Rumble vs Discover - What's the difference?
rumble | discover |
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
(obsolete) To remove the cover from; to uncover (a head, building etc.).
To expose, uncover.
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(chess) To create by moving a piece out of another piece's line of attack.
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(archaic) To reveal (information); to divulge, make known.
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*Shakespeare
*:Go, draw aside the curtains, and discover / The several caskets to this noble prince.
*Francis Bacon
*:Prosperity doth best discover' vice; but adversity doth best ' discover virtue.
(obsolete) To reconnoitre, explore (an area).
*, Bk.V, ch.ix:
*:they seyde the same, and were aggreed that Sir Clegis, Sir Claryon, and Sir Clement the noble, that they sholde dyscover the woodys, bothe the dalys and the downys.
To find or learn something for the first time.
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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (obsolete) To manifest without design; to show; to exhibit.
*C. J. Smith
*:The youth discovered a taste for sculpture.
*1806 , Alexander Hunter, Culina Famulatrix Medicinæ , p.125:
*:The English Cooks keep all their Spices in separate boxes, but the French Cooks make a spicey mixture that does not discover a predominancy of any one of the spices over the others.
As an interjection rumble
is an onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise.As a noun rumble
is a low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.As a verb rumble
is to make a low, heavy, continuous sound.As a proper noun discover is
(us) , a brand of credit card.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
Anagrams
* *discover
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Alternative forms
* discovre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)Can China clean up fast enough?, passage=All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism.}}
