What is the difference between vomit and upset?
vomit | upset |
To regurgitate the contents of a stomach; puke.
* Bible, Jonah ii. 10
To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit.
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* Milton
* Charlotte Brontë
The regurgitated former contents of a stomach.
The act of regurgitating.
(obsolete) That which causes vomiting; an emetic.
* Shakespeare
(of a person) Angry, distressed or unhappy.
Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
(uncountable) Disturbance or disruption.
(countable, sports) An unexpected victory of a competitor that was not favored.
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(automobile insurance) An overturn.
An stomach.
* 1958 May 12, advertisement, Life , volume 44, number 19, page 110 [http://books.google.com/books?id=vFMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA110&dq=pepto]:
(mathematics) An upper set; a subset (X,?) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x?y, then y is in U.
To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
To tip or overturn (something).
* 1924 , W. D. Ross translator, , Book 1, Part 9,
To defeat unexpectedly.
To be upset or knocked over.
(obsolete) To set up; to put upright.
* R. of Brunne
To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.
As verbs the difference between vomit and upset
is that vomit is to regurgitate the contents of a stomach; puke while upset is to make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.As nouns the difference between vomit and upset
is that vomit is the regurgitated former contents of a stomach while upset is (uncountable) disturbance or disruption.As a adjective upset is
(of a person) angry, distressed or unhappy.vomit
English
(wikipedia vomit)Verb
(en verb)- The fish vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
- After about a minute, the creek bed vomited the debris into a gently sloped meadow. Saugstad felt the snow slow and tried to keep her hands in front of her.
- Like the sons of Vulcan, vomit smoke.
- a column of smoke, such as might be vomited by a park of artillery
Derived terms
* vomitableSynonyms
* See alsoNoun
(-)- He gives your Hollander a vomit .
Synonyms
* See also .See also
* emetic ----upset
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was upset when she refused his friendship.
- My children often get upset with their classmates.
- His stomach was upset , so he didn't want to move.
Synonyms
* See'' angry, distressed ''and unhappy ** in a tizzyDerived terms
* upset priceNoun
- My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset .
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- "collision and upset ": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason.
- "Bob, let's cancel the babysitter. With this upset stomach, I can't go out tonight.
- "Try Pepto-Bismol. Hospital tests prove it relieves upsets . And it's great for indigestion or nausea, too!"
Synonyms
* (sense) disruption, disturbance * (unexpected victory of a competitor)Verb
- I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know.
- Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance.
- The fatty meat upset his stomach.
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- But this argument, which first Anaxagoras and later Eudoxus and certain others used, is very easily upset ; for it is not difficult to collect many insuperable objections to such a view.
- ''Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election.
- The carriage upset when the horse bolted.
- with sail on mast upset