What's the difference between loud and raucous?

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.

Raucous


Definition:

  • (a.) Hoarse; harsh; rough; as, a raucous, thick tone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Kerry warned a sceptical and sometimes raucous panel that failing to strike Syria would embolden al-Qaida and raise to 100% the chances that Assad would use chemical weapons again.
  • (2) At the final whistle there were raucous celebrations in Gijón's El Molinón stadium and all over Algeria.
  • (3) Last month, the Greek parliament, the scene of often raucous debate since the election of the extremists in June 2012, voted to cut off annual state funds of around €800,000 (£660,000) to which the party would have been entitled as of this year.
  • (4) In a memo to AP staff, AP President Gary Pruitt remembered Niedringhaus as "spirited, intrepid and fearless, with a raucous laugh that we will always remember."
  • (5) There's a brief lull as Seattle try to just get their collective foot on the ball and try to maybe calm what's still a fantastically raucous crowd.
  • (6) She laughs raucously again, mirth appearing to be, incongruously, her way of acknowledging pain.
  • (7) In contrast, Trump sent Dr Ben Carson to North Dakota’s raucous state convention last week and is scheduled to send Sarah Palin to Wyoming’s convention next week.
  • (8) The atmosphere had become raucous and City nearly enjoyed an instant response when Touré addressed a 25-yard free-kick after Kevin Wimmer’s foul, for which the central defender was booked.
  • (9) The Champions League is an extremely difficult competition but we are on the right track.” The Serie A leaders were undaunted by the pulsating atmosphere created by 70,000 Dortmund fans inside the Westfalenstadion, silencing the raucous home crowd early on when Tevez, who scored in the first leg, was left with far too much space 25 metres out and unleashed an unstoppable shot into the top corner.
  • (10) In the end the Chelsea players who had hoped to conquer the world were left slumped on the turf as the Brazilian drums pounded and the raucous hordes of Corinthians supporters bellowed their celebration into the night sky.
  • (11) But the net result is something fresh and new – not to mention often raucously entertaining.
  • (12) I don’t want their money Bernie Sanders Clinton was followed in the speaking order by Vermont senator Bernie Sanders who received almost as raucous a response as the former secretary of state from the packed house.
  • (13) He and his entourage would spend raucous weekends in luxury resorts, paying with wads of cash pulled carelessly from their pockets.
  • (14) The Brazilian did not appear hamstrung as he samba-ed his way through the post‑match celebrations, the players only returning to the Mandarin Oriental hotel in the city centre just before 3am with the raucous party prolonged thereafter.
  • (15) The steady beat of drums and chanted slogans made for a raucous but largely peaceful atmosphere, with banners everywhere mocking Park and calling for her to step down immediately In a televised news conference on Friday, deputy prime minister Lee Joon-Sik had voiced concerns at the possibility of “illegal collective action or violence” and urged the protestors to respect police barriers.
  • (16) The brief exchange with reporters was cut short by Clinton after a serious of shouted questions from reporters led to a raucous and, at times, aggressive atmosphere in the small bike store in Cedar Falls, Iowa, where she had been meeting with local small business owners.
  • (17) In 2006 he renewed his creative spark and paid homage to the folk hero Pete Seeger by assembling a new band to play traditional folk and protest songs on an album called We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions , a move so successful that the raucous spontaneity and home-made texture of the music was allowed to influence all his subsequent efforts.
  • (18) He remembers the “raucous laugh and infectious good humour” of a “political soulmate”.
  • (19) You wouldn’t necessarily expect an event involving four politicians discussing the future of Britain’s relationship with the EU to make for raucous entertainment.
  • (20) Simmonds, who has a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia, was again cheered home by a raucous crowd.