different between creak vs rasp

English

Alternative forms

• crik (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English creken, criken, metathesis of Old English cearcian (“to chatter, creak, crash, gnash”), from Proto-West Germanic *krak?n (“to crash, crack, creak”), related to Proto-Germanic *krak?n?, ultimately of imitative origin.

Compare also Old English cr?ccettan, cr?cettan (“to croak”), Albanian grykë (“throat”). More at crack.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kr?k, IPA^(key): /k?i?k/
• Homophone: creek
• Rhymes: -i?k

Noun

creak (plural creaks)

1. The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.

Translations

Verb

creak (third-person singular simple present creaks, present participle creaking, simple past and past participle creaked)

1. (intransitive) To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances.
   • 1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert (author), Madame Bovary, Part III, Chapter 10:

     Then when the four ropes were arranged the coffin was placed upon them. He watched it descend; it seemed descending for ever. At last a thud was heard; the ropes creaked as they were drawn up.

   • 1901, W. W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw:

     He heard the creaking of the bolt as it came slowly back, and at the same moment he found the monkey's paw, and frantically breathed his third and last wish.

2. (transitive) To produce a creaking sound with.
   • a. 1941, Theodore Roethke, "On the Road to Woodlawn", in Open House (1941)

     I miss the polished brass, the powerful black horses,

     The drivers creaking the seats of the baroque hearses

3. (intransitive, figuratively) To suffer from strain or old age.
   • 2002, Stanley Wells, Shakespeare Survey (volume 39, page 205)

     Fascinating though this high-minded re-reading was, certain crucial joints of the play creaked a good deal under the strain.

   • 2007, Francis Pryor, Britain in the Middle Ages: An Archaeological History (page 232)

     The whole basis of feudalism, especially in the more intensively farmed champion arable landscapes of the Midlands, was starting to creak.

Derived terms

• creaky

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Acker, Crake, Kacer, acker, crake

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æsp/, /???sp/
• Rhymes: -æsp, -??sp

Etymology 1

From Middle English raspen, partly from Middle Dutch raspen and partly from Old French rasper; both ultimately from Frankish *hrasp?n, from Proto-Germanic *hrasp?n?, related to Proto-Germanic *hrespan? (“to tear”). Compare Old High German rasp?n (“to scrape”), Old English ?ehrespan (“to tear”).The noun is from Middle French raspe.

Noun

rasp (plural rasps)

1. A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.
2. The sound made by this tool when used, or any similar sound.

Hypernyms

• file

Translations

Verb

rasp (third-person singular simple present rasps, present participle rasping, simple past and past participle rasped)

1. (intransitive) To use a rasp.
2. (intransitive) To make a noise similar to the one a rasp makes in use; to utter rasps.
3. (transitive) To work something with a rasp.

4. (transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language.

Translations

Etymology 2

From raspberry.

Noun

rasp (plural rasps)

1. (obsolete) The raspberry.

Hypernyms

• berry

Anagrams

• APRs, Arps, PSRA, RAPs, arps, pars, raps, sapr-, spar

Dutch

Etymology

From Old French raspe (“steel file”); see modern French râper (“to grate”).

Pronunciation

Noun

rasp f (plural raspen, diminutive raspje n)

1. grater, for example for cheese
2. surform tool

Verb

rasp

1. first-person singular present indicative of raspen
2. imperative of raspen

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

rasp

1. imperative of raspe