What's the difference between moan and murmur?

Moan


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make a low prolonged sound of grief or pain, whether articulate or not; to groan softly and continuously.
  • (v. i.) To emit a sound like moan; -- said of things inanimate; as, the wind moans.
  • (v. t.) To bewail audibly; to lament.
  • (v. t.) To afflict; to distress.
  • (v. i.) A low prolonged sound, articulate or not, indicative of pain or of grief; a low groan.
  • (v. i.) A low mournful or murmuring sound; -- of things.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The voters don’t do gratitude, self-pitying politicians are wont to moan.
  • (2) "A lot of people think, 'you're in work, what are you moaning about?'
  • (3) I was moaning about something, he was moaning about something.
  • (4) His department has formally complained to the BBC head of news, Helen Boaden, about the broadcaster's "carping and moaning".
  • (5) She thinks it's simple sexism, though she is loth to spell this out: "You can say that, but if I do, I'm just seen as moaning, playing the woman card again.
  • (6) That pitted him against the Democrat Jack Conway in November as the Republican elite moaned that such Tea Party rebellions would cost them seats.
  • (7) Jeremy Corbyn sweeps to victory increasing his mandate as Labour leader - Politics live Read more MPs who refuse to sit on the frontbench do not need to sit around moaning about Corbyn nor limit their ambition to avoiding deselection.
  • (8) This man's lawyers say he was then severely beaten: they allege that the initial blows, and their client's moans, can be heard faintly at the end of the video.
  • (9) Most moans 1 The Wright Stuff, Channel 5 (2,220 complaints) Matthew Wright uses Taggart catchphrase when talking about a suspicious death in the Western Isles.
  • (10) Ilike to go on Facebook and moan to friends about how awful Twitter is these days.
  • (11) When he is out socially he sometimes tells people that he works for the Post Office (it stops them soliciting invitations to send him scripts, and moaning about the kind of comedies they hate).
  • (12) He waits, outside, hearing "piteous, animal moans".
  • (13) No doubt if she worked on the checkout in Tesco you’d be telling her to resign over the company’s financial fraud investigation or the moans about how it treats its suppliers.
  • (14) Elias said: "There was shouting, moaning – even screaming – coming from the TDF [temporary detention facility] from time to time during the detention, according to some witnesses."
  • (15) G4S staff are relaxed about this, noting simply: “Prisoners moan.
  • (16) For me that is one of the most important battles for fairness.” During the presidential campaign he was caught moaning about “intellectual women who think they are downtrodden”, or who talk about their “ compañera ” cleaning lady, “when she is really the servant”.
  • (17) The video showed at length the interactions between Ms Dhu and police in the station , including moments when she can be heard crying and moaning in pain and asking for medical attention.
  • (18) Would anybody have any sympathy for the casino manager if he then started moaning that he’d lost £25,000?
  • (19) Stop your moaning about equal-rights this, maternity that, childcare the other.
  • (20) This isn't a sub-Rhodesian moan about Britain going to the dogs.

Murmur


Definition:

  • (v. i.) A low, confused, and indistinct sound, like that of running water.
  • (v. i.) A complaint half suppressed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice.
  • (v. i.) To make a low continued noise, like the hum of bees, a stream of water, distant waves, or the wind in a forest.
  • (v. i.) To utter complaints in a low, half-articulated voice; to feel or express dissatisfaction or discontent; to grumble; -- often with at or against.
  • (v. t.) To utter or give forth in low or indistinct words or sounds; as, to murmur tales.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The sounds were loudest along the left sternal border, exhibited an increase in intensity during inspiration and were associated with right atrial gallop sounds and with murmurs of tricuspid regurgitation.
  • (2) Based on initial auscultatory findings, patients were divided into: (1) single or multiple apical systolic clicks with no murmur (n = 99); (2) single or multiple apical systolic clicks and a late systolic murmur (n = 129); and (3) single or multiple apical clicks and an apical pansystolic murmur or murmur beginning in the first half of systole (n = 63).
  • (3) In the reported case the murmur grew in the beginning and then disappeared spontaneously.
  • (4) The following factors of these patients were analyzed: age, sex, civil status, socio-economic level, occupation, family antecedents, personal antecedents, smoking, alcoholism, presence of cardiac murmurs, arrhythmias, and electrocardiogram.
  • (5) The clinical history of recurrent bronchitis and dyspnoea during exercise, the presence of right parasternal murmur with normal heart size and normal blood gases justified the execution of an arteriovenous thoracic angiography which revealed the presence of a cirsoid aneurysm supplied by the internal and external mammary arteries.
  • (6) We report a case of a 17 year old boy who was referred for evaluation of a large anterior mediastinal mass, causing dyspnea and cough and resulting in a harsh systolic murmur.
  • (7) Although the continuous murmur is an unusual sign in patients with pulmonary embolism, its auscultation is often quite distinctive, and its appearance may lead to more definitive diagnostic studies when the presentation or associated clinical findings are nonspecific.
  • (8) The patient was asymptomatic and a heart murmur and abnormal electrocardiogram were discovered incidentally.
  • (9) Thus, the murmur of MR derives its prognostic significance from integration of multiple clinical, radiographic and electrocardiographic characteristics.
  • (10) Patent ductus arteriosus murmurs developed in shielded patients at a later date, they required less vigorous treatment (ie, indomethacin), and they had shorter hospitalizations (74 v 85 days; P less than .05).
  • (11) Healthy women students who asked for oral contraceptives were carefully examined to ascertain whether they had a cardiac murmur.
  • (12) The clinical picture was relatively nonspecific, and 32% of the patients had no heart murmurs initially.
  • (13) Of the total 47 episodes, carditis was manifested by a significant murmur without previous RF or any known rheumatic heart disease in 40%; change in the character of a murmur under observation or the appearance of a new murmur in 15%; and acute pericarditis in 19%.
  • (14) Acoustic information about the place of articulation of a prevocalic nasal consonant is distributed over two distinct signal portions, the nasal murmur and the onset of the following vowel.
  • (15) A 59-year-old woman hospitalised because of dyspnea and a heart murmur in a context of pyrexia was found to have evidence of obstruction of the pulmonary arterial system, clearly defined by ultrasonography, catheterisation and angiography and Imatron scan.
  • (16) All murmurs contained dominant frequencies that varied with time.
  • (17) Immediately after the implantation of a temporary transvenous right ventricular pacemaker, a high-pitched systolic musical murmur was heard at the lower left sternal border.
  • (18) Six patients had no audible murmur; four had grade 1 to 2 innocent murmurs.
  • (19) We correlated the intensity and timing of murmur with maximal flow velocity, acceleration time and other parameters.
  • (20) The patient presented with severe angina pectoris and the main physical findings were absence of the closing click of the prosthetic valve and the presence of systolic and diastolic aortic murmurs.