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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]rumble (plural rumbles)
the sound of the rumble of thunder
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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.
- (slang) A street fight or brawl.
- A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
- (dated) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
- 1840-1841, Charles Dickens, Master Humphrey's Clock:
- Kit, well wrapped, […] was in the rumble behind.
- 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 2:
- "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.
Derived terms
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[edit]low, heavy, continuous sound
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street fight or brawl
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Verb
[edit]rumble (third-person singular simple present rumbles, present participle rumbling, simple past and past participle rumbled)
- (intransitive) 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.
- (transitive) To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.
- The police is going to rumble your hideout.
- (intransitive) To move while making a rumbling noise.
- The truck rumbled over the rough road.
- 1950 January, Arthur F. Beckenham, “With British Railways to the Far North”, in Railway Magazine, page 8:
- 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.
- 2021 March 7, David Hytner, “Manchester United catch City cold as Fernandes and Shaw end winning run”, in The Guardian[1]:
- 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.
- (slang, intransitive) To fight; to brawl.
- (video games, intransitive, of a game controller) To provide haptic feedback by vibrating.
- (transitive) To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To murmur; to ripple.
- c. 1580, Edmund Spenser, “The Tears of the Muses”, in Complaints[2], published 1591:
- The trembling streams which wont in channels clear
To rumble gently down with murmur soft, […]
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to make a low pitched noise
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to discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour
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to move while making a rumbling noise
to fight, brawl
Interjection
[edit]rumble
- An onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise
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