Ulterior vs Wheeze - What's the difference?
ulterior | wheeze |
Situated beyond, or on the farther side.
Beyond what is obvious or evident.
Being intentionally concealed so as to deceive.
* 1956–1960 , (second edition, 1960), chapter ii: “Motives and Motivation”, page 32:
(label) Happening later; subsequent.
:an ulterior action
* 1840 , in The Chemist , volume 1, page 141:
A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
(British, slang) An ulterior scheme or plan
* 2011 "
(slang) Something very humorous or laughable.
To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
* 2001 , (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 443)
As a adjective ulterior
is situated beyond, or on the farther side.As a noun wheeze is
a piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.As a verb wheeze is
to breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.ulterior
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Alternative forms
* ulteriour (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- Motives, of course, may be mixed; but this only means that a man aims at a variety of goals by means of the same course of action. Similarly a man may have a strong motive or a weak one, an ulterior motive or an ostensible one.
- A rather deep red coloration, which appears by the action of the first bubbles of chlorine, but which soon disappears by the ulterior action of this gas
Usage notes
Ulterior is primarily used today to mean impure, covert, external motives, and generally not opposed to etymological antonyms. In the comparative sense “beyond, farther”, the Latin antonym is , which is not used in English (compare (m)/(m) for “nearest/farthest (cause etc.)”). In the sense “after, subsequent”, it can be opposed to (m), but the sense “after” is now archaic (compare (m)/(m) for “first/last”).Derived terms
* ulterior motiveAntonyms
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Noun
(en noun)Road rage; High petrol prices hurt, but will not throttle the economy", The Economist 19 November 2011:
- The main point of fuel duty, though, is as a fiscal wheeze : it made up 5% of the tax take in 2010.
- The new comedy is a wheeze .
- You think you're going to win? That's a real wheeze !
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
- If the air smelled even faintly of dog, Lionel coughed, wheezed and sneezed.
