What's the difference between cowl and howl?

Cowl


Definition:

  • (n.) A monk's hood; -- usually attached to the gown. The name was also applied to the hood and garment together.
  • (n.) A cowl-shaped cap, commonly turning with the wind, used to improve the draft of a chimney, ventilating shaft, etc.
  • (n.) A wire cap for the smokestack of a locomotive.
  • (n.) A vessel carried on a pole between two persons, for conveyance of water.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Surrey police have apologised to the Dowlers, and to Cowles, now 21, for missed opportunities early on in the police investigation which might have led to Bellfield being caught sooner.
  • (2) The judge also authorised Gately's partner Andrew Cowles or family to take the body home.
  • (3) Cowles argued the article was inaccurate because a postmortem had confirmed that Gately, who was holidaying in Majorca at the time of his death, had died from natural causes.
  • (4) It was reported that police wanted to speak to a 25-year-old Bulgarian man said to have met Gately and Cowles, at a bar and returned with them to their home before the singer's death.
  • (5) This insoluble alkaline phosphatase has been characterized and compared to the previously purified heat-solubilized enzyme (Hulett-Cowling, F.M.
  • (6) "Stephen and Andrew [Cowles, Gately's partner] had chosen to make Majorca their second home and we know that Stephen loved the times they spent together here.
  • (7) The second piece found on 30 March in Mauritius – eight days after the engine cowling – is “almost certainly” a panel segment from MH370’s main cabin.
  • (8) Carson Cowles, who identified himself as Roof’s uncle, told Reuters that Roof’s father had recently given him a .45-caliber handgun as a birthday present and that Roof had seemed adrift.
  • (9) Their chevron shapes are inset with cowls and scoops, giving them the air of a certain kind of painted, post-industrial abstract relief I haven't seen in years.
  • (10) A piece of engine cowling featuring a Rolls-Royce stencil, which was found in South Africa earlier this year , is “almost certainly” from the Boeing 777 that went missing more than two years ago with 239 people on board, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said on Thursday.
  • (11) Recommendations to minimize the number and severity of snowmobiling injuries in children include an education program for both adults and their children, use of lightweight cowling to protect the legs, incorporation of a governor on the throttle to prevent excessive speeds, and use of a restraint for children travelling as passengers on the snowmobile.
  • (12) The jury are still deliberating on a charge of the attempted abduction of another girl, Rachel Cowles, then 11, a day before Milly vanished.
  • (13) Suddenly a flickering, cowled figure enters the frame, stabbing each of the cops with what looks like a syringe.
  • (14) This led to the jury being discharged and the Cowles case left on file.
  • (15) It is not yet possible to assess the outcome or timing of the Brexit negotiations, but in certain circumstances we may need to create approximately 150 new roles located in the EU,” said Jim Cowles, who runs Citi’s operations in Europe , the Middle East and Africa, in an email to staff this week.
  • (16) In order to improve the working conditions of coalminers exposed to high ambient temperature, the authors have studied the effects of wearing an under-vest and a cowl covering the head and shoulders made in sponge-cloth and soaked with cold water (cooling clothes).
  • (17) Andrew Cowles, the civil partner of Stephen Gately , has today formally complained to the press watchdog about the controversial Daily Mail column by Jan Moir about the pop star's death.
  • (18) Malaysia said it would send a team to retrieve the possible piece of aircraft engine inlet cowling, which was found near Mossel Bay, a small town in Western Cape province on the southern coast.
  • (19) The judge said that there would be no retrial over Cowles and that an attempted abduction charge would lie on file.
  • (20) Moir said she honestly believed that Gately's death raised many unanswered questions that were a matter of public interest and defended her use of the word "sleazy" to describe the circumstances of his death, which occurred in Majorca after Gately and his civil partner Andrew Cowles went to a nightclub and brought back a Bulgarian man to their apartment.

Howl


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To utter a loud, protraced, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.
  • (v. i.) To utter a sound expressive of distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.
  • (v. i.) To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.
  • (v. t.) To utter with outcry.
  • (n.) The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.
  • (n.) A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The move has already unleashed howls of protests – not least among leftist opponents – who have accused the government of not only selling off the "family silver" but doing so at a time of market depression and rock-bottom prices.
  • (2) Under an abandoned flour mill and in a "howling, freezing" power station, he had "eaten sandwiches and coffee coated thick with dust".
  • (3) Having started out preening (he tells a former colleague that he lives "the life of Riley"), he ends up howling alone on a small rock, the decision to adorn himself with a beautiful young wife having stolen his stature, robbed him of his dignity.
  • (4) You can kind of shake it up, and we start all over again.” The base howled; it was all the proof anyone needed that he was a lyin’ centrist all along.
  • (5) Many leapt from the tyres they were swinging in to furrow their brows and howl in anger.
  • (6) Every last joule of Tony Abbott’s political energy, every last howl of his most committed supporters, was derived from what philosopher Lauren Berlant once called “the scandal of ex-privilege”, including “rage at the stereotyped peoples who have appeared to change the political rules of social membership, and, with it, a desperate desire to return to an order of things deemed normal”.
  • (7) It elicited howls of outrage from readers threatening to cancel their subscriptions, insulting Ensley, and wishing the newspaper would not even mention the scandal.
  • (8) "I think 20 millisieverts is safe but I don't think it's good," said Itaru Watanabe of the education ministry, drawing howls of derision from the audience of participants.
  • (9) Harboured by the remote and pristine forests in the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and on the border of the Central African Republic , the chimps were completely unknown until recently – apart from the local legends of giant apes that ate lions and howled at the moon.
  • (10) Yet to judge by the howls when Apple made the latest album free to download to all of the 800m or so iTunes account holders (by automatically adding it to their “Purchased” folder), there’s nothing the internet hates more than getting music for free.
  • (11) The launch of a Greene King “craft” range in 2013 brought angry howls of derision .
  • (12) As a result, the poverty will get deeper and the howls of protest ever louder.
  • (13) Helena writes: Previous reports of islands being put up for sale have ignited howls of fury - with successive governments inevitably having to deny the existence of any such plans.
  • (14) Which largely trumps the howls of outrage from the military wing of the Tory party.
  • (15) Holding it with both hands they howl into the octagon.
  • (16) Each attempt to cancel or cut a programme is greeted with howls from the lobbyists.
  • (17) 'The Brazilian spectators howled with laughter....' The miss mattered not a jot in terms of qualification.
  • (18) Rex Howling QC, for Michelle Young, told the judge in written submissions: "Mrs Young is adamant that Mr Young has access to large sums of money and that these funds are secreted in cleverly constructed offshore tax vehicles."
  • (19) An eerie howling atmospherically emanated from the moor.
  • (20) The sudden move elicited howls of protest from the new authorities in Kiev, and grave warnings from the west.