Barking vs Howl - What's the difference?
barking | howl |
Who or that barks or bark.
(British slang) Short for barking mad.
The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.
A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.
To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.
* Drayton
* Shakespeare
To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.
* Bible, Isaiah xiii. 6
To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.
* Sir Walter Scott
To utter with outcry.
As verbs the difference between barking and howl
is that barking is present participle of lang=en while howl is to utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.As nouns the difference between barking and howl
is that barking is the action of the verb to bark while howl is the protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.As an adjective barking
is who or that barks or bark.As a proper noun Barking
is a town in London.barking
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Verb
(head)Derived terms
* barking dogs seldom biteAdjective
(en adjective)- barking dogs
- He's going to run the marathon in this hot weather dressed as Donald Duck – he must be barking !
Anagrams
*howl
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- And dogs in corners set them down to howl .
- Methought a legion of foul fiends / Environ'd me about, and howled in my ears.
- Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at hand.
- Wild howled the wind.
- to howl derision
