LAUGH
\lˈaf], \lˈaf], \l_ˈa_f]\
Definitions of LAUGH
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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produce laughter
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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"
By Princeton University
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Fig.: To be or appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
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To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
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An expression of mirth peculiar to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter. See Laugh, v. i.
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To express by, or utter with, laughter; - with out.
By Oddity Software
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Fig.: To be or appear gay, cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
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To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
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An expression of mirth peculiar to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter. See Laugh, v. i.
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To express by, or utter with, laughter; - with out.
By Noah Webster.
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A convulsive sound caused by merriment; an expression, made only by man, of mirth, ridicule, etc.
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To express merriment, etc.; by such a sound; appear gay, pleasant, etc., jeer; with at.
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To express with laughter.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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An expression of sudden mirth peculiar to the human species. To laugh at, to ridicule. To laugh to scorn, to deride; to treat with mockery.
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To ridicule or deride.
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To make the noise and exhibit the features which sudden mirth creates; to be gay, cheerful, or lively.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The expression of sudden mirth peculiar to man.
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To exhibit the appearance of the features, and utter the sounds, caused by mirth; to ridicule or deride.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Robley Dunglison
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The characteristic sound produced in laughing.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] To give expression to pleasure, mirth, or sense of the ludicrous by a twinkling of the eyes, contortion of the features, convulsive catching of the breath, and heaving or shaking of the sides;— to smile or grin;— to chuckle; to titter;— to he merry or gay;— to seem favourable, pleasant, or fertile;— to shout for joy;— v.t. To ridicule or deride;— to scorn;— imp. & pp. laughed; ppr. laughing.
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n. An expression of mirth peculiar to the human species; laughter.
