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Onomatopoeia vs Rustle - What's the difference?

onomatopoeia | rustle |

As nouns the difference between onomatopoeia and rustle

is that onomatopoeia is (uncountable) the property of a word of sounding like what it represents while rustle is a soft crackling sound similar to the movement of leaves.

As a verb rustle is

(ergative) to move (something) with a soft crackling sound.

onomatopoeia

English

(wikipedia onomatopoeia)

Alternative forms

* onomatopeia *

Noun

  • (uncountable) The property of a word of sounding like what it represents.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= 1553 , year_published= 1909 , author= , (Desiderius Erasmus) , by= , title= Arte of Rhetorique , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=6p0xbOGIz2MC&pg=PA173 , original= , chapter= , section= , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Clarendon Press , location= Oxford , editor= , volume= , page= , passage= A woorde making called of the Grecians Onomatapoia , is when wee make wordes of our owne minde, such as bee derived from the nature of things. }}
  • (countable) A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle" or "hiss".
  • (uncountable, rhetoric) The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names.

    • Synonyms

    * imitative harmony * mimesis * sound symbolism

    Related terms

    * onomatope * onomatopoeial * onomatopoeian * onomatopoeic * onomatopoeious * onomatopoetic

    See also

    * Wiktionary's category of English words not following the I before E except after C rule

    rustle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A soft crackling sound similar to the movement of leaves.
  • * 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2
    • He heard the silken rustle of a dressing-gown being drawn on.

    Verb

    (rustl)
  • (ergative) To move (something) with a soft crackling sound.
  • *1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 22[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/22]
  • *:The next day at three o'clock we were again at the door, and the footmen as before; we heard the silk dress rustle , and the lady came down the steps and in an imperious voice, she said, "York, you must put those horses' heads higher, they are not fit to be seen."
  • To make or obtain in a lively, energetic way.
    • rustle some food
    rustle up some food
  • To steal (cattle or other livestock).

    • Derived terms

    * rustler * rustle up

    See also

    * abigeat

    Anagrams

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