What's the difference between reverb and revery?

Reverb


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To echo.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An assumption has been made that the major effect of trifluoperazine and haloperidol consists in an increase in the reverberative activity of the brain.
  • (2) The interaction of several membrane oscillators without the participation of the pacemaker autogenerator may lead to the authorhythmic reverberative (extracellular) activity.
  • (3) A jangly, reverb-laden old piano and Peter Buck's 12-string guitar made this music sound ancient, somehow; Mike Mills' sad, descending bassline in the chorus only deepened its melancholy.
  • (4) Several experimental studies were done to explain the reverbating echoes.
  • (5) I put the recorder inside and hit it: a kind of springy reverb sound.
  • (6) Costanzo watches once to rehearse, positions his two microphones to approximate the distance and reverb needed, and then does it for real, eyes locked on the screen.
  • (7) The words are hard to make out in the reverb-drenched murk.
  • (8) There's a sensuality to the vocal which is the result of me finally having the mic to myself and simply revelling in the experience – all that lovely reverb, all that lovely low vibrato; God, I was enjoying myself!
  • (9) In the hands of Laibach, it becomes epic: a magnificent, reverb-drenched alternative carol.
  • (10) Electric guitar with the reverb amped up, pounding drums, a moody rolling synth line, and fake trumpets interspersed throughout – could anything be more papal?
  • (11) Sometimes it is possible to reveal correlation between the duration of dominating interdischarge intervals and the extremes in the recovery of excitability of neuronal pools, which indirectly indicates putative reverberative origin of impulse cyclic phenomenon.
  • (12) He was a big fan of the Eventide Harmonizer , an effects-processor used to add delays and reverb.
  • (13) The photos come from a program called Altiverb, developed by people who record sounds in different spaces and then calculate the reverb acting on those sounds.
  • (14) This summer, as part of Imogen Heap 's Reverb festival at the Roundhouse, Ryan will attempt to represent the synaesthetic experience with the London Contemporary Orchestra and visual artists Quayola & Sinigaglia, with the duo's images reacting live to Ryan's soundtrack.
  • (15) C. the focus acts also on the thalamo-cortical reverbation circle and gradually "teaches" it epileptic discharges which sometimes can be followed on the EEG, although this stage is still in the latent period, i.e.
  • (16) The reverb pattern – what happens to noise as it moves through space to our ears – is known as the delta.
  • (17) Cults are not typical top 20 fare – the duo are best known for Go Outside , a lo-fi, reverb-heavy song released last year.
  • (18) Or rather freemium: the app is a free download, but some of its effects – Hi-Lo, Echo, Roll, Loop, BeatSkip and Reverb – are sold as in-app purchases for £1.49 each, or £6.99 for all six.

Revery


Definition:

  • (n.) A loose or irregular train of thought occurring in musing or mediation; deep musing; daydream.
  • (n.) An extravagant conceit of the fancy; a vision.
  • (n.) Same as Reverie.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maybe he’s my dark triad bad-boy reverie, if my triad includes “opposing political views” as one unsavory but compelling trait.
  • (2) After Theresa May stunned the country out of its Easter reverie with her announcement on Tuesday , many wondered just how this famously cautious politician had chosen such a dramatic course.
  • (3) The narrator interrupts her reverie to provide a calculation of how long a 6ft falling body would take to cross a window space 8ft tall.
  • (4) It was a good one to get.” It got much worse for Arsenal as they started the second half as if in a distant reverie.
  • (5) Findings reveal that for this age group, health is an abiding vitality emanating through moments of rhapsodic reverie in generating fulfillment.
  • (6) Nitrous oxide produced a variety of subjective effects, including some that are characteristic of psychedelic drugs, such as happy, euphoric mood changes, changes in body awareness and image, alterations of time perception, and experiences of a dreamy, detached reverie state.
  • (7) It will send everyone of a certain age who might otherwise have engaged their brains on a reverie for times past, when life was simpler, sustainability nutters played nicely with Tories and 35-year-olds acted their age, not their (UK) shoe size?
  • (8) Photograph: Michael Gibson "So, anyway," Farrell whispers, breaking my reverie, "things have changed.
  • (9) But then you’re rudely awaken out of your kitsch reverie by remembering quite what will be left, and at what cost it all came.
  • (10) Sounded pretty good to me, but Abts's introspective, complex little paintings have a strange and mesmerising sense of absorption and contemplative reverie.
  • (11) But in CSKA's case, maybe it should be 'You are are at your most vulnerabe just after you score, and then again just after you concede'," reckons Sam Abrahams, whose name I misread as Sam Adams, sending me into a brief but powerful reverie about beer.
  • (12) Reverie, dreams, visions, the dark woods of somnolent confusion – all these are beautifully evoked in Dante's tour from hell to heaven, The Divine Comedy .
  • (13) As Sebald unfolds the story of Rousseau's tribulations ("a dozen years filled with fear and panic"), the essay seems, in its placeless antiquity, like one of Rousseau's own Reveries of a Solitary Walker , and suddenly it's not Rousseau's obsessive inability to stop thinking that is the theme, but Sebald's own obsessive inability ("the thoughts constantly brewing in his head like storm clouds").
  • (14) Ostensibly a straightforward account of Rousseau's exiled wanderings, it begins with his first glimpse, in 1965, of the Ile Saint Pierre in Switzerland, where Rousseau spent the first period of his stateless exile, and where he claimed – in his Reveries of a Solitary Walker – that he was happier than he had been anywhere else.
  • (15) In Heart, he reveals that in the suspended animation of heart transplant surgery – the closest to death one can come – his reverie consisted not of any moral reckoning or even meditation on the life he'd lived, but a dream about living "in Italy, north of Rome, about 40 or 50 miles north of Rome, a nice little village, drinking good Italian wine and eating good Italian food.
  • (16) The reverie, an apparently random series of events occurring in the analyst's consciousness when his attention is evenly suspended, is examined through the expansion of one of its elements, a single word-association.
  • (17) Crime dramas,” she says, with a nonchalant shrug, “are just what people want.” She says how much she loved Juliet Bravo and we both disappear into a feminist nostalgia reverie.
  • (18) He needs little prompting to go off into a reverie about having the biggest actors, politicians and celebrities of the age opposite him on successive nights, regularly making headlines.
  • (19) In Mr Palomar, by Italo Calvino, the writer's alter ego stands in line in Parisian food shops gazing at cheese and jars of goose fat, writing in his notebook while drifting so far into reverie that the serving staff have to rouse him when it is his turn: "Monsieur!
  • (20) Contrasting with Malick's new agey, Romantic reverie was the old age study of the holy word contained in Joseph Cedar's Talmud tragicomedy Footnote , probably my favourite film of the festival.

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