different between scream vs sob

English

Etymology

From Middle English scremen, scræmen, probably from a fusion of Middle Dutch scremen (“to yell; shout”) and Old Norse skræma (“to terrify; scare”); compare Dutch schremen (“to shout; yell; cry”), Swedish skrämma (“to spook; frighten”), Danish skræmme (“to scare”), West Frisian skrieme (“to weep”). Compare also Swedish skräna (“to yell; shout; howl”), Dutch schreien (“to cry; weep”), German schreien (“to scream”). Related to shriek, skrike.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sk?i?m/
• (General American) enPR: skr?m, IPA^(key): /sk?im/
• Rhymes: -i?m

Noun

scream (plural screams)

1. A loud, emphatic, exclamation of extreme emotion, especially horror, fear, excitement, or anger; it may comprise a word or a sustained, high-pitched vowel sound.
2. A loud vocalisation of many animals, especially in response to pain or fear.
3. (music) A form of singing associated with the metal and screamo styles of music. It is a loud, rough, distorted version of the voice; rather than the normal voice of the singer.
4. (informal) Used as an intensifier
5. (printers' slang) exclamation mark

Translations

Verb

scream (third-person singular simple present screams, present participle screaming, simple past and past participle screamed or (nonstandard) screamt)

1. (intransitive, also figuratively) To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, shout outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to screech, to shriek.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:shout
2. (intransitive, figuratively)
   1. To move quickly; to race.

      Synonyms: speed, zoom; see also Thesaurus:move quickly, Thesaurus:rush

   2. (informal) To be very indicative of; clearly having the characteristics of.

Conjugation

Translations

Anagrams

• crames, creams, cremas, macers, recams

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s?b/
• (General American) enPR: säb, IPA^(key): /s?b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Etymology 1

Perhaps of Dutch or Low German origin; compare with Dutch dialect sabben 'to suck'.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

sob (plural sobs)

1. A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath.
2. (onomatopoeia) sound of sob
   • 1874, George Carter Stent, The Jade Chaplet in Twenty-four Beads:

     “My husband, alas! whom I now (sob, sob) mourn,
     A short time since (sob) to this grave (sob) was borne;
     And (sob) he lies buried in this (sob, sob) grave.”

Derived terms

• sobby
• sob story
• sob stuff

Translations

Verb

sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)

1. (intransitive) to weep with convulsive gasps.

   • She sigh'd, she sobb'd, and, furious with despair, / She rent her garments, and she tore her hair.

2. (transitive) to say (something) while sobbing.

   "He doesn't love me!" she sobbed.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:weep

Translations

Etymology 2

See sop.

Verb

sob (third-person singular simple present sobs, present participle sobbing, simple past and past participle sobbed)

1. To soak.

Anagrams

• BOS, BSO, Bos., OBs, OSB, Obs, bos, obs

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sop/

Noun

sob m

1. reindeer (an Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer)

Declension

Further reading

• sob in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• sob in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sob/
• Hyphenation: sob

Adverb

sob

1. (nonstandard) down, downwards (direction to the center of the Earth)

Synonyms

• malsupren (“down, downwards”)

Antonyms

• supren (“up, upwards”)
• (neologism, nonstandard) sor (“up, upwards”)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese sob, so, su, from Latin sub, from Proto-Italic *supo, from Proto-Indo-European *upo (“under, below”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sob/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?so.bi/, /sob/
• Hyphenation: sob

Preposition

sob

1. under

Antonyms

• sobre

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

sob m (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. reindeer

See also

• irvas/?????

Tzotzil

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??m?/

Noun

sob

1. early morning

Adjective

sob

1. of early morning

References

• Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Volapük

Noun

sob (nominative plural sobs)

1. soap

Declension