Ratchet vs. Ghetto — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ratchet and Ghetto
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Ratchet
A mechanism consisting of a pawl that engages the sloping teeth of a wheel or bar, permitting motion in one direction only.
Ghetto
A ghetto (Italian pronunciation: [ˈɡetto]; from Venetian ghèto, 'foundry'), often the ghetto, is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, especially as a result of social, legal, or economic pressure. Ghettos are often known for being more impoverished than other areas of the city.
Ratchet
The pawl, wheel, or bar of this mechanism.
Ghetto
A usually poor section of a city inhabited primarily by people of the same race, religion, or social background, often because of discrimination.
Ratchet
A dance featuring ratcheting movements of the arms bent at the elbows.
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Ghetto
An often walled quarter in a European city to which Jews were restricted beginning in the Middle Ages.
Ratchet
To cause to increase or decrease by increments:tried to ratchet up interest in the program.
Ghetto
Something that resembles the restriction or isolation of a city ghetto
"trapped in ethnic or pink-collar managerial job ghettoes" (Diane Weathers).
Ratchet
To increase or decrease by increments.
Ghetto
In a manner typical or stereotypical of an impoverished urban area, as in being makeshift, garish, or crass
"I pick up the pair of very big, very ghetto, door-knocker bamboo earrings" (Meesha Mink and De'nesha Diamond). "Isn't chewing gum when accepting an award very ghetto?" (Vibe).
Ratchet
Lacking in class, refinement, or good taste.
Ghetto
An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.
Ratchet
A pawl, click, or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
Ghetto
An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race.
Ratchet
A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl.
Ghetto
An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
Ratchet
A ratchet wrench.
Ghetto
An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.
Ratchet
(by extension) A procedure or regulation that goes in one direction, usually up.
Ghetto
Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
Ratchet
A noisemaker or musical instrument where sound is generated by a board striking against a rotating gear. See gragger, raganella.
Ghetto
Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
My apartment's so ghetto, the rats and cockroaches filed a complaint with the city!
I like to drive ghetto cars; if they break down you can just abandon them and pick up a new one!
Ratchet
(transitive) To cause to become incremented or decremented.
It's time to ratchet up the intensity level here.
Ghetto
Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
Ratchet
(intransitive) To increment or decrement.
Ghetto
Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
Ratchet
Ghetto; unseemly, indecorous.
Ghetto
To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
Ratchet
A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
Ghetto
A quarter of a city where Jews live in greatest numbers.
I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell.
Ratchet
A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch, and pawl. See Ratchet wheel, below, and 2d Ratch.
Ghetto
Any section of a town inhabited predominantly by members of a specific ethnic, national or racial group, such segregation usually arising from social or economic pressure. The term is commonly applied to areas in cities having a high concentration of low-income African-Americans.
Ratchet
Mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction
Ghetto
Any isolated group of people.
Ratchet
Move by degrees in one direction only;
A ratcheting lopping tool
Ghetto
Any group isolated by external pressures, with an implication of inferiority.
Ghetto
Formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live;
The Warsaw ghetto
Ghetto
Any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping;
The relative security of the gay ghetto
No escape from the ghetto of the typing pool
Ghetto
A poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions
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