Riot vs Kaleidoscope - What's the difference?
riot | kaleidoscope |
Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.
* Shakespeare
The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.
Excessive and expensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.
* Chaucer
* Alexander Pope
To create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition.
(obsolete) To act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, etc.
* Daniel
* Alexander Pope
A tube of mirrors containing loose coloured beads etc. that is rotated to produce a succession of symmetrical designs.
A constantly changing set of colours, or other things.
To move in shifting patterns.
As nouns the difference between riot and kaleidoscope
is that riot is wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult while kaleidoscope is kaleidoscope (tube of mirrors rotated to produce symmetrical designs).As a verb riot
is to create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition.riot
English
(wikipedia riot)Noun
(en noun)- His headstrong riot hath no curb.
- Venus loveth riot and dispense.
- the lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day
Derived terms
* rioter * run riotVerb
(en verb)- The nuclear protesters rioted outside the military base.
- Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, / Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law.
- No pulse that riots , and no blood that glows.