What's the difference between puss and tomcat?

Puss


Definition:

  • (n.) A cat; -- a fondling appellation.
  • (n.) A hare; -- so called by sportsmen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The puss caterpillar, one of more than 50 species of caterpillars that can cause envenomation in the United States, is considered to be one of the most serious.
  • (2) The diagnosis was made in all cases isolating the microorganism from pulmonary secretions, puss, spinal fluid and blood.
  • (3) BBC4 is offering the Storyville documentary Pantomime, following the cast of a Nottingham amateur production of Puss in Boots.
  • (4) "I don't think for a moment that all of the puss has come out," he said.
  • (5) It would be interesting to explore the rich variety of pathology produced in us by moray eels, lionfish, sea urchins, jellyfish, sting rays, fire ants, kissing bugs, flies, lice, mosquitoes, ticks, mites, fleas, puss caterpillars, centipedes, snakes, dogs and cats, camels, and myriad other creatures including homo sapiens (not a trivial biter)--but for this grand rounds, the topic will simply be spiders (Part 1), bees and vespid (Part 2).
  • (6) We discuss the case of a 52-year-old woman who developed urticarial lesions after the acute envenomation of a puss caterpillar (Megalopyge opercularis).
  • (7) The cat was meant to sink its claws into human rights, but proved to be a puss who wasn't there.
  • (8) It may be moving into the history books, but Iraq is one ex-puss with a posthumous power to shock.
  • (9) The appropriately sour-pussed-titled Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever should be out in December, becoming part of the US TV network's canon of famous holiday specials .
  • (10) In 2013, Netflix commissioned more than 300 hours of original shows from Hollywood studio DreamWorks Animation, including Turbo F.A.S.T., Puss in Boots and King Julien.
  • (11) • On the other side of the Atlantic, Puss in Boots sees off the challenge of new arrivals Tower Heist and A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas to stay top of the US box office for the second week in a row, reports Jeremy Kay .

Tomcat


Definition:

  • (n.) A male cat, especially when full grown or of large size.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The captain of the ship said it was under assault by Iranian gunboats at the time and that the Airbus A300 was misidentified as an attacking F-14 Tomcat.
  • (2) Resorting to a series of Ted the swordsman scenes which may merely be the lurid fantasies of the heroine, director Christine Jeffs never makes it clear whether Hughes was a rampaging philanderer whose sexual conquests and general obliviousness to Plath's mounting depression led to her demise, or a man driven into other women's arms by his wife's chronic melancholy - perhaps the most time-honoured excuse of the inveterate tomcat - or both.
  • (3) The histochemical localization of some oxidoreductases was investigated in the epididymides of adult tomcats.
  • (4) The observations as described in Part I indicated that urine of estrous female female positively influences the frequency of flehmen in tomcats.
  • (5) Female studies included laparoscopies as indicated intrauterine insemination with Tomcat catheter (Sherwood Medical, St. Louis, MO) was performed in all cases.
  • (6) Dell was first made aware of the issue in June 2013 when a Dell user called “three west” first posted about the smell of a new Dell Latitude E6430u saying “the machine is great, but it smells as if it was assembled near a tomcat's litter box.
  • (7) The symptoms and the course run by cutaneous asthenia, a skin disease which is congenital and probably hereditable, are reported in a Birmese tomcat.
  • (8) We describe a metallic cervical cannula that allows the use of the popular Tomcat catheter in the majority of patients in whom we were unable to achieve a successful ET with the Tomcat alone.
  • (9) By means of microsurgical technique and under the control of the ophthalmoscope 300 mul of isotone solution of NaCl with 22Na or o-131J-iodo-hippuric acid were injected into the space between the retina and pigment epithelium of 28 narcotized tomcats after having closed the inferior retina vessels by photocoagulation about 1 hr before in an umber of the animals.
  • (10) This exuberant early 19th-century novel by ETA Hoffmann is framed as a poetically pretentious tomcat's autobiography, which gets mixed up, due to a printer's error, with the biography of a composer.
  • (11) This histochemically enstablished pattern of enzyme activity in the epididymis of the tomcat was compared with those of other mammals.
  • (12) A tomcat hijacked a plane, stuck a pistol into the pilot's ribs and demanded: "Take me to the canaries."
  • (13) The ET technique at Tygerberg Hospital, using the Tomcat catheter, is described.
  • (14) In acute experiments on tomcats after stimulation of supraoptic nuclei (SON), postoptic nuclei (PON), preoptic area of the hypothalamus, cervical sympathetic nerve (SCN) and vagal afferent fibers (VA) the following data were obtained in the preparations stained by Gomori method: four pair accessory cell groups in the rostral part of the hypothalamus were observed: 1) periventricular group (along the walls of the III ventricle; 2) the preoptic group (above the preoptic recess; 3) the parafornical group (around the fornix columns), and 4) the spindle-shaped group.
  • (15) "I wouldn't trust myself with anything except for comic verse or bad-on-purpose verse: now you've met my cats you'll understand why I was very keen to do The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr …".
  • (16) Both urine and cheek gland secretion of the female donor appeared to contain pheromones which inform the tomcat about her hormonal phase.
  • (17) An introducer--the FT introducer--designed to overcome technical difficulties in selected patients in passing the Tomcat catheter is described.
  • (18) The histochemical localization of 6 lysosomal enzymes was studied in the epididymis of adult tomcats.