Yell vs Yale - What's the difference?
yell | yale |
shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice.
to convey by shouting
A shout.
A phrase to be shouted.
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A university in the eastern United States.
A set of romanisation schemes for Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, and Korean.
As nouns the difference between yell and yale
is that yell is a shout while yale is a mythical beast in European mythology and heraldry, usually portrayed as an antelope- or goat-like four-legged creature with large horns that it can swivel in any direction.As a verb yell
is shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice.As an adjective yell
is dry of cow.As a proper noun Yale is
a university in the eastern United States.yell
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) yellen, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- He yelled directions to the party from the car.
Synonyms
* (shout) call, cry, holler, shout * See alsoDerived terms
() * yell at * yell silently * yellerUsage notes
To yell at' someone is as in a hostile manner, while to yell ' to someone means to speak loudly so as to be heard.Noun
(en noun)- After the dinner a general reception was held in the spacious parlors of the hotel during which the occasion was very much enlivened with the old college songs and old college yells , which transported us all in mind and feelings
