Bray vs Roar - What's the difference?
bray | roar |
Of a donkey, to make its cry.
Of a camel, to make its cry.
To make a harsh, discordant sound like a donkey's bray.
To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.
* Milton
* Sir Walter Scott
* Gray
The cry of an ass or donkey.
The cry of a camel
Any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.
* Jerrold
To crush or pound, especially with a mortar.
* Bible, Proverbs xxvii. 22
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 141:
(British, chiefly Yorkshire) By extension, to hit someone or something.
* 2011 , , Butchers Perfume'' from ''The Beautiful Indifference , Faber and Faber (2011), page
To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
* Dryden
To laugh in a particularly loud manner.
Of animals (especially the lion), to make a loud deep noise.
* Spenser
Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.
* Milton
* Gray
(figuratively) To proceed vigorously.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 25, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
, title= To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
* Ford
* , chapter=7
, title= To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
* Bishop Burnet
To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses do when they have a certain disease.
A long, loud, deep shout made with the mouth wide open.
The cry of the lion.
* 1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
The deep cry of the bull.
A loud resounding noise.
* 1944, , Brave Men , University of Nebraska Press (2001), page 107:
A show of strength or character.
As proper nouns the difference between bray and roar
is that bray is while roar is .bray
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) braire, from ).Verb
(en verb)- Whenever I walked by, that donkey brayed at me.
- He threw back his head and brayed with laughter.
- Arms on armour clashing, brayed / Horrible discord.
- And varying notes the war pipes brayed .
- Heard ye the din of battle bray ?
Noun
(en noun)- The bray and roar of multitudinous London.
Synonyms
* hee-hawEtymology 2
From (etyl) breier (Modern French broyer).Verb
(en verb)- Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
- Their heads and shoulders are painted red with the roote Pocone brayed to powder, mixed with oyle [...].
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- If anything he brayed him all the harder - the old family bull recognising his fighting days were close to over.
roar
English
Verb
(en verb)- Sole on the barren sands, the suffering chief / Roared out for anguish, and indulged his grief.
- The audience roared at his jokes.
- Roaring bulls he would him make to tame.
- The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar .
- How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar .
Blackpool 2-3 Man Utd, passage=United's attempt to extend their unbeaten league sequence to 23 games this season looked to be in shreds as the Seasiders - managed by Ian Holloway - roared into a fully deserved two-goal lead at the interval. }}
- This last action will roar thy infamy.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.}}
- It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance.
Noun
(en noun)- The Winkies were not a brave people, but they had to do as they were told. So they marched away until they came near to Dorothy. Then the Lion gave a great roar and sprang towards them, and the poor Winkies were so frightened that they ran back as fast as they could.
- the roar of a motorbike
- "Those lovely valleys and mountains were filled throughout the day and night with the roar of heavy shooting."