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Horning vs Hooting - What's the difference?

horning | hooting |

As verbs the difference between horning and hooting

is that horning is while hooting is .

As nouns the difference between horning and hooting

is that horning is the activity of blowing the horn of a train while hooting is the sound of a hoot, or the occasion of producing this sound.

horning

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • The activity of blowing the horn of a train.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 21, author=, title=A Great New Yark, if They Get It Done; Flying Everyone Home for the Holidays; Those L.I.R.R. Horns: We’ve Had Enough!; Exxon Mobil and Newtown Creek (4 Letters), work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=As of this past summer, residents on the Woodside, Forest Hills and Kew Gardens line have been subjected to the same kind of horning , even though our line has no grade crossings and therefore Federal Railroad Administration horn-sounding regulations do not apply. }}
  • The appearance of the Moon when increasing, or in the form of a crescent.
  • The issuing of letters of horning.

    • Derived terms

    * letters of horning

    hooting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound of a hoot, or the occasion of producing this sound
  • * {{quote-book, year=1818, author=John Franklin, title=The Journey to the Polar Sea, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=One small species, which is known to them by its melancholy nocturnal hootings (for as it never appears in the day few even of the hunters have ever seen it) is particularly ominous. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1828, author=Various, title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Popanilla is found "not guilty, and kicked out of court, amidst the hootings of the mob, without a stain upon his reputation." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1877, author=Washington Irving, title=Bracebridge Hall, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The hootings of this unhappy gentleman may generally be heard in the still evenings, when the rooks are all at rest; and I have often listened to them of a moonlight night with a kind of mysterious gratification. }}