What's the difference between hike and rambling?

Hike


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Philip Shaw, chief economist at broker Investec, expects CPI to hit 5.1%, just shy of the 5.2% reached in September 2008, as the utility hikes alone add 0.4% to inflation.
  • (2) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
  • (3) It starts and ends in Vidigal and includes a hike up the mountain Tavares Bastos Jazz night at Maze pousada in Tavares Bastos Vidigal is not the only favela with nightlife credentials.
  • (4) Wood tells clients: Carney said an interest rate hike: “could happen sooner than markets currently expect”.
  • (5) But it has already attracted attention for paying some deferred bonuses early in the US to avoid a hike in tax rates.
  • (6) Big musical acts (such as BB King, Keith Urban and Queens of the Stone Age) appear during the summer concert lineup but there are also drop-in yoga sessions, and hiking and biking trails wind through sculpted rocks and wildflowers.
  • (7) "The minutes of August's MPC meeting, revealing the first split interest rate vote since July 2011, indicate that a 2014 rate hike cannot be ruled out," said Samuel Tombs, senior UK economist at Capital Economics .
  • (8) I was encouraged by a website called Rio Hiking , which lured me in with exciting descriptions of scaling Sugar Loaf and Corcovado, of rafting rivers, rappelling waterfalls and forging paths through rainforest, but they failed to answer my emails.
  • (9) Many Halifax and Bank of Scotland current account customers face a huge hike in overdraft charges, which will particularly punish those who regularly go into the red by a small amount, it emerged this week .
  • (10) Darling's pledge to cap VAT at 17.5% and lower bingo taxes were overshadowed by a surprise national insurance hike and a squeeze on public sector workers.
  • (11) Some cities including Seattle and New York have moved to increase their local rates, and big corporations including McDonald’s and Walmart have announced hikes in their hourly rates.
  • (12) The SEC views that move as necessary in part because the bond fund managers, too, have changed the way they operate in the decade or so since the last interest rate hike.
  • (13) And, as a consequence of the Fed’s interest-rate hike last month, the subsidy will increase by $13bn this year.
  • (14) To add to their woes, the cost of their dollar-denominated debt is rising; the US Federal Reserve said December’s rate hike is just the start of a “gradual” tightening cycle .
  • (15) Thousands of pollution deaths worldwide linked to western consumers – study Read more Cracking down In February the Beijing government announced a year on year 23% hike to its environmental protection and energy efficiency budget, taking it to 33.8bn yuan (£4bn).
  • (16) It stressed outdoor life and natural history: camping, hiking, swimming..." The other defining influence on his eventual specialty was pure accident.
  • (17) It is suggested that spontaneously occurring cryptic lesions that are themselves unable to induce the SOS system are subject to translesion synthesis under these conditions and trigger a burst of hitch-hiking mutations that are therefore effectively umuC dependent.
  • (18) But it’s easy to put an end to such rumours with a single, small rate hike – and that move has some benefits, too.
  • (19) • +30 24240 65245 Don't miss Alonissos is great for hiking and one of the easiest trails is up the cobbled kalderimi, or old mule path, to Hora.
  • (20) Guardian Money is here to help: Car insurance Car insurance premiums are set to break through the £600 barrier for the first time next year, as insurers pass on big cost increases and the fresh hike in insurance premium tax announced last month.

Rambling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ramble
  • (a.) Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The persona that emerged during day two of Breivik's 10-week trial was a rambling, repetitive obsessive, fixated on a threat he never truly managed to articulate, but which involved "cultural Marxists", whom he claimed had destroyed Norway by using it as "a dumping ground for the surplus births of the third world".
  • (2) In it he translated Trump’s coarse ramblings into charming straight talk and came up with the phrase “truthful hyperbole”, which captures brilliantly an approach to business and politics in which everything is the greatest, the most beautiful.
  • (3) There is also Mario Draghi at the ECB, rambling on about quantitative easing , a policy that Berlin detests.
  • (4) His statements to the police were rambling and often incoherent.
  • (5) Millions of people are coming out to vote … People that have never voted before.” In a rambling speech, Trump also said he was “disgusted” with companies that are leaving the US, called for better care for veterans and insisted that Isis would be destroyed, although he referred to the San Bernardino attacks as having happened in “Los Angeles” before correcting himself.
  • (6) After eight hours of rallying, Kuti was dismissive of accepting anything short of a full governmental U-turn as he settled down to a spliff in his home, a rambling two-storey affair down a potholed road.
  • (7) This goal was actually obscured by the tangled web of Prince's rambling 1906 book and his other publications on the case.
  • (8) But he'd been doing a bit of holiday cover for daytime DJs, and he has a tendency to, as he puts it, "ramble on": he recently treated the nation to a nine-minute oration on the shortcomings of Madonna's gig at Hyde Park.
  • (9) The caricature of the older person as slow, rambling and confused is a familiar stereotype, reinforced by a media that often focuses on perceived age-related failings in public figures such as Ronald Reagan, Menzies Campbell and, more recently, Rupert Murdoch.
  • (10) There was how he was responsible for one of the most jaw-droppingly crazy moments in deposition history where he responded to the question "is this your handwriting" with a rambling, lurid riff more suitable for a Penthouse letter section than the courtroom.
  • (11) The oft-criticised Active People survey will be replaced with a new measurement tool called Active Lives that will also measure other forms of activity such as cycling to work, dance and rambling as well as activity among children from the age of five for the first time.
  • (12) Fun.” In a 20-minute speech, Palin praised Trump and expressed her desire to “Make America Great Again”, using the opportunity to go on a rambling and confused attack on both parties.
  • (13) I am happy to ramble on about the benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle, but veggie dogs are some real bullshit “But Madeleine,” you say, “hot dogs are disgusting!
  • (14) Donald Trump’s mad hatter ramblings are outside the conservative reform movement and we will continue onward to deny him the nomination.” Kasich did not compete in Indiana as a result of a pact with Cruz and has so far only won his home state of Ohio.
  • (15) He took us on a long-distance ramble through his landmark priorities.
  • (16) During the summer there are regular guided rambles around the traditional Highland estate (a mix of farmed croft land, wood and moorland) and from Plockton to Kyle of Lochalsh, but it's worth keeping an eye out for special events and themed walks throughout the year.
  • (17) A Trump spokesperson emphasized to the Guardian that the Republican frontrunner’s answer was solely in response to the “training camps”, which is a common far rightwing conspiracy theory and not the questioner’s rambling statement before that.
  • (18) In answers that ranged from terse monosyllables to rambling monologues, Cayne said he wished the Securities and Exchange Commission had looked into the way rumours about Bear were spread: "Regardless of whether there was a conspiracy or not, the bottom line is the firm came under attack."
  • (19) I loved the short ramble around, and then the perfect recipe within.
  • (20) The steady feed of rambling selfie videos have prompted widespread mockery and scorn and in some cases have clearly further distracted from the plight of Harney County ranchers whom the militia claim to be backing.