Snarl vs Trumpet - What's the difference?
snarl | trumpet |
A knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle; entanglement; hence, intricate complication; embarrassing difficulty.
The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
A growl, as of an angry or surly dog, or similar; grumbling sounds
To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.
To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots.
* Spenser
To embarrass; to ensnare.
* Latimer
To growl, as an angry or surly dog; to gnarl; to utter grumbling sounds.
To speak crossly; to talk in rude, surly terms.
* Dryden
A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat.
In an orchestra or other musical group, a musician that plays the trumpet.
The cry of an elephant.
(figurative) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
* Dryden
A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
To sound loudly, be amplified
To play the trumpet.
Of an elephant, to make its cry.
To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically
* Francis Bacon
As nouns the difference between snarl and trumpet
is that snarl is a knot or complication of hair, thread, or the like, difficult to disentangle; entanglement; hence, intricate complication; embarrassing difficulty while trumpet is a musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of b-flat.As verbs the difference between snarl and trumpet
is that snarl is to form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface while trumpet is to sound loudly, be amplified.snarl
English
(wikipedia snarl)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (entangled situation) imbroglioVerb
(en verb)- to snarl a skein of thread
- And from her back her garments she did tear, / And from her head oft rent her snarled hair
- [the] question that they would have snarled him with
- It is malicious and unmanly to snarl at the little lapses of a pen, from which Virgil himself stands not exempted.
Antonyms
* unsnarlExternal links
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* ----trumpet
English
(wikipedia trumpet)Noun
(en noun)- The royal herald sounded a trumpet to announce their arrival.
- The trumpets were assigned to stand at the rear of the orchestra pit.
- The large bull gave a basso trumpet as he charged the hunters.
- (Shakespeare)
- That great politician was pleased to have the greatest wit of those times to be the trumpet of his praises.
Synonyms
* (musical instrument) cornetDerived terms
* natural trumpet * straight trumpetVerb
(en verb)- The music trumpeted from the speakers, hurting my ears.
- Cedric made a living trumpeting for the change of passersby in the subway.
- ''The circus trainer cracked the whip, signaling the elephant to trumpet .
- Andy trumpeted Jane's secret across the school, much to her embarrassment.
- They did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise against the Irish.
