Rattle

['ræt(ə)l] or ['rætl]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake's tail.

(noun.) a baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken.

(noun.) a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders); 'the death rattle'.

(verb.) shake and cause to make a rattling noise.

(verb.) make short successive sounds.

休整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. i.) To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.

(v. i.) To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.

(v. i.) To make a clatter with the voice; to talk rapidly and idly; to clatter; -- with on or away; as, she rattled on for an hour.

(v. t.) To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.

(v. t.) To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.

(v. t.) Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.

(v. t.) To scold; to rail at.

(n.) A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.

(n.) Noisy, rapid talk.

(n.) An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.

(n.) A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.

(n.) A scolding; a sharp rebuke.

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

(n.) The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death rattle. See R/le.

錄入:内丽

同義詞及近義詞：

v. n. Clatter.

手打:柯尔斯顿

解釋/意思:

v.i. to clatter: to move along rapidly with a clattering noise: to speak eagerly and noisily.—v.t. to cause to make a clatter: to stun with noise: to speak rapidly: to scold loudly.—n. a sharp noise rapidly repeated as the death-rattle: a clatter: loud empty talk: loud scolding: a toy or instrument for rattling: a brisk jabberer: an annual meadow herb: a lousewort.—adjs. Ratt′le-brained -head′ed -pat′ed noisy: giddy: unsteady.—ns. Ratt′le-mouse a bat; Ratt′lepate a noisy chatterer; Ratt′ler a loud inconsiderate talker: (coll.) a stunning blow: (coll.) an impudent lie; Ratt′lesnake a poisonous snake having a number of hard bony rings loosely jointed at the end of the tail which make a rattling noise; Ratt′lesnake-grass an American grass; Ratt′lesnake-mas′ter -root an American plant reputed to cure the bite of a rattlesnake; Ratt′lesnake-weed a hawk-weed of the United States; Ratt′le-trap a rickety vehicle; Ratt′lewort a plant of genus Crotalaria; Ratt′ling a clattering: railing.—adj. making a rattle: smart lively: (coll.) strikingly great.

校對:奥利弗