different between roar vs slam

English

Etymology

From Middle English roren, raren, from Old English r?rian (“to roar; wail; lament”), from Proto-Germanic *rair?n? (“to bellow; roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“to shout; bellow; yell; bark”), perhaps of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rô, IPA^(key): /???/
• (General American) enPR: rôr, IPA^(key): /???/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: r?r, IPA^(key): /?o(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?o?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: raw (in non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Verb

roar (third-person singular simple present roars, present participle roaring, simple past and past participle roared)

1. (intransitive) To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion.
2. To laugh in a particularly loud manner.

3. Of animals (especially the lion), to make a loud deep noise.
   • {1590 Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene Bk 1, Canto VI, XXIV, lines 6&7}

     Roaring bulls he would him make to tame.

4. Generally, of inanimate objects etc., to make a loud resounding noise.
   • How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar.

5. (figuratively) To proceed vigorously.
6. (transitive) To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly.
   • 1639, John Ford, The Lady's Trial

     This last action will roar thy infamy.
7. To be boisterous; to be disorderly.
   • 1724, Gilbert Burnet, History of My Own Time

     It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance.

8. To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses do when they have a certain disease.
9. (Britain Yorkshire, North Midlands, informal) to cry

Translations

Noun

roar (plural roars)

1. A long, loud, deep shout, as of rage or laughter, made with the mouth wide open.
2. The cry of the lion.
   • 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

     The Winkies were not a brave people, but they had to do as they were told. So they marched away until they came near to Dorothy. Then the Lion gave a great roar and sprang towards them, and the poor Winkies were so frightened that they ran back as fast as they could.

3. The deep cry of the bull.
4. A loud resounding noise.

   the roar of a motorbike

   • 1944, Ernie Pyle, Brave Men, University of Nebraska Press (2001), page 107:

     "Those lovely valleys and mountains were filled throughout the day and night with the roar of heavy shooting."

5. A show of strength or character.

Translations

Anagrams

• Raro, orra

Swedish

Verb

roar

1. present tense of roa.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /slæm/
• Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1

From Middle English *slammen (not recorded), apparently from a Scandinavian source ultimately from Old Norse slæma, slœma (“to slam, swing a weapon, strike an object out of reach”), related to Old Norse slamra, slambra (“to slam”). Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål slamre (“to slam”), Swedish slamra (“to pound, beat, make a clatter, rattle”), Norwegian Nynorsk slamra (“to sway, dangle”).

Verb

slam (third-person singular simple present slams, present participle slamming, simple past and past participle slammed)

1. (transitive, ergative) To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.

2. (transitive, ergative) To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.)

3. (transitive) To strike forcefully with some implement.
4. (intransitive) To strike against suddenly and heavily.
5. (transitive, colloquial) To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.

6. (basketball) To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.
7. (intransitive, bridge) To make a slam bid.
8. (transitive, card games) To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
   • 1742, Edmond Hoyle, A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist

     D having seven Spades in his Hand wins them, and consequently slams A and B

9. (transitive, slang) To change providers (e.g. of domain registration or telephone carrier) for a customer without clear (if any) consent.
10. (transitive) To drink off, to drink quickly.
11. To compete in a poetry slam.
12. (transitive, drugs, slang) To inject intravenously; shoot up.

Synonyms

• (drink quickly): See also Thesaurus:drink
• (shoot up): bang

Derived terms

• slam the door on
• slam on the brakes

Translations

Noun

slam (countable and uncountable, plural slams)

1. (countable) A sudden impact or blow.
   • 1981, Shel Silverstein, “How Many, How Much”, A Light in the Attic, Harper & Row:

     How many slams in an old screen door? / Depends how loud you shut it.

2. (countable) The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object.

   • The slam and the scowl were lost upon Sam.

3. (countable, basketball) A slam dunk.
4. (countable, colloquial, US) An insult.

5. (uncountable) The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product.
6. A poetry slam.
7. A slambook.
   • 2017, Mark Duffett, Fan Identities and Practices in Context: Dedicated to Music (page 194)

     Regular friendship books had a variety of variations, such as slams, crams, and decos.
8. (Britain, dialect) The refuse of alum works.
9. (music) A subgenre of death metal with elements of hardcore punk focusing on midtempo rhythms, breakdowns and palm-muted riffs

Translations

Etymology 2

Origin unknown.

Noun

slam (countable and uncountable, plural slams)

1. (uncountable, obsolete) A type of card game, also called ruff and honours.
2. A card game, played all at once without separate turns, in which players attempt to get rid of their cards as quickly as possible according to certain rules.

   Synonym: spit

3. (countable, card games) Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.
4. (countable, bridge) A bid of six (small slam) or seven (grand slam) in a suit or no trump.
5. (countable, sports) Winning all (or all but one) of the available, major or specified events in a given year or sports season.

Derived terms

• grand slam
• little slam

Verb

slam (third-person singular simple present slams, present participle slamming, simple past and past participle slammed)

1. (transitive, card games) To defeat by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.

Etymology 3

Compare Dutch slomp, German Schlampe.

Noun

slam (plural slams)

1. (obsolete) A shambling fellow.

Anagrams

• AMLs, AMSL, LAMs, Lams, MASL, SAML, alms, lams, mals, masl, salm

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?slam]

Noun

slam

1. genitive plural of sláma

French

Noun

slam m (plural slams)

1. poetry slam

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [slam]

Noun

slam

1. dative of sl?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From German Schlamm

Noun

slam n (definite singular slammet, uncountable)

1. mud, ooze, slime, sludge, slurry

References

• “slam” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “slam” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From German Schlamm

Noun

slam n (definite singular slammet, uncountable)

1. mud, ooze, slime, sludge, slurry

References

• “slam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Volapük

Proper noun

slam

1. Islam

Declension