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Remound vs Resound - What's the difference?

remound | resound |

As verbs the difference between remound and resound

is that remound is (remind) or remound can be the (l) or mounds of ((especially), a (l) or graves) while resound is to sound again or resound can be to reverberate with sound or noise.

remound

English

Etymology 1

A (l) formed on the pattern of find ? found.

Verb

(head)
  • (remind)
  • * 1830 , Filaret, “On the Tenses of Greek Verbs” in The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle , ed. Sylvanus Urban, volume 100, part 2, page 125
  • [W]hat should we now think of the grammar which should run thus: 1. pret. I fighted,'' thou ''fightedst'', &c. 2d pret. ''I fought,'' &c. And again, 1st pret. ''I reminded,'' &c. 2d pret. I ''remound ?
  • * 1918 , The Judge (Judge Publishing Company), volume 75, page unknown
  • I find — that is to say, I’ve found —
    That when one knows “sink, sank and sunken,”
    He soon is strenuously remound
    He mustn’t say “blink, blank and blunken.”
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  • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • the (l) or mounds of ((especially), a (l) or graves).
  • * 1916 , Economic Entomology: Pamphlets , volume 109, page 1,130
  • In some soils, mounds made earlier wash down, thus making it necessary to remound in the fall.
  • * 1995 , L. R. Goldman, “The Depths of Deception: Cultural Schemas of Illusion in Huli”, chapter 3 in Papuan borderlands: Huli, Duna, and Ipili perspectives on the Papua New Guinea Highlands , ed. Aletta Biersack, page 275
  • [W]omen may continue to remound old gardens for ten years or more.
  • * 2006 , William Gay, Twilight (MacAdam/Cage Pub.; ISBN 1596920580, 9781596920583), page 7
  • He drove the spade into the earth mounded atop the grave and leaning his weight into the work began to remound the earth in a pile next the grave.
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  • (chiefly, in food preparation) into a mound.
  • * 1983 , William Shurtleff [aut.] and Akiko Aoyagi [illust.], The Book of Miso: Savory, High-protein Seasoning (2nd ed.; Ten Speed Press; ISBN 0898150973, 9780898150971), page 181
  • Remound koji into oval volcano shape, re-cover tray with lid set slightly ajar, and re-cover incubation box with blankets.
  • * 1991 , Fred Bridge and Jean F. Tibbetts, The Well-Tooled Kitchen (Morrow), page 97
  • Roll a rolling pin 1 to 2 times over the mixture to flatten the butter particles, gather into a mound again, then use the pastry blender to cut until powdery with some oatmeal-shaped flakes throughout; remound .
  • * 1995 , Jesse Ziff Cool, Onions: A Country Garden Cookbook (Collins Publishers San Francisco; ISBN 0002554526, 9780002554527), page 1
  • As the plant grows, move the tube upward and remound the dirt to cover the base and the blanched leaves.
  • (rosiculture, rare) with a (l) mound.
  • * 1999 , Thomas Cairns, Ortho’s All About Roses (Meredith Books; ISBN 0897214285, 9780897214285), page 28
  • Watch for wrinkling on the canes — the first sign of dehydration. If this occurs, recut the canes below the wrinkling, remound the plant, and water well.

    resound

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to sound again
  • to echo a sound
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) resownen, from (etyl) resoner, from (etyl)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to reverberate with sound or noise
  • The street resounded with the noise of the children's game.
  • to make a reverberating sound
  • The sound of the brass band resounded through the town.
  • To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Albion's cliffs resound the rural lay.
  • To praise or celebrate with the voice, or the sound of instruments; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • The man for wisdom's various arts renowned, / Long exercised in woes, O muse, resound .
    Derived terms
    * resounded * resounding

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