Clack vs Rattling - What's the difference?
clack | rattling | Related terms |
an abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a clatter; in sound, midway between a click and a clunk
Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
chatter; prattle
* South
To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
* Thackeray
To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
(UK) To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.
Lively, quick (speech, pace).
(intensifier) good, fine.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}* (James Joyce)
rattle (a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another)
(nautical)
Clack is a related term of rattling.
As nouns the difference between clack and rattling
is that clack is an abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a clatter; in sound, midway between a click and a clunk while rattling is rattle (a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another).As verbs the difference between clack and rattling
is that clack is to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click while rattling is .As an adjective rattling is
lively, quick (speech, pace).clack
English
Noun
(en noun)- Whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack .
Derived terms
* clack box * clack dish * clack door * clack valveVerb
(en verb)- We heard Mr. Hodson's whip clacking on the shoulders of the poor little wretches.
- (Feltham)
rattling
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}
- I'd like nothing better this minute, said Mr Browne stoutly, than a rattling fine walk in the country or a fast drive with a good spanking goer between the shafts.