different between tintinnabulation vs blare

English

Etymology

Noun of action from tintinnabulate, from Latin tintinnabulum (“a bell”), from tintin?, a reduplicated form of tinni? (“ring, jingle”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?nt?n?næbj??le??n/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?nt?n?næbju??le??n/

Noun

tintinnabulation (countable and uncountable, plural tintinnabulations)

1. A tinkling sound, as of a bell or of breaking glass.
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 20

     Across the darkling meadows, from the heights of Hare, the tintinnabulation sounded mournfully, penetrating the curl-wreathed tympanums of Lady Parvula de Panzoust.

2. The ringing of bells.
   • 1849, Edgar Allan Poe, The Bells

     Keeping time, time, time,

     In a sort of Runic rhyme,

     To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells

     From the bells, bells, bells, bells,

     Bells, bells, bells —

     From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

Related terms

• tintinnabulate
• tintinnabulum

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English bleren, from Middle Dutch bleren (“to bleat, cry, bawl, shout”) (Dutch blèren). Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?leh?- (“to bleat, cry”). Compare Dutch blaren.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bl??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(r)
• Homophones: blair, Blair

Noun

blare (countable and uncountable, plural blares)

1. A loud sound.

   I can hardly hear you over the blare of the radio.
2. Dazzling, often garish, brilliance.

Translations

Verb

blare (third-person singular simple present blares, present participle blaring, simple past and past participle blared)

1. (intransitive) To make a loud sound.

   The trumpet blaring in my ears gave me a headache.
2. (transitive) To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine

     to blare its own interpretation

   • 2014, Nick Arnold, Horrible Science: Body Owner's Handbook (page 159)

     Police helicopters blared loudspeaker warnings about the smelly man.

Translations

Anagrams

• Alber, Baler, Laber, Rabel, abler, baler, belar, blear

Afrikaans

Noun

blare

1. plural of blaar

Dalmatian

Verb

blare

1. Alternative form of vular

Dutch

Verb

blare

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of blaren