These results suggest that 5-HT3 receptor antagonists are capable of ameliorating radiation-induced retching and vomiting and that, while an important site of their action could be the abdominal vagi, other areas are probably also involved.
  • (15) We determined (1) gastric emptying rates; (2) the presence and frequency of retching and vomiting; and (3) the effect of zacopride on the performance of a visual discrimination task in nonirradiated subjects.
  • (16) This was accompanied by a prolonged period of mydriasis and preceded by a short interval of restlessness, licking, retching and emesis.
  • (17) The discharge patterns during retching were classified into seven types in accordance with the discharge phase in the retching cycle and the discharge frequency.
  • (18) And if that means staying silent as your subject salivates his way through a truly disgusting account of a threesome, as the male crew laugh along, then you try to hide your desire to retch.
  • (19) • Pistorius' retching and crying was not feigned , Vorster said: he could not fake pallor .
  • (20) Therefore, the effects of bilateral abdominal vagotomy and antagonism of 5-HT3 receptors have been investigated on retching and vomiting induced by radiation.