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Bloat vs Tympany - What's the difference?

bloat | tympany |

As nouns the difference between bloat and tympany

is that bloat is distention of the abdomen from death while tympany is the sound made by beating a drum.

As a verb bloat

is to cause to become distended.

As an adjective bloat

is bloated.

bloat

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • to cause to become distended
  • to fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell
  • to become distended; to swell up
    • (Arbuthnot)
  • to fill with vanity or conceit
    • (Dryden)
  • to preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking
    • bloated herring

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • distention of the abdomen from death
  • (figurative) wasteful use of space
    • Adding an e-mail feature to this simple text editor would be pointless bloat .
  • (derogatory, slang, dated) A worthless, dissipated fellow.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) bloated
  • :{{quote-book, author=(William Shakespeare)
    • , year=1602 , title=The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark , chapter=Act 3, Scene 4. The Queen's Closet. citation , passage=Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed}}

    References

    tympany

    English

    Noun

    (tympanies)
  • The sound made by beating a drum.
  • (medicine) (distention of the abdomen).
  • Inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.
    • Thine 's a tympany of sense. — Dryden.
    (De Quincey)