different between pageantry vs thrill

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæd??nt?i/

Etymology

pageant +? -ry

Noun

pageantry (countable and uncountable, plural pageantries)

1. A pageant; a colourful show or display, as in a pageant.
   • 1609: William Shakespeare, Pericles (V, ii)

     That you aptly will suppose / What pageantry, what feats, what shows, / What minstrelsy, and pretty din, / The regent made in Mytilene / To greet the king.

   • 1849: Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

     The world seemed decked for some holiday or prouder pageantry, with silken streamers flying, ...

   • 2019, Barney Ronay, Liverpool’s waves of red fury and recklessness end in joyous bedlam (in The Guardian, 8 May 2019)[1]

     Anfield had been the usual portable pageantry of flags and banners and songs before kick-off. With the sky still blue above the away end the Barcelona fans stood and watched and took pictures and joined in the pre-match round of You’ll Never Walk Alone.

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???l/
  • (UK, US) IPA^(key): [??????]
  • (Ireland) IPA^(key): [?????l], [t?????l]
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Old English þ?rlian (“to pierce”), derived from þ?rel (“hole”) (archaic English thirl).

Verb

thrill (third-person singular simple present thrills, present participle thrilling, simple past and past participle thrilled)

1. (ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.
   • 1854, Matthew Arnold, Preface to Poems

     vivid and picturesque turns of expression […] which thrill the reader with a sudden delight
2. (ergative) To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
3. (obsolete) To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.
4. (obsolete) To hurl; to throw; to cast.
   • 1632, Thomas Heywood, The Iron Age

     I'd thrill my jauelin at the Grecian moysture

Derived terms

• enthrill

Translations

Noun

thrill (plural thrills)

1. A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion.
2. A cause of sudden excitement; a kick.
3. (medicine) A slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur.
4. A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Blend of thread (verb) +? drill (verb).

Verb

thrill (third-person singular simple present thrills, present participle thrilling, simple past and past participle thrilled)

1. (machining) To drill and thread in one operation, using a tool bit that cuts the hole and the threads in one series of computer-controlled movements.