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“Mood” or “Mooed”

mood / mooed are similar-sounding terms with different meanings (referred to as homophones). To better understand the differences, see below for definitions, pronunciation guides, and example sentences using each term.

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Definitions

What each term means

Same sound, different spellings and meanings, shown with a pronunciation guide for each term.

mood m·UW·d

  • nounverb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker.

mooed

  • verbmake a low noise, characteristic of bovines.
Usage

Examples in context

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“mood”

  • However, the mood at the convention was one…
  • …disorientation, anger, or impairment in mood.
  • …police closed on us, their mood was threatening and violent.
  • …lent a dramatic and brooding mood to all of her images”.
  • …pairings based on instinct, the mood of the meal or simply…
  • …emphazised the Laicist and anti-clericalist mood of French Radical Republicans in…
  • Mood Changes, 2009
  • …others have embraced Lovecraft's characteristic mood and themes.
  • …the actors' internal cognition and mood states, were able to infer…
  • …Symphony will differ from the mood and emotional tone of the…

“mooed”

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