rumble
nomverbeinterjectionattesté dans les dialogues
- États-Unis//ˈɹʌmb(ə)l//
- Australie//ˈɹɐmb(ə)l//
- Écosse//ˈɾʌmb(ə)l//
- //ˈɹʊmb(ə)l//
A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.
nom
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A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.
The rumble from passing trucks made it hard to sleep at night.
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argotA street fight or brawl.
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A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
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vieilliA seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
Kit, well wrapped, […] was in the rumble behind.
"I never was so sorry for any thing as for Mr. Glentworth's death," said Isabella Granard, endeavouring to screen her face from a small, sharp rain, to which her place in the rumble of a travelling carriage left her quite exposed.
Étymologie
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. Compare typologically Russian громи́ть (gromítʹ), погро́м (pogróm), разгро́м (razgróm) (akin to гром (grom), греме́ть (gremétʹ), громыха́ть (gromyxátʹ)). Also compare гро́хнуть (gróxnutʹ) (akin to гро́хот (gróxot)).
verbe
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To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.
If I don't eat, my stomach will rumble.
I could hear the thunder rumbling in the distance.
I watched him take his seat on the third row from the front, and I heard him rumble, “Nearer my God to thee,” some notes behind the rest of us.
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To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.
The police is going to rumble your hideout.
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To move while making a rumbling noise.
The truck rumbled over the rough road.
As the train rumbled slowly over the Forth Bridge, the western sky was aflame with a particularly gorgeous sunset, and lights were twinkling from the small craft riding at anchor on the calm waters of the firth.
Henderson, beginning a mini-run in the team with David de Gea on paternity leave, threw out to the left flank and Shaw had only one thought – to rumble upfield.
We meet at Blackfriars station, in a rather incongruous little room with four seats, on the bridge high above the River Thames. […] Thameslink trains rumble past every minute. You can't just hear them - you feel them through the floor.
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argotTo fight; to brawl.
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To provide haptic feedback by vibrating.
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To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
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obsolèteTo murmur; to ripple.
The trembling streams which wont in channels clear To rumble gently down with murmur soft,[…]
interjection
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An onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise
Formes
- pluriel
- rumbles
- passé
- rumbled
- participe passé
- rumbled
- participe présent
- rumbling
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- rumbles
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