What's the difference between muffled and quarrel?

Muffled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Muffle

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Weirdly, the muffled Doppler effects of several thousand passing SUVs was quite soothing.
  • (2) True diastolic pressure is usually closer to the disappearance point of Korotkoff sounds than to the muffling phase.
  • (3) Hence his fondness for placing the camera far away from its subjects: Hidden coolly watches as a child's small world falls apart, his cries muffled by the intervening space; and Code Unknown concludes by showing how life, likened by Haneke to a flea circus, indifferently unravels on a Paris boulevard.
  • (4) The presence of a muffled voice led to radiologic and indirect laryngoscopic examination confirming the diagnosis.
  • (5) The effect of El Niño during these years compounded the muffling effect of greenhouse gases and lead to exceptionally hot global temperatures.
  • (6) I heard about three or four shots fired, but they were muffled, as if taking place indoors,” one witness told Agence France-Presse.
  • (7) Common symptoms include fever, swollen neck, difficult swallowing, muffled voice and hyperextension of the head and neck.
  • (8) In places there were moans and muffled cries beneath the ruins, spurring frantic efforts to dig people out with bare hands and improvised tools.
  • (9) The determinations of calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus in dentine showed no significant differences between LTA, muffle furnace ashing (MFA), and wet ashing.
  • (10) The policemen closed the doors, but the muffled screams continued outside.
  • (11) The samples of the mentioned tissues were dried and ashed in the muffle furnace.
  • (12) Questions will undoutedly be asked about Brown's vocal capabilities – once described by Guardian critic Alexis Petridis as "a muffled, gloomy honk, like a despondent goose wearing a balaclava" – and whether the band, now in middle-age, will be able to capture the heady excitement of their early days.
  • (13) For some it sounded muffled and far away, as though somewhere in the distance a big balloon had popped.
  • (14) Once again, Vince Cable is a rather lonely prophet worrying where this will lead, but this time a voice of warning somewhat muffled by collective responsibility.
  • (15) Fabricant, who was strongly involved in the Tory campaign in Eastleigh, tweeted: "The Conservative voice is muffled and not crisp.
  • (16) But instead of a traditional riot or at least some minor destruction, the place was filled with well-behaved individuals, talking in the "inside voices" with muffled jubilation (even when the US won!).
  • (17) Abnormal or muffled heart sounds associated with pericarditis and epicarditis was the most common sequela, occurring in 40 cases.
  • (18) The polite approach of London Citizens has so far yielded muffled responses, but the issue will be raised at a November board meeting: if there is no decisive yes, expect the gloves to come off, and more direct action, including a shoppers' boycott.
  • (19) Inadequate velopharyngeal function, whether congenital or subsequent to palatal repair, may be masked by the presence of other speech problems in this syndrome, particularly by the "muffled" voice quality which appears to be associated with an elevated and retracted tongue posture.
  • (20) Extreme sore throat, pooling of oral secretions, muffled voice, and elevated temperature were uncommon.

Quarrel


Definition:

  • (n.) An arrow for a crossbow; -- so named because it commonly had a square head.
  • (n.) Any small square or quadrangular member
  • (n.) A square of glass, esp. when set diagonally.
  • (n.) A small opening in window tracery, of which the cusps, etc., make the form nearly square.
  • (n.) A square or lozenge-shaped paving tile.
  • (n.) A glazier's diamond.
  • (n.) A four-sided cutting tool or chisel having a diamond-shaped end.
  • (n.) A breach of concord, amity, or obligation; a falling out; a difference; a disagreement; an antagonism in opinion, feeling, or conduct; esp., an angry dispute, contest, or strife; a brawl; an altercation; as, he had a quarrel with his father about expenses.
  • (n.) Ground of objection, dislike, difference, or hostility; cause of dispute or contest; occasion of altercation.
  • (n.) Earnest desire or longing.
  • (v. i.) To violate concord or agreement; to have a difference; to fall out; to be or become antagonistic.
  • (v. i.) To dispute angrily, or violently; to wrangle; to scold; to altercate; to contend; to fight.
  • (v. i.) To find fault; to cavil; as, to quarrel with one's lot.
  • (v. t.) To quarrel with.
  • (v. t.) To compel by a quarrel; as, to quarrel a man out of his estate or rights.
  • (n.) One who quarrels or wrangles; one who is quarrelsome.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Belfast, the old quarrels just look likely to drag on in their old familiar way.
  • (2) I have no quarrel with the overall thrust of Andrew Rawnsley's argument that the south-east is over-dominant in the UK economy and, as someone who has lived and worked both in Cardiff and Newcastle upon Tyne, I have sympathy with the claims of the north-east of England as well as Wales (" No wonder the coalition hasn't many friends in the north ", Comment).
  • (3) This quarrel split the black movement down the middle, and was compounded by Du Bois's ideas on leadership.
  • (4) The pair departed La Liga last summer, only to quarrel again at Chelsea and Manchester City.
  • (5) Berezovsky, a Kremlin insider in the days of Boris Yeltsin, left Russia in 2000 after a quarrel with Vladimir Putin and has been the subject of an extradition order by Russia .
  • (6) Premeditated murders are also rare in Finland (roughly 40 per year), but homicides sadly occur out of quarrels between socially marginalised drunken adult men.
  • (7) It's a quarrel between substance and form, if you like, a question of emphasis – does a country's nature owe most to its history, or to its land?
  • (8) It fell to Van Rompuy to deal with quarrelling national leaders over the EU's worst ever crisis – the euro, the sovereign debt and financial turmoil.
  • (9) But American conservatives for the most part have had no quarrel with vaccines – unless they are on a collision course with other deeply held beliefs, said John Evans, who teaches bioethics at the University of California at San Diego and is married to Schreiber.
  • (10) Although Arendt agreed with the final verdict of the trial, namely, that Eichmann should be condemned to death, she quarreled with the reasoning put forward at the trial and with the spectacle of the trial itself.
  • (11) While we are rooted here going la-la-la auld Ireland (because at this distance in time the words escape us) our neighbours are patching their quarrels, losing their origins and moving on, to modern, non-sectarian forms of stigma, expressed in modern songs: you are a scouser, a dirty scouser.
  • (12) The quarrels he had with most of his subordinates culminated as he was in command of the East Indies Squadron, applying sometimes exaggerated punishments.
  • (13) The few big publishers that now continue functioning at all under the deliberately destructive pressure of Amazon marketing strategies are increasingly controlled by that pressure.” The tech giant is not only trying to control the bookselling industry but also the publishing world, she writes: “Amazon uses the BS Machine to sell us sweetened fat to live on, so we begin to think that’s what literature is.” She assures her readers that her “only quarrel with Amazon is when it comes to how they market books and how they use their success in marketing to control not only bookselling, but book publication: what we write and what we read.” She stressed that she has no issue with other areas of the tech giant’s business, including self-publishing: “Amazon and I are not at war.
  • (14) A case of a 35-year-old male who died suddenly after a blow on the chest by his opponent during a quarrel.
  • (15) They never subsequently claimed exclusive credit, and never quarrelled.
  • (16) By the 1970's the quarrel shifted from affective questions to matters of effectiveness and efficiency.
  • (17) Establishment outrage reached spittingly aggressive proportions when Ali, pleading deferment on religious grounds, told reporters: “I ain’t got no quarrel with them Vietcong … no Vietcong ever called me ‘nigger’.” Within an hour, outraged, all US boxing bodies suspended his licence and stripped him of his title.
  • (18) I was brought up in a culture that shied away from argument because wherever there is quarrelling there will sooner or later be murder.
  • (19) But Quo Vadis laid bare an inhibition possibly implanted in his schooldays or by his quarrelling parents; he could not portray passionate feelings without looking foolish.
  • (20) One rhetorical feature of her book on Eichmann is that she is, time and again, breaking out into a quarrel with the man himself.

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