different between sob vs keening
sob
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'.
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Noun
sob (plural sobs)
- A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath.
- (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.”
- “My husband, alas! whom I now (sob, sob) mourn,
- 1874, George Carter Stent, The Jade Chaplet in Twenty-four Beads:
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)
- (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.
- (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)
- To soak.
Anagrams
- BOS, BSO, Bos., OBs, OSB, Obs, bos, obs
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sop/
Noun
sob m
- 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
- (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
- under
Antonyms
- sobre
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
sob m (Cyrillic spelling ???)
- reindeer
See also
- irvas/?????
Tzotzil
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??m?/
Noun
sob
- early morning
Adjective
sob
- 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)
- soap
Declension
sob From the web:
- what sobers you up
- what sober couldn't say
- what song is this
- what sober means
- what sober couldn't say lyrics
- what sob means
- what sobriety means
- what sob stand for
keening
English
Etymology
From Irish caoineadh.
Adjective
keening (not comparable)
- Sharp, shrill, especially of a sound.
- The keening sound of a dentist's drill sets my teeth on edge.
Noun
keening (countable and uncountable, plural keenings)
- Intense mournful wailing after a death, often at a funeral or wake
- (by extension) An unpleasant wailing sound.
Verb
keening
- present participle of keen
Anagrams
- kneeing
keening From the web:
- keening what does it mean
- what does keening sound like
- what is keening in ireland
- what is keening in spain
- what is keening in skyrim
- what does keening
- what does keening mean in hatchet
- what is keening in the messenger
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