Slam vs Rattle - What's the difference?
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(ergative) To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
(ergative) To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down'', ''against'' or into.)
To strike forcefully with some implement.
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(colloquial) To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.
(basketball) To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.
(bridge) To make a slam bid.
(card games) To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
to change providers (e.g. of domain registration or telephone carrier) for a customer without clear (if any) consent.
to drink off, to drink quickly
to compete in a poetry slam
(countable) A sudden impact or blow.
(countable) The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object.
* (Charles Dickens)
(countable, basketball) A slam dunk.
(countable, colloquial, US) An insult.
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A poetry slam.
(UK, dialect) The refuse of alum works.
(obsolete) A type of card game, also called ruff and honours.
(cards) Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.
(countable, bridge) A bid of six (small slam'') or seven (''grand slam ) in a suit or no trump.
(card games) To defeat by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
(onomatopoeia) a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another.
* Prior
A baby's toy designed to make sound when shaken, usually containing loose grains or pellets in a hollow container.
* Alexander Pope
A device that makes a rattling sound such as put on an animal so its location can be heard.
A musical instrument that makes a rattling sound.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
(dated) Noisy, rapid talk.
* Hakewill
(dated) A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
* Macaulay
A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
(zoology) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; death rattle.
(ergative) To create a rattling sound by shaking or striking.
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(informal) To scare, startle, unsettle, or unnerve.
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To make a rattling noise; to make noise by or from shaking.
(obsolete) To assail, annoy, or stun with a ratting noise.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To scold; to rail at.
To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering.
To make a clatter with a voice; to talk rapidly and idly; with on'' or ''away .
In transitive ergative terms the difference between slam and rattle
is that slam is to put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or ''into. while rattle is to create a rattling sound by shaking or striking.In lang=en terms the difference between slam and rattle
is that slam is losing or winning all the tricks in a game while rattle is a noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.slam
English
Etymology 1
Apparently from a Scandinavian source; compare Norwegian slamre, Swedish slemma.Verb
(slamm)- Don't slam the door!
- Don't slam that trunk down on the pavement!
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- Don't ever slam me in front of the boss like that again!
- Union leaders slammed the new proposals.
- Critics slammed the new film, calling it violent and meaningless.
- (Hoyle)
Synonyms
* (drink quickly) See alsoDerived terms
* slam the door on * slam on the brakesNoun
- The slam and the scowl were lost upon Sam.
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Etymology 2
Origin unknown.Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* grand slamVerb
(slamm)Anagrams
* English ergative verbs ----rattle
English
Noun
(en noun)- I wish they would fix the rattle under my dashboard.
- The rattle of a drum.
- Pleased with a rattle , tickled with a straw.
- The rattles of Isis and the cymbals of Brasilea nearly enough resemble each other.
- All this ado about the golden age is but an empty rattle and frivolous conceit.
- It may seem strange that a man who wrote with so much perspicuity, vivacity, and grace, should have been, whenever he took a part in conversation, an empty, noisy, blundering rattle .
- (Heylin)
- The rattle of the rattlesnake is composed of the hardened terminal scales, loosened in succession, but not cast off, and modified in form so as to make a series of loose, hollow joints.
Derived terms
* rattlesnake * spring a rattle * yellow rattle (plant)Verb
(rattl)- to rattle a chain
- Rattle the can of cat treats if you need to find Fluffy.
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- "Tut!" said old Bittlesham. "Tut is right," I agreed. Then the rumminess of the thing struck me. "But if you haven't dropped a parcel over the race," I said, "why are you looking so rattled ?"
Manchester United humbled by MK Dons after Will Grigg hits double", The Guardian , 26 August 2014:
- That United were rattled , mentally as well as at times physically – legitimately so – was beyond question. Nick Powell clipped a crisp drive a foot over the bar, but otherwise Milton Keynes had the best of the remainder of the first half.
- ''I wish the dashboard in my car would quit rattling .
- Sound but another [drum], and another shall / As loud as thine rattle the welkin's ear.
- We rattled along for a couple of miles.
- She rattled on for an hour.
