Reverberate vs Resonates - What's the difference?
reverberate | resonates |
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.
(resonate)
To vibrate or sound, especially in response to another vibration.
To have an effect or impact; to influence; to engender support.
As verbs the difference between reverberate and resonates
is that reverberate is to ring with many echos while resonates is (resonate).As an adjective reverberate
is reverberant.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)
resonates
English
Verb
(head)resonate
English
Verb
(en-verb)- The books on top of the piano resonate when he plays certain notes.
- His words resonated with the crowd.