different between resound vs blare

English

Etymology 1

From re- +? sound.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i??sa?nd/

Verb

resound (third-person singular simple present resounds, present participle resounding, simple past and past participle resounded)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To echo (a sound) or again sound.
   • 1992, Health Devices, volume 21, page 117:

     Any new alarms, from any patient, will resound the alarm tone.

Translations

Noun

resound (plural resounds)

1. An echoing or reverberating sound.
   • 1932, Grantland Rice, Harford Powel, The Omnibus of Sport (page 370)

     Presently, out of the turmoil, the fighting of horses, the resound of blows, the murky cloud of dust and sand, he crawled, in time to see the Corinthian and Byzantine go on down the course after Ben-Hur, who had not been an instant delayed.

Etymology 2

From Middle English resownen, from Old French resoner, from Latin reson?re (“sound again, resound, echo”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???za?nd/

Verb

resound (third-person singular simple present resounds, present participle resounding, simple past and past participle resounded)

1. (intransitive) To reverberate with sound or noise.

2. (intransitive) To make a reverberating sound.

3. (intransitive) To be much mentioned.
4. (transitive) To throw back, or return, the sound of; to echo.
5. (transitive) To praise or celebrate with the voice, or the sound of instruments; to extol with sounds; to spread the fame of.

Derived terms

• resounded
• resounding

Translations

Anagrams

• Oresund, enduros, sounder, undoers, unsored

English

Etymology

From Middle English bleren, from Middle Dutch bleren (“to bleat, cry, bawl, shout”) (Dutch blèren). Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?leh?- (“to bleat, cry”). Compare Dutch blaren.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bl??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(r)
• Homophones: blair, Blair

Noun

blare (countable and uncountable, plural blares)

1. A loud sound.

   I can hardly hear you over the blare of the radio.
2. Dazzling, often garish, brilliance.

Translations

Verb

blare (third-person singular simple present blares, present participle blaring, simple past and past participle blared)

1. (intransitive) To make a loud sound.

   The trumpet blaring in my ears gave me a headache.
2. (transitive) To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine

     to blare its own interpretation

   • 2014, Nick Arnold, Horrible Science: Body Owner's Handbook (page 159)

     Police helicopters blared loudspeaker warnings about the smelly man.

Translations

Anagrams

• Alber, Baler, Laber, Rabel, abler, baler, belar, blear

Afrikaans

Noun

blare

1. plural of blaar

Dalmatian

Verb

blare

1. Alternative form of vular

Dutch

Verb

blare

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of blaren