Rustle vs Moan - What's the difference?
rustle | moan |
A soft crackling sound similar to the movement of leaves.
* 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2
(ergative) To move (something) with a soft crackling sound.
*1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 22[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/22]
*:The next day at three o'clock we were again at the door, and the footmen as before; we heard the silk dress rustle , and the lady came down the steps and in an imperious voice, she said, "York, you must put those horses' heads higher, they are not fit to be seen."
To make or obtain in a lively, energetic way.
To steal (cattle or other livestock).
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.7:
* Prior
(obsolete) To distress (someone); to sadden.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
To make a moan or similar sound.
To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice.
(colloquial) To complain; to grumble.
As a noun rustle
is a soft crackling sound similar to the movement of leaves.As a verb rustle
is (ergative) to move (something) with a soft crackling sound.As a proper noun moan is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- He heard the silken rustle of a dressing-gown being drawn on.
Verb
(rustl)- rustle some food
- rustle up some food
Derived terms
* rustler * rustle upSee also
* abigeatAnagrams
*moan
English
Verb
(en verb)- Much did the Craven seeme to mone his case […].
- Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan / My dear Columbo, dead and gone.
- which infinitely moans me
- ‘Please don't leave me,’ he moaned .