Hoar vs Roar - What's the difference?
hoar | roar |
A white or greyish-white colour.
Hoariness; antiquity.
* Burke
Of a white or greyish-white colour.
* Spenser
(poetic) Hoarily bearded.
* 1847 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie
* Byron
(obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
* 1593 , , II. iv. 134:
(obsolete) To become mouldy or musty.
* 1593 , , II. iv. 136:
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 a noun hoar
is a white or greyish-white colour.As an adjective hoar
is of a white or greyish-white colour.As a verb hoar
is (obsolete|intransitive) to become mouldy or musty.As a proper noun roar is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- (BDCADC)
- Covered with the awful hoar of innumerable ages.
Adjective
(-)- hoar waters
- This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
- Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
- Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,
- Stand like harpers hoar , with beards that rest on their bosoms.
- old trees with trunks all hoar
- But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.
Derived terms
* hoarfrost * hoary * hoaredSee also
*Verb
(en verb)- But a hare that is hoar / Is too much for a score / When it hoars ere it be spent.
Anagrams
* ----roar
English
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 .
Blackpool 2-3 Man Utd, passage=United's attempt to extend their unbeaten league sequence to 23 games this season looked to be in shreds as the Seasiders - managed by Ian Holloway - roared into a fully deserved two-goal lead at the interval. }}
- 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."