Haha vs Roar - What's the difference?
haha | roar |
Type of boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, designed not to interrupt the view and to be invisible until closely approached.
* (rfdate), Horace Walpole, On Modern Gardening :
* 1731 , Richard Bradley, New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical (London), page 164:
To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
* Dryden
To laugh in a particularly loud manner.
Of animals (especially the lion), to make a loud deep noise.
* Spenser
Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.
* Milton
* Gray
(figuratively) To proceed vigorously.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 25, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
, title= To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
* Ford
* , chapter=7
, title= To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
* Bishop Burnet
To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses do when they have a certain disease.
A long, loud, deep shout made with the mouth wide open.
The cry of the lion.
* 1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
The deep cry of the bull.
A loud resounding noise.
* 1944, , Brave Men , University of Nebraska Press (2001), page 107:
A show of strength or character.
As nouns the difference between haha and roar
is that haha is type of boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, designed not to interrupt the view and to be invisible until closely approached while roar is a long, loud, deep shout made with the mouth wide open.As an interjection haha
is an onomatopoeic representation of laughter.As a verb roar is
to make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.haha
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Alternative forms
* ha ha * ha-ha * hah hahEtymology 1
(onomatopoeia).Etymology 2
(etyl) haha. French term attested 1686 in toponyms in (New France) (present Quebec); compare modern . English term attested 1712, in translation by of French La theorie et la pratique du jardinage (1709) by (w, Dezallier d'Argenville):Grills of iron are very necessary ornaments in the lines of walks, to extend the view, and to show the country to advantage. At present we frequently make thoroughviews, called Ah, Ah,' which are openings in the walls, without grills, to the very level of the walks, with a large and deep ditch at the foot of them, lined on both sides to sustain the earth, and prevent the getting over; which surprises the eye upon coming near it, and makes one laugh, '''Ha! Ha!''' from where it takes its name. This sort of opening is ' haha, on some occasions, to be preferred, for that it does not at all interrupt the prospect, as the bars of a grill do.
Noun
(Ha-ha)- The Ha Ha But the capital stroke, the leading step to all that, has followed, was (I believe the first thought was Bridgman's) the destruction of walls for boundaries, and the invention of fosses - an attempt then deemed so astonishing, that the common people called them Ha! Ha's! to express their surprise at finding a sudden and unperceived check to their walk. One of the first gardens planted in this simple though still formal style was my father's at Houghton. It was laid out by Mr. Eyre, an imitator of Bridgman. It contains three-and-twenty acres, then reckoned a considerable portion.
- Haha! or Fossee, are Terms of the same Signification, tho' the First is a new coin'd Word'', they mean a ''Ditch'', or ''Moat'' to Enclose a ''Garden'', whether the ''Ditch'' has ''Water'' in it, or not, but the ''Haha'', by the Custom of five or six Years, intimates a dry ''Ditch'', so regulated by Slopes, and so Deep that it is unpassable. It makes a fine open ''Fence'' to a ''Ground .
roar
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Verb
(en verb)- Sole on the barren sands, the suffering chief / Roared out for anguish, and indulged his grief.
- The audience roared at his jokes.
- Roaring bulls he would him make to tame.
- The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar .
- How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar .
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- This last action will roar thy infamy.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.}}
- It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance.
Noun
(en noun)- The Winkies were not a brave people, but they had to do as they were told. So they marched away until they came near to Dorothy. Then the Lion gave a great roar and sprang towards them, and the poor Winkies were so frightened that they ran back as fast as they could.
- the roar of a motorbike
- "Those lovely valleys and mountains were filled throughout the day and night with the roar of heavy shooting."