Sale vs Rale - What's the difference?
sale | rale |
An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.
The sale of goods at reduced prices.
The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder.
(medicine, now chiefly in plural) An abnormal clicking, rattling or crackling sound, made by one or both lungs and heard with a stethoscope, caused by the popping open of airways collapsed by fluid or exudate, or sometimes by pulmonary edema.
* 1840 , CM Billard, A Treatise on the Diseases of Infants , page 416:
* 1861 , Austin Flint, American Medical Times , 7 Dec 1961:
* 1894 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), Round Red Lamp :
As nouns the difference between sale and rale
is that sale is splinter while rale is rabble, riff-raff.sale
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sale, sal, from (etyl) . Related also to (l), (l).Etymology 2
From (etyl) sale, from (etyl) .Noun
(s)Derived terms
* for sale * on sale * regular sales * salesman * sales pitchTroponyms
* (selling of goods at reduced prices) cut-rate sale, sales event * (act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder) auction, public saleAnagrams
* ----rale
English
(rales)Noun
(en noun)- Michael Colot, aged fifteen days, of a strong constitution, not having been sick from the time of birth, was, on the 22nd of November, taken with a violent cough, accompanied with a rale which could be heard without recourse to auscultation.
- If you were to tell a patient that he had a ‘rhonchus’ in his chest, he would imagine that it was something formidable, while, if you said that he had a ‘râle ’ he would not be alarmed.
- But after all the educated classes have a right to expect that their medical man will know the difference between a mitral murmur and a bronchitic rale .