different between rumble vs thunderclap

English

Alternative forms

• rummle, rommle (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English rumblen, romblen, rummelyn, frequentative form of romen (“to roar”), equivalent to rome +? -le. Cognate with Dutch rommelen (“to rumble”), Low German rummeln (“to rumble”), German rumpeln (“to be noisy”), Danish rumle (“to rumble”), all of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

rumble (plural rumbles)

1. A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.

2. (slang) A street fight or brawl.
3. A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
4. (dated) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.

   • Kit, well wrapped, […] was in the rumble behind.

Translations

Verb

rumble (third-person singular simple present rumbles, present participle rumbling, simple past and past participle rumbled)

1. (intransitive) To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.

2. (transitive) To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.

3. (intransitive) To move while making a rumbling noise.
4. (slang, intransitive) To fight; to brawl.
5. (video games, intransitive, of a game controller) to provide haptic feedback by vibrating.
6. (transitive) To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
7. (obsolete) To murmur; to ripple.

Translations

Interjection

rumble

1. An onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise

Anagrams

• Blumer, Bulmer, lumber, umbrel

English

Etymology

thunder +? clap

Noun

thunderclap (plural thunderclaps)

1. A sudden, loud thunder caused by a nearby lightning strike; a shock of thunder, as opposed to a reverberating rumble
   • 1685, John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis

Related terms

• thunderbolt
• thunderous

Translations

Verb

thunderclap (third-person singular simple present thunderclaps, present participle thunderclapping, simple past and past participle thunderclapped)

1. (intransitive) To produce a loud burst of sound like a thunderclap.
   • 2000, Arelo C. Sederberg, Zora (page 309)

     It struck just before dark, a massive black geyser of oil and gas that thunderclapped from the well, soaring a hundred feet into the air and then even higher, […]

   • 2003, Kathryn Shay, Against the Odds (page 118)

     So many sensations — the feel of his strong fingers gripping her shoulders, his heart thunderclapping in his chest, his legs and hips aligned with hers, as if the two of them had been fashioned out of the same block of clay.

See also

• rounce robble hobble
• rumble