Declare vs Sigh - What's the difference?

Declare is a related term of sigh.

As verbs the difference between declare and sigh

is that declare is while sigh is to inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like.

As a noun sigh is

a deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.

As an interjection sigh is

an expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like, often used in casual written contexts.

declare

English

Verb

(declar)

(obsolete) To make clear, explain, interpret.

* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XV:

Then answered Peter and sayd to him: declare unto us thys parable.

* Boyle

To declare this a little, we must assume that the surfaces of all such bodies are exactly smooth.

To make a declaration.

To announce one’s support, choice, opinion, etc.

He declared him innocent.

(cricket) For the captain of the batting side to announce the innings complete even though all batsmen have not been dismissed.

To announce something formally or officially.

declare bankruptcy

declare victory

(cricket) declare (an innings) closed

To affirm or state something emphatically.

To inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income, expenses, or other circumstances affecting one's taxes.

* 1984 , Richard Woodbury and Anastasia Toufexis, " Law: The Trouble with Harry," Time , 2 April:

The prosecution has introduced evidence, including canceled checks, to show that the judge failed to declare part of his income.

To make outstanding debts, e.g. taxes, payable.

(computing) To explicitly include (a variable) as part of a list of variables, often providing some information about the data it is expected to contain.

The counter "i" was declared as an integer.

Derived terms

* declarant * declaration * declarative * declaratory * declarer * declare war

Anagrams

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sigh

English

Noun

(en noun)

A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.

Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lament.

(Cockney rhyming slang) A person who is bored.

Verb

(en verb)

To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=5 citation , passage=A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed .
‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’}}

To lament; to grieve.

* Bible, Mark viii. 12

He sighed deeply in his spirit.

To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.

To experience an emotion associated with sighing.

To make a sound like sighing.

* Coleridge

And the coming wind did roar more loud, / And the sails did sigh like sedge.

* Tennyson

The winter winds are wearily sighing .

To exhale (the breath) in sighs.

* Shakespeare

Never man sighed truer breath.

To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.

* Shakespeare

They sighed forth proverbs.

* Hoole

The gentle swain sighs back her grief.

(archaic) To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.

* Prior

Ages to come, and men unborn, / Shall bless her name, and sigh her fate.

Interjection

(en interjection)

An expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like, often used in casual written contexts.

Sigh , I'm so bored at work today.