Reverberate vs Knell - What's the difference?
reverberate | knell | Related terms |
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.
to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* , The New Timon. A romance of London , Chapter 86
to signal or proclaim something by ringing a bell.
the sound of a bell knelling; a toll.
* 1750 , , Line 1
In intransitive terms the difference between reverberate and knell
is that reverberate is to shine or reflect (from a surface, etc. while knell is to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.As an adjective reverberate
is reverberant.As a noun knell is
the sound of a bell knelling; a toll.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)
knell
English
Verb
(en verb)- not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee
- Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, / Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, alone .
Noun
(en noun)- The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,