different between rattle vs crash

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æt.l?/
• Rhymes: -æt?l

Etymology 1

Verb from Middle English [Term?], either from Old English [Term?] (not attested) or Middle Dutch ratelen, ultimately imitative. The noun (c. 1500) is from the verb.

Noun

rattle (countable and uncountable, plural rattles)

1. (onomatopoeia) a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another.
   • 1902, Arthur M. Winfield, The Rover Boys in the Mountains Chapter 4

     The rattle of a drum.

2. A baby’s toy designed to make sound when shaken, usually containing loose grains or pellets in a hollow container.
3. A device that makes a rattling sound such as put on an animal so its location can be heard.
4. (music) A musical instrument that makes a rattling sound.

   • The rattles of Isis and the cymbals of Brasilea nearly enough resemble each other.

5. (dated) Noisy, rapid talk.
   • 1627, George Hakewill, Apologie […] of the Power and Providence of God

     All this adoe about the golden age is but an empty rattle and frivolous conceipt.

6. (uncountable, now rare) Trivial chatter; gossip.
   • 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, III.v.5:

     “And pray where, Lady Honoria,” cried Mrs. Delvile, “do you contrive to pick up all this rattle?”

7. (dated) A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
8. A scolding; a sharp rebuke.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Heylin to this entry?)

9. (zoology) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.

10. The noise produced in the throat by air passing through mucus which the lungs struggle to clear.
11. 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.
12. Any plant of the genus Rhinanthus, whose seeds produce a rattling noise in the wind.

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Verb

rattle (third-person singular simple present rattles, present participle rattling, simple past and past participle rattled)

1. (transitive, ergative) To create a rattling sound by shaking or striking.
2. (transitive, informal) To scare, startle, unsettle, or unnerve.
   • 1923, P. G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves

     “Tut!” said old Bittlesham. “Tut is right”, I agreed. Then the rumminess of the thing struck me. “But if you haven’t dropped a parcel over the race,” I said, “why are you looking so rattled?”

   • 2014, Richard Rae, "Manchester United humbled by MK Dons after Will Grigg hits double", The Guardian, 26 August 2014:

     That United were rattled, mentally as well as at times physically – legitimately so – was beyond question. Nick Powell clipped a crisp drive a foot over the bar, but otherwise Milton Keynes had the best of the remainder of the first half.

3. (intransitive) To make a rattling noise; to make noise by or from shaking.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To assail, annoy, or stun with a ratting noise.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To scold; to rail at.

   • This came to the Bishop's Ear, who presently sent for the Curate, Rattled him to some Tune, with Menaces to the Highest Degree

6. To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering.

7. To make a clatter with one's voice; to talk rapidly and idly; often with on or away.

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Etymology 2

From Arabic ?????? (ra?l), variant of classical ?????? (ri?l), ultimately from Ancient Greek ????? (lítra). Doublet of liter.

Noun

rattle (plural rattles)

1. (historical units of measure) Alternative form of rottol: a former Middle Eastern and North African unit of dry weight usually equal to 1–5 lb (0.5–2.5 kg).

Anagrams

• Tatler, latter

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?æ?/

• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From Middle English crasshen, crasschen, craschen (“to break into pieces”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of earlier *crasken, from crasen (“to break”) +? -k (formative suffix); or from earlier *craskien, *craksien, a variant of craken (“to crack, break open”) (for form development compare break, brask, brash).

Noun

crash (plural crashes)

1. A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.

2. An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.

3. (computing) A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.

   Synonym: abend

4. (finance) A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).

5. (informal) A comedown from a drug.
6. (collective) A group of rhinoceroses.
   • p. 1991, Patrick F. McManus, “Nincompoopery and Other Group Terms”, in The Grasshopper Trap, Henry Holt and Company, ?ISBN, page 103

     One of my favorites among the terms of groups of creatures is a crash of rhinoceros. I can imagine an African guide saying to his client, “Shoot, dammit, shoot! Here comes the whole bloody crash of rhinoceros!”

     […] Personally, I think I’d just as soon come across a crash of rhinoceros as a knot of toad.

   • 1998, E. Melanie Watt, Black Rhinos, page 19

     The largest group of black rhinos reported was made up of 13 individuals. A group of rhinos is called a crash.

   • 1999, Edward Osborne Wilson, The Diversity of Life, page 126

     Out in the water a crash of rhinoceros-like animals browse belly deep through a bed of aquatic plants.

   • 2003, Claude Herve-Bazin, Judith Farr Kenya and Tanzania, page 23

     The crash of rhinoceros at Tsavo now numbers almost 200.

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Adjective

crash (not comparable)

1. Quick, fast, intensive, impromptu.

   crash course

   crash diet

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Verb

crash (third-person singular simple present crashes, present participle crashing, simple past and past participle crashed)

1. (transitive) To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently.
2. (transitive) To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else.

3. (transitive, slang) Short for gatecrash.

4. (transitive, management) To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
5. (intransitive, slang) To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight.

6. (slang) To give, as a favor.
7. (slang) To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.
8. (computing, hardware, software, intransitive) To terminate extraordinarily.

   Synonym: bomb

9. (computing, hardware, software, transitive) To cause to terminate extraordinarily.

10. (intransitive) To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated.
11. (transitive) To hit or strike with force
12. (medicine, of a patient's condition) To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly deteriorate.
13. To make a sudden loud noise.

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Etymology 2

Of uncertain origin; perhaps compare Russian ?????????? (krašenína, “coarse linen”).

Noun

crash (uncountable)

1. (fibre) A type of rough linen.
   • 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:

     Unlocking the door of her bath-room she went inside, and soon emerged, bringing a rug, which she spread upon the floor of the gallery, and two huge hair pillows covered with crash, which she placed against the front of the building.

Translations

Anagrams

• Rasch, chars

Dutch

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /kr??/
• Hyphenation: crash
• Homophone: crèche

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English crash.

Noun

crash m (plural crashes, diminutive crashje n)

1. crash, collision, esp. when involving aircraft
2. economic crash, especially in relation to stock exchanges

   Synonym: krach

3. computer crash

Derived terms

• beurscrash
• computercrash

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

crash

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

French

Etymology

From English crash

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?a?/

Noun

crash m (plural crashs)

1. (of an aircraft) crash landing
2. (economics) crash
3. (computing) crash

Derived terms

• crasher

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?a?/, [?k?a?]

Noun

crash m (plural crashes)

1. (economics) crash
2. (computing) crash