RATTLE


Meaning of RATTLE in English

I. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

death rattle

give sth a shake/rattle/tug etc

She picked up the envelope and gave it a shake.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

along

Now she was rattling along the empty streets, the horse's hooves sounding sharp and crisp in the silence.

Michael Lynagh is still rattling along towards the four-figure mark but not at the same rate.

Rain reduced it to 37 overs a side and the home team were soon rattling along .

They rattled along the main street of what looked like a typical East Anglian village.

The train rattled along and we both hung on to the straps looking at each other.

The car rattled along , crossing the myriad narrow gauge loco tracks that ran between the factories lining the route.

around

Such nuclei behave as if they have a-particles rattling around inside them.

What if they have 30, 000 fans rattling around in the Rose Bowl by Thanksgiving?

Still it's hard to believe the young warlord won't rattle around in his armoury for just the right mace.

The one I'd considered earlier, but they refuse single people because they would rattle around on their own.

off

Terry and Ponzo came back and we rattled off in the old truck to meet Rickey.

He would then rattle off the list.

There will be Stormy, rattling off one of the jokes that always left them laughing.

The tram clanged its bell and rattled off angrily into the gloom.

Yes, they told her, and she quickly rattled off the correct spelling.

He rattled off the list of headline-worthy cases he was being forced to abandon.

through

Then come the usual suspects, categories that we can rattle through quickly before announcing the big ones.

■ NOUN

door

A little wind had been born from the breeze and was sighing in the walnut tree and rattling the scullery door .

He rattled the screen door and pounded as hard as he could.

While you can click the 42oG's doors shut with fingertip pressure, slam them and they rattle .

He looked up as some one rattled at the front door of the shop; irritably he waved them away.

These went on for several hours, rattling doors and windows almost continuously.

sabre

The sabre-rattling is empty gesturing.

wind

The last breath of a dying wind rattled the kitchen windowpane.

The first cold winds rattled the windowpane, and I had made it just in time.

Today a wind rattles the stalks of bamboo.

Pressed against a window, she bullied herself to reach a decision. Wind rattled an awning above her head.

It was probably the wind rattling some lattice, but she was going to find out.

A gust of wind rattles the sash window and the draught makes Robyn shiver.

The wind gusted outside and rattled the loosened boards.

window

The window frames rattled violently and glass cracked with the sound of a pistol shot.

The window frames rattled in the wind.

The windows rattled , the walls shook, and the rain pounded on the roof.

The wind in the gusts seemed directed straight at the small casement window , which rattled and banged.

The blinded windows rattle in my pale Bones, the skeleton that never tires.

In this isolated house, with the elements raging outside, and the windows rattling under the strain?

Her windows were rattling in the wind, patches of sunlight and shade sped across the view.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a rattling good yarn/story/read

On one level, it is vastly entertaining and a rattling good read.

We bet the Weatherfield Advertiser was a rattling good read under Ken's editorship.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A battered old Chevrolet rattled past.

I woke up to the sound of cups and plates rattling, and knew that Dad was already up.

Keys rattled in his pocket as he walked.

Monday's earthquake rattled windows and woke residents.

Nothing rattles him.

Sometimes, the bolts work loose and start rattling around.

The windows were rattling in the wind.

There's something rattling inside the washing machine.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Gear changes at 4 a. m. nearly rattled my window.

I did find the window open, and locked it myself because of the way it was rattling in the wind.

Once they had done this, they used breathing and rhythmic rattling to induce trance states.

Steve Merritt in an apparent bid to rattle Clinton.

The church door was rattling insanely and nothing could be seen through the windows, so fierce was the rain.

The man from corporates rattled everyone.

Then come the usual suspects, categories that we can rattle through quickly before announcing the big ones.

II. noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

I heard the rattle of a key in the door, and knew David was home.

Just then we heard the rattle of a key in the lock.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A machine gun opened up but its rattle was lost in the second explosion.

Death rattle is what it was.

Foaming liquid sprayed above the dancers' heads and fell to the floor with the dry rattle of earth sprinkled on wood.

Ponyets heard the staccato rattle of the receiver quite plainly.

Sioux medicine men collected tiny, glistening pebbles from anthills and used them in medicine rattles.

There was a rattle and a creak from behind me.

Think about the rattle of the electric trains on their way to Southfields and Putney.

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