different between squall vs weep

English

Etymology

From Middle English *squalen (not recorded) and squelen (“to cry, scream, squall”), from Old Norse skvala (“to cry out”), probably ultimately imitative with influence from squeal and bawl.

Cognate with Swedish skvala (“to gush, pour down”), Norwegian skval (“sudden rush of water”). The noun is probably from the verb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?skw??l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Noun

squall (plural squalls)

1. (meteorology) A squall line, multicell line, or part of a squall line.
2. (often nautical) A sudden storm, as found in a squall line.
3. A loud cry or wail.

Translations

Verb

squall (third-person singular simple present squalls, present participle squalling, simple past and past participle squalled)

1. To cry or wail loudly.
   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:

     Squalling was the word for it, Pew's anger rose so high at these objections; till at last, his passion completely taking the upper hand, he struck at them right and left in his blindness, and his stick sounded heavily on more than one.

   • 1916, Jack London, The Red One:

     Squalling like an infuriated cat, the shadow crashed down

   • 1934 George Orwell, Burmese Days:

     The orchestra burst into a sudden loud squalling."

   • 1998, Anne McCafferey, Masterharper of Pern:

     she wrapped the squalling, wriggling baby tightly into the fine cotton sheet

Derived terms

• squaller
• squally

Translations

Further reading

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?p, IPA^(key): /wi?p/
• Rhymes: -i?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English wepen, from Old English w?pan (“to weep, complain, bewail, mourn over, deplore”), from Proto-West Germanic *w?pijan, from Proto-Germanic *w?pijan? (“to weep”), from Proto-Indo-European *weh?b- (“to call, cry, complain”).

Cognate with Scots wepe, weip (“to weep”), Saterland Frisian wapia (“to cry, complain”), Icelandic æpa (“to yell, shout”).

Verb

weep (third-person singular simple present weeps, present participle weeping, simple past and past participle wept or (poetic, otherwise nonstandard) weeped)

1. To cry; shed tears.

   • They wept together in silence.

2. To lament; to complain.

   • They weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

3. (medicine, of a wound or sore) To produce secretions.
4. To flow in drops; to run in drops.

   a weeping spring, which discharges water slowly
5. To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; said of a plant or its branches.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To weep over; to bewail.
   • 1717, Matthew Prior, The Dove

     Fair Venus wept the sad disaster
     Of having lost her favorite dove.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:weep

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

weep (plural weeps)

1. A session of crying.

   Sometimes you just have to have a good weep.

Etymology 2

Imitative of its cry.

Noun

weep (plural weeps)

1. A lapwing; wipe, especially, a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).