Clash vs Rattle - What's the difference?
clash | rattle | Synonyms |
(onomatopoeia) A loud sound.
(military) A skirmish, a hostile encounter.
(sports) a match; a game between two sides.
* 2011 , Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15210221.stm]
An angry argument
Opposition; contradiction; such as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes etc.
A combination of garments that do not look good together, especially because of conflicting colours.
(hurling) An instance of restarting the game after a "dead ball", where it is dropped between two opposing players, who can fight for possession.
to make a loud clash
to come into violent conflict
to argue angrily
(of clothes) to not look good together.
(of events) to coincide, to happen at the same time, thereby rendering it impossible to attend all.
(in games or sports) to face each other in an important game.
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(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 .
In onomatopoeia terms the difference between clash and rattle
is that clash is a loud sound while rattle is a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another.In intransitive terms the difference between clash and rattle
is that clash is to argue angrily while rattle is to make a rattling noise; to make noise by or from shaking.clash
English
Noun
(es)- I heard a clash from the kitchen, and rushed in to find the cat had knocked over some pots and pans.
- But they ran out of time and inspiration as Les Bleus set up a deserved semi-final clash with Wales.
- a clash of beliefs
- a personality clash
- She was wearing a horrible clash of red and orange.
Verb
(es)- The plates clashed to the floor.
- Fans from opposing teams clashed on the streets after the game.
- My parents often clashed about minor things, such as the cleaning or shopping rota.
- You can't wear that shirt, as it clashes with your trousers.
- She looked so trashy, her lipstick and jewellery all clashed .
- I can't come to your wedding as it clashes with a friend's funeral.
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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.