What's the difference between bellow and grumble?

Bellow


Definition:

  • (v.) To make a hollow, loud noise, as an enraged bull.
  • (v.) To bowl; to vociferate; to clamor.
  • (v.) To roar; as the sea in a tempest, or as the wind when violent; to make a loud, hollow, continued sound.
  • (v. t.) To emit with a loud voice; to shout; -- used with out.
  • (n.) A loud resounding outcry or noise, as of an enraged bull; a roar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To give variations in the peak flow-rate (from pulsatile to intermediate to non-pulsatile), three types of blood pump (piston-bellows, screw, and centrifugal) were applied to dogs.
  • (2) Partition coefficients for anesthetic circuit components (masks, bellows, bags, airways, and circuit tubes) consistently ranked halothane greater than isoflurane greater than sevoflurane greater than I-653, suggesting a reverse order of washin and washout rates for an anesthetic circuit constructed from similar components.
  • (3) She tried to rescue him from accusations of an apparent comparison of Israel to Islamic State, but a Jewish MP leaving in tears after being bellowed at by a Corbynite is all anyone will remember of Labour and Jewishness.
  • (4) The performance was not without some good‑natured heckling, largely involving bellowed chants of "We want you to stay" from the assembled playing staff.
  • (5) Water-sealed spirometer (Harvard), dry bellow wedge spirometer (Vitalograph) and computerized pneumotachograph (Gould), all of them satisfying the ATS recommendations were compared.
  • (6) Chosen by impressive writers and critics – including Elizabeth Bowen, Philip Larkin, George Steiner, Saul Bellow, AS Byatt, Ruth Rendell, John Carey – these shortlists demanded, at least, some respect.
  • (7) Bellows is known for his powerful paintings representing the hardship and desperation and grittiness of life in New York as it emerged in to the 20th century.
  • (8) Each time the home secretary referred to numbers of extra staff being drafted in to sort out the backlog, there were bellows of "You sacked that many!"
  • (9) Fans bellowed “Beat The Heat!”, turning a summertime slogan into a mission statement and a double-entendre.
  • (10) Coquelin is relatively new to the side but at one point he could be seen bellowing at his team-mates, demanding they did not lower their standards.
  • (11) In the end the Chelsea players who had hoped to conquer the world were left slumped on the turf as the Brazilian drums pounded and the raucous hordes of Corinthians supporters bellowed their celebration into the night sky.
  • (12) All examinations were performed with a half--open dry bellows spirometer.
  • (13) It is, however, the perfect place in which to contemplate the bellowing horror of 19th-century rural-industrial injustice.
  • (14) Leicester survive late scare against Swansea to secure first win of season Read more Conte, wearing a black armband in memory of those who lost their lives in the earthquake which struck central Italy on Wednesday, never stopped bellowing instructions at any point, even when the game was clearly won.
  • (15) All parts subject to wear, such as filter, tubings, and bellows, are commercially available through the medical equipment market.
  • (16) Expiration occurs by opening the diaphragm bellows to the atmosphere.
  • (17) Allen cites a list of actors, including Jeff Daniels (Purple Rose of Cairo), Patricia Clarkson (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and Dianne Wiest (Hannah and Her Sisters), who Taylor persuaded him to use, as well as being able to convince already well-known personalities such as Saul Bellow, Marshall McLuhan and Susan Sontag to make cameo appearances.
  • (18) During the second period of IMO the level of AVP in plasma decreased even bellow the control values which was accompanied by water diuresis.
  • (19) In 1949, Saul Bellow went to a cocktail party hosted by Cyril Connolly, and found his preconceptions of literary England being undermined: “Although I don’t judge the inverted with harshness, still it is rather difficult to go to London thinking of Dickens and Hardy to say nothing of Milton and Marx and land in the midst of fairies.” Most of the people I’ve mentioned were living their lives more or less openly.
  • (20) After his death the obituaries proclaimed Bellows one of the greatest of all American painters – a man more famous at the time than his friend and contemporary Edward Hopper.

Grumble


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To murmur or mutter with discontent; to make ill-natured complaints in a low voice and a surly manner.
  • (v. i.) To growl; to snarl in deep tones; as, a lion grumbling over his prey.
  • (v. i.) To rumble; to make a low, harsh, and heavy sound; to mutter; as, the distant thunder grumbles.
  • (v. t.) To express or utter with grumbling.
  • (n.) The noise of one that grumbles.
  • (n.) A grumbling, discontented disposition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Should I man up, chuck out the Union flags and get back to grumbling about the Games?
  • (2) I have weekly massages to iron out all the bumps and grumbles in my legs.
  • (3) But the huge shortfalls, and the grumblings of African countries, are not going to matter as much in Washington as the fact that Obama can claim that he went face to face with China – and won.
  • (4) Although, among jobbing-actor roles in series such as Casualty, Lovejoy and Inspector Morse, he also appeared in the Dennis Potter drama Cream in My Coffee (1980), with Peggy Ashcroft; a TV version of Mr Jekyll and Hyde (1990) and Ending Up (1989), based on the Kingsley Amis novel about old buffers going grumbling to their doom.
  • (5) No: people want to see live animals!” The purists will grumble.
  • (6) The couple were not married, and there were grumblings that, with no official status as first lady, she should not be spending money on her five personal assistants and the running of an independent office in the Elysée.
  • (7) Stop grumbling about renewables and unlock the opportunities they offer.
  • (8) The companies would be in no position to grumble about unfair tactics since they are guilty of worse.
  • (9) West Ham's manager of three years, who steered the team to a 13th-place finish this season after flirting with relegation for long periods, held talks with the co-chairman David Sullivan on Tuesday amid grumbling supporters' discontent at the style of football the side have played.
  • (10) Shirburn grumbled, Ayer apologised, the tanks rolled on.
  • (11) "Diane sold her principles by sending her kids to private school and spending a lot of time on the box cosying up to Michael Portillo, making comments for the sake of projection on TV," one grumbled, anonymously, yesterday.
  • (12) Starting with the visit of Canadian rivals Toronto FC , who grumbled their way through last week’s home defeat by KC and whose mood won’t have been improved by a 3-0 thrashing in DC in midweek.
  • (13) "Bilge," he grumbled when another student wanted to know about his links with a lobbying firm that later worked for Colonel Gaddafi.
  • (14) They'd grumble, but that's business, as it happens every day.
  • (15) Since Peter Hall was allowed leaves of absence for other projects by sometimes grumbling chairmen ( as charted in his published Diaries ), there has been an emphasis on the job being full-time.
  • (16) There were authors grumbling about not going to the Oscars .
  • (17) Recent collaboration between traditionally fractious teaching unions to oppose cuts to the school rebuilding programme gained more traction than the usual grumbles about pay because it spoke to parents as well as professionals.
  • (18) He has grumbled a lot about obstruction by the civil service, but not actually done much about it.
  • (19) English friends had explained to me, not without pride, the importance of grumbling to the national character, but I still want to stress to every Londoner I meet that — take it from a visiting Los Angeleno — the tube exists, and that counts as no trifling achievement.
  • (20) Jeremy Hunt grumbled that because patients would not know their out-of-hours doctors, they would opt to go to A&E instead.