Emit vs Blowhorn - What's the difference?
emit | blowhorn |
To send out or give off.
A device, often funnel-shaped and sometimes hand-held, which is used to emit loud sounds or amplified human speech.
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As a verb emit
is .As a noun blowhorn is
a device, often funnel-shaped and sometimes hand-held, which is used to emit loud sounds or amplified human speech.emit
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* (l)Derived terms
* emissionAnagrams
* item * mite * time ----blowhorn
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Alternative forms
* blow horn, blow-hornNoun
(en noun)- "Pick up your toys" takes a parental blowhorn to permeate the brain of a young child.
- He remembers the sad, droning sound of a blowhorn from a dredge barge, a plea for help as it was swept out to sea.
Episcopalians: Mainers stand firm against racism in gatherings and vigils across the state," Worldwide Faith News (USA) (retrieved 2 Aug. 2011):
- [F]rom atop enormous snow banks they sang civil rights-era songs and waited for the speakers from inside to come outside to deliver their speeches via blowhorn .
- "We could stand outside with a blowhorn and say you are all sinners but the reality is that doesn't work," Mr Davies said.
Are you ready to make some noise?," North-West Evening Mail (UK) (retrieved 2 Aug. 2011):
- I’m talking, of course, about the vuvuzela. Essentially, a metre-long blowhorn , which you may struggle to get past a steward at an English football ground.