Paddle vs Racket - What's the difference?
paddle | racket | Synonyms |
A two-handed, single-bladed oar used to propel a canoe or a small boat.
A double-bladed oar used for kayaking.
Time spent on paddling.
A slat of a paddleboat's wheel.
A paddlewheel.
A blade of a waterwheel.
(video games, dated) A game controller with a round wheel used to control player movement along one axis of the video screen.
(British) A meandering walk or dabble through shallow water, especially at the seaside.
A kitchen utensil shaped like a paddle and used for mixing, beating etc.
A bat-shaped spanking implement
A ping-pong bat.
A flat limb of an aquatic animal, adapted for swimming.
In a sluice, a panel that controls the flow of water.
A group of inerts
A handheld defibrillation/cardioversion electrode
To propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc.
* L'Estrange
* (John Gay)
* 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter IX
To row a boat with less than one's full capacity.
To spank with a paddle.
To pat or stroke amorously or gently.
* Shakespeare
To tread upon; to trample.
(British) To walk or dabble playfully in shallow water, especially at the seaside.
To toddle
(archaic) To toy or caress using hands or fingers
(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.
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(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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Racket is a synonym of paddle.
As nouns the difference between paddle and racket
is that paddle is a two-handed, single-bladed oar used to propel a canoe or a small boat while racket is 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.As verbs the difference between paddle and racket
is that paddle is to propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc while racket is to strike with, or as if with, a racket.paddle
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) padell (1407, "small spade"), from Medieval Latin padela, perhaps from (etyl) patella "pan, plate", the diminutive of patinaNoun
(en noun)- We had a nice paddle this morning.
- ''The paddle practically ousted the British cane as the spanker's attribute in the independent US
- ''A sea turtle's paddles make it swim almost as fast as land tortoises are slow
Derived terms
* paddler * paddleboat * paddle board * paddlewheel * paddle steamer * paddling * dog paddle * traffic paddleSee also
* oarVerb
- as the men were paddling for their lives
- while paddling ducks the standing lake desire
- Daytimes we paddled all over the island in the canoe
- to be paddling palms and pinching fingers.
Etymology 2
Recorded since 1530, probably cognate with Low German paddeln "to tramp about," frequent. of padjen "to tramp, to run in short steps," from pad (also in Dutch dialects)Verb
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.