different between loud vs cheap

English

Alternative forms

• lowd (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: loud, IPA^(key): /la?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English loude, loud, lud, from Old English hl?d (“loud, noisy, sounding, sonorous”), from Proto-Germanic *hl?daz, *hl?þaz (“heard”), from Proto-Indo-European *?lewtos (“heard, famous”), from Proto-Indo-European *?lew- (“to hear”). Akin to Scots loud, lowd (“loud”), Swedish ljud, West Frisian lûd (“loud”), Dutch luid (“loud”), Low German lud (“loud”), German laut (“loud”), Irish clú (“repute”), Welsh clywed (“heard”), clod (“praise”), Latin laudare (“praise”), Tocharian A/B klots/klautso 'ear', klyostär 'heard', Ancient Greek ?????? (klutós, “famous”), Albanian quaj (“to name, call”), shquar (“famous, notorious”), Old Armenian ??? (lu, “the act of hearing”), Old Church Slavonic ????? (slava, “glory”), ????? (slovo, “word”), Sanskrit ???? (?ráva, “glory”). More at listen.

Adjective

loud (comparative louder, superlative loudest)

1. (of a sound) Of great intensity.

2. (of a person, thing, event, etc.) Noisy.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Proverbs vii. 11

     She is loud and stubborn.

3. (of a person, event, etc.) Not subtle or reserved, brash.
4. (of clothing, decorations, etc.) Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns; gaudy.
5. (of marijuana, slang) High-quality; premium; (by extension) having a strong or pungent odour indicating good quality

Synonyms

• (of clothing, etc): garish, gaudy

Antonyms

• (sound): quiet, soft
• (person): quiet

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

loud (countable and uncountable, plural louds)

1. (colloquial) A loud sound or part of a sound.
   • 2012, Sam McGuire, Paul Lee, The Video Editor's Guide to Soundtrack Pro (page 103)

     The expander doesn't really make the louds louder and the softs softer in one step […]

2. (slang, uncountable) High-quality marijuana.

See also

• dank

Etymology 2

From Middle English loude, from Old English hl?de (“loudly”), from Proto-Germanic *hl?da, *hl?dô (“loudly”).

Adverb

loud (comparative louder, superlative loudest)

1. Loudly.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act II, Scene 4,^[1]

     Who knocks so loud at door?

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume 2, Book 7, Chapter 14, pp. 71-72,^[2]

     Unluckily that worthy Officer having, in a literal Sense, taken his Fill of Liquor, had been some Time retired to his Bolster, where he was snoaring so loud, that it was not easy to convey a Noise in at his Ears capable of drowning that which issued from his Nostrils.

Anagrams

• Ludo, ludo, ludo-, ould

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hl?d.

Adjective

loud

1. Alternative form of loude (“loud”)

Etymology 2

From Old English hl?de.

Adverb

loud

1. Alternative form of loude (“loudly”)

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /t??ip/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ch?p, IPA^(key): /t??i?p/
• Rhymes: -i?p
• Homophone: cheep

Alternative forms

• chap, chop (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English cheep, chepe/chepen, chep, cheap/cheapien, chapien, from Old English c?ap (“cattle, purchase, sale”), ??apian (“to bargain, chaffer, trade”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaup (“trade, purchase”), *kaup?n (“to buy, trade”), from Proto-Germanic *kaup?n?, *kaupijan? (“to buy, trade”), *kaupô (“inn-keeper, merchant”), from Latin caup? (“tradesman, innkeeper”). See also chapman.

Noun

cheap (countable and uncountable, plural cheaps)

1. (obsolete) Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.
2. (obsolete) A market; marketplace.
3. Price.
4. (obsolete) A low price; a bargain.
5. Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Adjective

cheap (comparative cheaper, superlative cheapest)

1. Low and/or reduced in price.

   • Where there are many sellers and few purchases, land will be cheap.
2. Of poor quality.
3. Of little worth.
4. (slang, of an action or tactic in a game of skill) Underhand or unfair.

   the cheap trick of hiding deadly lava under pushable blocks

5. (informal, chiefly derogatory) Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.

6. (finance) Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.

   The ETF is trading cheap to NAV right now; we can arb this by buying the ETF and selling the underlying constituents.

Synonyms

• (low/reduced in price): bargain, inexpensive, frugal, no-frills, priced-off
• (of poor quality): flimsy

Antonyms

• (low or reduced in price): dear, expensive, high-priced, pricey
• (of low value): precious, valuable
• (financial markets): rich

Related terms

See also

• Appendix:Fighting Game Terms

Translations

Verb

cheap (third-person singular simple present cheaps, present participle cheaping, simple past and past participle cheaped)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To buy; purchase.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To sell.

Derived terms

• cheap out

Usage notes

Use of cheap as a verb has been surpassed by cheapen.

Adverb

cheap (comparative more cheap, superlative most cheap)

1. Cheaply.
   • March 24 1658, John Milton, letter to Emeric Bigot

     I need not request you to purchase them as cheap as possible

Anagrams

• Peach, Pecha, chape, chapé, peach

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /çap?/

Noun

cheap m

1. Lenited form of ceap.

Verb

cheap

1. past indicative analytic of ceap