different between hurry vs hurtle

English

Etymology

From Middle English horien (“to rush, impel”), probably a variation of hurren (“to vibrate rapidly, buzz”), from Proto-Germanic *hurzan? (“to rush”) (compare Middle High German hurren (“to hasten”), Norwegian hurre (“to whirl around”)), from Proto-Indo-European *?ers- (“to run”) (compare Latin curr? (“I run”), Tocharian A kursär/Tocharian B kwärsar (“league; course”)). Related to hurr, horse, rush.

Alternative etymology derives hurry as a variant of harry, which see.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??.i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h??.i/ (accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger)
• (US) IPA^(key): [?h?.i] (accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger)
• Rhymes: -?ri

Noun

hurry (countable and uncountable, plural hurries)

1. Rushed action.
2. Urgency.

3. (American football) an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play.
4. (music) A tremolando passage for violins, etc., accompanying an exciting situation.

Derived terms

• in a hurry

Translations

Verb

hurry (third-person singular simple present hurries, present participle hurrying, simple past and past participle hurried)

1. (intransitive) To do things quickly.
2. (intransitive) Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.

3. (transitive) To cause to be done quickly.
4. (transitive) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.

   • the rapid Stream presently draws him in , carries him away , and hurries him down violently.
5. (transitive) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
6. (mining) To put: to convey coal in the mine, e.g. from the working to the tramway.
   • 1842, The Condition and Treatment of the Children Employed in the Mines, page 45:

     Elizabeth Day, aged seventeen […] "I have been nearly nine years in the pit. I trapped for two years when I first went, and have hurried ever since. I have hurried for my father until a year ago. I have to help to riddle and fill, […]

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:rush

Translations

See also

• haste
• hurry up
• di di mau

English

Etymology

From Middle English hurtlen, hurtelen, equivalent to hurt +? -le.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h??tl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /h?tl/
• Rhymes: -??(r)t?l

Verb

hurtle (third-person singular simple present hurtles, present participle hurtling, simple past and past participle hurtled)

1. (intransitive) To move rapidly, violently, or without control.

   The car hurtled down the hill at 90 miles per hour.

   Pieces of broken glass hurtled through the air.

2. (intransitive, archaic) To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.

   • Together hurtled both their steeds.

3. (intransitive, archaic) To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound.
   • 1838, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Seraphim

     The earthquake sound / Hurtling 'neath the solid ground.

4. (transitive) To hurl or fling; to throw hard or violently.

   He hurtled the wad of paper angrily at the trash can and missed by a mile.

5. (intransitive, archaic) To push; to jostle; to hurl.

Translations

Noun

hurtle (plural hurtles)

1. A fast movement in literal or figurative sense.
   • 1975, John Wakeman, Literary Criticism

     But the war woke me up, I began to move left, and recent events have accelerated that move until it is now a hurtle.

   • 2005, June 20, The Guardian

     Jamba has removed from Marlowe's Doctor Faustus all but the barest of essentials - even half its title, leaving us with an 80-minute hurtle through Faustus's four and twenty borrowed years on earth.

2. A clattering sound.
   • 1913, Eden Phillpotts, Widecombe Fair, page 26

     There came a hurtle of wings, a flash of bright feathers, and a great pigeon with slate-grey plumage and a neck bright as an opal, lit on a swaying finial.

Anagrams

• Luther, lureth, ruleth