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Utterance vs Nasal - What's the difference?

utterance | nasal |

As nouns the difference between utterance and nasal

is that utterance is an act of uttering or utterance can be the utmost extremity (of a fight etc) while nasal is an elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously, such asm'' and ''n .

As a adjective nasal is

(anatomy) of or pertaining to the nose.

utterance

English

Alternative forms

* utteraunce

Etymology 1

From

Noun

(en noun)
  • An act of uttering.
  • * (John Milton)
  • at length gave utterance to these words
  • Something spoken.
  • * , chapter=13
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances . He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
  • * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
  • To know how one should express oneself in saying or judging that there really are falsehoods without getting caught up in contradiction by such an utterance : that's extremely difficult, Theaetetus.
  • The ability to speak.
  • Manner of speaking.
  • * Bible, Acts ii. 4
  • Theybegan to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance .
  • * (John Keats)
  • O, how unlike / To that large utterance of the early gods!
  • (obsolete) Sale by offering to the public.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • (obsolete) Putting in circulation.
  • Quotations
    * Mathematics and Poetry are... the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart. — Thomas Hill

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) oultrance.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The utmost extremity (of a fight etc.).
  • *:
  • *:And soo they mette soo hard / that syre Palomydes felle to the erthe hors and alle / Thenne sir Bleoberis cryed a lowde and said thus / make the redy thou fals traytour knyghte Breuse saunce pyte / for wete thow certaynly I wille haue adoo with the to the vtteraunce for the noble knyghtes and ladyes that thou hast falsly bitraid
  • References

    nasal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the nose.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-03
  • , author=Nancy Langston , title=Mining the Boreal North , volume=101, issue=2, page=98 , magazine= citation , passage=Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.}}
  • (phonetics) Having a quality imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng; characterized by resonance in the nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal utterance.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously, such as m'' and ''n .
  • (medicine, archaic) A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
  • (phonetics) A nasal vowel or consonant.
  • Part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
  • * 1909 , Charles Henry Ashdown, European Arms & Armor , page 78,
  • The nasal continued in use until about 1140, when it was generally discarded, but isolated examples may be found in every succeeding century down to the seventeenth.
  • * 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 463:
  • Rorge had donned a black halfhelm with a broad iron nasal that made it hard to see that he did not have a nose.
  • (anatomy) One of the nasal bones.
  • (zoology) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.
  • Derived terms

    * nasal bone (anatomy) * nasal cavity (anatomy) * nasal fossa (anatomy) * nasal index (anatomy) * nasal vowel (phonetics)

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