What's the difference between yell and yelp?

Yell


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To cry out, or shriek, with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror.
  • (v. t.) To utter or declare with a yell; to proclaim in a loud tone.
  • (n.) A sharp, loud, hideous outcry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Independent noted that one of the female protagonists yelled "You c***!"
  • (2) I started yelling at him to come back,” Brittany Nicely, of Dayton, told the Cincinnati Enquirer.
  • (3) Residents had called police after spotting a man wandering around the park and yelling incoherently.
  • (4) Five minutes from time a fat red shirt stalked past making the tosser sign and, for emphasis, yelling: "Fucking wankers!"
  • (5) 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.
  • (6) On the whole though, there is not much yelling but much tapping of keyboards.
  • (7) While Terry said that he did not see anyone else while confined at Homan in 2011, he said he heard people yelling “no, no, no” and “stop”.
  • (8) He lay on his back with his shoulders on the grass, his colleagues standing around, too nonplussed to yell their praises.
  • (9) When David Tennant was waxing eloquent in that legal drama The Escape Artist, no one yelled out from the jury that his watch looked bloody expensive.
  • (10) Bob Wigley, the Yell chairman and former Merrill Lynch senior executive, has emerged as a possible contender for the role of ITV chairman.
  • (11) "Yell remains our least preferred stock in the sector and has to be seen as a high-risk, speculative investment," said analysts at Numis.
  • (12) He said he was stopped by a Hi Tech security guard who yelled at him that they were trespassing and demanded his driver’s licence.
  • (13) Members of the House of Representatives voted to remove all flags at the federal Capitol, after a heated procedural debate led by Republicans that led to yelling and the display of the Confederate flag – on the House floor.
  • (14) During the manifestation, I heard an elder woman yell “Why are they murdering them?
  • (15) Donald Trump has reportedly yelled down the telephone at Australia’s prime minister and veered off into rants about China and Nato with French leader François Hollande.
  • (16) "Sometimes people do things to one another that don't make them feel good," Harris explains to a group of primary school-age children before prompting them, as an exercise, to yell "Go away!"
  • (17) Africans yelled at the police, "Cowards" and "Kill the white men."
  • (18) Two elderly men yell angrily from the window of a car with posters of the president-elect, Abd el-Fatah al-Sisi, plastered all over it.
  • (19) "What the hell," the old man yelled over the motor.
  • (20) One teacher, who was hiding in a closet in the math lab, heard Thorne yell, "Put the gun down!"

Yelp


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To boast.
  • (v. i.) To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup.
  • (n.) A sharp, quick cry; a bark.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Apple’s also added info cards that seem to accumulate information from Yelp to show reviews.
  • (2) Just in the last month, I have downloaded apps for Eventbrite, Doodle, Yelp, Google Drive, Gmail, Ocado, Buzzfeed and Kickstarter, all companies with perfectly good websites.
  • (3) Broad looks to use his front pad outside off, sparking two yelped appeals and two shakes of the head from umpire Davis.
  • (4) The new format for the early audition shows (berks yelping in front of a massive screaming audience) left me wondering how the production team could possibly differentiate those instalments from the established format of the live episodes (berks yelping in front of a massive screaming audience).
  • (5) They’re like hungover teenagers, talking over each other and yelping.
  • (6) "Trying to stifle a cheer mid-yelp has sent stabbing pains across my stomach and I'm pretty sure has caused some internal bleeding.
  • (7) The band recall Can's ga-ga go-go music while the singer yelps like Alan Vega doused in even more echo.
  • (8) Watching the film has been emotional – it is Dad’s voice, soft and wise, with hints of his Australian homeland Dad used to jokingly tweak his children’s ears so that when we yelped he could work out who was who.
  • (9) When they're not 7ft-tall high-heeled dominatrix killers, women in games tend to be saucy background-dressing or yelping damsels in distress.
  • (10) In Oak Creek they cancelled the closing fireworks out of respect for the dead but not the cheerleaders so that groups of Sikhs made their way to the neighbouring park for the vigil to the sound of young women yelping as they waved their pom poms to dance music.
  • (11) Particularly arresting were the new uses Bush was making of her voice: tracks such as Pull Out the Pin and Suspended in Gaffa teemed with a panoply of exaggerated accents and jarring phrasings, as Bush applied thespian emphasis on particular words or syllables, and developed a whole new vocabulary of harsh shrieks and throat-scorched yelps.
  • (12) He conceived Ziggy Stardust as a musical before realising he had to sing it himself, and would later shed his estuary yelp in favour of a neo-operatic baritone; his Presley-like cover of Nina Simone’s Wild Is the Wind became a signature song.
  • (13) Yelp, the consumer review website, also said that quit Alec.
  • (14) Uncertain about how this all might play on the page, he then yelps: "You can fawn if you want to, though!
  • (15) A big serve saves the first break point and Lisicki then lets out a yelp after putting an awful backhand wide when she only had to be put it in back in play.
  • (16) This allowed my surf school to become the top-rated in Orange County on Yelp.
  • (17) Google, Yahoo, Facebook, eBay and Yelp all cut ties with the organization following criticism by environmental nonprofits for drafting model legislation that denies any human contribution to climate change.
  • (18) We are the Yelp and the WebMD of cannabis,” Wansolich said, while taking in the hubbub outside Cannabis City.
  • (19) If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world,” he said, to yelps of support.
  • (20) 11.36am BST 8th over: Sri Lanka 20-0 (Karunaratne 6, Silva 10) Broad yelps an optimistic, half-hearted appeal after thwocking Silva on the pad, but then goes up with far more confidence after beating the bat with a straighter one.