Outcry vs Interjection - What's the difference?
outcry | interjection | Related terms |
a loud cry or uproar
a strong protest
To cry out.
* 1919 , Debates in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1917-1918: Volume 1
To cry louder than.
* 2003 , Melvyn Bragg, Crossing the lines (page 355)
* 2007 , Anthony Dalton, Alone Against the Arctic (page 104)
(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
Outcry is a related term of interjection.
As nouns the difference between outcry and interjection
is that outcry is a loud cry or uproar while interjection is (grammar) 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 outcry
is to cry out.outcry
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Noun
(outcries)- His appearance was greeted with an outcry of jeering.
- The proposal was met with a public outcry .
Verb
- I think any man who outcries against the power of the government in Germany soon ceases to cry at all, because he is crushed.
- ...outcrying the clacking of train wheels, the shrill of the whistle...
- The dogs added their voices to the din, howling for hours, each trying to outcry the others.
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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)