different between bombast vs rant

English

Etymology

From Old French bombace (“cotton, cotton wadding”), from Late Latin bombax (“cotton”), a variant of bombyx (“silkworm”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (bómbux, “silkworm”), possibly related to Middle Persian pmbk' (“cotton”), from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to twist, wind”.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?mbæst/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?mbæst/
• Hyphenation: bom?bast

Noun

bombast (countable and uncountable, plural bombasts)

1. (archaic) Cotton, or cotton wool.

   Synonym: fustian
2. (archaic) Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing, padding.
3. (figuratively) High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.

   Synonyms: aureation, (obsolete) bombard phrase, fustian, grandiloquence, purple prose

Derived terms

• bombastic
• bombastical
• bombastically
• bombastry

Translations

Verb

bombast (third-person singular simple present bombasts, present participle bombasting, simple past and past participle bombasted)

1. To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.
2. To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.

Translations

Adjective

bombast (comparative more bombast, superlative most bombast)

1. Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.

   Synonyms: aureate, highfalutin

References

Further reading

• fustian on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Dutch ranten, randen (“to talk nonsense, rave”), of uncertain origin; but apparently related to Middle High German ranzen (“to dance, jump around, frolic”), German ranzen (“to be ardent, be in heat, copulate, mate, ramble, join up”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?ænt/
• Rhymes: -ænt

Verb

rant (third-person singular simple present rants, present participle ranting, simple past and past participle ranted)

1. To speak or shout at length in uncontrollable anger.
2. To disseminate one's own opinions in a - typically - one-sided, strong manner.
3. To criticize by ranting.
4. (dated) To speak extravagantly, as in merriment.
5. To dance rant steps.

Translations

Noun

rant (plural rants)

1. A criticism done by ranting.
2. A wild, emotional, and sometimes incoherent articulation.
3. A type of dance step usually performed in clogs, and particularly (but not exclusively) associated with the English North West Morris tradition. The rant step consists of alternately bringing one foot across and in front of the other and striking the ground, with the other foot making a little hop.

Derived terms

• rantful

Translations

See also

• ramble
• rave

Further reading

• rant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• rant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Tarn, Tran, ar'n't, arn't, tRNA, tarn, tran, trna

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• (of rane) rana, ranet

Verb

rant

1. simple past of renne
2. past participle of rane

Polish

Etymology

From German Rand, from Middle High German rant, from Old High German rant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rant/

Noun

rant m inan

1. edge (especially coin edge)

   Synonyms: brzeg, kraw?d?

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) rantowy

Further reading

• rant in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• rant in Polish dictionaries at PWN