Howl vs Below - What's the difference?
howl | below | Synonyms |
The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.
A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.
To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.
* Drayton
* Shakespeare
To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.
* Bible, Isaiah xiii. 6
To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.
* Sir Walter Scott
To utter with outcry.
Lower in spatial position than.
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Lower in value, price, rank or concentration than.
* Addison
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South of.
Unsuitable to the rank or dignity of; beneath.
* (John Milton)
* Hallam
(stage directions) Downstage of.
* 1952 , (Frederick Knott), , 1954 (Dramatists Play Service) acting edition, act 1, scene 1:
In a lower place.
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On a lower storey.
Further down.
(lb) On a lower deck.
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(lb) Below zero.
Howl is a synonym of below.
As a noun howl
is the protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.As a verb howl
is to utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.As a preposition below is
lower in spatial position than.As an adverb below is
in a lower place.howl
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- And dogs in corners set them down to howl .
- Methought a legion of foul fiends / Environ'd me about, and howled in my ears.
- Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at hand.
- Wild howled the wind.
- to howl derision
below
English
Preposition
(English prepositions)- one degree below kings
Philip J. Bushnell, magazine=(American Scientist)
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- They beheld, with a just loathing and disdain, how below all history the persons and their actions were.
- who thinks no fact below his regard
- Below the sofa is a low, round coffee table.