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Roar vs Barking - What's the difference?

roar | barking |

As verbs the difference between roar and barking

is that roar is to make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion while barking is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between roar and barking

is that roar is a long, loud, deep shout made with the mouth wide open while barking is the action of the verb to bark.

As an adjective barking is

who or that barks or bark.

As a proper noun Barking is

a town in London.

roar

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
  • * Dryden
    • Sole on the barren sands, the suffering chief / Roared out for anguish, and indulged his grief.
  • To laugh in a particularly loud manner.
    • The audience roared at his jokes.
  • Of animals (especially the lion), to make a loud deep noise.
  • * Spenser
    • Roaring bulls he would him make to tame.
  • Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.
  • * Milton
    • The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar .
  • * Gray
    • How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar .
  • (figuratively) To proceed vigorously.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 25, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
    • , title= Blackpool 2-3 Man Utd , passage=United's attempt to extend their unbeaten league sequence to 23 games this season looked to be in shreds as the Seasiders - managed by Ian Holloway - roared into a fully deserved two-goal lead at the interval. }}
  • To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
  • * Ford
    • This last action will roar thy infamy.
  • * , chapter=7
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.}}
  • To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
  • * Bishop Burnet
    • It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance.
  • To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses do when they have a certain disease.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long, loud, deep shout made with the mouth wide open.
  • The cry of the lion.
  • * 1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
    • The Winkies were not a brave people, but they had to do as they were told. So they marched away until they came near to Dorothy. Then the Lion gave a great roar and sprang towards them, and the poor Winkies were so frightened that they ran back as fast as they could.
  • The deep cry of the bull.
  • A loud resounding noise.
    • the roar of a motorbike
  • * 1944, , Brave Men , University of Nebraska Press (2001), page 107:
    • "Those lovely valleys and mountains were filled throughout the day and night with the roar of heavy shooting."
  • A show of strength or character.

    • barking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * barking dogs seldom bite

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Who or that barks or bark.
    • barking dogs
  • (British slang) Short for barking mad.
    • He's going to run the marathon in this hot weather dressed as Donald Duck – he must be barking !

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to bark .
    • Loud barking could be heard from the dog pound.

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