Unveil vs Utter - What's the difference?

Unveil is a related term of utter.

In lang=en terms the difference between unveil and utter

is that unveil is to remove a veil; to reveal one's self while utter is to make (a noise).

As verbs the difference between unveil and utter

is that unveil is to remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal while utter is to say.

As an adjective utter is

As an adverb utter is

(label) further out; further away, outside.

unveil

English

Verb

(en verb)

To remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal.

* {{quote-book

, year=1996 , author=Status of women in Islam , title=Status of women in Islam , page=91 , passage=The Schools of Jurisprudence of Abu Hanifa, Al-Shafaii and Malik agree that the woman is permitted to unveil her face and hands in the streets in front of the strangers. However, if this display of the face does rouse temptation and charm, the woman has to veil her face as she does the rest of her body.}}

* {{quote-book

, year=1836 , author=James Cook , title=The Three voyages of Captain Cook round the world , page=356 , passage=A sort of curtain, made of- mat, usually hung before them, which the natives were sometimes unwilling to remove ; and when they did consent to unveil them, they seemed to express themselves in a very mysterious manner.}}

* {{quote-book

, year=1831 , author=Thomas Dick , title=The works of Thomas Dick , page=102 , passage=Since, therefore, the science of natural philosophy is conversant about the works of the Almighty, and its investigations have a direct tendency to illustrate the perfections of his nature, to unveil the plan of his operations, to unfold the laws by which he governs the kingdom of universal nature, and to display the order, symmetry, and proportion, which reign throughout the whole.}}

To remove a veil; to reveal one's self.

Anagrams

utter

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ; compare (outer).

Adjective

(-)

* Chapman

By him a shirt and utter mantle laid.

* Spenser

As doth an hidden moth / The inner garment fret, not th' utter touch.

* Milton

Through utter and through middle darkness borne.

(obsolete) Outward.

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Matthew XXIII:

Wo be to you scrybes and pharises ypocrites, for ye make clene the utter side off the cuppe, and off the platter: but within they are full of brybery and excesse.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.10:

So forth without impediment I past, / Till to the Bridges utter gate I came .

Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.

utter''' ruin; '''utter darkness

* Atterbury

They are utter strangers to all those anxious thoughts which disquiet mankind.

:* {{quote-book

, year=1920 , year_published=2008 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=Thuvia, Maiden of Mars , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=His eyes could not penetrate the darkness even to the distinguishing of his hand before his face, while the banths, he knew, could see quite well, though absence of light were utter . }}

Synonyms

* see also

Derived terms

* utterly * utterness * uttermost

Etymology 2

Partly from (out) (adverb/verb), partly from (etyl) uteren.

Verb

(en verb)

To say

Don't you utter another word!

To use the voice

Sally uttered a sigh of relief.

The dog uttered a growling bark.

To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved

Sally is uttering some fairly strange things in her illness.

To make (a noise)

Sally's car uttered a hideous shriek when she applied the brakes.

(legal) To put counterfeit money, etc. , into circulation

Derived terms

* utterance * utterer * utterless * utterable

Etymology 3

(etyl) .

Adverb

(en adverb)

(label) Further out; further away, outside.

*, Bk.VII, Ch.v:

*:So whan he com nyghe to hir, she bade hym ryde uttir —‘for thou smellyst all of the kychyn.’

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