Racket vs Shouting - What's the difference?
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(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.
As nouns the difference between racket and shouting
is that 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 while shouting is the action of the verb to shout.As verbs the difference between racket and shouting
is that racket is to strike with, or as if with, a racket while shouting is present participle of lang=en.racket
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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.