different between squeak vs rasp

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skwi?k/
• Rhymes: -i?k

Noun

squeak (plural squeaks)

1. A short, high-pitched sound, as of two objects rubbing together, or the calls of small animals.
2. (games) A card game similar to group solitaire.
3. (slang) A narrow squeak.
   • 1905, E. W. Hornung, A Thief in the Night

     "I had the very devil of a squeak for it," he went on. "I did the hurdles over two or three garden-walls, but so did the flyer who was on my tracks, and he drove me back into the straight and down to High Street like any lamplighter. […]

Translations

Verb

squeak (third-person singular simple present squeaks, present participle squeaking, simple past and past participle squeaked)

1. (intransitive) To emit a short, high-pitched sound.
2. (intransitive, slang) To inform, to squeal.

   • If he be obstinate, put a civil question to him upon the rack, and he squeaks, I warrant him.

3. (transitive) To speak or sound in a high-pitched manner.
4. (intransitive, games) To empty the pile of 13 cards a player deals to oneself in the card game of the same name.
5. (intransitive, informal) To win or progress by a narrow margin.
   • 1999, Surfer (volume 40, issues 7-12)

     […] allowing Parkinson to squeak into the final by a half-point margin.

Synonyms

• (to inform): drop a dime, grass up, snitch; See also Thesaurus:rat out

Derived terms

• bubble and squeak
• squeakish
• squeaky
• squeak by
• squeak through

Translations

Anagrams

• quakes

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