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Hurtle vs Cavort - What's the difference?

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Hurtle is a related term of cavort.


In lang=en terms the difference between hurtle and cavort

is that hurtle is to hurl or fling; to throw hard or violently while cavort is to move about carelessly, playfully or boisterously.

As verbs the difference between hurtle and cavort

is that hurtle is to move rapidly, violently, or without control while cavort is (originally|intransitive) to prance, said of mounts.

As a noun hurtle

is a fast movement in literal or figurative sense.

hurtle

English

Verb

(hurtl)
  • To move rapidly, violently, or without control.
    • The car hurtled down the hill at 90 miles per hour.
    Pieces of broken glass hurtled through the air.
  • (archaic) To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.
  • * Fairfax
    • Together hurtled both their steeds.
  • (archaic) To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The noise of battle hurtled in the air.
  • * Elizabeth Browning
    • The earthquake sound / Hurtling 'neath the solid ground.
  • To hurl or fling; to throw hard or violently.
    • He hurtled the wad of paper angrily at the trash can and missed by a mile.
  • (archaic) To push; to jostle; to hurl.

    • Noun

    (-)
  • A fast movement in literal or figurative sense.
  • * 1975 , Wakeman, John. Literary Criticism
    • But the war woke me up, I began to move left, and recent events have accelerated that move until it is now a hurtle .
  • * Monday June 20, 2005 , The Guardian newspaper
    • Jamba has removed from Marlowe's Doctor Faustus all but the barest of essentials - even half its title, leaving us with an 80-minute hurtle through Faustus's four and twenty borrowed years on earth.
  • A clattering sound.
  • * 1913 , Eden Phillpotts. Widecombe Fair p.26
    • There came a hurtle of wings, a flash of bright feathers, and a great pigeon with slate-grey plumage and a neck bright as an opal, lit on a swaying finial.

    Anagrams

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    cavort

    English

    Verb

  • (originally) To prance, said of mounts
  • * 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter I:
  • To move about carelessly, playfully or boisterously.
  • * 1900 , ”:
    • And dragon-flies sported around and cavorted , / As poets say dragon-flies ought to do;
  • * 1911 , :
    • He whirligigged and pirouetted, dancing and cavorting round like an inebriated ape.

    Synonyms

    * (move about boisterously) romp, frolic, prance, caper

    See also

    * horse around

    References

    * * “ The Way We Live Now: 7-14-02: On Language; Cavort”, William Safire criticizes White House rhetorics who apparently use the word to mean consort, and discusses its possible origins.