Bruit vs Disperse - What's the difference?
bruit | disperse |
(label) Rumour, talk, hearsay.
* 1590 , (William Shakespeare), , Act IV, Scene 7
* 1607 , (William Shakespeare),
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(label) An abnormal sound heard on auscultation. (French pronunciation)
(US, archaic British) to spread, promulgate or disseminate a rumour, news etc.
* 1590 , Thomas Hariot, A Brief and True Report of the new found land of Virginia ,
* William Shakespeare, Hamlet , Act I, Scene 2, lines 127–128,
* 1997 , Don DeLillo, Underworld ,
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(intransitive) To scatter in different directions
* Bible, Proverbs xv. 7
* Cowper
(intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate
(intransitive) To disseminate
(physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light etc. according to wavelength; to refract
(intransitive) To distribute throughout
As a noun bruit
is brute, beast.As a verb disperse is
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English
Noun
(-)- Brother, we will proclaim you out of hand: / The bruit thereof will bring you many friends.
- But yet I love my country, and am not / One that rejoices in the common wreck, / As common bruit doth put it.
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Verb
(en verb)- There haue bin diuers and variable reportes with some slaunderous and shamefull speeches bruited abroade by many that returned from thence.
- And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,
- Re-speaking earthly thunder.
- Paranoid. Now he knew what it meant, this word that was bandied and bruited so easily, and he sensed the connections being made around him.
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disperse
English
Verb
- The Jews are dispersed among all nations.
- The lips of the wise disperse knowledge.
- Two lions, in the still, dark night, / A herd of beeves disperse .