What's the difference between bleat and cry?

Bleat


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf.
  • (n.) A plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Using tonal stimuli based on the nonspeech stimuli of Mattingly et al., we found that subjects, with appropriate practice, could classify nonspeech chirp, short bleat, and bleat continua with boundaries equivalent to the syllable place continuum of Mattingly et al.
  • (2) There is no point in bleating about it,” Ritchie said.
  • (3) In a second experiment the bleats of 23 pregnant ewes were recorded; their lambs were taken at birth and tested with the sound of either their own mother's bleats, or with bleats from an alien ewe.
  • (4) With its bleating goats and vegetable patches, the centre is an oasis of rural tranquillity compared with the hustle and bustle of Goma down the road.
  • (5) Why is it acceptable to denigrate anything Catholic but bleat tolerance about every other religion?
  • (6) Worse for Greece, many of the suits in Brussels believe that for all the bleating, it is a wealthy country that only need embark on some redistribution of its own to solve much of its poverty.
  • (7) If the 13-year legal battle over Firing Zone 918 ends in Israel's favour, the bleat of goats will be replaced by the crack of assault rifles and the villagers will be moved into a nearby town.
  • (8) "But it's just Heartbeat with an umbilical hernia," bleat the unbelievers, pinching their delicate nosey-woses at the sight of steaming prolapses and swatting away the cuddles and godliness with their Game Of Thrones box sets.
  • (9) Best paragraph: “Many bleated they had nothing to hide and thus have nothing to fear during the Obama (and Bush) administration, out of trust for a president or fear of terror.
  • (10) I don’t think anyone can bleat if they don’t act.
  • (11) Bogus claims about “sovereignty”, and ill-judged bleating about “Brussels”, influenced many people I met, even before we were presented with the results.
  • (12) As a result, general inequality has been becoming more grievous with every year that passes, and without a bleat from the leaders of the party who once spoke up so trenchantly and characteristically for greater equality.
  • (13) Significantly more stimulated ewes licked the lamb and emitted low-pitched bleats in a 30-min test.
  • (14) Public corporations are like nation states in one respect, namely that while they may bleat (or boast) about their "values", in the end they are driven only by their national or corporate interests – which in practice means the interests of shareholders.
  • (15) Experts are not certain at this stage if Tian Tian (left) is pregnant, but the latest hormone tests are said to show positive signs and she is being closely watched for signs of labour such as restless behaviour and bleating.
  • (16) There is broad agreement that this is a London problem and only bleating metropolitan elites are troubled by it.
  • (17) So isn't he merely bleating about the treatment he dishes out to others?
  • (18) And there is a strong feeling that we should do over the Bleating Broadcasting Corporation.
  • (19) "Rather than just bleat about it, I think we should just do something about it … I believe in the territory, I love the territory," he said, standing next to his candidate for the marginal seat of Solomon, Luke Gosling.
  • (20) Trump’s supporters, like Brexit supporters before them, will say that these are merely the bleatings of the sore losers – the Remoaners, the Grimtons, or whatever portmanteau is conceived next.

Cry


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.
  • (v. i.) To utter lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child.
  • (v. i.) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals.
  • (v. t.) To utter loudly; to call out; to shout; to sound abroad; to declare publicly.
  • (v. t.) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.
  • (v. t.) To make oral and public proclamation of; to declare publicly; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, ets.; as, to cry goods, etc.
  • (v. t.) to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
  • (v. i.) A loud utterance; especially, the inarticulate sound produced by one of the lower animals; as, the cry of hounds; the cry of wolves.
  • (v. i.) Outcry; clamor; tumult; popular demand.
  • (v. i.) Any expression of grief, distress, etc., accompanied with tears or sobs; a loud sound, uttered in lamentation.
  • (v. i.) Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor.
  • (v. i.) Importunate supplication.
  • (v. i.) Public advertisement by outcry; proclamation, as by hawkers of their wares.
  • (v. i.) Common report; fame.
  • (v. i.) A word or phrase caught up by a party or faction and repeated for effect; as, the party cry of the Tories.
  • (v. i.) A pack of hounds.
  • (v. i.) A pack or company of persons; -- in contempt.
  • (v. i.) The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
  • (2) Are you ready to vote?” is the battle cry, and even the most superficial of glances at the statistics tells why.
  • (3) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
  • (4) When we gave her a gift of a few books in English, she burst out crying.
  • (5) Postoperatively, an independent observer assessed conscious level, crying, posture and facial expression using a simple numerical scoring system, and also recorded heart and respiratory rates over a 2-h period.
  • (6) Antibodies with the CRI can be isolated by isoelectric focusing from selected mice that have produced a high concentration of the CRI.
  • (7) My mother told me not to cry.” He has since witnessed the transformation of Hagere Selam.
  • (8) Three infants reached pulse pressure values less than 1% of control when cries were sustained for nine cardiac cycles.
  • (9) One is to shoot them in the head and cry about the bloody aftermath.
  • (10) When the CTL nonresponder adult mice received CRI producer B lymphocytes, the nonresponder phenotype was not changed into the responder phenotype.
  • (11) At one point, shortly after Suárez had given them a 3-0 lead, a loud cry had gone up from the Liverpool end of "We're going to win the league".
  • (12) He made me laugh and cry, and his courage in writing about what he was going through was sometimes quite overwhelming.
  • (13) Insecure infant attachment at 16 months was associated with maternal perception of overcontrol, depressed mood state, and aversive conditioning to the impending cry in the laboratory task at the 5-month period.
  • (14) A week after the New York Film Critics Circle gave the movie its top award, a liberal political commentator wrote: "I'm betting that Dick Cheney will love [the film, which is] a far, far cry from the rousing piece of pro-Obama propaganda that some conservatives feared it would be."
  • (15) He'd thought: I can't ring, 'cos Harry's probably crying, and I can't quite deal with him crying on the phone."
  • (16) Studies of the stability of P1 plasmid in a P1 cry Escherichia coli lysogen have suggested a model for equipartition of plasmid copies.
  • (17) Kester said her daughter came and cried in her lap.
  • (18) With the Tories enjoying a persistent lead in the polls, the prime minister launched Labour's "Blair-plus" manifesto with a rallying cry to the party.
  • (19) Photograph: Peter Beaumont for the Guardian For his part the leader of Hadash, the veteran socialist party in Israel that emphasises Arab-Jewish cooperation, Odeh has now attracted a political star status most obvious on the stump in Lod on Wednesday in the repeated cries of “Ayman!” by shopkeepers and passersby keen to shake his hand or be photographed with him.
  • (20) Once I’d checked she was OK I said, ‘Stop crying now.’ ” So it’s about managing emotions: ‘I’m going to need you to get a grip.’” “If you’ve got interesting points to make about the devaluing of serious words like bullying and depression, why make them in a way that sounds like you’re ridiculing people who are suffering?” I ask.