Bustle vs Turmoil - What's the difference?
bustle | turmoil |
An excited activity; a stir.
* 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 34.
(computing) A cover to protect and hide the back panel of a computer or other office machine.
(historical) A frame worn underneath a woman's skirt, typically only protruding from the rear as opposed to the earlier more circular hoops.
To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about ).
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To teem or abound (usually followed by with''); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing). ''See also bustle with .
A state of great disorder or uncertainty.
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Harassing labour; trouble; disturbance.
* Shakespeare
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, title= (obsolete) To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.
(obsolete) To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry.
* Spenser
As nouns the difference between bustle and turmoil
is that bustle is an excited activity; a stir while turmoil is a state of great disorder or uncertainty.As verbs the difference between bustle and turmoil
is that bustle is to move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about ) while turmoil is (obsolete|intransitive) to be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.bustle
English
Noun
(en noun)- we are, perhaps, all the while flattering our natural indolence, which, hating the bustle of the world, and drudgery of business seeks a pretence of reason to give itself a full and uncontrolled indulgence
Derived terms
* hustle and bustleVerb
- The commuters bustled about inside the train station.
- I was once so mad to bussell abroad, and seek about for preferment […].
- The train station was bustling with commuters.
Synonyms
* (to move busily) flit, hustle, scamper, scurry * (to exhibit an energetic abundance) abound, brim, bristle, burst, crawl, swell, teemReferences
Anagrams
*turmoil
English
Noun
(en-noun)- And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil , / A blessed soul doth in Elysium.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.}}
Synonyms
* chaos, disorderVerb
(en verb)- (Milton)
- It is her fatal misfortune to be miserably tossed and turmoiled with these storms of affliction.