Brandish vs Dangle - What's the difference?

Brandish is a related term of dangle.

In lang=en terms the difference between brandish and dangle

is that brandish is to bear something with ostentatious show while dangle is to hang or trail something loosely.

As verbs the difference between brandish and dangle

is that brandish is to move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill while dangle is to hang loosely with the ability to swing.

As nouns the difference between brandish and dangle

is that brandish is the act of flourishing or waving while dangle is an agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.

brandish

English

Verb

(es)

To move or swing a weapon back and forth, particularly if demonstrating skill.

He brandished his sword at the pirates.

* Drake

the quivering lance which he brandished bright

To bear something with ostentatious show.

to brandish syllogisms

* 2011 , , Binay: Blame corruption on modern consumerism , Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation, [http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/315850/binay-blame-corruption-modern-consumerism]:

It sets the stage for cutting corners in our principles just so we can brandish a perceived badge of stature.

{{quote-Fanny Hill, part=2 , Long, however, the young spark did not remain before giving it two or three shakes, by way of brandishing it}}

Synonyms

* flourish, wave

Noun

(es)

The act of flourishing or waving.

Synonyms

* flourish

dangle

English

Verb

(dangl)

to hang loosely with the ability to swing

* Hudibras

He'd rather on a gibbet dangle / Than miss his dear delight, to wrangle.

* Tennyson

From her lifted hand / Dangled a length of ribbon.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson

, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}

(intransitive, slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string.

To hang or trail something loosely.

To trail or follow around.

* 1833 , Miller's Modern Acting Drama

To dangle at the elbow of a wench who can't make up her mind to accept the common title of wife, till she has been courted a certain number of weeks — so the old blinker, her father, says.

Noun

(wikipedia dangle) (en noun)

An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group.

(slang, ice hockey, lacrosse) The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style.

That was a sick dangle for a great goal!

A dangling ornament or decoration.

* 1941 , Flora Thompson, Over to Candleford

So her father wrote to Mrs. Herring, and one day she arrived and turned out to be a little, lean old lady with a dark brown mole on one leathery cheek and wearing a black bonnet decorated with jet dangles , like tiny fishing rods.

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