Rubble vs Rumble - What's the difference?
rubble | rumble |
The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
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, title= (geology) A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.
(UK, dialect, in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.
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 rubble and rumble
is that rubble is the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry while rumble is a low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.As an interjection rumble is
an onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise.As a verb rumble is
to make a low, heavy, continuous sound.rubble
English
Noun
High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.
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Derived terms
* reduce to rubble * rubblestone * rubbleworkReferences
Anagrams
* *rumble
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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