What's the difference between clattering and cluttering?

Clattering


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clatter

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Now Michael, what was the word I just said?” I told her the word was “Monday” and, with no more ado, she returned to her desk and clattered something out on her computer.
  • (2) 2.23am GMT Thoughts on the refereeing... Adam Large (@largeam) @ busfield Useless MLS referee.Letting Houston foul at will and things are already getting out of hand.I'm not a KC fan, but seriously... November 8, 2012 Updated at 2.23am GMT 2.22am GMT 12 mins Beautiful little flick by Kamara down the left, before he's clattered by Garcia.
  • (3) Richard Dunne clatters into him late, the goalkeeper goes down and several France players swarm around Dunne to voice their displeasure at the Ireland defender.
  • (4) 20-odd seconds: Suarez goes for a loose ball down the inside-right channel and clatters into the back of Ferdinand, who in turn wallops Evra.
  • (5) With the eight lanes of France’s most famous avenue cleared of all traffic on Paris’s first car-free day , the usual cacophony of car-revving and thundering motorbike engines had given way to the squeak of bicycle wheels, the clatter of skateboards, the laughter of children on rollerblades and even the gentle rustling of wind in the trees.
  • (6) A doltish young buck, hairless and pouting, will clatter through the doors of an annoying boutique.
  • (7) He's also clattered, allowing Toure the chance to belt a fierce shot at goal from out wide.
  • (8) Beyond the clattering of cameras and some polite pleasantries about the families, it was impossible to tell exactly what the monarch-in-waiting learned from the commander-in-chief – but he seems to be picking up some lessons on US political campaigning at least.
  • (9) 5.06pm BST 4 mins: Talking of Webb and his decisions, Fernandinho clatters Charles Aranguiz after the ball's gone and gets away with it because it's a little too early for yellow cards.
  • (10) After the own goal, the game’s full-blooded, directionless nature was epitomised when Ashley Williams, the Wales captain, clattered into Jonny Williams, leaving them both in need of treatment.
  • (11) He clatters into Kirm again, and is lucky to escape a booking.
  • (12) Williams, however, was starting to find her groove and despite giving Mattek-Sands hope with a break back at 5-3, two clattering returns helped her break again at 6-5 to clinch the set and level up.
  • (13) He's now clattered clumsily into the back of Matuidi.
  • (14) As the train clatters downtown, I allow myself to feel feisty, and just a little bit fond.
  • (15) The former clatters, accidentally, into the latter.
  • (16) Winchell's quick-fire radio and TV shows, where he delivered news and gossip, accompanied by clattering telexes, gave him enormous power, and he perfected the use of slang to avoid legal disputes, promising his listeners each week the lowdown on celebrity and politics, "the very very low low down down".
  • (17) We hear only noises – a burst of gunfire and the clatter of broken glass: she could be watching Harrison Ford fight back against the hijackers in Petersen’s Air Force One .
  • (18) Webb, in truth, had been given no choice in a contest that bristled from the opening exchange, when Robin van Persie flew in late to clatter Sergio Busquets behind the Spaniard's right knee.
  • (19) My pace was slow; a mountain biker whizzed past me, his spokes clattering as small stones ricocheted off.
  • (20) Aggrieved that Colback, already booked for going in late on Muniesa, had escaped a yellow card for clattering into Victor Moses a couple of minutes earlier, Stoke’s bench looked far from amused.

Cluttering


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clutter

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is just news, sent racing round the globe and pursued by an instant cloud of reactive clutter.
  • (2) One of the observations that a number of commentators have been making about our government is they’ve said ‘your agenda is too cluttered, you’re fighting on too many fronts’.
  • (3) The messy cupboards and cluttered shelves were like an actual subconscious I could purge of its guilt and pain.
  • (4) There's a fear that mobile users will reject Facebook ad strategies as clutter on smaller screens.
  • (5) The user interface feels cluttered at times, and it has a definite learning curve, but it's also easy to carve out a quick and comfortable groove for yourself as you jump between a game and a few different applications.
  • (6) For many years, we fought in the creeks because we were sidelined even though Nigeria’s wealth comes from here,” said Wilson, thumping a fist on a desk cluttered with awards – mostly from organisations he funds with money the government pays him not to bleed oil pipelines.
  • (7) They seriously threatened only twice – David de Gea saving in a cluttered first half when Chris Smalling diverted a Jonathan Parr header goalwards and then denying Cameron Jerome, on as a substitute, an equaliser shortly after Van Persie's goal – and remain two points above the bottom three.
  • (8) He’s doing what he feels is right and that’s why he’s paid to be manager, to make those decisions.” Even as an inexperienced team they should not have been undone by a hopeful punt into a cluttered penalty box by one of the poorer sides at this tournament.
  • (9) The others were fiddly, trivial-looking plastic things cluttered with buttons and dials, appealing mainly to gadget-obsessed geeks with the time to figure out how to work them.
  • (10) Their music has long been free of such unnecessary clutter as metaphor, allegory, and poetic conceit.
  • (11) Election time means satisfying people, and that means money,” said Abdulkadir, sitting in a cluttered tourist shop that also serves as a bureau-de-change in an upmarket Lagos hotel frequented by the city’s elite.
  • (12) She writes: After two gruelling hours, it was painfully clear that [interest rate] forward guidance, far from increasing clarity, has cluttered up the Bank's intellectual furniture with knockouts, staging posts and all the rest – while giving Britain's ever-ready consumers just the excuse they don't need to go shopping.
  • (13) I think every shot’s going in,” he said, “and this one was no different.” The shot came on a play Villanova works on every day in practice: Jenkins inbounds the ball toRyan Arcidiacono, he works it up court and forward Daniel Ochefu sets a pick near halfcourt to clutter things up, then Arcidiacono creates.
  • (14) Blocking-out involves the local people who demolish the old clutter of shacks and rebuild them.
  • (15) The new experiments used electronic delay lines to simulate echo delay, thus avoiding movement of loudspeakers to different distances and the possible creation of delay-dependent backward masking between stimulus echoes and cluttering echoes from the loudspeaker surfaces.
  • (16) "There are parents who worry that what used to be a clear two-year run during the sixth form – when you had the chance to do sport and art and music as well as getting into deep study – has become cluttered up by too many modules, too many exams, which have led to too much time being spent weighing what you know and not enough time actually getting to grips with the subject," he said.
  • (17) This paper demonstrates that theory of signal detectability (TSD) methodology is applicable to bats and uses it to show that an important element of clutter limiting in Eptesicus fuscus and Noctilio leporinus is backward masking of phantom targets by the real echo from the loudspeakers used to generate them.
  • (18) • Doubles from €90, +34 915 393 282, artriphotel.com Hidden gem Antigua Casa Talavera Antigua Casa Talavera on Calle de Isabel La Católica is a cluttered, colourful fairyland of handmade Spanish ceramics.
  • (19) My first task is to make sure the room is laid out in an accessible way; there must be good wheelchair access and as little clutter as possible to make it safe for people with a visual impairment.
  • (20) Distractions, such as the music production business and clutter, such as teddy bears, have gone and healthier food options introduced.

Words possibly related to "clattering"

Words possibly related to "cluttering"