Assail vs Parade - What's the difference?
assail | parade |
To attack violently using words or force.
An organized procession consisting of a series of consecutive displays, performances, exhibits, etc. displayed by moving down a street past a crowd.
Any succession, series, or display of items.
A line of goslings led by one parent and often trailed by the other.
The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled.
Pompous show; formal display or exhibition.
* Jonathan Swift
(Gallicism) Posture of defense; guard.
* John Locke
A public walk; a promenade; now used in street names.
To march or to display.
To display or show; to exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off.
To march past.
As verbs the difference between assail and parade
is that assail is to attack violently using words or force while parade is .assail
English
Verb
(en verb)- Muggers assailed them as they entered an alley.
- For the next six months or so those children will assail her in public with demands for an improper story! (from H.H. Munro's short story, "The Storyteller").
parade
English
(wikipedia parade)Noun
(en noun)- The floats and horses in the parade were impressive, but the marching bands were really amazing.
- The dinner was a parade of courses, each featuring foods more elaborate than the last.
- a parade of shops
- Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade .
- when they are not in parade , and upon their guard
- He was parked on Chester Parade .
Derived terms
* hit parade * military parade * victory parade * pride parade * techno parade * parade of horribles * ticker tape parade * rain on someone's paradeVerb
(parad)- They paraded around the field, simply to show their discipline.
- They paraded dozens of fashions past the crowd.
- Parading all her sensibility. Byron.
- After the field show, it is customary to parade the stands before exiting the field.