What is the difference between warble and warbler?

As nouns the difference between warble and warbler

is that warble is (military) in naval mine warfare, the process of varying the frequency of sound produced by a narrow band noisemaker to ensure that the frequency to which the mine will respond is covered or warble can be a lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus (taxlink) while warbler is any of various small passerine songbirds, especially of the family sylviidae (old world wablers) and parulidae (new world warblers).

As a verb warble

is to modulate a tone's frequency.

warble

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(warbl)

To modulate a tone's frequency.

To sing like a bird, especially with trills.

To cause to quaver or vibrate.

* Milton

touch the warbled string

To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.

* (rfdate) Gay

Such strains ne'er warble in the linnet's throat.

Synonyms

* (sense, to modulate a tone's frequency) trill

Noun

(en noun)

(military) In naval mine warfare, the process of varying the frequency of sound produced by a narrow band noisemaker to ensure that the frequency to which the mine will respond is covered.

Etymology 2

From Middle English werble, (at least for the noun) from (etyl) werbel (mole cricket), cognate to Walloon waerbea.

Noun

(en noun)

A lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus Hypoderma .

Derived terms

* warble fly

Anagrams

warbler

English

(wikipedia warbler)

Noun

(en noun)

Any of various small passerine songbirds, especially of the family Sylviidae (Old World warblers) and Parulidae (New World warblers).

One who warbles.

* Tickell

In lulling strains the feathered warblers woo.

(UK, slang) A hissy fit.

Derived terms

* * black and white warbler * * * * * * * * * * * * MacGillivray's warbler * * * * prothonotary warbler * * * * yellow warbler

Anagrams

* English agent nouns