Crowing vs Stridor - What's the difference?
crowing | stridor |
A cry of joy or pleasure.
* 1865 , Methodist Episcopal Church, Ladies' Repository
A harsh, shrill, unpleasant noise.
(medicine) A high-pitched sound heard on inspiration resulting from turbulent air flow in the upper airway usually indicative of serious airway obstruction.
As nouns the difference between crowing and stridor
is that crowing is a cry of joy or pleasure while stridor is a harsh, shrill, unpleasant noise.As a verb crowing
is .crowing
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- The tiny mouth is uttering the most satisfied of crowings , and her eyes have that pure, soft expression never seen except in baby eyes.
stridor
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Noun
- 1891' ''But when the tilted plank let slide its freight into the sea, a second strange human murmur was heard, blended now with another inarticulate sound proceeding from certain larger sea-fowl, whose attention having been attracted by the peculiar commotion in the water resulting from the heavy sloped dive of the shotted hammock into the sea, flew screaming to the spot. So near the hull did they come, that the '''stridor or bony creak of their gaunt double-jointed pinions was audible.'' Herman Melville, ''Billy Budd ,
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