What's the difference between blare and toot?

Blare


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To sound loudly and somewhat harshly.
  • (v. t.) To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly.
  • (n.) The harsh noise of a trumpet; a loud and somewhat harsh noise, like the blast of a trumpet; a roar or bellowing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With Soviet-era music blaring from loudspeakers and the Russian tricolour everywhere, the overwhelming feeling in Sevastopol was that the city was finally "going home" after a 23-year stay in Ukraine .
  • (2) A truck stopped on a street corner, blaring martyrdom hymns throughout the cavernous lanes and alleys of the party's heartland.
  • (3) Hundreds of people gathered in a small park to dance to Russian pop music being blared over speakers at a stage with accompanying screen projections.
  • (4) One participant blared Fuck tha Police , NWA’s anti-authority anthem, into the procession.
  • (5) Giant screens blare out ads for electronic gadgets and energy drinks.
  • (6) Some were seen driving through The Hague on Wednesday night, with Serb folk music blaring from their car windows.
  • (7) Consumer credit was a blaringly obvious space which was causing people pain.
  • (8) The date was 8 March 2005 and that night, at home in Wembley Triangle, the young Sterling turned on the television to see Chelsea playing Barcelona , under the floodlights at Stamford Bridge, with the Champions League anthem blaring.
  • (9) The call to prayer blares out five times a day from a multitude of speakers across the city, some melodic others hellish.
  • (10) In the past, the broadcasts typically blared messages about alleged North Korean government mismanagement, human rights abuses and the superiority of South Korean-style democracy, as well as world news, weather forecasts and K-pop.
  • (11) Egypt hails $8bn Suez canal expansion as gift to world at lavish ceremony Read more A few streets over, patriotic songs are blaring at a celebration of the expansion of the Suez Canal, a megaproject hyped by the government as a turning point for the Egyptian economy.
  • (12) South Korean troops, near about 10 sites where loudspeakers started blaring propaganda on Friday , were on the highest alert, but had not detected any unusual movement along the border, said an official from Seoul’s Defense Ministry, who refused to be named, citing office rules.
  • (13) It is Greece's summer ritual: the arrival of the island ferry, funnels billowing, horns blaring, gangplanks screeching as wide-eyed tourists prepare to disembark.
  • (14) I’ve never seen so many police here, against the blare of sirens.
  • (15) It would be intriguing to know where he draws the line now – among the covers he and Andy Allo recorded was an old song of his, I Love U in Me, which is hardly Sunday school fare, while a journalist invited to Paisley Park to hear his recent album Plectrumelectrum was startled to see Prince run from the room when a particularly spicy lyric he’d “forgotten about” blared from the speakers – but his answer is a little vague.
  • (16) There is little sign that the country faces yet another fateful election next Sunday, except for a couple of posters in support of the ruling Justice and Development party, or AKP, and a solitary election van trundling through the streets blaring AKP’s campaign messages through the rows of immaculate yellow and beige housing blocks.
  • (17) There were three fans sporting hooky Liverpool replica shirts outside the Copacabana Palace hotel, where the delegation from the Uruguayan Football Association were deliberating their next move, on Thursday morning as Pharrell Williams’ Happy blared out over a neighbouring cafe’s loudspeaker system on permanent loop.
  • (18) In a week that has seen at least 40 die and escalating violence in Homs, the country's third largest city, state radio and private stations owned by regime cronies have been blaring out songs exalting Bashar al-Assad as "Abu Hafez", suggesting his son Hafez could succeed him, or anointing him president for "all eternity".
  • (19) A pledge to “make America great again”, the Rolling Stones song You Can’t Always Get What You Want blaring in the background.
  • (20) If this scoreline stands, I am sure the blaring misses will be unnoticed by the general public, who will instead be abuzz over that disallowed goal.

Toot


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To stand out, or be prominent.
  • (v. i.) To peep; to look narrowly.
  • (v. t.) To see; to spy.
  • (v. i.) To blow or sound a horn; to make similar noise by contact of the tongue with the root of the upper teeth at the beginning and end of the sound; also, to give forth such a sound, as a horn when blown.
  • (v. t.) To cause to sound, as a horn, the note being modified at the beginning and end as if by pronouncing the letter t; to blow; to sound.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Balakrishnan group's beliefs were mocked in the diary column of the Times, prompting speculation that it may have been a partial model for the Tooting Popular Front, the ludicrous political movement in Citizen Smith, the BBC sitcom, which began in 1977.
  • (2) Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian At the cutting edge, literally, of NHS treatment, we saw “awake craniotomy” at St George’s hospital, Tooting, south London.
  • (3) Also, in common with many other criminals, after the scandal of the taping of the current minister of state, Department for Transport, the right honourable member for Tooting [Sadiq Khan], on a prison visit, he believes all these meetings are taped and he says this will back him up.
  • (4) So I don't actually care whether Gideon had a toot or not.
  • (5) They shouldn’t have made you feed in a way you didn’t want to, it’s illegal.” Tooting Baby (@Tootingbaby) .
  • (6) It is now being stopped entirely in Wimbledon, Tooting and Mitcham.
  • (7) Khan’s side points out that Goldsmith himself invited Gani – who the Tory candidate now describes as “one of the most repellent men in the country” – to a campaign event at the Tooting Islamic Centre.
  • (8) Khan has been MP for Tooting since 2005 and a government whip since last year.
  • (9) Janet Eades, a retired teacher from Wandsworth who is leading the campaign against the free school, said: "I would like to know what the demand and need is for this school in Tooting, which was deemed viable by the department of education because there was a need in Lambeth.
  • (10) Fire engines were sent from East Ham, Ilford, Plaistow, Stratford, Shadwell, Millwall, Homerton, Dagenham, East Greenwich and Tooting fire stations.
  • (11) Theresa Drzewiecka, 55, is a nurse at the Tooting practice, and said that people also saw her because they were confident of her training.
  • (12) The odd white van toots at this mass of running students.
  • (13) The mother was taken to St George's hospital, Tooting, south London, and arrested on suspicion of murder after treatment to minor wounds.
  • (14) You do not want to be lab rats in the first Corbyn economic experiment in public life.” Khan, the MP for Tooting, has previously sought to distance himself from the Labour leadership, arguing that a key part of the job of London mayor is to be an advocate for the capital and not for a political party.
  • (15) The generosity of my constituents in Tooting, and people across Britain, has been truly inspiring.
  • (16) The idea that those people are going to switch to Labour doesn’t make sense.” On the streets of Springboig in the late morning sunshine, Curran cuts a familiar figure, enjoying tooting car horns and welcoming handshakes.
  • (17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An ‘awake craniotomy’ at St George’s hospital, Tooting, south London.
  • (18) The Metronews freesheet went further, saying a Khan victory would make the Tooting MP “ the first Muslim mayor of a European capital ”.
  • (19) In Tooting, south London, classes showing parents invaluable skills such as how to administer CPR and stop a child from choking will be held at the Trafalgar pub, near St George’s hospital.
  • (20) The MP for Tooting has demanded ministers put an end to individuals using anonymous off-shore tax havens to buy up houses and land.

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