What's the difference between cowl and scowl?

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.

Scowl


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.
  • (v. i.) Hence, to look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower.
  • (v. t.) To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.
  • (v. t.) To express by a scowl; as, to scowl defiance.
  • (n.) The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowing; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.
  • (n.) Hence, gloom; dark or threatening aspect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I have no idea," Farage barked back with something between a grin and a scowl.
  • (2) As Steve spends half his money trying in vain to keep a scowl off Michelle's face and the rest comfort eating, Liz stumped up half the cash.
  • (3) On every street corner in Kabul, you can see a teenager in stonewashed jeans raising his head from scowling at his phone and moving with genuine delight to talk to an older person.
  • (4) You can tell these ones are evil, because they are scowling, have weirder facial piercings, and wear epaulettes made of human jawbones.
  • (5) The models' hair was styled into outsize saucers, their lashes and brows powdered white; they wore Black Watch tartan and scowled as they stomped.
  • (6) General elections, however, were the time when all the grand inquisitor's talents as cross-examiner came on full display, when the televsion public saw "the scowling, frowning, glowering" Robin Day "with those cruel glasses" (Frankie Howerd's description), as well as the relieving shafts of humour.
  • (7) The Italian was a vocal presence in the technical area, hollering at his players, urging them to keep their shape and discipline, and scowling whenever someone ignored his instructions.
  • (8) Roughly speaking.” The funniest hairstyle I’ve ever had In Edinburgh in the late 90s I went to a barber’s I had always gone to, in an alleyway off Cockburn Street, run by an old Italian man, but he wasn’t there, and in his place were two threatening, scowling young men.
  • (9) It is easy to see why players bounce off Klopp and indeed it was tempting to wonder if Chelsea’s despondent players were casting the occasional envious glance at the German, whose energetic and engrossing touchline demeanour offered a welcome shade of light next to José Mourinho ’s dark scowl.
  • (10) Each day was a mental assault course, trying to minimise the threat, attempting not to nudge her simmering, scowling disapproval into explosive rage.
  • (11) The moment the question leaves my lips, Garfield's smile suddenly drops and his eyebrows knit into a scowl.
  • (12) Mourinho ran the length of the touchline before sliding to his knees – to scowls of disdain from Alex Ferguson – and pumping his fist at the shell-shocked crowd.
  • (13) It was that kind of night and this was the soft-focus Keane: no beard, no scowl, just a sunrise of a smile.
  • (14) As grim as a gargoyle, craggy as a crag, jaw set in steel – even the famous smirk was well hidden behind the scowl.
  • (15) And when Miliband mocked her leadership ambitions at PMQs, her scowl could have stripped paint.
  • (16) After Freak Show, American Horror could probably do with shaking up the formula slightly to prevent atrophy, though with Lange reportedly hanging up her scowl at the end of the current run its hand may be forced.
  • (17) Or herself – the famous portraits of her sitting, legs splayed, fried eggs covering her breasts, or of her smoking a cigarette into a long ash, scowling in concentration like a female James Dean.
  • (18) The she finishes her water and scowls and says, “I might.
  • (19) Mummy was a great beauty and I was always scowling.
  • (20) 'The sentences,' wrote Larissa MacFarquhar in a brilliant New Yorker profile of Chomsky 10 years ago, 'are accusations of guilt, but not from a position of innocence or hope for something better: Chomsky's sarcasm is the scowl of a fallen world, the sneer of hell's veteran to its appalled naifs' – and thus, in an odd way, static and ungenerative.