Racket vs Rale - What's the difference?
racket | rale |
(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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(medicine, now chiefly in plural) An abnormal clicking, rattling or crackling sound, made by one or both lungs and heard with a stethoscope, caused by the popping open of airways collapsed by fluid or exudate, or sometimes by pulmonary edema.
* 1840 , CM Billard, A Treatise on the Diseases of Infants , page 416:
* 1861 , Austin Flint, American Medical Times , 7 Dec 1961:
* 1894 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), Round Red Lamp :
As nouns the difference between racket and rale
is that 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 while rale is rabble, riff-raff.As a verb racket
is to strike with, or as if with, a racket.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.
Synonyms
* (loud noise) din, noise, ruckus * (fraud) con, fraud, scam, swindleDerived terms
* racketeer, racketeeringAnagrams
*References
rale
English
(rales)Noun
(en noun)- Michael Colot, aged fifteen days, of a strong constitution, not having been sick from the time of birth, was, on the 22nd of November, taken with a violent cough, accompanied with a rale which could be heard without recourse to auscultation.
- If you were to tell a patient that he had a ‘rhonchus’ in his chest, he would imagine that it was something formidable, while, if you said that he had a ‘râle ’ he would not be alarmed.
- But after all the educated classes have a right to expect that their medical man will know the difference between a mitral murmur and a bronchitic rale .
