Teach vs Roar - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between teach and roar

is that teach is to cause to learn or understand while roar is to cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.

In intransitive terms the difference between teach and roar

is that teach is to pass on knowledge, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher while roar is to make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.

As verbs the difference between teach and roar

is that teach is to show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct while roar is to make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.

As nouns the difference between teach and roar

is that teach is teacher while roar is a long, loud, deep shout made with the mouth wide open.

As a proper noun Teach

is nickname for a teacher.

teach

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) techen, from (etyl) . More at (l).

Verb

To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct.

* :

So thus within a whyle as they thus talked the nyghte passed / and the daye shone / and thenne syre launcelot armed hym / and took his hors / and they taught hym to the Abbaye and thyder he rode within the space of two owrys

(label) To pass on knowledge to.

(label) To pass on knowledge, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.

(label) To cause to learn or understand.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Rob Dorit

, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Making Life from Scratch , passage=Deep Blue taught' us a great deal about the power of the human mind precisely because it could not reproduce the intuitive and logical leaps of Kasparov’s mind. A truly synthetic cell, built from scratch or even from preexisting components, will be a cell without ancestry, and it, too, will ' teach us a great deal about the underlying complexities of life without actually reproducing them.}}

Synonyms

* (sense) educate, instruct

Antonyms

* (sense) learn

Derived terms

* * teacher * teaching

Etymology 2

(probably clipping)

Noun

(es)

(pejorative) teacher

Anagrams

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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.