growl

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal.

   “Hardly anything is more intensely disagreeable to one walking along the street, than to hear near his path a low savage growl—the expression of a surly dog's opinion and purpose.”

2. isim A similar sound made by a human.
3. isim The rumbling sound made by a human's hungry stomach.

   “Riding down the main thoroughfare, the growl of his stomach taints the soothing jazz playing on the radio.”

4. isim An aggressive grumbling.

   “One of the shows we saw was Captain Beefheart at the Finsbury Park Astoria, now the Rainbow Theatre. It was one of my all-time favorite shows, the Captain an outrageous character who defied all bounds of middle-class taste with his Delta-blues growl and made-up language.”

5. isim A low-pitched rumbling sound produced with a wind instrument.

   “The growl effect comes from fitting a small straight mute—a cornet mute for trumpet and a trumpet mute for trombone—covering the instrument's bell with a rubber plunger, the kind used by plumbers, and moving it in and out to affect the tone.”

6. isim Death growl
7. fiil To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.

   “The dog growled at me as I walked past.”

8. fiil Of a wind instrument: to produce a low-pitched rumbling sound.

   “And he is bending in the wind, scooping pitch, growling. […] He plays his false fingers. Chokes the trumpet. He is naked. This is naked jazz. O-bop-she-bam. Never lying. Telling it like it is.”

9. fiil To send a user a message via the Growl software library.
10. fiil To express (something) by growling.

    “The old man growled his displeasure at the postman.”

11. fiil To play a wind instrument in a way that produces a low-pitched rumbling sound.

    “[…] John Gilmore would take up his tenor and growl a keening march, Danny Thompson stab and worry with a flute, Sun Ra leave his big conga and mount the temple of keyboards for a ritual parenthesis of chromatic zig-zags and electro-howls.”

12. fiil To perform death growl vocals.