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Melodrama vs Tugboat - What's the difference?

melodrama | tugboat |

As nouns the difference between melodrama and tugboat

is that melodrama is while tugboat is a small, powerful boat (a "tugship" in other languages) used to push or pull barges or to help maneuver larger vessels.

melodrama

English

(wikipedia melodrama)

Noun

  • (archaic, uncountable) A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes.
  • (countable) A drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the grave digging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".
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  • (uncountable, figuratively, colloquial) Any situation or action which is blown out of proportion.

    • Derived terms

    * melodramatic * melodramatics * melodramatist * melodramatize ----

    tugboat

    English

    Alternative forms

    * tug-boat * tug boat (wikipedia tugboat)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small, powerful boat (a "tugship" in other languages) used to push or pull barges or to help maneuver larger vessels.

    • Synonyms

    * tug

    See also

    * towboat