vomit

n 1: the matter ejected in vomiting [syn: {vomitus}, {puke}]

2: a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting [syn: {emetic},

{vomitive}, {nauseant}]

3: the act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the

mouth [syn: {vomiting}, {regurgitation}, {disgorgement}, {puking},

{heaving}]

v : eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After

drinking too much, the students vomited" [syn: {vomit up},

{cast}, {sick}, {cat}, {regurgitate}, {be sick}, {disgorge},

{regorge}, {retch}, {puke}, {barf}, {spew}, {spue}, {chuck},

{upchuck}, {honk}, {throw up}] [ant: {keep down}]

COMIT

The first string-handling and {pattern-matching} language,

designed in 1957-8 for applications in {natural language}

translation. The user has a workspace organised into shelves.

Strings are made of constituents (words), accessed by

{subscript}. A program is a set of rules, each of which has a

pattern, a replacement and goto another rule.

["COMIT Programmer's Reference Manual", V.H. Yngve, MIT Press

1961].

[Sammet 1969, pp. 416-436].

(1994-11-30)