Laughter vs Prelaugh - What's the difference?
laughter | prelaugh |
The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.
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A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.
* (Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)
* (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
(label) A reason for merriment.
(sciences) Occurring before laughter.
* 1972 , Jeffrey H. Goldstein, Paul E. McGhee, The psychology of humor: theoretical perspectives and empirical issues
* 2002 , Ronald A. Berk, Humor as an instructional defibrillator
As a noun laughter
is the sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.As an adjective prelaugh is
occurring before laughter.laughter
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia laughter) (en-noun)- The act of laughter , which is a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves.
- Archly the maiden smiled, and with eyes overrunning with laughter .
prelaugh
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Adjective
(-)- ...the amplitude of the laugh, which is the distance between the prelaugh base line and its highest intensity peak.
- After a laugh subsides, a brief relaxation phase occurs, during which the HR and BP drop below the prelaugh baseline levels.