What's the difference between guffaw and loud?

Guffaw


Definition:

  • (n.) A loud burst of laughter; a horse laugh.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) GRRRR," he guffawed, eyebrows wiggling lasciviously, before being ejected from Booty at 230mph courtesy of a broom and a gallon of budget acrylic nail glue.
  • (2) And you also know that conceding goals is not something that brings you happiness … Unless,” he guffaws, “your masochism is actually a perversion, then that’s different.” It is a punishing, torturous profession.
  • (3) "For us it is very interesting to find Britain like this," Marcel said, guffawing.
  • (4) Even before the leader of the Liberal Democrats opened his mouth, his appearance last night was greeted with guffaws and eyeball-rolling from part of a focus group gathered for the Guardian by the qualitative polling firm BritainThinks.
  • (5) He laughs a lot – a booming, body-shaking guffaw at odds with his delicate features, wary eyes and the tough set to his jaw.
  • (6) There's perky, honeyed jazz from the live band when guests step on stage and plenty of warm laughter from the live audience, which sits rather awkwardly on radio: it's not always clear what the laughs are about, and it's odd to hear the midday news, for example, signed off with unexplained guffaws.
  • (7) I didn't understand much about the mechanics of government then, to say the least, and my response was, "Thank you very much Mr President ..." [she guffawed hilariously at the recollection] " ... but unfortunately I don't have money to go to Japan!"
  • (8) But on Monday the people of Birmingham laughed off Emerson’s comments, echoing a collective guffaw that erupted on Twitter.
  • (9) He added, earning guffaws from reporters: “I’m also very much a germaphobe by the way, believe me.” John McCain confirmed on Wednesday that he had handed the documents alleging secret Trump-Moscow ties to Comey.
  • (10) "Satire" is a fig leaf, permitting the sort of audiences who wouldn't dream of watching, say, The Hangover three whole hours of supposedly highbrow guffawing at gruesome variations on the pump-and-dump theme.
  • (11) A recent photograph in a Russian news-sheet that emerged this week showed a guffawing Navalny meeting Boris Berezovsky, the self-exiled tycoon who lives in London and serves as the arch-villain in Kremlin propaganda.
  • (12) There has been a degree of good-natured guffawing around Whitehall at the thought that Welby might be a spook, rather than any discernible nervousness that he is on the verge of being unmasked.
  • (13) I recently played this bit for my mom and she immediately guffawed, "You weren't five!
  • (14) At a minimum, they would be greeted with guffaws of incredulous laughter.
  • (15) Men are often heard guffawing at dinner when asked if they want "leg or breast".
  • (16) For anyone else, listening to the guffaws at Tory conference feels like being a teenager at some dire event your parents have dragged you to, and having to smile through gritted teeth while screaming silently inside your own head.
  • (17) And perhaps his swiftest, and only recent, campaign U-turn came when his team unveiled its appointment of Indiana governor Mike Pence as vice-presidential candidate, only to have the internet guffawing at the inadvertently phallic logo .
  • (18) This immediately provoked widespread guffaws from IT experts, for whom uninterruptible power supplies, back-up centres and “mirror” sites are the bread-and-butter basics of any major IT project.
  • (19) By contrast, Farage, like Johnson, appears to be genuinely enjoying himself most of the time, like a delighted Aquaphibian guffawing in a bumper car.
  • (20) When Catherine Ashton started on the daunting task of building the European Union's first diplomatic machine in late 2009, the Labour peer was met by guffaws of derision.

Loud


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having, making, or being a strong or great sound; noisy; striking the ear with great force; as, a loud cry; loud thunder.
  • (superl.) Clamorous; boisterous.
  • (superl.) Emphatic; impressive; urgent; as, a loud call for united effort.
  • (superl.) Ostentatious; likely to attract attention; gaudy; as, a loud style of dress; loud colors.
  • (adv.) With loudness; loudly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) External phonocardiography performed at the time of cardiac catheterization revealed that this loud midsystolic click disappeared whenever a catheter was positioned across the mitral valve.
  • (2) One-nation prime ministers like Cameron found the libertarians useful for voting against taxation; inconvenient when they got too loud about heavy-handed government.
  • (3) This was followed by loud applause for Gündogan and De Bruyne, when each was later taken off.
  • (4) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
  • (5) Clinical measurements of the loudness discomfort level (LDL) are generally performed while the subject listens to a particular stimulus presented from an audiometer through headphones (AUD-HP).
  • (6) From a set of tones that varied only in intensity, it was possible to calculate the growth of loudness with intensity for the budgerigar.
  • (7) The footballer said the noise of the engine was too loud to hear if Cameron snored but his night "wasn't the best".
  • (8) To produce intramodal arousal, normal subjects also had EEG recordings made during the random sounding of a loud bell.
  • (9) The vocalight lights up a variable number of light-emitting diodes depending upon the loudness of sounds received at a hydrophone within the suction cup.
  • (10) At one point, shortly after Suárez had given them a 3-0 lead, a loud cry had gone up from the Liverpool end of "We're going to win the league".
  • (11) Oestrous and dioestrous rats were observed during the initial 2 min of open-field exposure, and after a loud bell had sounded.
  • (12) We are not doing it as loudly, we're not embracing it quite as much, but the fact of the matter is we do need a much more stimulative fiscal policy."
  • (13) And a woman in front of me said: “They are calling for Fox.” I didn’t know which booth to go to, then suddenly there was a man in front of me, heaving with weaponry, standing with his legs apart yelling: “No, not there, here!” I apologised politely and said I’d been buried in my book and he said: “What do you expect me to do, stand here while you finish it?” – very loudly and with shocking insolence.
  • (14) Voice control, a punishment technique based on loud commands, has been used widely in pediatric dentistry.
  • (15) Witnesses reported hearing a loud bang coming from the area, which is also close to the Belfast city centre's prime retail centre and the city's courts, hours after a security alert was declared after 9pm.
  • (16) In this experiment, observers were asked to match the loudness of partially masked test-tone bursts in one ear by adjusting the level of unmasked bursts presented to the other ear.
  • (17) But the evidence from the nation at large is loud and clear.
  • (18) A loudness meter that combines the spectral shapes of different sounds to produce an overall perceived magnitude offers greater promise.
  • (19) More important, however, context simultaneously affected the degree of loudness integration as measured in terms of matching stimulus levels.
  • (20) He's been speaking loudly, then realising the other customers had begun to listen in to what he was saying, he lowers it again, before continuing: – There were military planes flying low over the forest.