Club vs Racket - What's the difference?
club | racket |
A heavy stick intended for use as a weapon or plaything(w).
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, title= #An implement to hit the ball in some ballgames, e.g. golf.
An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club , or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
#(lb) The fees associated with belonging to such a club.
#*(rfdate) (Benjamin Franklin):
#*:He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.
A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
*(w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)
*:They laid down the club .
*(Samuel Pepys) (1633-1703)
*:We dined at a French house, but paid ten shillings for our part of the club .
An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
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A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
#A playing card marked with such a symbol.
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(lb) Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
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to hit with a club.
To join together to form a group.
* Dryden
(transitive) To combine into a club-shaped mass.
To go to nightclubs.
To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
* Jonathan Swift
To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
(nautical) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
(military) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
* {{quote-book
, year=1876
, author=Major-General G. E. Voyle and Captain G. De Saint-Clair-Stevenson, F.R.G.S.
, title=A Military Dictionary, Comprising Terms, Scientific and Otherwise, Connected with the Science of War, Third Edition
, publisher=London: William Clowes & Sons
, page=80
, passage=To club a battalion implies a temporary inability in the commanding officer to restore any given body of men to their natural front in line or column.
}}
To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
(military) To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.
(label) A racquet: an implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a birdie in badminton.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title=
, passage=Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house?; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something?; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.}}
(label) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.
To strike with, or as if with, a racket.
* Hewyt
A loud noise.
A fraud or swindle; an illegal scheme for profit.
(dated, slang) A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
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As nouns the difference between club and racket
is that club is club (association of members) while racket is (label) a racquet: an implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a birdie in badminton or racket can be a loud noise.As a verb racket is
to strike with, or as if with, a racket.club
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs ,
Synonyms
* (weapon) cudgel * (sports association) teamHyponyms
* *Derived terms
* benefit club * clubbing * clubfoot * clubhouse * club sandwich * golf club * nightclub * on the clubVerb
(clubb)- He clubbed the poor dog.
- Till grosser atoms, tumbling in the stream / Of fancy, madly met, and clubbed into a dream.
- a medical condition with clubbing of the fingers and toes
- We went clubbing in Ibiza.
- The owl, the raven, and the bat / Clubbed for a feather to his hat.
- to club the expense
- to club exertions
Anagrams
* ----racket
English
Alternative forms
* (sporting implement) racquetEtymology 1
From (etyl) raketNoun
(en noun)“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/19/2
Synonyms
* (implement) bat, paddle, racquetVerb
(en verb)- Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another.
See also
*Etymology 2
Attested since the 1500s, of unclear origin; possibly a metathesis of the dialectal termNoun
(en noun)- Power tools work quickly, but they sure make a racket .
- With all the racket they're making, I can't hear myself think!
- What's all this racket ?
- They had quite a racket devised to relieve customers of their money.