What's the difference between bellow and mellow?

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.

Mellow


Definition:

  • (superl.) Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp; as, a mellow apple.
  • (superl.) Easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid; as, a mellow soil.
  • (superl.) Not coarse, rough, or harsh; subdued; soft; rich; delicate; -- said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc.
  • (superl.) Well matured; softened by years; genial; jovial.
  • (superl.) Warmed by liquor; slightly intoxicated.
  • (v. t.) To make mellow.
  • (v. i.) To become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, these somewhat mellow headlines mask a year of considerable underlying progress for Mr Clarke and Tesco to our minds.
  • (2) My wife is ex-Workers Revolutionary Party, so let’s not go there – she’s mellowed a bit down the years!” Whelan was a bright boy who passed the 11-plus and went to grammar school: the Oratory, where Tony Blair sent his children.
  • (3) I think after those 60 seconds of mellow, we're safely back in Manic mode now.
  • (4) I hope that with this court ruling China will start to mellow and south-east Asian countries won’t have to live in fear of them anymore.
  • (5) Add the broth to the pot and briskly simmer the mixture over medium to medium-low heat for about 2 hours for all the flavours to come together and mellow.
  • (6) A fter a week in Kolkata , blessed with mellow sunsets created by the yellowy haze that hung over the city, I flew back to Britain via Delhi on Friday.
  • (7) In the film , we meet a considerably mellower grade of psychopath.
  • (8) We have obtained expression of the beta-N-acetylglucosamine-binding receptor from chicken hepatocytes in Xenopus oocytes by injecting mRNA synthesized in vitro from a full length cDNA cloned into an expression vector (Mellow et al: J. Biol Chem 263: 5468-5473, 1988).
  • (9) You don't get wiser, you don't get more mellow, you don't see life in a more glowing way.
  • (10) The 34-year-old CSKA Moscow midfielder may have mellowed off the pitch but on it his will to win remains as strong as ever, as England can expect to discover when the teams meet in Marseille on Saturday night.
  • (11) The track I’d play at sunset in Ibiza Medina: You And I I always drop this song when I want to mellow out the crowd yet still have them engaged in the melody, as the lyrics are so simple yet effective.
  • (12) Mellow Birds The British brand brought instant coffee to a tea-drinking nation in the 1970s.
  • (13) Either mellow or frenetic masking music was played for half the students in each group.
  • (14) He's a man of mellowness, not ego – far from bitter at the lack of meaty roles, just gently getting on with what he's offered.
  • (15) Whether these hard times will mellow his external ambitions or fuel further revanchist adventurism is now a key question.
  • (16) Attitudes toward him have mellowed to the point that well-known Vietnam draft dodger Bill Clinton, in reviewing Caro's latest volume in the New York Times , could write that he found plenty to admire in LBJ and never hated him the way that many of his generation did.
  • (17) At times he talks with a soft, cooing seduction, mellow in voice and avuncular in manner.
  • (18) By turn mellow and electrifying, it channels funk's rawness and the warmth of house music into what at first glance appears to be pop, but is actually much more fluid.
  • (19) "I'm like, fine, take it, let's get it over with," he remembers, his mellow, late-night radio voice at odds with his imposing physique.
  • (20) And finally we had an appearance by the eminent Lord Grabiner QC on behalf of the Liverpool board, who eased to his feet and held forth in a voice that was smooth, mellow, unhurried and as finely textured as particularly well-aged pipe tobacco.