Racket vs Turbulent - 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.
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A loud noise.
A fraud or swindle; an illegal scheme for profit.
(dated, slang) A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
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Violently disturbed or agitated; tempestuous, tumultuous.
Being in, or causing, disturbance or unrest.
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As a noun 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 a verb racket
is to strike with, or as if with, a racket.As an adjective turbulent is
violently disturbed or agitated; tempestuous, tumultuous.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.
Synonyms
* (loud noise) din, noise, ruckus * (fraud) con, fraud, scam, swindleDerived terms
* racketeer, racketeeringAnagrams
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turbulent
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Adjective
(en adjective)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position.}}
