different between shriek vs moan
shriek
English
Alternative forms
- shreek (obsolete)
Etymology
From obsolete shrick (1567), shreke, variants of earier screak, skricke (bef. 1500), from Middle English scrycke, from a Scandinavian language (compare Swedish skrika, Icelandic skríkja), from Proto-Germanic *skr?kijan?, *skrik- (compare English screech). More at screech.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??i?k/
- Rhymes: -i?k
Noun
shriek (plural shrieks)
- A sharp, shrill outcry or scream; a shrill wild cry such as is caused by sudden or extreme terror, pain, or the like.
- Shrieks, clamours, murmurs, fill the frighted town.
- 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5:
- Sabor, the lioness, was a wise hunter. To one less wise the wild alarm of her fierce cry as she sprang would have seemed a foolish thing, for could she not more surely have fallen upon her victims had she but quietly leaped without that loud shriek?
- (Britain, slang) An exclamation mark.
Translations
Verb
shriek (third-person singular simple present shrieks, present participle shrieking, simple past and past participle shrieked)
- (intransitive) To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.
- At this she shriek'd aloud; the mournful train / Echoed her grief.
- (transitive) To utter sharply and shrilly; to utter in or with a shriek or shrieks.
- 1817, Thomas Moore, Lalla-Rookh
- She shrieked his name to the dark woods.
- 1817, Thomas Moore, Lalla-Rookh
Derived terms
- ashriek
Translations
Anagrams
- Ihrkes, hikers, shrike
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moan
English
Etymology
From Middle English mone, mane, m?n, (also as mene), from Old English *m?n, *m?n (“complaint; lamentation”), from Proto-Germanic *main? (“opinion; mind”). Cognate with Old Frisian m?ne (“opinion”), Old High German meina (“opinion”). Old English *m?n, *m?n is inferred from Old English m?nan (“to complain over; grieve; mourn”). More at mean.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /m??n/
- (US) IPA(key): /mo?n/
- Rhymes: -??n
- Homophone: mown
Noun
moan (plural moans)
- a low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure
Translations
Verb
moan (third-person singular simple present moans, present participle moaning, simple past and past participle moaned)
- (transitive, now rare) To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn. [from 13th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:
- Much did the Craven seeme to mone his case […].
- 1708, Matthew Prior, the Turtle and the Sparrow
- Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan / My dear Columbo, dead and gone.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:
- (intransitive, now chiefly poetic) To grieve. [from 14th c.]
- (transitive, obsolete) To distress (someone); to sadden. [15th-17th c.]
- which infinitely moans me
- (intransitive) To make a moan or similar sound. [from 18th c.]
- (transitive) To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice. [from 19th c.]
- ‘Please don't leave me,’ he moaned.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To complain; to grumble. [from 20th c.]
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:complain
Derived terms
- moaner
- moany
Related terms
- bemoan
Translations
See also
- murmur
- protest
- lament
Further reading
- moan in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- moan in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Amon, Mano, Mona, NOMA, Noam, Oman, Onam, mano, maon, mona, noma
Breton
Alternative forms
- moen
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *mu?n (“beautiful”) (compare Welsh mwyn (“mild, gentle”)), from Proto-Celtic *moinis (“treasure, precious object”) (compare Irish maoin (“property, riches”)), from Proto-Indo-European *moynis (compare Latin m?nis (“obliging”), Old English m?ne (“common”)), from *mey- (“to change”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mwã?n/
Adjective
moan
- thin, slender
- Synonym: tanav
- Antonym: tev
Mutation
Finnish
Noun
moan
- Genitive singular form of moa.
Anagrams
- Oman, oman
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