What's the difference between hoopla and loud?

Hoopla


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sorry if I did that.” That hoopla created a sizzling atmosphere in which players needed to stay cool.
  • (2) I was conscious [that as prime minister of Australia] I came with a lot of hoopla,” she says.
  • (3) And even then – after all this "Vesuvian hoopla", as Joe Klein put it in Time magazine – she still leaves us dangling.
  • (4) "As soon as the hoopla started with the passage of the law, branches of organisations like Occupy Paedophilia and Occupy Gerontophilia appeared in our city."
  • (5) US Open 2015: Serena Williams v Vitalia Diatchenko – as it happened Read more It was a muted counterpoint to the annual on-court hoopla to set the tone of the loudest fortnight in tennis, as much a rolling circus as a tennis tournament, especially under the stars.
  • (6) The 26-year-old, obsessed by the macabre hoopla surrounding other mass shootings, left a note – a multi-page, angry screed, it was reported – and murdered with apparent yearning for posthumous notoriety.
  • (7) In other words: Corbyn’s failure, after so much hoopla, would threaten to re-define the centre ground and, by definition, make the Tories look more rightwing.
  • (8) Accompanying this we have the usual hoopla: frenzied speculation about "valuations"; serious looking bankers in suits touting spreadsheets which purport to give a rational basis for numbers plucked out of the air; gossip columnists speculating on how much the company's founders will be "worth "after the first day's trading.
  • (9) 10.57pm GMT Paula Matthewson, writing in The Hoopla this morning, has produced a typically interesting column on the Labor leader Bill Shorten's address yesterday to the National Press Club.
  • (10) Shorten noted “hoopla and showmanship” in the joint announcement by the PUP leader, Clive Palmer, and the climate crusader Al Gore on carbon policy last week, but emphasised “significant points of climate consensus” including the retention of the renewable energy target, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, and the Climate Change Authority.
  • (11) Next month, amid the usual hoopla, Apple is expected to officially unveil its latest gadget: the much-awaited iPhone 4G .
  • (12) And in that sense, much of the hoopla around Record Store Day and the aforementioned gig posters surely speaks volumes.
  • (13) In his stated desire to avoid the pre-Oscar hoopla, Fassbender is echoing the views of Joaquin Phoenix , who called the Academy awards "the worst-tasting carrot I've ever tasted in my whole life".
  • (14) But amid all the hoopla about what "wearable tech" might actually do for consumers, an equally important debate has emerged over what one might call "geek aesthetics".
  • (15) But for all the hoopla, the leap to $1,000 would be a big hike for a company that has already enjoyed a record run on the stock exchange.
  • (16) After Court's defeat, she agreed to play Riggs, and a great hoopla built up around the match.
  • (17) Because, despite all the hoopla, nothing substantial changed.
  • (18) Rick Perry most recently entered the 2012 Republican race with solid polling numbers and much media hoopla.

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.

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