What's the difference between mouth and spit?

Mouth


Definition:

  • (n.) The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and teeth, between the lips and the pharynx; the buccal cavity.
  • (n.) An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture;
  • (n.) The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied, charged or discharged; as, the mouth of a jar or pitcher; the mouth of the lacteal vessels, etc.
  • (n.) The opening or entrance of any cavity, as a cave, pit, well, or den.
  • (n.) The opening of a piece of ordnance, through which it is discharged.
  • (n.) The opening through which the waters of a river or any stream are discharged.
  • (n.) The entrance into a harbor.
  • (n.) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
  • (n.) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
  • (n.) Cry; voice.
  • (n.) Speech; language; testimony.
  • (n.) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
  • (v. t.) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
  • (v. t.) To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner.
  • (v. t.) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her cub.
  • (v. t.) To make mouths at.
  • (v. i.) To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant.
  • (v. i.) To put mouth to mouth; to kiss.
  • (v. i.) To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cancer of the mouth, pharynx and esophagus has decreased in all Japanese migrants, but the decrease is much greater among Okinawan migrants, suggesting they have escaped exposure to risk factors peculiar to the Okinawan environment.
  • (2) Patients with cancer of floor of the mouth and oral tongue had higher odds ratios for alcohol drinking than subjects with cancers of other sites.
  • (3) In some ways, the Gandolfini performance that his fans may savour most is his voice work in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (2009), the cult screen version of Maurice Sendak 's picture book classic – he voiced Carol, one of the wild things, an untamed, foul-mouthed figure.
  • (4) Translation of foot-and-mouth disease virus RNA for extended periods in rabbit reticulocyte lysates results in the appearance of a previously undescribed protein.
  • (5) Measurements of mouth opening were made for up to 10 min after loss of the adductor pollicis twitch and cessation of muscle fasciculations.
  • (6) A philosophy student at Sussex University, he was part of an improvised comedy sketch group and one skit required him to beatbox (making complex drum noises with your mouth).
  • (7) Patients with complaints of dry eyes and dry mouth but with no objective abnormalities served as control group.
  • (8) Generated droplets were dried in line and led to an inhalation chamber from which the dry aerosol was inhaled using a nose or mouth inhalation unit.
  • (9) Three hundred sixteen female patients with cancer of the larynx, pharynx, and mouth were examined and the following cancer sites were compared with respect to alcohol and tobacco consumption: oropharynx, hypopharynx, larynx, epilarynx, lip, and mouth.
  • (10) Unexpected displacement of the endotracheal tube during anesthesia caused by postural change of the neck or passive compression by the mouth gag was investigated under transluminal fiberoptic observation.
  • (11) Mouth-to-cecum transit, however, does not play a major role in carbohydrate or fat malabsorption in these patients.
  • (12) Although 41% of the participants complained of dry mouth, neither serious adverse effects nor evidence of medication abuse appeared.
  • (13) I opened my eyes and my mouth wide, which made everyone in the audience think I was amazed at what I was seeing.
  • (14) The jaw deviated to the right when he opened his mouth fully.
  • (15) The study supports the view that even a moderate reduction of mouth opening capacity may indicate mandibular dysfunction and we recommend that this variable be routinely recorded.
  • (16) Greatly admired Murdoch is certainly putting his money where his mouth is.
  • (17) The raw air curve is determined by sequentially counting radionuclide activity in respiratory gases sampled at the mouth.
  • (18) The gradient of increasing copper and zinc concentrations with increasing distance upstream from the mouth of the estuary reported in 1975 could not be statistically validated.
  • (19) A certain number of parameters involved in the manufacture, control and use of an efficacious vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease have been studied.
  • (20) Histopathological examination alone could not be relied upon to differentiate between well-established skin lesions caused by swine vesicular disease and foot and mouth disease.

Spit


Definition:

  • (n.) A long, slender, pointed rod, usually of iron, for holding meat while roasting.
  • (n.) A small point of land running into the sea, or a long, narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea; as, a spit of sand.
  • (n.) The depth to which a spade goes in digging; a spade; a spadeful.
  • (n.) To thrust a spit through; to fix upon a spit; hence, to thrust through or impale; as, to spit a loin of veal.
  • (n.) To spade; to dig.
  • (v. i.) To attend to a spit; to use a spit.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Spit
  • (n.) To eject from the mouth; to throw out, as saliva or other matter, from the mouth.
  • (n.) To eject; to throw out; to belch.
  • (n.) The secretion formed by the glands of the mouth; spitle; saliva; sputum.
  • (v. i.) To throw out saliva from the mouth.
  • (v. i.) To rain or snow slightly, or with sprinkles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
  • (2) There was nothing accidental about Saffiyah Khan’s easy nonchalance, grinning through the spitting rage of Ian Crossland at the EDL rally in Birmingham city centre at the weekend; Ieshia Evans knew there was more power in calm when she approached the police in Baton Rouge last summer.
  • (3) Venom entered the eyes of 9 patients spat at by the spitting cobra, Naja nigricollis.
  • (4) For every “coterie” of Audens, Spenders and Isherwoods, there is a chorus of George Orwells, Roy Campbells and Dylan Thomases, spitting vitriol.
  • (5) Those who remember the Two Davids of the 1987 SDP-Liberal Alliance will recall the exquisite agony only too well, cruelly captured by the Spitting Image puppet of little Steel perched in big Owen's pocket.
  • (6) Raised in Manchester, Coogan began his comedy career in Ipswich in the 1980s, supplementing stand-up with voiceover work and impressions for Spitting Image, before moving to Radio 4 to work with Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci on On the Hour.
  • (7) Unlike my little brother, who used to store his peas in his cheeks like a hamster – he would then ask to be allowed to go to the loo where he would spit and flush – I always liked vegetables as a child (and yes, I know that, technically, avocado is a fruit; but its savoury qualities are such that I am going to count it, in this instance, as a vegetable).
  • (8) She might as well spit "Don't tell me I can't let my personal life affect my professional judgment" through a mouthful of Jaffa Cakes.
  • (9) In addition, SPIT does not require sophisticated equipment or expensive reagents.
  • (10) For starters, any Swiss finishing school would definitely have an issue with the volume and velocity of spit that gets produced on the pitch.
  • (11) Both aneurysm were successfully clipped but Mark remained hemiplegic with severe physical and behavioural problems, including incontinence, sexual disinhibition, aggression and uninhibited spitting.
  • (12) Trying to outspit a spitting cobra This was another mad challenge for my series Michaela's Wild Challenge!
  • (13) However, a considerable proportion of the respondents harbored incorrect beliefs regarding mosquito transmission and dangers to blood donors, and many showed uncertainty or incorrect knowledge regarding possible HIV transmission by biting, spitting, or use of public toilets.
  • (14) 2006 : Fifa vice-president Jack Warner welcomes questions from an investigative reporter asking about alleged corruption: "I would spit on you – but I will not dignify you with my spit ... go fuck yourself ... no foreigner, particularly a white foreigner, will come to my country and harass me."
  • (15) They would then spit on batons and rape us with them.
  • (16) Most of the restaurants in China to me smelled dirty, though what I was smelling was likely some unfamiliar ingredient, and I was allowing the things I'd seen earlier in the day – the spitting and snot blowing, etc – to fill in the blanks.
  • (17) But there was also a diversion into why, across the industrialised world, the numbers of diagnosed autistic people have increased, and two sentences that caused me to spit out my toast.
  • (18) There, with pleasing historical symmetry, it was placed within spitting distance of the statue of another famous French Jew, three times prime minister Leon Blum.
  • (19) The letter did not directly mention Muslims, and began instead by attacking people who drop litter or spit on buses.
  • (20) In June, the owner, Oliver Poiss, threw a huge summer solstice party with six wild boar roasting on spits and a $10,000 equipment giveaway.