different between yell vs announce

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English ?ellen, yellen, from Old English ?iellan, from Proto-Germanic *gellan?. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gälje (“to yell”), Dutch gillen (“to yell”), German Low German gellen (“to yell”), German gellen (“to yell”).

Verb

yell (third-person singular simple present yells, present participle yelling, simple past and past participle yelled)

1. (intransitive) shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice.
2. (transitive) to convey by shouting

   He yelled directions to the party from the car.

3. (slang) to tell someone off (in a loud and angry manner)

   If I come home late again, my dad is gonna yell at me.

Usage notes

To yell at someone is as in a hostile manner, while to yell to someone means to speak loudly so as to be heard.

Synonyms

• (shout): call, cry, holler, shout
• See also Thesaurus:shout

Derived terms

Related terms

• gale
• yelp

Translations

Noun

yell (plural yells)

1. A shout.
2. A phrase to be shouted.
   • 1912, The Michigan Alumnus (volume 18, page 152)

     After the dinner a general reception was held in the spacious parlors of the hotel during which the occasion was very much enlivened with the old college songs and old college yells, which transported us all in mind and feelings […]

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Scots yeld (“ceasing to give milk”).

Adjective

yell (not comparable)

1. (Ulster) dry (of cow)

Anagrams

• Lyle

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English yell.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j?l/
• Hyphenation: yell
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

yell m (plural yells)

1. yell, a slogan to be shouted, especially in sports or games (e.g. by players, cheerleaders or the audience)

Related terms

• gil
• gillen
• yellen

Middle English

Noun

yell

1. Alternative form of ?elle

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

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:announce

Derived terms

Translations

References

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