What's the difference between puke and pure?

Puke


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew.
  • (v. t.) To eject from the stomach; to vomit up.
  • (n.) A medicine that causes vomiting; an emetic; a vomit.
  • (a.) Of a color supposed to be between black and russet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest This episode opens outside South Park’s election night viewing party, where we see residents stumbling drunkenly outside and puking on the sidewalk.
  • (2) It was a sort of beautifully human moment shared by two of the most powerful men in the world, but on the other hand, the president’s puke definitely got on Miyazawa’s lap.
  • (3) He smiles, then chats to environmental campaigners carrying banners against political corruption, one of which features a picture of Jón Sigurdsson with a wordplay on his most famous slogan, changing "We all protest" to "We all puke".
  • (4) In the early months of 2004, a Harvard student called Mark Zuckerberg got so drunk, he tripped over a coiled snake of cables in his dorm room, smashed through his ground floor window and ended up face down in the wet grass, whereupon the girl he had admired came round the corner, arms linked with her friends, who, all three, had to step over the fallen norm-core future billionaire before he puked on himself.
  • (5) There's no mention of belly button fluff either - but blackheads, snot, puke, pus, scabs, tears, smegma, eyelid crumbs, vaginal discharges, menstrual blood and other gunk are all acceptable fodder, especially when dried to a crust under the fingernails.
  • (6) This week Charlie managed to convince himself he was coming down with the winter vomiting bug three times despite a total lack of symptoms: "Apparently, it comes on so fast the first sign you've got it is the sight of puke shooting unexpectedly from your own mouth, followed almost immediately by an involuntary trouser-soiling evacuation of the bowels."
  • (7) You wanted to cut off your hair, refused to wear dresses and made puking faces if someone offered you something pink.
  • (8) Lady Gaga Lady Gaga’s SXSW show in March was accused of ignoring the hits in favour of visual fireworks, but at the end of the day you still got to watch her being roasted on a spit while a “ vomit artist ” puked all over the stage, and you certainly don’t get that with Two Door Cinema Club.
  • (9) If you are puking every weekend, it’s your body’s way of telling you to pull yourself together.
  • (10) Come on, we must have one toppler... 8.44pm BST Beca speaks for us all as she expresses her desire to puke with the discomfort.
  • (11) "We only toured once [and] he drank a lot and occasionally there were some sketchy antics, like the time he puked off the balcony at the party the record company threw for us – an interior balcony, if I remember.
  • (12) They said the venue had hosted loads of Leningrad concerts before and at the end of the night, there was total carnage, with everything covered in rubbish and puke, but at our concert everyone was behaving like they were at the philharmonic.
  • (13) There are gross-out, American-style gags about erections, spots and puke, and very British characters who think they're far cooler, smarter, and better-looking than they really are.
  • (14) Plunkett, a director on the precious metals desk, sent an email on the evening of 27 June 2012 telling colleagues that he was hoping for a "mini-puke to 1558", a mini-puke referring to a fall in the gold price.
  • (15) Keane – who later admitted he had been “puking up all afternoon” – sealed the win, and his hat-trick, with his second spot kick of the night on 80 minutes, before the talented Sebastian Lletget wrapped things up just before the end.
  • (16) The laugh-a-minute pro-celebrity puking bug known by the streetname "norovirus" continues to squirm its way through the population, effortlessly transforming ordinarily carefree human beings into spluttering, sulphurous geysers of molten waste.
  • (17) Langham had a terrible time at boarding school; he earned himself the nickname Puke because of his habit of anxiety-induced vomiting.
  • (18) She always regales with stories such as the time she went to see the Spice Girls at the 02 and puked out of the car window all the way home.
  • (19) I wanted to puke and just get here," Hopper told a local newspaper, the Bakersfield Californian.
  • (20) Track titles and artist names played up the expulsive and repulsive aspect of the new style (Stenchman's discography includes Puking Over and The Taste of Vomit ) and fans enthused about "filthstep".

Pure


Definition:

  • (superl.) Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure air; pure compassion.
  • (superl.) Free from moral defilement or quilt; hence, innocent; guileless; chaste; -- applied to persons.
  • (superl.) Free from that which harms, vitiates, weakens, or pollutes; genuine; real; perfect; -- applied to things and actions.
  • (superl.) Ritually clean; fitted for holy services.
  • (superl.) Of a single, simple sound or tone; -- said of some vowels and the unaspirated consonants.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have confirmed this directly by showing that pure CCK is a potent inhibitor of gastric emptying.
  • (2) Proving that not all teens are content with being part of a purely digital community, Adele Mayr attended a YouTube meet-up in London’s Hyde Park.
  • (3) A cytogenetic and anatomopathologic study of an embryo of 24 mm crown-rump length showing pure triploidy (69,XXY) is reported.
  • (4) Of the three patients with a pure or predominantly endometrioid pattern treated with diethylstilbestrol, two had a marked clinical response.
  • (5) In case of biliary and pancreatic duct obstruction with pure pancreatic reflux, both oedema and inflammatory infiltrations were evident, whereas, in the presence of biliary reflux too, more serious histological features were detected.
  • (6) Pure bile gave 32 correct diagnoses (67%) and 14 diagnoses of inadequate material (29%), which contained few nondegenerated cells and made microscopic diagnosis unreliable.
  • (7) Enzyme activities were measured on nitrocellulose blots by using pure enzyme preparations as well as Triton X-100-solubilized membranes.
  • (8) A critical attitude towards the use of silicone breast implants, when these are used for purely cosmetic purposes, is recommended at present.
  • (9) An attempt to eliminate the age effect by adjusting for age differences in monaural shadowing errors, fluid intelligence, and pure-tone hearing loss did not succeed.
  • (10) Of the two major forms of cytotactin (220 and 200 kDa), the larger form predominated during development of the mouse brain and also predominated in mixed neuron-glia cultures but not in pure glial cultures.
  • (11) Embryonal carcinomas were found in 15 tumours, two being of pure type and the remaining 13 a part of mixed tumours.
  • (12) While the precise function of the MIRP is not known, the availability of this protein in pure and biologically relevant quantities will allow further studies to elucidate its pathobiologic function.
  • (13) Differential plating yielded relatively pure populations of chromaffin cells that demonstrated excellent viability if processed within 2 hours after cessation of the gland's circulation.
  • (14) Homogenates of these cells in chloroform-methanol solution showed an identical absorption spectrum with pure bilirubin dissolved in the same solution.
  • (15) An autopsy on the next day revealed pure pulmonary alveolar hemorrhage without leukemic infiltration or inflammation.
  • (16) 0.5 to 1 gram pure Bismuth per day and person leaves the patients naturally by faeces.
  • (17) Moreover, exposure to a pure 60 Hz electric field or to a magnetically-induced electric field of identical strength resulted in similar changes in calcium transport.
  • (18) Pure sarcomas of the esophagus are exceedingly rare.
  • (19) Confirmation of the identity of the clone was provided by a match between the amino acid sequence predicted from the cDNA sequence and the actual amino acid sequence determined for a tryptic peptide fragment of one of the pure glycoproteins.
  • (20) Six were benign, 11 malignant fibrous, and 3 pure malignant histiocytomas.