What's the difference between buzz and seethe?

Buzz


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. Hence: To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice.
  • (v. t.) To sound forth by buzzing.
  • (v. t.) To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an under tone; to spread, as report, by whispers, or secretly.
  • (v. t.) To talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming voice.
  • (v. t.) To sound with a "buzz".
  • (n.) A continuous, humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones, or of a general expression of surprise or approbation.
  • (n.) A whisper; a report spread secretly or cautiously.
  • (n.) The audible friction of voice consonants.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Moses buzzed about with intent, while Cesc Fàbregas relished a forward role tucked just behind Costa.
  • (2) Walcott buzzed in a free-kick and when this dropped to Elneny his 20-yard effort was saved superbly by Jakupovic.
  • (3) "If I hear my phone buzz, I have to pull it out and look at it, and then I'm totally distracted...
  • (4) These faux pas by the Institutional Revolutionary party candidate, famous for his good looks and telenovela star wife, at the international literary festival in Guadalajara, left Mexico's social and mainstream media buzzing with mockery.
  • (5) Absorbed into the bloodstream through the lip, Snus has a softer but longer nicotine buzz than cigarettes.
  • (6) Internet chatrooms have been buzzing with messages condemning Tokyo's response, with some calling for a boycott of Japanese goods.
  • (7) There is already a buzz about the place and by eleven the players are already in the dressing room, just next to the manager's office.
  • (8) Medical effectiveness initiatives, outcomes research, and practice guidelines--the new buzz words for the 90s--will change the way health care services are delivered and allocated.
  • (9) Yet even after Buzz ran aground, the row with Facebook went on - and in retrospect, it's obvious that Mark Zuckerberg didn't trust Google not to be trying to build its own social network and using Facebook's social graph to do it.
  • (10) Live streaming from the main stages enabled viewers to watch sets in real time – and combining it with social media meant you could see where the buzz was and flip over to see the best music.
  • (11) Places such as Manchester, Newham, Lewisham and Liverpool buzz with desire to do things better.
  • (12) "I get back late from all these try-out gigs and the buzz keeps me awake.
  • (13) On the other hand, well: tablets, smartphones, DVD players, advanced sex toys that do something other than just buzz, cars that don't smell like foot disease, an abundance of stuff that makes life easier and more interesting.
  • (14) A few days later, the line stretched round the block for last year's SXSW buzz band Haim .
  • (15) The buzz won Charli a deal with Asylum, a subsidiary of major label Atlantic, but she didn't release another thing until 2011.
  • (16) With his dying breath, Fred Ery identified Floyd "Buzz" Fay as his murderer.
  • (17) If I'm in a good mood it looks like Buzz Lightyear.
  • (18) With the music, as in this summer’s Roman season: the composer Claire van Kampen , licensed by Globe boss Dominic Dromgoole, worked around the idea that the Romans imported their festive music, and its instruments, from North Africa, and got hold of Moroccan and rustic Spanish drums and buzz-booming shawms .
  • (19) He went on to conduct The Book Programme (1974-80), and buzzed around the world for Robinson's Travels (1977-79).
  • (20) Her hums on early awards buzz Speaking of Oscar contenders, it will be fascinating to see how Spike Jonze's latest movie pans out.

Seethe


Definition:

  • (n.) To decoct or prepare for food in hot liquid; to boil; as, to seethe flesh.
  • (v. i.) To be a state of ebullition or violent commotion; to be hot; to boil.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Out of the seabird whoops and thrashing drumming of the intro to Endangered Species come guitar-sax exchanges that sound like Prime Time’s seething fusion soundscapes made illuminatingly clearer.
  • (2) But there is something else seething in the collective unconscious.
  • (3) "Park Chu-Young of South Korea has scored from a free-kick, against Nigeria," he quietly seethes.
  • (4) In 1961 there had been riots in Warmbaths, and all this time the Transkei had been a seething mass of unrest.
  • (5) Baltimore’s under-fire criminal justice system risked antagonising its already seething local community on Wednesday by suspending legal procedures and imposing bail bonds of up to half a million dollars on the city’s most impoverished residents.
  • (6) As central Manama once again seethed, troops and riot police were nowhere to be seen.
  • (7) We wouldn’t notice much difference between them and the current lot, and it would save all that boasting and seething reported in the same issue ( Bong!
  • (8) We have said you can’t waste a game now and that’s what we’ve done,” said a clearly seething Newcastle manager.
  • (9) Writing in the Observer under the headline "Michael Gove, using history for politicking is tawdry" , Hunt seethes, "the government is using what should be a moment for national reflection and respectful debate to rewrite the historical record and sow political division."
  • (10) ITV news executives are privately seething about the BBC’s response to its revamped 10pm bulletin and have accused their rival of “arrogance”.
  • (11) Are there 250 people in there seething and about to jump the fence?” asked Downey.
  • (12) The city had been in a state of seething unrest since 29 December 2012, when Jyoti Singh, a medical student in her 20s, died of terrible injuries inflicted on her by a group of men who raped and tortured her on a bus.
  • (13) When soldiers eventually broke their siege and killed the ringleaders, Bin Laden was seething.
  • (14) "Those frames long haven't existed here," Volkova replied, seething.
  • (15) Three months later, on 21 September 1991, they fought again at a seething White Hart Lane and in front of an ITV audience of 12m viewers.
  • (16) Of the Moir storm, writer Tim Brown has decried in Spiked Online "a spectacle of feelings, a seething mass of self-affirming emotional incontinence, a carnival of first-person pronouns and expressions of hurt and proxy offence".
  • (17) Addressing the seething anti-establishment and anti-Jewish sentiment that is increasing among young Muslims is one of the many key challenges for the future.
  • (18) The kitchen window looked down over Trinity Place, now seething with people.
  • (19) Clegg shows he is still seething with David Cameron for failing to secure Tory support for House of Lords reform, as he explains why the prime minister's hopes of pressing ahead with a reform of parliamentary boundary sizes is now for the birds.
  • (20) Called simply September, the painting shows a generic image of the towers, sun-struck in the autumn morning and seething with smoke.