roaring : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: roaring	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for roaring
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
roaring adv extremely; "roaring drunk" adj very lively and profitable; "flourishing businesses"; "a palmy time for stockbrokers"; "a prosperous new business"; "doing a roaring trade"; "a thriving tourist center"; "did a thriving business in orchids" Synonym(s): booming, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving n a deep prolonged loud noise [syn: boom, roar, roaring, thunder] a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal); "his bellow filled the hallway" Synonym(s): bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Roar \Roar\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Roared}; p. pr. & vvb. n. {Roaring}.] [OE. roren, raren, AS. r[be]rian; akin to G. r[94]hten, OHG. r[?]r[?]n. [root]112.] 1. To cry with a full, loud, continued sound. Specifically: (a) To bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or other beast. Roaring bulls he would him make to tame. --Spenser. (b) To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger. Sole on the barren sands, the suffering chief Roared out for anguish, and indulged his grief. --Dryden. He scorned to roar under the impressions of a finite anger. --South. 2. To make a loud, confused sound, as winds, waves, passing vehicles, a crowd of persons when shouting together, or the like. The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar. --Milton. How oft I crossed where carts and coaches roar. --Gay. 3. To be boisterous; to be disorderly. It was a mad, roaring time, full of extravagance. --Bp. Burnet. 4. To laugh out loudly and continuously; as, the hearers roared at his jokes. 5. To make a loud noise in breathing, as horses having a certain disease. See {Roaring}, 2. {Roaring boy}, a roaring, noisy fellow; -- name given, at the latter end Queen Elizabeth's reign, to the riotous fellows who raised disturbances in the street. [bd]Two roaring boys of Rome, that made all split.[b8] --Beau. & Fl. {Roaring forties} (Naut.), a sailor's name for the stormy tract of ocean between 40[deg] and 50[deg] north latitude.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Roaring \Roar"ing\, n. 1. A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast, or of a person in distress, anger, mirth, etc., or of a noisy congregation. 2. (Far.) An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion; the making of the noise so caused. See {Roar}, v. i., 5.