Onomatopoeia vs Smash - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The property of a word of sounding like what it represents.
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(countable) A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle" or "hiss".
(uncountable, rhetoric) The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names.
The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
(British, colloquial) A traffic accident.
(colloquial, entertainment) Something very successful.
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(tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
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(colloquial, archaic) bankruptcy
To break (something brittle) violently.
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(figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.
(figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly.
(US) To deform through continuous pressure.
To be destroyed by being smashed.
(transitive, slang, vulgar, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
As nouns the difference between onomatopoeia and smash
is that onomatopoeia is (uncountable) the property of a word of sounding like what it represents while smash is the sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.As a verb smash is
to break (something brittle) violently.onomatopoeia
English
(wikipedia onomatopoeia)Alternative forms
* onomatopeia *Noun
Synonyms
* imitative harmony * mimesis * sound symbolismSee also
* Wiktionary's category of English words not following the I before E except after C rulesmash
English
Noun
(smashes)- I could hear the screech of the brakes, then the horrible smash of cars colliding.
- The driver and two passengers were badly injured in the smash .
- This new show of mine is sure to be a smash .
- Soundcheck for the band, today, takes place at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. It is late afternoon and while the arena's 17,000 outdoor seats are still empty the four members of Mumford & Sons – prospering British folk band, in the middle of a long tour of Australia, the US and the UK, their newly released album Babel a smash on all fronts – wander to centre stage.
- A smash may not be as pretty as a good half volley, but it can still win points.
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Synonyms
* (sound of a violent impact ): crash * (colloquial: traffic accident ): crash * (colloquial: something very successful ): smash hitVerb
(es)- Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.
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