Peal vs Reverberate - What's the difference?
peal | reverberate | Synonyms |
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.
to ring with many echos
to have a lasting effect
* '>citation
to repeatedly return
To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
* Shakespeare
To send or force back; to repel from side to side.
To fuse by reverberated heat.
* Sir Thomas Browne
to rebound or recoil
to shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.)
(obsolete) to shine or glow (on something) with reflected light
reverberant
* Shakespeare
Driven back, as sound; reflected.
Peal is a synonym of reverberate.
In lang=en terms the difference between peal and reverberate
is that peal is to assail with noise while reverberate is to shine or reflect (from a surface, etc).In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between peal and reverberate
is that peal is (obsolete) to appeal while reverberate is (obsolete) to shine or glow (on something) with reflected light.As verbs the difference between peal and reverberate
is that peal is to sound with a peal or peals while reverberate is to ring with many echos.As a noun 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.As an adjective reverberate is
reverberant.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
* * * ----reverberate
English
Verb
(en-verb)- who, like an arch, reverberates the voice again
- Flame is reverberated in a furnace.
- reverberated into glass
References
*Adjective
(en adjective)- the reverberate hills
- (Drayton)
