Bob vs. Sob — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bob and Sob
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Bob
To move up and down
A cork bobbing on the water.
Sob
A son of a bitch.
Bob
To grab at floating or hanging objects with the teeth
Bobbed for apples.
Sob
The act or sound of sobbing.
Bob
To fish with a bobber.
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Sob
To weep aloud with convulsive gasping; cry uncontrollably.
Bob
To curtsy or bow.
Sob
To make a sound resembling that of loud weeping.
Bob
To cause to move up and down
Bobbed my head in response to the question.
Sob
To utter with sobs.
Bob
To cut short or reshape
Bobbed her hair.
Had his nose bobbed.
Sob
To put or bring (oneself) into a specified condition by sobbing
Sob oneself to sleep.
Bob
A quick, jerky movement of the head or body.
Sob
A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath.
Bob
A bobber used in fishing.
Sob
(onomatopoeia) sound of sob
Bob
A small, knoblike pendent object, such as a plumb bob.
Sob
(intransitive) To weep with convulsive gasps.
Bob
A small lock or curl of hair.
Sob
(transitive) To say (something) while sobbing.
"He doesn't love me!" she sobbed.
Bob
A haircut that hangs evenly above the shoulders, often around the chin, worn especially by women or children.
Sob
To soak.
Bob
(Informal) Surgical shortening or reshaping of the nose.
Sob
To soak.
Bob
The docked tail of a horse.
Sob
To sigh with a sudden heaving of the breast, or with a kind of convulsive motion; to sigh with tears, and with a convulsive drawing in of the breath.
Sobbing is the same thing [as sighing], stronger.
She sighed, she sobbed, and, furious with despair.She rent her garments, and she tore her hair.
Bob
A bobsled.
Sob
The act of sobbing; a convulsive sigh, or inspiration of the breath, as in sorrow.
Break, heart, or choke with sobs my hated breath.
Bob
A bob skate.
Sob
Any sorrowful cry or sound.
The tremulous sob of the complaining owl.
Bob
A shilling.
Sob
A dyspneic condition
Bob
(intransitive) To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium.
The cork bobbed gently in the calm water.
The ball, which we had thought lost, suddenly bobbed up out of the water.
The flowers were bobbing in the wind.
Sob
Insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
Bob
(transitive) To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water.
I bobbed my head underwater and saw the goldfish.
Bob one's head (= to nod)
Sob
Convulsive gasp made while weeping
Bob
To curtsy.
Sob
Weep convulsively;
He was sobbing inconsolably
Bob
To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
Bob
(intransitive) blob
Bob
(transitive) To cut (hair) into a bob haircut.
I got my hair bobbed. How do you like it?
Bob
(transitive) To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop.
Bob
To bobsleigh.
Bob
A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement.
A bob of the head
Bob
A curtsy.
Bob
A bobber buoyant fishing device.
Bob
Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
Bob
A bob haircut.
Bob
Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it.
Bob
The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line.
Bob
The docked tail of a horse.
Bob
A short line ending a stanza of a poem.
Bob
The short runner of a sled.
Bob
A bobsleigh.
Bob
A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
Bob
A working beam in a steam engine.
Bob
A particular style of ringing changes on bells.
Bob
A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
Bob
(obsolete) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
Bob
(obsolete) The refrain of a song.
Bob
(obsolete) A jeer; a sharp jest or taunt.
Bob
A shilling.
Bob
A 10-cent coin.
Bob
(slang) An unspecified amount of money.
I could have saved myself a few bob buying it somewhere else.
Bob
A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
Bob
Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's tail.
In jewels dressed and at each ear a bob.
Bob
A knot of worms, or of rags, on a string, used in angling, as for eels; formerly, a worm suitable for bait.
Or yellow bobs, turned up before the plow,Are chiefest baits, with cork and lead enow.
Bob
A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.
Bob
The ball or heavy part of a pendulum; also, the ball or weight at the end of a plumb line.
Bob
A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.
Bob
A short, jerking motion; act of bobbing; as, a bob of the head.
Bob
A working beam.
Bob
A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig.
A plain brown bob he wore.
Bob
A peculiar mode of ringing changes on bells.
Bob
The refrain of a song.
To bed, to bed, will be the bob of the song.
Bob
A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist.
Bob
A jeer or flout; a sharp jest or taunt; a trick.
He that a fool doth very wisely hit,Doth very foolishly, although he smart,Not to seem senseless of the bob.
Bob
A shilling.
Bob
To cause to move in a short, jerking manner; to move (a thing) with a bob.
Bob
To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap.
If any man happened by long sitting to sleep . . . he was suddenly bobbed on the face by the servants.
Bob
To cheat; to gain by fraud or cheating; to filch.
Gold and jewels that I bobbed from him.
Bob
To mock or delude; to cheat.
To play her pranks, and bob the fool,The shrewish wife began.
Bob
To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail.
Bob
To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.
Bob
A former monetary unit in Great Britain
Bob
A hair style for women and children; a short haircut all around
Bob
A long racing sled (for 2 or more people) with a steering mechanism
Bob
A hanging weight, especially a metal ball on a string
Bob
A small float usually made of cork; attached to a fishing line
Bob
A short or shortened tail of certain animals
Bob
A short abrupt inclination (as of the head);
He gave me a short bob of acknowledgement
Bob
Move up and down repeatedly;
Her rucksack bobbed gently on her back
Bob
Ride a bobsled;
The boys bobbed down the hill screaming with pleasure
Bob
Remove or shorten the tail of an animal
Bob
Make a curtsy; usually done only by girls and women; as a sign of respect;
She curtsied when she shook the Queen's hand
Bob
Cut hair in the style of a bob;
Bernice bobs her hair these days!
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