different between outcry vs interjection

English

Etymology

From Middle English outcry, outcri, outcrye, equivalent to out- +? cry.The verb is from Middle English outcrien.

Pronunciation

Noun

• (UK, US) enPR: out?kr?, IPA^(key): /?a?tk?a?/

Verb

• (UK, US) enPR: out-kr??, IPA^(key): /a?t?k?a?/

Noun

outcry (plural outcries)

1. A loud cry or uproar.

2. (figuratively) A strong protest.
3. (India, archaic) An auction.

   to send goods to an outcry

Translations

Verb

outcry (third-person singular simple present outcries, present participle outcrying, simple past and past participle outcried)

1. (intransitive) To cry out.
   • 1919, Debates in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1917-1918: Volume 1

     I think any man who outcries against the power of the government in Germany soon ceases to cry at all, because he is crushed.

2. (transitive) To cry louder than.
   • 2003, Melvyn Bragg, Crossing the lines (page 355)

     ...outcrying the clacking of train wheels, the shrill of the whistle...

   • 2007, Anthony Dalton, Alone Against the Arctic (page 104)

     The dogs added their voices to the din, howling for hours, each trying to outcry the others.

Anagrams

• cry out

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French interjection (13th century), from Latin interiecti?nem, accusative singular of interiecti? (“throwing or placing between; interjection”), perfect passive participle of interici? (“throw or place between”), from inter (“between”) + iaci? (“throw”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n.t??d??k.??n/
• (US) enPR: ?n't?r.j?k?sh?n, IPA^(key): /??n.t??d??k.??n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n

Noun

interjection (plural interjections)

2. (grammar) An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.

   • Some evidence confirming our suspicions that topicalised and dislocated constituents occupy different sentence positions comes from Greenberg (1984). He notes that in colloquial speech the interjection man can occur after dislocated constituents, but not after topicalised constituents: cf.
     (21) (a)      Bill, man, I really hate him (dislocated NP)
     (21) (b)    ^?Bill, man, I really hate (topicalised NP)

3. An interruption; something interjected

Synonyms

• (grammar): exclamation
• (interruption): insertion, interpolation, intercalation

Related terms

• interject
• interjectional

Translations

See also

• vocative
• interjection on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Old French interjection, borrowed from Latin interiecti?, interiecti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.t??.??k.sj??/

Noun

interjection f (plural interjections)

1. (grammar) interjection

Further reading

• “interjection” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interiecti?, interiecti?nem.

Noun

interjection f (oblique plural interjections, nominative singular interjection, nominative plural interjections)

1. exclamation

Descendants

• ? English: interjection
• French: interjection