Peal vs Explosion - What's the difference?
peal | explosion | Related terms |
A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc.
* 1883:
* Hayward
* Shakespeare
* Byron
A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale.
The changes rung on a set of bells.
To sound with a peal or peals.
* 1864: , Christmas Bells
* 1939: , In My Merry Oldsmobile
* 2006:
To utter or sound loudly.
* J. Barlow
To assail with noise.
* Milton
To resound; to echo.
* Longfellow
(UK, dialect) To pour out.
(obsolete) To appeal.
A violent release of energy (sometimes mechanical, nuclear, or chemical.)
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The sound of an explosion.
A sudden uncontrolled increase.
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A sudden outburst.
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Peal is a related term of explosion.
As nouns the difference between peal and explosion
is that peal is a loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc or peal can be a small salmon; a grilse; a sewin while explosion is explosion.As a verb peal
is to sound with a peal or peals.peal
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- And, falling on a bench, he laughed until the tears ran down his cheeks, I could not help joining; and we laughed together, peal' after ' peal
- a fair peal of artillery
- whether those peals of praise be his or no
- and a deep thunder, peal' on ' peal , afar
Verb
(en verb)- Then pealed the bells more loud and deep...
- To the church we'll swiftly steal, then our wedding bells will peal ,
- You can go as far you like with me, in my merry Oldsmobile.
New York Times
- The bell pealed 20 times, clanging into the dusk as Mr. Bush’s motorcade drove off.
- The warrior's name, / Though pealed and chimed on all the tongues of fame.
- Nor was his ear less pealed .
- And the whole air pealed / With the cheers of our men.
- (Halliwell)
- (Spencer)
Etymology 2
Uncertain.Anagrams
* * * ----explosion
English
Noun
(en noun)Chico Harlan
Japan pockets the subsidy …, passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion ."}}
- As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc.
Can China clean up fast enough?, passage=All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism. That worries the government, which fears that environmental activism could become the foundation for more general political opposition. It is therefore dealing with pollution in two ways—suppression and mitigation.}}