Howl vs Interjection - What's the difference?
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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.
(grammar) An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.
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An interruption; something interjected
As nouns the difference between howl and interjection
is that howl is the protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound while interjection is an exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.As a verb howl
is to utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.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
interjection
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(wikipedia interjection)Noun
(en noun)- Some evidence confirming our suspicions that topicalised and dislocated constituents occupy different sentence positions comes from Greenberg (1984). He notes that in colloquial speech the interjection man'' can occur after dislocated constituents, but not after topicalised constituents: cf.
(21) (a) ''Bill'', man, I really hate him (dislocated NP)
(21) (b) ?''Bill , man, I really hate (topicalised NP)