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SHOUTING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Uttering a loud inarticulate cry as of pain or excitement
Synonyms:
shouting; yelling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("shouting" is a kind of...):
call; cry; outcry; shout; vociferation; yell (a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition)
Derivation:
shout (utter a sudden loud cry)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators
Example:
it's all over but the shouting
Synonyms:
cheering; shouting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("shouting" is a kind of...):
encouragement (the expression of approval and support)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb shout
Context examples:
Clear a path for a bang-up noble Corinthian! whilst the landlord, attracted by the shouting, came running out to greet us.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Every one was moving, shouting, gesticulating.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And then they called out to him that she was on the roof, where she was standing, waving her arms, above the battlements, and shouting out till they could hear her a mile off: I saw her and heard her with my own eyes.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Hans and Pete moved along the bank, snubbing with a thin Manila rope from tree to tree, while Thornton remained in the boat, helping its descent by means of a pole, and shouting directions to the shore.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
That he was well known in the neighbourhood, and enjoyed the reputation of having sold himself to the devil, I soon understood from the visits he received from the boys, who continually came skirmishing about the shop, shouting that legend, and calling to him to bring out his gold.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Cast away at the very bottom of the table was the Professor, shouting answers to the questions of a very inquisitive, deaf old gentleman on one side, and talking philosophy with a Frenchman on the other.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
“On, camarades, on!” he cried; and, breaking fiercely past two men who threw themselves in his way, he sped down the broad corridor in the direction of the shouting.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He sat opposite Bernard Higginbotham at a heavy Sunday dinner over Higginbotham's Cash Store, and it was all he could do to restrain himself from shouting out:-
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
His cry was a signal, for, like a thunderclap, there came a hundred hoarse voices shouting together: “Fair play for Gloucester! Break the ring! Break the ring!”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The party spread itself abroad, in a fan shape, shouting and leaping to and fro.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
