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Lull vs Loll - What's the difference?

lull | loll |

As verbs the difference between lull and loll

is that lull is to cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm; to soothe; to quiet while loll is to act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease.

As a noun lull

is a period of rest or soothing.

lull

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A period of rest or soothing
  • (nautical) a period without waves or wind.
  • (surfing) An extended pause between sets of waves.
    • About 2 hours in, a long lull cleared everyone out, and then it started getting a little more consistent and pushing chest ta neck high — 808surfer.com forum [http://www.808surfer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5611&sid=89085fc4ffa26528388fbcce5f7faf50]

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To .
  • * Spenser
    • to lull him soft asleep
  • * Milton
    • Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, / To lull the daughters of necessity.
  • To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate.
    • The storm lulled .

    Synonyms

    * (To cause to rest) appease

    loll

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To act lazily or indolently; to recline; to lean; to throw one's self down; to lie at ease.
  • * Dryden
    • Void of care, he lolls supine in state.
  • * 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
    • The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
  • To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion.
  • * Dryden
    • The triple porter of the Stygian seat, / With lolling tongue, lay fawning at thy feet.
  • To let the tongue hang from the mouth in this way.
    • The ox stood lolling in the furrow.

    Synonyms

    * slack * relax