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Rambling vs Baffle - What's the difference?

rambling | baffle |

As verbs the difference between rambling and baffle

is that rambling is while baffle is (obsolete) to publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.

As nouns the difference between rambling and baffle

is that rambling is a long meandering talk with no specific topic or direction while baffle is a device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid specifically, a baffle is a surface which is placed inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one part to another, without preventing motion altogether.

rambling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long meandering talk with no specific topic or direction.
  • * 1941 , Harold Sinclair, Years of Illusion (page 145)
    • listening with great interest to Martha's ramblings about "The War."
  • A gentle hike.

    • Derived terms

    * rambling rose

    Anagrams

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    baffle

    English

    Verb

    (baffl)
  • (obsolete) To publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.7:
    • He by the heeles him hung upon a tree, / And baffuld so, that all which passed by / The picture of his punishment might see […].
  • (obsolete) To hoodwink or deceive (someone).
    • (Barrow)
  • To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex.
    • I am baffled by the contradictions and omissions in the instructions.
  • * Prescott
    • calculations so difficult as to have baffled , until within a recent period, the most enlightened nations
  • * John Locke
    • The mere intricacy of a question should not baffle us.
  • * Cowper
    • the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim
  • * South
    • a suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all
  • To struggle in vain.
    • A ship baffles with the winds.

    Synonyms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A device used to dampen the effects of such things as sound, light, or fluid. Specifically, a baffle is a surface which is placed inside an open area to inhibit direct motion from one part to another, without preventing motion altogether.
    • Tanker trucks use baffles to keep the liquids inside from sloshing around.
  • An architectural feature designed to confuse enemies or make them vulnerable.