Quake vs Rumble - What's the difference?
quake | rumble |
A trembling]] or [[shake, shaking.
An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force.
(lb) To tremble or shake.
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*Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
*:She stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is ready to seize.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
To cause to tremble or shake.
:(Shakespeare)
A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.
(slang) A street fight or brawl.
A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
(dated) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
* Charles Dickens
To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.
To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.
To move while making a rumbling noise.
(slang) To fight; to brawl.
To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
(obsolete) To murmur; to ripple.
* Spenser
As nouns the difference between quake and rumble
is that quake is a trembling]] or [[shake|shaking while rumble is a low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.As verbs the difference between quake and rumble
is that quake is (lb) to tremble or shake while rumble is to make a low, heavy, continuous sound.As an interjection rumble is
an onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise.quake
English
Noun
(en noun)- We felt a quake in the apartment every time the train went by .
- California is plagued by quakes ; there are a few minor ones almost every month .
Verb
Derived terms
* Quaker ----rumble
English
Alternative forms
* (dialectal)Noun
(en noun)- The rumble from passing trucks made it hard to sleep at night.
- Kit, well wrapped, was in the rumble behind.
Verb
(en-verb)- If I don't eat, my stomach will rumble .
- I could hear the thunder rumbling in the distance.
- The police is going to rumble your hideout.
- The truck rumbled over the rough road.
- to rumble gently down with murmur soft
