Blare vs Blate - What's the difference?
blare | blate |
(usually singular) A loud sound.
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Dazzling, often garish, brilliance.
To make a loud sound.
* {{quote-news
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, date=December 14
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, title=How isolationist is British pop?
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To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly.
* Tennyson
(Scotland, Northern England) Bashful, sheepish.
*1934 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Grey Granite'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 491:
*:You'd say Not them; fine legs'', and Ma struggling into her blouse would say ''You're no blate . Who told you they're fine?
(Scotland, Northern England) Dull, stupid.
As a noun blare
is (usually singular) a loud sound.As a verb blare
is to make a loud sound.As an adjective blate is
(scotland|northern england) bashful, sheepish.blare
English
Noun
(en noun)- I can hardly hear you over the blare of the radio.
Verb
- The trumpet blaring in my ears gave me a headache.
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- To blare its own interpretation.