Rasp vs Wheeze - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between rasp and wheeze is that rasp is a coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file while wheeze is a piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration. As verbs the difference between rasp and wheeze is that rasp is to use a rasp while wheeze is to breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
rasp Noun
( en noun)
A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.
The sound made by this tool when used, or any similar sound.
- the rasp of her perpetual cough
(obsolete) The raspberry.
* Francis Bacon
- Set sorrel amongst rasps , and the rasps will be smaller.
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Verb
To use a rasp.
To make a noise similar to the one a rasp makes in use; to utter rasps.
To work something with a rasp.
- to rasp''' wood to make it smooth; to '''rasp bones to powder
(figurative) To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language.
- Some sounds rasp the ear.
- His insults rasped my temper.
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wheeze English
Noun
( en noun)
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 " 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.
(slang) Something very humorous or laughable.
- The new comedy is a wheeze .
- You think you're going to win? That's a real wheeze !
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Verb
To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
* 2001 , (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 443)
- If the air smelled even faintly of dog, Lionel coughed, wheezed and sneezed.
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