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Clatter vs Clump - What's the difference?

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Clatter is a synonym of clump.


In lang=en terms the difference between clatter and clump

is that clatter is to chatter noisily or rapidly while clump is to walk with heavy footfalls.

As nouns the difference between clatter and clump

is that clatter is a rattling noise while clump is a cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.

As verbs the difference between clatter and clump

is that clatter is to cause to make a rattling sound while clump is to form clusters or lumps.

clatter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A rattling noise.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , title= The Dust of Conflict , chapter=7 citation , passage=The patter of feet, and clatter of strap and swivel, seemed to swell into a bewildering din, but they were almost upon the fielato offices, where the carretera entered the town, before a rifle flashed.}}
  • A loud disturbance.
  • Noisy talk or chatter.

    • Synonyms

    * commotion * racket

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause to make a rattling sound.
  • * (Jonathan Swift)
    • You clatter still your brazen kettle.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=21 November , author=Michael Cragg , title=New music: Foxes - Home , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Do we really need another doe-eyed female singer-songwriter with a penchant for electro-pop? Twenty-two-year-old Louisa Rose Allen, aka Foxes, certainly thinks so. Available as a free download via Neon Gold, her debut single Youth is a monster mix of keening vocals, slow-burn electronics and, by the song's end, big clattering drums. }}
  • * 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
    • When he came to Nottingham, he entered that part of the market where butchers stood, and took up his inn(2) in the best place he could find. Next, he opened his stall and spread his meat upon the bench, then, taking his cleaver and steel and clattering them together, he trolled aloud in merry tones:...
  • To make a rattling noise.
  • To chatter noisily or rapidly.
  • * Spenser
    • I see thou dost but clatter .
  • (Northern English) To hit; to smack.
  • * 1988 , , Friday Night Live
    • "I can't watch it because I have to go outside and clatter someone in the nuts!”
  • * 2010 , Gerald Hansen, Hand in the Till
    • “An Orange bitch clattered seven shades of shite out of her,” Padraig eagerly piped up.

    Derived terms

    * clatterer * clatteringly * clattery

    clump

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
  • A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
  • * Hawthorne
    • a clump of shrubby trees
  • A dull thud.
  • The compressed clay of coal strata.

    • Derived terms

    * clumpy

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form clusters or lumps
  • To gather into thick groups
  • To walk with heavy footfalls.

    • Derived terms

    * clump up

    References

    English onomatopoeias