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Vomiting vs Fetching - What's the difference?

vomiting | fetching |

As verbs the difference between vomiting and fetching

is that vomiting is while fetching is .

As nouns the difference between vomiting and fetching

is that vomiting is the action of the verb vomit while fetching is the act by which something is fetched.

As an adjective fetching is

attractive; pleasant to regard.

vomiting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb vomit
  • * (Jeremy Taylor)
    • Epilepsies, or fallings and reelings, and beastly vomitings . The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.

    fetching

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Attractive; pleasant to regard.
  • * 2000 , Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country , Chapter 1, page 11:
    • I am not, I regret to say, a discreet and fetching sleeper. Most people when they nod off look as if they could do with a blanket; I look as if I could do with medical attention.

    Verb

    (head)
  • *, chapter=6
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is fetched.
  • * 1834 , Evidence on drunkenness: presented to the House of Commons
    • These lumpers were also in the habit of inducing their men during the week to send to their pay-house for fetchings of drink, besides the money they were compelled to spend on Saturday night.