Tocsin vs Toxin - What's the difference?
tocsin | toxin |
An alarm or other signal sounded by a bell or bells, especially with reference to France.
* 1804 , The Times , 23 Aug 1804, p.3 col. C
* 1970 , JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition :
* 1992 , Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety , Harper Perennial 2007, p. 281:
A bell used to sound an alarm.
As nouns the difference between tocsin and toxin
is that tocsin is an alarm or other signal sounded by a bell or bells, especially with reference to France while toxin is a toxic or poisonous substance produced by the biological processes of biological organisms.tocsin
English
Noun
(en noun)- At half-past one, on the sounding of the tocsin (or bell of the public-house) about fifteen persons were collected, when the Rev. J. Bromley was called to the chair.
- As she entered the projection theatre the soundtrack reverberated across the sculpture garden, a melancholy tocsin modulated by Talbert’s less and less coherent commentary.
- I'll ring the tocsin , I'll have Saint-Antoine out. I can put twenty thousand armed men on the streets, just like that .
