Yarl vs Yarn - What's the difference?
yarl | yarn |
A deep, guttural vocal style with affected pronunciation, characteristic of male grunge and postgrunge singers of the .
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To sing in this manner.
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(uncountable) A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.
(nautical) Bundles of fibers twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands, which in their turn are twisted or plaited to form rope.
(countable) A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible.
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As nouns the difference between yarl and yarn
is that yarl is a deep, guttural vocal style with affected pronunciation, characteristic of male grunge and postgrunge singers of the while yarn is (uncountable) a twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.As verbs the difference between yarl and yarn
is that yarl is to sing in this manner while yarn is to tell a story.yarl
English
Noun
(en noun)Record Review", Creative Loafing (Atlanta), 9 January 2002:
- So pontificating on how Weathereds earnest morass of block-headed rage, grunge-lite mega-riffs and singer Scott Stapp's machismo ' yarl amounts to little more than Pearl Jam circa '91 for dummies is like shooting fish in a barrel.
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- One of my college kids informed me that the latest acoustic grinder hunk had covered it for a soundtrack — probably with that grungy yarl that everybody ripped off from Eddie Vedder.
Verb
(en verb)Is there any reason to listen to the new Alice in Chains album, "Black Gives Way to Blue"?", The Seattle Times , 21 October 2009:
- On "All Secrets Known," he yarls "fingers" into "fingerrrrrrrraaaaaaughhhhhzzzzzzz."
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English
Noun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn , but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.}}