Murmur vs Bruit - What's the difference?

In medicine terms the difference between murmur and bruit

is that murmur is the sound made by any condition which produces noisy, or turbulent, flow of blood through the heart while bruit is an abnormal sound heard on auscultation. French pronunciation.

As nouns the difference between murmur and bruit

is that murmur is low or indistinct sounds or speech while bruit is rumour, talk, hearsay.

As verbs the difference between murmur and bruit

is that murmur is to grumble; to complain in a low, muttering voice, or express discontent {{term|at}} or {{term|against}} someone or something while bruit is to spread, promulgate or disseminate a rumour, news etc.

murmur

English

Noun

(en noun)

(countable) Low or indistinct sounds or speech.

* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) , chapter V:

In the prison of the 'tween decks reigned a darkness pregnant with murmurs . The sentry at the entrance to the hatchway was supposed to "prevent the prisoners from making a noise," but he put a very liberal interpretation upon the clause, and so long as the prisoners refrained from shouting, yelling, and fighting--eccentricities in which they sometimes indulged--he did not disturb them.

A murmur arose from the audience.

* 1960 , , (Jeeves in the Offing) , chapter XI:

The moment had come for the honeyed word. I lowered my voice to a confidential murmur , but on her inquiring if I had laryngitis raised it again.

(medicine) The sound made by any condition which produces noisy, or turbulent, flow of blood through the heart.

A muttered complaint or protest; the expression of dissatisfaction in a low muttering voice; any expression of complaint or discontent

* 1919 , :

In fear of disease and in the interest of his health man will be muzzled and masked like a vicious dog, and that without any murmur of complaint.

* 1960 , , (Jeeves in the Offing) , chapter XX:

Glossop will return from his afternoon off to find the awful majesty of the Law waiting for him, complete with handcuffs. We can hardly expect him to accept an exemplary sentence without a murmur , so his first move will be to establish his innocence by revealing all.

Verb

(en verb)

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , (w) VI:

The iewes murmured att itt, because he sayde: I am thatt breed which is come doune from heven.

(label) To speak or make low, indistinguishable noise; to mumble, mutter.

*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)

, chapter=7, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=“Oh yes,” he murmured in a tone of obligatory surprise, as he proceeded to make the kind of 2 which he attributed to Margaret's style of chirography.}}

(label) To say (something) indistinctly, to mutter.

* (William Shakespeare), 1 , II. 3.51

Iheard thee murmur tales of iron wars.

Derived terms

* murmuration * murmurer * murmuring * murmurless * murmurous

Synonyms

* See aslo

External links

* (heart murmur)

References

* * English onomatopoeias English reduplications ----

bruit

English

Noun

(-)

(label) Rumour, talk, hearsay.

* 1590 , (William Shakespeare), , Act IV, Scene 7

Brother, we will proclaim you out of hand: / The bruit thereof will bring you many friends.

* 1607 , (William Shakespeare),

But yet I love my country, and am not / One that rejoices in the common wreck, / As common bruit doth put it.

*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./1/1

, passage=And so it had always pleased M. Stutz to expect great things from the dark young man whom he had first seen in his early twenties?; and his expectations had waxed rather than waned on hearing the faint bruit of the love of Ivor and Virginia—for Virginia, M. Stutz thought, would bring fineness to a point in a man like Ivor Marlay, […].}}

(label) An abnormal sound heard on auscultation. (French pronunciation)

Verb

(en verb)

(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 ,

There haue bin diuers and variable reportes with some slaunderous and shamefull speeches bruited abroade by many that returned from thence.

* William Shakespeare, Hamlet , Act I, Scene 2, lines 127–128,

And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,

Re-speaking earthly thunder.

* 1997 , Don DeLillo, Underworld ,

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.

* {{quote-web, date=2010-08-04

, year= , first= , last= , author=Darren Murph , authorlink= , title=China's maglev trains to hit 1,000km/h in three years , site=Engadget citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2013-03-18 , passage= … it's bruited that the tunnel would cost "10 to 20 million yuan … }} ----