Boom vs Rattle - What's the difference?
boom | rattle |
To make a loud, resonant sound.
(transitive, figuratively, of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.
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To make something boom.
(slang, US, obsolete) To publicly praise.
* (rfdate), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Problem of Thor Bridge
To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
* Totten
A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
One of the calls of certain monkeys or birds.
* 1990 , Mark A. Berkley, William C. Stebbins, Comparative Perception
(nautical) A spar extending the foot of a sail; a spar rigged outboard from a ship's side to which boats are secured in harbour.
A movable pole used to support a microphone or camera.
A horizontal member of a crane or derrick, used for lifting.
(electronics) The longest element of a Yagi antenna, on which the other, smaller ones, are transversally mounted.
A floating barrier used to obstruct navigation, for military or other purposes; or used for the containment of an oil spill.
A wishbone shaped piece of windsurfing equipment.
The arm of a crane (mechanical lifting machine).
The section of the arm on a backhoe closest to the tractor.
To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.
To be prosperous.
(dated) To cause to advance rapidly in price.
(onomatopoeia) a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another.
* Prior
A baby's toy designed to make sound when shaken, usually containing loose grains or pellets in a hollow container.
* Alexander Pope
A device that makes a rattling sound such as put on an animal so its location can be heard.
A musical instrument that makes a rattling sound.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
(dated) Noisy, rapid talk.
* Hakewill
(dated) A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
* Macaulay
A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
(zoology) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; death rattle.
(ergative) To create a rattling sound by shaking or striking.
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(informal) To scare, startle, unsettle, or unnerve.
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To make a rattling noise; to make noise by or from shaking.
(obsolete) To assail, annoy, or stun with a ratting noise.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To scold; to rail at.
To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering.
To make a clatter with a voice; to talk rapidly and idly; with on'' or ''away .
As nouns the difference between boom and rattle
is that boom is while rattle is (onomatopoeia) a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another.As a verb rattle is
(ergative) to create a rattling sound by shaking or striking.boom
English
(wikipedia boom)Etymology 1
Onomatopoetic, perhaps borrowed; compare German (m), Dutch (m).Verb
(en verb)- Thunder boomed in the distance and lightning flashes lit up the horizon.
- The cannon boomed , recoiled, and spewed a heavy smoke cloud.
- Beneath the cliff, the sea was booming on the rocks.
- I can hear the organ slowly booming from the chapel.
- Men in grey robes slowly booming the drums of death.
- If you pull this off every paper in England and America will be booming you.
- She comes booming down before it.
Derived terms
* boom box * sonic boomNoun
(en noun)- ''The boom of the surf.
- Interestingly, the blue monkey's boom and pyow calls are both long-distance signals (Brown, 1989), yet the two calls differ in respect to their susceptibility to habitat-induced degradation.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Compare English (m).Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- to boom''' out a sail; to '''boom off a boat
Etymology 3
Or uncertain origin; perhaps a development of Etymology 1, above.Antonyms
* (period of prosperity) recessionVerb
(en verb)- ''Business was booming .
- to boom railroad or mining shares
Synonyms
* (to be prosperous) flourish, prosperDerived terms
* sis boom bah * boom town/boomtownAnagrams
* ----rattle
English
Noun
(en noun)- I wish they would fix the rattle under my dashboard.
- The rattle of a drum.
- Pleased with a rattle , tickled with a straw.
- The rattles of Isis and the cymbals of Brasilea nearly enough resemble each other.
- All this ado about the golden age is but an empty rattle and frivolous conceit.
- It may seem strange that a man who wrote with so much perspicuity, vivacity, and grace, should have been, whenever he took a part in conversation, an empty, noisy, blundering rattle .
- (Heylin)
- The rattle of the rattlesnake is composed of the hardened terminal scales, loosened in succession, but not cast off, and modified in form so as to make a series of loose, hollow joints.
Derived terms
* rattlesnake * spring a rattle * yellow rattle (plant)Verb
(rattl)- to rattle a chain
- Rattle the can of cat treats if you need to find Fluffy.
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- "Tut!" said old Bittlesham. "Tut is right," I agreed. Then the rumminess of the thing struck me. "But if you haven't dropped a parcel over the race," I said, "why are you looking so rattled ?"
Manchester United humbled by MK Dons after Will Grigg hits double", The Guardian , 26 August 2014:
- That United were rattled , mentally as well as at times physically – legitimately so – was beyond question. Nick Powell clipped a crisp drive a foot over the bar, but otherwise Milton Keynes had the best of the remainder of the first half.
- ''I wish the dashboard in my car would quit rattling .
- Sound but another [drum], and another shall / As loud as thine rattle the welkin's ear.
- We rattled along for a couple of miles.
- She rattled on for an hour.
