What's the difference between puke and vomit?

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".

Vomit


Definition:

  • (n.) To eject the contents of the stomach by the mouth; to puke; to spew.
  • (v. t.) To throw up; to eject from the stomach through the mouth; to disgorge; to puke; to spew out; -- often followed by up or out.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit; to throw forth; as, volcanoes vomit flame, stones, etc.
  • (n.) Matter that is vomited; esp., matter ejected from the stomach through the mouth.
  • (n.) That which excites vomiting; an emetic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
  • (2) She had three attacks of severe migrainous headache accompanied with nausea and vomiting within three weeks.
  • (3) Occasional vomits occur postoperatively in over half of patients but we are sceptical of the value of graded postoperative feeding regimens.
  • (4) The triad of epigastric pain unrelieved by antacids, bilious vomiting, and weight loss, particularly after a gastric operation should make one suspect this syndrome.
  • (5) A case is presented of a 35-year-old woman who was brought to the emergency service by ambulance complaining of vomiting for 7 days and that she could not hear well because she was 'worn out'.
  • (6) Among the major symptoms were gastrointestinal disorders such as subjective and objective anorexia, nausea and vomiting.
  • (7) Inner Ear Decompression Sickness (IEDCS)--manifested by tinnitus, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, and hearing loss--is usually associated with deep air or mixed gas dives, and accompanied by other CNS symptoms of decompression sickness (DCS).
  • (8) Other toxicity was mild and included nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, mucositis, hepatic dysfunction, and cardiac arrhythmias.
  • (9) She said that in February 2013 she was asked to assist Pistorius in his first court appearance when applying for bail and sat with him in the cells, where he vomited twice.
  • (10) Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and prostration.
  • (11) Significantly more slow acetylators stopped treatment because of nausea or vomiting, or both, but serious toxicity was not confined to either group.
  • (12) Postoperative nausea and vomiting have been associated with the use of intravenous narcotics, and nitrous oxide may worsen the emetic effects of narcotics.
  • (13) The observed complications were post-labor hemorrhage (3.1%), polysystolia (4.1%) and vomiting (5.2%), without significant difference with the witness group.
  • (14) The paper is concerned with analysis of correlation of the time of appearance of vomit in a person and a mean dose rate of prolonged gamma-radiation in the persons affected at the Chernobyl accident.
  • (15) Side-effects (pruritus, nausea, vomiting, drowsiness) were also noted.
  • (16) The winter vomiting bug norovirus, which also puts strain on the NHS every winter because it leads to wards having to close, has not yet become a major problem, the latest evidence indicates.
  • (17) He had no family history of myopathy, and no diarrhea and vomiting.
  • (18) Fourteen of 15 patients had a reduction in nausea and vomiting on THC as compared to placebo.
  • (19) Twelve patients have been treated in this manner, nine of them living long enough to exhibit the capacity to eat and drink without repetitive vomiting.
  • (20) Her daughter had had a similar fit of vomiting blood at birth, back in their native Honduras.