Pregnancy vs Laughter - What's the difference?
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(countable) The condition of being pregnant.
* 2012 , Caroline Davies, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announce they are expecting first baby'' (in ''The Guardian , 3 December 2012)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/03/duke-and-duchess-of-cambridge-expecting-baby?intcmp=122]
The period of time this condition prevails.
(uncountable) The progression of stages from conception to birth.
The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.
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A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.
* (Thomas Browne) (1605-1682)
* (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
(label) A reason for merriment.
As nouns the difference between pregnancy and laughter
is that pregnancy is (countable) the condition of being pregnant while laughter is the sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound.pregnancy
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Noun
(pregnancies) (wikipedia pregnancy)- News that the duchess is in the "very early stages" of pregnancy with the third-in-line to the throne was officially released after she was taken to the King Edward VII hospital in central London, suffering from hyperemesis gravidarun, very acute morning sickness.
Synonyms
* gestation * graviditySee also
* with childlaughter
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Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia laughter) (en-noun)- The act of laughter , which is a sweet contraction of the muscles of the face, and a pleasant agitation of the vocal organs, is not merely, or totally within the jurisdiction of ourselves.
- Archly the maiden smiled, and with eyes overrunning with laughter .