different between stutter vs announce

English

Etymology

From Middle English stutten, stoten (“stutter”); cognate with Dutch stotteren (“stutter”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?st???/
• Rhymes: -?t?(r)

Verb

stutter (third-person singular simple present stutters, present participle stuttering, simple past and past participle stuttered)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds.

   He stuttered a few words of thanks.

2. (intransitive) To exhaust a gas with difficulty

   The engine of the old car stuttered going up the slope. I was stuttering after the marathon.

Synonyms

• (speak with spasmodic repetition): stammer

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Noun

stutter (plural stutters)

1. A speech disorder characterised by stuttering.

   Synonym: stammer

2. (obsolete) One who stutters.

   Synonyms: stutterer, stammerer

   • 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, London: William Lee, IV. Century, p. 103,^[1]

     And many Stutters (we finde) are very Cholericke Men; Choler Enducing a Drinesse in the Tongue.

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Anagrams

• Truetts, tutters

English

Etymology

From Old French anoncier, from Latin ann?nti?re, from ad + n?nti? (“report, relate”), from n?ntius (“messenger, bearer of news”). See nuncio, and compare with annunciate.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: ?-nouns', IPA^(key): /??na?ns/
• (UK) enPR: ?-nouns', IPA^(key): /??na?ns/; enPR: ?'nouns, IPA^(key): /?æ.na?ns/
• Rhymes: -a?ns

Verb

announce (third-person singular simple present announces, present participle announcing, simple past and past participle announced)

1. (transitive) to give public notice, especially for the first time; to make known
   • c. 1780 William Gilpin, Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1776, on Several Parts of Great Britain

     Her [Queen Elizabeth’s] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts.

   Synonyms: proclaim, publish, make known, herald, declare, promulgate

2. (transitive) to pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence
   • c. 1718, Matthew Prior, First Hymn of Callimachus

     Publish laws, announce / Or life or death.

   Synonyms: abjudicate, judge

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• See also Thesaurus:announce

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References

• announce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.