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Glee vs. Laugh

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Gleenoun

(uncountable) Joy; happiness great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.

Laughnoun

An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.

Gleenoun

(uncountable) Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.

Laughnoun

Something that provokes mirth or scorn.

Gleenoun

An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry.

Laughnoun

A fun person.

Gleeverb

To sing a glee (unaccompanied part song).

Laughverb

(intransitive) To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.

Gleenoun

Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.

Laughverb

To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.

Gleenoun

Joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; paricularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast.

Laughverb

To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.

Gleenoun

An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices. It is not necessarily gleesome.

Laughverb

(transitive) To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.

Gleenoun

great merriment

Laughverb

(transitive) To express by, or utter with, laughter.

Gleenoun

malicious satisfaction

Laughverb

To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.

‘Queen Hecuba laughed that her eyes ran o'er.’; ‘He laugheth that winneth.’;

Laughverb

Fig.: To be or appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.

‘Then laughs the childish year, with flowerets crowned.’; ‘In Folly's cup still laughs the bubble Joy.’; ‘No wit to flatter left of all his store,No fool to laugh at, which he valued more.’;

Laughverb

To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.

‘Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy?’; ‘I shall laugh myself to death.’;

Laughverb

To express by, or utter with, laughter; - with out.

‘From his deep chest laughs out a loud applause.’;

Laughnoun

An expression of mirth peculiar to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter. See Laugh, v. i.

‘And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.’; ‘That man is a bad man who has not within him the power of a hearty laugh.’;

Laughnoun

the sound of laughing

Laughnoun

a facial expression characteristic of a person laughing;

‘his face wrinkled in a silent laugh of derision’;

Laughnoun

a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter;

‘he told a very funny joke’; ‘he knows a million gags’; ‘thanks for the laugh’; ‘he laughed unpleasantly at hisown jest’; ‘even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point’;

Laughverb

produce laughter

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