What's the difference between growl and yelp?

Growl


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.
  • (v. t.) To express by growling.
  • (n.) The deep, threatening sound made by a surly dog; a grumbling sound.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Exerting himself at high altitude has left his voice a throaty growl.
  • (2) Feline affective defense behavior, characterized mainly by autonomic arousal, ear retraction, growling, hissing and paw striking, was elicited by electrical stimulation of the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus (VMH).
  • (3) Most dogs give a series of increasingly serious warning signs before they lose their tempers: lick their lips, blink, turn their heads away, curl their lip, lower their ears, wrinkle their foreheads, and if the dog that's annoying them doesn't get the message, they may growl or bare their teeth, and if that's still not enough it will be head and chest forward, muscles flexed, and bang, you've had it.
  • (4) Separatists have squatted in his office, masked gunmen roam the streets with impunity, and Russia – the giant, growling neighbour – threatens to invade.
  • (5) There are highlights, among them the Foo Fighters' energising effect on a flagging audience, the noise the same audience makes when James Blunt appears - half cheer, half menacing low growl - and Madonna's unexpected duet with Eugene Hutz of thrillingly dissolute gypsy punks Gogol Bordello.
  • (6) Injections of carbachol (CCh) through a chronic cannula into the midbrain periaqueductal grey region (PAG) of the cat induced an emotional-defensive response (EDR) which was evaluated by duration and number of growls in a 30-min experimental session.
  • (7) Territorial males produce grunts, moans and growls during courtship.
  • (8) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a poem that succeeds through a series of vivid contrasts: standard English contrasting with colloquial speech; the devotion and virtue of the young knight contrasting with the growling threats of his green foe; exchanges of courtly love contrasting with none-too-subtle sexual innuendo; exquisite robes and priceless crowns contrasting with spurting blood and the steaming organs of butchered animals; polite, indoor society contrasting with the untamed, unpredictable outdoors.
  • (9) The kind of thing that makes me growl, "Too much film school, not enough living."
  • (10) The somatic and autonomic displays which accompanied defensive behavior were similar between stimuli, consisting of mydriasis, piloerection, growling, hissing and paw strikes.
  • (11) pupil dilatation, piloerection, retraction of the ears, arching of the back, hissing, howling and growling) known as the 'defence reaction'.
  • (12) That’s not what I want!’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest There’s no mad staring or growled threats with the real-life Statham.
  • (13) Another was interrupted by men making growling noises and pouncing gestures when she stood up to speak in a leopard-print jacket .
  • (14) Julianne Moore was named best actress for her performance as a demented Hollywood diva in David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars, while Britain's Timothy Spall won the best actor prize for his grunting, growling masterclass as marine painter JMW Turner in Mike Leigh's period drama Mr Turner .
  • (15) Affective defense behavior elicited from the midbrain central gray is characterized by marked vocalization such as hissing and growling, pupillary dilatation, urination and piloerection.
  • (16) Suddenly she disappeared behind my parked car and I heard a squeal, followed by guttural growling.
  • (17) Structural analysis of the upper respiratory tract of O. hannah suggests that the "growl" is produced by tracheal diverticula functioning as low-frequency resonating chambers.
  • (18) "It wasn't the best first half, but when it cut back to the studio and they were moaning and groaning and saying there was nothing to say about the game it kind of made me growl at the TV wishing I'd been paid to go on holiday by work to do the slightest bit of analysis.
  • (19) DLH injections within a greater extent of the PAG elicited other facio-vocal changes characteristic of defence, such as hissing or growling, but these were not accompanied by significant cardiovascular changes.
  • (20) Jack Whitehall won king of comedy for the third year running, and I found myself shouting out “shame!” and, inexplicably, “class war!” When the filming ended people started asking me to do interviews, but I growled them away because he’d gone and I was just me.

Yelp


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To boast.
  • (v. i.) To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup.
  • (n.) A sharp, quick cry; a bark.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Apple’s also added info cards that seem to accumulate information from Yelp to show reviews.
  • (2) Just in the last month, I have downloaded apps for Eventbrite, Doodle, Yelp, Google Drive, Gmail, Ocado, Buzzfeed and Kickstarter, all companies with perfectly good websites.
  • (3) Broad looks to use his front pad outside off, sparking two yelped appeals and two shakes of the head from umpire Davis.
  • (4) The new format for the early audition shows (berks yelping in front of a massive screaming audience) left me wondering how the production team could possibly differentiate those instalments from the established format of the live episodes (berks yelping in front of a massive screaming audience).
  • (5) They’re like hungover teenagers, talking over each other and yelping.
  • (6) "Trying to stifle a cheer mid-yelp has sent stabbing pains across my stomach and I'm pretty sure has caused some internal bleeding.
  • (7) The band recall Can's ga-ga go-go music while the singer yelps like Alan Vega doused in even more echo.
  • (8) Watching the film has been emotional – it is Dad’s voice, soft and wise, with hints of his Australian homeland Dad used to jokingly tweak his children’s ears so that when we yelped he could work out who was who.
  • (9) When they're not 7ft-tall high-heeled dominatrix killers, women in games tend to be saucy background-dressing or yelping damsels in distress.
  • (10) In Oak Creek they cancelled the closing fireworks out of respect for the dead but not the cheerleaders so that groups of Sikhs made their way to the neighbouring park for the vigil to the sound of young women yelping as they waved their pom poms to dance music.
  • (11) Particularly arresting were the new uses Bush was making of her voice: tracks such as Pull Out the Pin and Suspended in Gaffa teemed with a panoply of exaggerated accents and jarring phrasings, as Bush applied thespian emphasis on particular words or syllables, and developed a whole new vocabulary of harsh shrieks and throat-scorched yelps.
  • (12) He conceived Ziggy Stardust as a musical before realising he had to sing it himself, and would later shed his estuary yelp in favour of a neo-operatic baritone; his Presley-like cover of Nina Simone’s Wild Is the Wind became a signature song.
  • (13) Yelp, the consumer review website, also said that quit Alec.
  • (14) Uncertain about how this all might play on the page, he then yelps: "You can fawn if you want to, though!
  • (15) A big serve saves the first break point and Lisicki then lets out a yelp after putting an awful backhand wide when she only had to be put it in back in play.
  • (16) This allowed my surf school to become the top-rated in Orange County on Yelp.
  • (17) Google, Yahoo, Facebook, eBay and Yelp all cut ties with the organization following criticism by environmental nonprofits for drafting model legislation that denies any human contribution to climate change.
  • (18) We are the Yelp and the WebMD of cannabis,” Wansolich said, while taking in the hubbub outside Cannabis City.
  • (19) If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world,” he said, to yelps of support.
  • (20) 11.36am BST 8th over: Sri Lanka 20-0 (Karunaratne 6, Silva 10) Broad yelps an optimistic, half-hearted appeal after thwocking Silva on the pad, but then goes up with far more confidence after beating the bat with a straighter one.