Cattle vs Rattle - What's the difference?
cattle | rattle |
Domesticated bovine animals (cows, bulls, steers etc).
Certain other livestock, such as sheep, pigs or horses.
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(pejorative, figuratively) People who resemble domesticated bovine animals in behavior or destiny.
* {{quote-book, 1961, Gerald Hanley, The Journey Homeward, page=155
, passage="I always knew it, but I always denied it, because I'm one of them, and I'm like them." ¶"We're just cattle ," the Prison Governor said, relieved now.}}
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* {{quote-book, 1552, Parliament of England, An Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer, and Service in the Church, and Administration of the Sacraments
, passage=That then every person so offending and convict, shall for his third offence, forfeit to our Sovereign Lady the Queen, all his goods and cattles , and shall suffer imprisonment during his life.}}
* {{quote-book, 1684, , Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in New England, year_published=1856
, passage=1684 July. Mistris Dorothy Gray, Adminnestratrix of the Goods and Cattles of Mr Edward Gray, late of Plymouth, deceased,
(uncountable, rare)
* , The Squatting Age in Australia, 1835–1847 , Melbourne University Press (1964), page 315:
* Barry Hannah, “Eating Wife and Friends”, in Airships , Grove Press (1994), ISBN 978-0-8021-3388-5,
* 1996 April 3, Emmett Jordan, "
* 2005 June 25, "Serge" (username), "
(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.
* {{quote-news
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, title=Tottenham 2 - 1 Bolton
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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 cattle and rattle
is that cattle is domesticated bovine animals (cows, bulls, steers etc) 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.cattle
English
(wikipedia cattle)Noun
(usually used as plural)- Do you want to raise cattle ?
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- goods and cattle
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- The temptation of a lone white man was too great for any gathering of myall -natives, and sheep-fat and cattle -steak seemed there for the spearing, so that a stockman always ran the risk of attack, especially if his shepherds interfered with the native women.
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- “But you cooked a human being and ate him,” say I.
- “I couldn’t help it,” says she. “I remember the cattle steaks of the old days, the juicy pork, the dripping joints of lamb, the venison.”
Re: AR activist arrested for spreading 'Mad Cow' disease in US", in rec.food.veg, Usenet :
- Believe it or not Big Mac is one of the ultra radicals who provide fast food cattle burgers to interstate vehicles who drive all over the place providing scraps for rats, cats, flies, etc, so that the Mad Cow Disease might spread even faster than it would otherwise do.
Re: WOW!!!! WHALE BURGERS...... McDonalds Don't You Get Any Ideas", in aus.politics and other newsgroups, Usenet :
- If a particular whale species isn't endangered, then there's not a blind bit of difference between butchering them or cattle.
- Whale burgers. Cattle burgers......no difference!
Usage notes
There is no singular form for "cattle", and the words for the particular types of cattle are used: "bull", "calf" etc. * There are five cows''' and a '''calf''' in that herd of '''cattle . Where the type is unknown, "cow" is often used (although properly a cow is only an adult female). * Is that a cow in the road? When used as an uncountable noun, the phrase "head of cattle" is used for countable quantities of cattle. * He sold 50 head of cattle last year. However, "cattle" is often used as an ordinary plural rather than as as an uncountable noun. * I have fifteen cattle . In some circumstances the uncountable form is not used. * How many cattle'''?'' (not ''how much '''cattle ? ).Quotations
* (English Citations of "cattle")Synonyms
* (domesticated bovine animals) , Bos (scientific) * (people who resemble domesticated bovine animals in behavior or destiny) sheeple (pejorative)Derived terms
* all hat and no cattle * Australian Cattle Dog * cattlebeast * cattle call * cattle car * cattle catcher * cattle grid * cattle guard * cattleman * cattle prod * cattle-rearing * cattle truck * cattlewoman * Texas cattle feverSee also
(Other entries associated with cattle) * Angus * bull * Bos taurus * bovine * calf * cow * herd * ox * steerAnagrams
* English pluralia tantumrattle
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.
