Ramble vs. Rattle
Ramblenoun
A leisurely stroll; a recreational walk in the countryside.
Rattlenoun
(onomatopoeia) a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another.
‘I wish they would fix the rattle under my dashboard.’;
Ramblenoun
A rambling; an instance of someone talking at length without direction.
Rattlenoun
A baby’s toy designed to make sound when shaken, usually containing loose grains or pellets in a hollow container.
Ramblenoun
(mining) A bed of shale over the seam of coal.
Rattlenoun
A device that makes a rattling sound such as put on an animal so its location can be heard.
Ramblenoun
A section of woodland suitable for leisurely walking.
Rattlenoun
(musical instruments) A musical instrument that makes a rattling sound.
Rambleverb
To move about aimlessly, or on a winding course
Rattlenoun
(dated) Noisy, rapid talk.
Rambleverb
To walk for pleasure; to amble or saunter.
Rattlenoun
Trivial chatter; gossip.
Rambleverb
To talk or write incessantly, unclearly, or incoherently, with many digressions.
‘Francine has a tendency to ramble when it gets to be late in the evening.’;
Rattlenoun
(dated) A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
Rambleverb
To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world.
‘He that is at liberty to ramble in perfect darkness, what is his liberty better than if driven up and down as a bubble by the wind?’;
Rattlenoun
A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
Rambleverb
To talk or write in a discursive, aimless way.
Rattlenoun
(zoology) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
‘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.’;
Rambleverb
To extend or grow at random.
Rattlenoun
The noise produced in the throat by air passing through mucus which the lungs struggle to clear.
Ramblenoun
A going or moving from place to place without any determinate business or object; an excursion or stroll merely for recreation.
‘Coming home, after a short Christmas ramble.’;
Rattlenoun
The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel - sometimes occurs as a person nears death; death rattle.
Ramblenoun
A bed of shale over the seam.
Rattlenoun
Any plant of the genus Rhinanthus, whose seeds produce a rattling noise in the wind.
Ramblenoun
A section of woods suitable for leisurely walking.
Rattlenoun
: a former Middle Eastern and North African unit of dry weight usually equal to 1–5 lb (0.5–2.5 kg).
Ramblenoun
a type of dance; as, the Muskrat ramble.
Rattleverb
To create a rattling sound by shaking or striking.
‘to rattle a chain’; ‘Rattle the can of cat treats if you need to find Fluffy.’;
Ramblenoun
a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
Rattleverb
To scare, startle, unsettle, or unnerve.
Rambleverb
continue talking or writing in a desultory manner;
‘This novel rambles on and jogs’;
Rattleverb
(intransitive) To make a rattling noise; to make noise by or from shaking.
‘I wish the dashboard in my car would quit rattling.’;
Rambleverb
move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment;
‘The gypsies roamed the woods’; ‘roving vagabonds’; ‘the wandering Jew’; ‘The cattle roam across the prairie’; ‘the laborers drift from one town to the next’; ‘They rolled from town to town’;
Rattleverb
To assail, annoy, or stun with a ratting noise.
Rattleverb
To scold; to rail at.
Rattleverb
To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering.
‘We rattled along for a couple of miles.’;
Rattleverb
To make a clatter with one's voice; to talk rapidly and idly; often with on or away.
‘She rattled on for an hour.’;
Rattleverb
To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.
‘And the rude hail in rattling tempest forms.’; ‘'T was but the wind,Or the car rattling o'er the stony street.’;
Rattleverb
To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.
Rattleverb
To make a clatter with the voice; to talk rapidly and idly; to clatter; - with on or away; as, she rattled on for an hour.
Rattleverb
To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.
Rattleverb
To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
‘Sound but another [drum], and another shallAs loud as thine rattle the welkin's ear.’;
Rattleverb
Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.
Rattleverb
To scold; to rail at.
Rattlenoun
A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.
Rattlenoun
Noisy, rapid talk.
‘All this ado about the golden age is but an empty rattle and frivolous conceit.’;
Rattlenoun
An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.
‘The rattles of Isis and the cymbals of Brasilea nearly enough resemble each other.’; ‘Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.’;
Rattlenoun
A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
‘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.’;
Rattlenoun
A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
Rattlenoun
Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
Rattlenoun
The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; - chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death rattle. See Râle.
Rattlenoun
a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders);
‘the death rattle’;
Rattlenoun
a baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken
Rattlenoun
loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake's tail
Rattleverb
make short successive sounds
Rattleverb
shake and cause to make a rattling noise
