(n.) A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indicative of emotion, as in surprise, pain, grief, joy, anger, etc.
(n.) A word expressing outcry; an interjection; a word expressing passion, as wonder, fear, or grief.
(n.) A mark or sign by which outcry or emphatic utterance is marked; thus [!]; -- called also exclamation point.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is early days, and what is to say the people of Gateshead or Cardiff will be quite so forthcoming with the exclamations of "cool", "awesome" and "neat" as the audience in Oxford.
(2) Boom!” tweeted Morgan, utilising a local exclamation.
(3) The distinguishing criteria are: lack of pigment in infected red blood cells; no circulating schizonts or gametocytes; "atypical" malarialike organisms; tetrad groups, rods, or exclamation-mark forms; and persisting parasitemia after treatment for malaria.
(4) The reference to “global” tables is part of the argument that says doing exclamation marks better than Johnny Foreigner enables British capitalism to compete better with the Chinese.
(5) A transfer to the West End was highly successful, and Richard Attenborough directed the star-studded film version of 1969 (for which the title acquired an exclamation mark).
(6) After a tense first half, the second act, which includes the depiction of Klinghoffer’s murder, was quieter, with a sole exclamation of “this is shit!” by a woman in the stalls, who was hushed by the rest of the audience.
(7) After his statements drew angry exclamations and arguments from men standing nearby, Valery's wife pulled him away and they left.
(8) #voterid October 2, 2012 The exclamation point is needed, there, we'd note, because the Pennsylvania legislature this year passed a law denying voters their right to simply show up at the polls and cast their votes, secure in their own anonymity and freedom from coercion before or after their ballots were cast.
(9) There are plenty more exclamation marks where those came from.
(10) He could recognize Arabic music and instruments but not words of songs; a radio broadcast from the Koran, but not the individual words; a male as opposed to female voice; Arabic and non-Arabic languages; and whether sentences were questions, exclamations, or imperatives.
(11) The prime diagnostic feature of acute alopecia areata is the presence of exclamation mark hairs.
(12) The only exclamation the producers want from you is "Wow!"
(13) So they commissioned a logo to promote the area, hiring a designer who offered a stylised exclamation mark (their official slogan, “Kumamoto Surprise”, was a bright spin on the fact that many Japanese would be surprised to find anything in Kumamoto worth seeing).
(14) Sunday's NFL conference championships could tell us more than just who will be playing in Super Bowl XLVIII: they may provide exclamation points on that sexiest of matchups in the sport, the quarterback rivalry.
(15) It bothers me but it's hard when you're one of them people who don't know where to stop sentences or put commas or exclamation marks.
(16) 'I was a weird child' Hall speaks in elongated Memphis vowels, using exclamation marks and Big Capital Letters for emphasis, often sounding like a cartoon version of herself.
(17) Things are moving forward, largely on track.” Nevertheless, as Trump enters his second month, there will be many praying for a steadier hand and fewer tweets ending with exclamation marks.
(18) Her demeanour - wide features, plain dress, a quickness to exclamation - has long been used to diminish her authority as one of Britain's most popular crime writers.
(19) (The most grim moment being his exclamation “I’ll love you till I make it pop”.)
(20) But when I saw the advert it occurred to me that it, and that supercilious exclamation mark in particular, could in fact give people an excuse to express their homophobia.
Hoo
Definition:
(interj.) See Ho.
(interj.) Hurrah! -- an exclamation of triumphant joy.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's also, clearly, the beginning of an annual TV tradition, a comforting pool of lamplit nostalgia amid all the sequins and celebrity hoo-hah, with Geoffrey Palmer flapping his jowls exasperatedly as he realises he's packed the wrong rectal tube.
(2) But only Victoria, the monarch, found much use for it and long before the second world war the Hoo line had become a little-used byway.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Route planners have been canny in their research, judging by the reaction from Mike Herrieven who has run Mere village stores in a wooden cabin at Hoo Green for 20 years, but doesn't expect to last another five.
(4) Both HOO.- and ROO.-initiated peroxidations of linoleic acid were promoted by increases in solution ionic strength: the inclusion of 0.1 M of various alkali metal salts in the reaction resulted in up to a 4-fold increase in the overall peroxidation rate.
(5) Here's Phil Powell: "All this hoo-hah about Alistair Cook reminds me of this superb tweet from Adam Hollioake …" Adam Hollioake (@adamhollioake) You are free to criticize athletes.
(6) It's difficult to know who comes out looking dafter from this whole hoo-ha – the media, Twitter, News International, who yesterday admitted to wrongly confirming Deng's account, or Murdoch himself.
(7) The jury of nine men and three women at Maidstone crown court cleared the six, five of whom had scaled a 200m tall chimney at Kingsnorth power station at Hoo, Kent in October 2007.
(8) An faur mair valuable than ony Saxon Sutton-Hoo nonsense!’ The senders were from a wide range of backgrounds.
(9) The LOOH-dependent pathway of HOO.-initiated fatty acid peroxidation may be relevant to mechanisms of lipid peroxidation initiation in vivo.
(10) But it’s creepy how that all debate over whether hackers are freedom fighters or criminals seems to go out of the window, when the much greater prize of - woo-hoo!
(11) 23 October For all the hoo-ha over the Chinese visit, he [TB] felt in the end we had taken the right position, and stuck to it and it would benefit us with the Chinese, as well as the public.
(12) Almost all of that Fife landscape has now been buried without ceremony by motorways and housing estates, but equivalents can be found elsewhere, none of them grander and stranger than that part of Kent known as the Hoo peninsula, which lies between the Medway and the Thames and which, if Norman Foster and Boris Johnson have their way, could become the most vital stretch of land in Britain.
(13) There was Khrushchev or Brezhnev gazing on sternly from a Kremlin balcony at the synchronised marching and Soviet military hardware scrolling past below, but the whole deadly solemn communist pomp was undercut by that garish chunk of Disneyland architecture sitting in the corner, screaming "yoo hoo!".
(14) Would it matter to the world beyond, other than to birds and ornithologists too, if Hoo became a giant airport and dock, clustered with warehouses, freight yards and car parks?
(15) What emerges instead is a fond tribute to a clutch of eccentrics who managed to eke emotional resonance from the unlikeliest of sources, with each – from FW " Nosferatu " Murnau in 1922 to gothic melancholist Guillermo " Pan's Labyrinth " del Toro – serving up the blimey with a generous dollop of boo-hoo.
(16) Still, the Brass Eye hoo-ha set the tone for a decade in which comedy became the nation's moral barometer – even if the "offensive" acts to come weren't always as defensible as Morris.
(17) The problem is not with the books; the problem is that this year's hoo-ha suggests that the Booker is happy to be seen as a marketing strategy than as an exercise – however flawed – in choosing and celebrating literary and artistic achievement.
(18) Minor reactions presumably provide alternative formations of the 4a-hydroperoxy- and 4a-hydroxy-flavin radical cation transients by the direct addition of HOO.
(19) But even so modified we would still be facing the prospect of a coal plant on the Hoo Peninsula emitting 6m tonnes of CO 2 a year.
(20) So there was a big hoo-ha – 'Rizwan rigged the JCR election' – and we exposed them for just picking their puppets.