Word Finder - shouts

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A loud burst of voice or voices; a violent and sudden outcry, especially that of a multitude expressing joy, triumph, exultation, anger, or animated courage.

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A round of drinks in a pub; the turn to pay the shot or scot; an act of paying for a round of drinks.

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A call-out for an emergency services team.

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A greeting, name-check or other mention, for example on a radio or TV programme.

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Next up the new single from Beyoncé, but first a shout to Barry Bloggins and his wife Belinda...

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• shout out

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To utter a sudden and loud cry, as in joy, triumph, exultation or anger, or to attract attention, to animate others, etc.

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To utter with a shout; to cry; to shout out

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They shouted his name to get his attention.

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To pay for food, drink or entertainment for others.

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He′s shouting us all to the opening night of the play.

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To post a text message (for example, email) in upper case, regarded as the electronic messaging equivalent of oral shouting.

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Please don't shout in the chat room.

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To treat with shouts or clamor.

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A light flat-bottomed boat used in duck-shooting.

Jade.s shouts turned to screams, and Kris motioned Rhyn out of the room.

Like a howling wolf his shouts break out, through the forest.

The minute his feet touched the ground of the immortal world, he heard shouts.

At the recent Likud conference, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was greeted by jeers and shouts from hundreds of his former ideological fellow-travelers.

Members of the elite federal government and military personnel darted between greencars and buildings, the buzz of radios and shouts adding to the compound's chaos.

The hussars crowded round and responded heartily with loud shouts.

The whites of Jade.s eyes were visible before they drew near enough to hear his muffled shouts.

He heard the shouts before they reached the helipad atop a cliff overlooking a valley.

The shouts of her pursuers prodded him, and he gave chase.

The execution was a military and not a national act, and at the last scene on the scaffold the triumphant shouts of the soldiery could not overwhelm the groans and sobs raised by the populace.

The Socialist deputy, Mr Mezbffy, who wished to move an interpellation on the question, was howled down by the Independents with shouts of " Away with him!

The jury quickly agreed on a verdict of not guilty, and the acquittal was greeted by the populace with shouts of triumph.

The presiding officers were at first the kings, but in historical times the ephors, and the voting was conducted by shouts; if the president was doubtful as to the majority of voices, a division was taken and the votes were counted.

He accepted,or appeared to accept, the cognomen of Nero conferred upon him by the shouts of the populace, whom his comparative youth and the effeminacy of his appearance reminded of their lost favourite.

In Italy a puppet representing Haman was set 'up on high amidst shouts of vengeance and blowing of trumpets.

Gotama's return became an ovation; musicians preceded and followed his chariot, while shouts of joy and triumph fell on his ear.

On this occasion a great crowd, especially of young people, thronged round the well with shouts of religious enthusiasm, while the servants of the well dashed buckets of water over their heads.

Their religion has been described as a kind of demonworship, consisting of rude dances and shouts raised to scare away the evil spirits, whom they confound with their ancestors.

Indeed, during the long audience to which we were admitted, it was almost impossible to converse, so loud were the shouts of the people in the Thuilleries Gardens, which were full, though it was then dark.

The jungle explodes into a fiery deathtrap with roars from automatic weapons interrupting the incoherent shouts from your men.

The crowds had grown hoarse by this time and were relieving their shouts of " Down with Mosley!

Big shouts to the dj's and mc's making this a Heavy night, shouts to Ed, Si and Kris wicked nite!

Page 3 1 [Kagome, still trapped at the tree, shouts out.] FX ground rumble... Kagome Inuyasha, run away!

Her moans grow in strength from low whimpers of joy to shouts of ecstasy.

Sir Robert Peel's party, catching at this hint, threw themselves into a frantic state of excitement, and when Cobden attempted to explain that he meant official, not personal responsibility, they drowned his voice with clamorous and insulting shouts.

The shouts of the ploughman (Tarchon) brought to the spot all the people of Etruria, whom the boy proceeded to instruct in the art of divination.

The window frame which prevented anyone from sitting on the outer sill was being forced out by two footmen, who were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of the gentlemen around.

It was calm, and at intervals the bugle calls and the shouts of the enemy could be heard from the hill.

Bagration rode up to the ranks along which shots crackled now here and now there, drowning the sound of voices and the shouts of command.

Despite his desperate shouts that used to seem so terrible to the soldiers, despite his furious purple countenance distorted out of all likeness to his former self, and the flourishing of his saber, the soldiers all continued to run, talking, firing into the air, and disobeying orders.

He was met in the avenue by coachmen and footmen, who, with loud shouts, dragged his sleighs up to one of the lodges over the road purposely laden with snow.

At the moment he opened his eyes he heard in front of him, where the enemy was, the long-drawn shouts of thousands of voices.

His horse and the horse of the hussar near him pricked their ears at these shouts.

Rostov, still looking round toward the fires and the shouts, rode with the sergeant to meet some mounted men who were riding along the line.

From that sleigh one could hear the shouts, laughter, and voices of the mummers.

All these things were repeatedly interrupted by the enthusiastic shouts of the audience.

On the Arbat Square the troyka caught against a carriage; something cracked, shouts were heard, and the troyka flew along the Arbat Street.

Prince Andrew, listening to this polyglot talk and to these surmises, plans, refutations, and shouts, felt nothing but amazement at what they were saying.

The success of a military action depends not on them, but on the man in the ranks who shouts, 'We are lost!' or who shouts, 'Hurrah!'

Rostov and Ilyin, on entering the room, were welcomed with merry shouts and laughter.

Even at ten o'clock, when the Rostovs got out of their carriage at the chapel, the sultry air, the shouts of hawkers, the light and gay summer clothes of the crowd, the dusty leaves of the trees on the boulevard, the sounds of the band and the white trousers of a battalion marching to parade, the rattling of wheels on the cobblestones, and the brilliant, hot sunshine were all full of that summer languor, that content and discontent with the present, which is most strongly felt on a bright, hot day in town.

In the midst of his explanation shouts were heard from the army, growing more incoherent and more diffused, mingling with music and songs and coming from the field where the review was held.

Sounds of hoofs and shouts were nearing the village.

After this from amid the ranks of infantry to the right of the battery came the sound of a drum and shouts of command, and from the battery one saw how those ranks of infantry moved forward.

Sometimes shouts were heard through the firing, but it was impossible to tell what was being done there.

Ah, they don't see it! came identical shouts from the ranks all along the regiment.

In the streets, around carts that were to take some of the wounded away, shouts, curses, and blows could be heard.

Faster and faster, vying with one another, they moved at the double or at a trot, vanishing amid the clouds of dust they raised and making the air ring with a deafening roar of mingling shouts.

The gates and shops were all closed, only here and there round the taverns solitary shouts or drunken songs could be heard.

From an unfinished house on the Varvarka, the ground floor of which was a dramshop, came drunken shouts and songs.