Roared vs Laugh - What's the difference?
roared | laugh |
(roar)
To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
* Dryden
To laugh in a particularly loud manner.
Of animals (especially the lion), to make a loud deep noise.
* Spenser
Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.
* Milton
* Gray
(figuratively) To proceed vigorously.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 25, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
, title= To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
* Ford
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, title= To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
* Bishop Burnet
To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses do when they have a certain disease.
A long, loud, deep shout made with the mouth wide open.
The cry of the lion.
* 1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
The deep cry of the bull.
A loud resounding noise.
* 1944, , Brave Men , University of Nebraska Press (2001), page 107:
A show of strength or character.
An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.
* 1803 , (Oliver Goldsmith), The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With an Account of His Life , page 45:
* 1869 , , Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics , page 87:
Something that provokes mirth or scorn.
* 1921 , (Ring Lardner), The Big Town: How I and the Mrs. Go to New York to See Life and Get Katie a Husband , The Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 73:
* 1979 , (Monty Python), (Always Look on the Bright Side of Life)
(label) A fun person.
* 2010 , (The Times), March 14, 2010, (Tamzin Outhwaite), the unlikely musical star
(label) To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.
* c. 1602 , (William Shakespeare), (Troilus and Cressida) , act I, scene ii:
* 1899 , (Stephen Crane),
* 1979 , (Monty Python), (Always Look on the Bright Side of Life)
To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
* 1693 , (John Dryden), "Of the Pythagorean Philosophy", from the 15th book of Ovid's Metamorphoses
* 1734 , (Alexander Pope), (An Essay on Man) , Chapter 3
To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.
* 1731-1735 , (Alexander Pope), (Moral Essays)
* 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), (The Picture of Dorian Gray) , Chapter 3
* 1967 , (The Beatles), (Penny Lane)
(label) To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
* 1611 , (William Shakespeare), (The Tempest) , act II, scene i:
* 1611 , (William Shakespeare), (The Tempest) , act II, scene ii:
(label) To express by, or utter with, laughter.
* 1602 , (William Shakespeare), (Troilus and Cressida) , act I, scene iii:
* 1866 , (Louisa May Alcott), (Behind A Mask)'' or, ''A Woman's Power ; Chapter 8
* 1906 , (Jack London), (Moon-Face)
As verbs the difference between roared and laugh
is that roared is (roar) while laugh is (label) to show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.As a noun laugh is
an expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.roared
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(head)Anagrams
*roar
English
Verb
(en verb)- Sole on the barren sands, the suffering chief / Roared out for anguish, and indulged his grief.
- The audience roared at his jokes.
- Roaring bulls he would him make to tame.
- The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar .
- How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar .
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. }}
- This last action will roar thy infamy.
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.}}
- It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance.
Noun
(en noun)- 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 roar of a motorbike
- "Those lovely valleys and mountains were filled throughout the day and night with the roar of heavy shooting."
laugh
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Alternative forms
* laff (eye dialect) * laughe (archaic) * larf (Cockney eye dialect)Noun
(en noun)- And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
- That man is a bad man who has not within him the power of a hearty laugh .
- “And this rug,” he says, stomping on an old rag carpet. “How much do you suppose that cost?” ¶ It was my first guess, so I said fifty dollars. ¶ “That’s a laugh ,” he said. “I paid two thousand for that rug.”
- Life's a piece of shit / When you look at it / Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true.
- Outhwaite is a good laugh , yes, she knows how to smile: but deep down, she really is strong and stern.
Synonyms
* (expression of mirth) cackle, chortle, chuckle, giggle, guffaw, snicker, snigger, titter, cachinnation * (something that provokes mirth or scorn) joke, laughing stockDerived terms
* barrel of laughs * belly laugh * bundle of laughs * evil laugh * a laugh a minute * for a laugh * have a laugh * have the last laugh * horselaugh * laughathon * laughless * laughlike * laughline * laugh machine * laughsome * laugh track * laughworthy * laughy * liquid laughVerb
(en verb)- But there was such laughing! Queen Hecuba laugh' d that her eyes ran o'er.
- The roars of laughter which greeted his proclamation were of two qualities; some men laughing' because they knew all about cuckoo-clocks, and other men ' laughing because they had concluded that the eccentric Jake had been victimised by some wise child of civilisation.
- If life seems jolly rotten / There's something you've forgotten / And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
- Then laughs the childish year, with flowerets crowned
- In Folly’s cup ?till laughs the bubble Joy.
- No wit to flatter left of all his store, No fool to laugh at, which he valu'd more.
- There was something about him, Harry, that amused me. He was such a monster. You will laugh at me, I know, but I really went in and paid a whole guinea for the stage-box. To the present day I can't make out why I did so; and yet if I hadn't! – my dear Harry, if I hadn't, I would have missed the greatest romance of my life. I see you are laughing. It is horrid of you!"
- On the corner is a banker with a motorcar / The little children laugh at him behind his back
- Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy?
- I shall laugh myself to death.
- From his deep chest laughs out a loud applause.
- Fairfax addressed her as "my lady," she laughed her musical laugh, and glanced up at a picture of Gerald with eyes full of exultation.
- "You refuse to take me seriously," Lute said, when she had laughed her appreciation. "How can I take that Planchette rigmarole seriously?"