Rifle vs Rummage - What's the difference?
rifle | rummage |
A long firearm firing a single projectile, usually with a rifled barrel to improve accuracy.
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict
, chapter=7 A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
to search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.
To scan many items (especially papers) in a set, quickly. (See also riffle[http://verbmall.blogspot.com/2008/05/riffle-or-rifle.html])
To add a spiral to the interior of a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight to improve range and accuracy.
To strike something with great power.
* {{quote-news
, year=2010
, date=December 28
, author=Marc Vesty
, title=Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham
, work=BBC
To commit robbery.
To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.
* Shakespeare
To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.
* Alexander Pope
To raffle.
(nautical) To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.
(nautical) To search a vessel for smuggled goods.
To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.
* Howell
* (Matthew Arnold) (1822-1888)
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
, title= To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside.
* , chapter=8
, title= (obsolete) Commotion; disturbance.
A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder.
* Walpole
An unorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble.
(nautical) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; formerly written romage .
Rummage is a synonym of rifle.
In intransitive terms the difference between rifle and rummage
is that rifle is to commit robbery while rummage is to hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside.In transitive terms the difference between rifle and rummage
is that rifle is to strip of goods; to rob; to pillage while rummage is to search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.As nouns the difference between rifle and rummage
is that rifle is a long firearm firing a single projectile, usually with a rifled barrel to improve accuracy while rummage is commotion; disturbance.As verbs the difference between rifle and rummage
is that rifle is to search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder while rummage is to arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.rifle
English
(wikipedia rifle)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Still, a dozen men with rifles , and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.}}
Derived terms
* automatic rifle * rifled slug * riflingVerb
(rifl)- She made a mess when she rifled through the stack of papers, looking for the title document.
citation, page= , passage=Davies's cross was headed away from danger by Robert Huth, only for Baird to take the ball in his stride and rifle his right-footed effort towards the corner from the edge of the box.}}
- (Bishop Hall)
- Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye: / If not, we'll make you sit and rifle you.
- Time shall rifle every youthful grace.
Anagrams
* ----rummage
English
Verb
(rummag)- Hesearcheth his pockets, and taketh his keys, and so rummageth all his closets and trunks.
- What schoolboy of us has not rummaged his Greek dictionary in vain for a satisfactory account!
Keeping the mighty honest, passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Philander went into the next room
Noun
(en noun)- He has such a general rummage and reform in the office of matrimony.
Quotations
''"And this, I take it,- Horatio, in "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 1 l 103-106
''Is the main motive of our preparations
''The source of this our watch, and the chief head
Of this post-haste and rummage in the land."
