What's the difference between hustle and rustle?

Hustle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.
  • (v. i.) To push or crows; to force one's way; to move hustily and with confusion; a hurry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This isn’t so much the old push-and-run Spurs as push-and-run-and-snipe-and-hustle, albeit in a controlled kind of way.
  • (2) The women in Wednesday's protest climbed up on the gates of the justice ministry until police pulled them down and hustled them shouting into the building as an angry crowd gathered, many of them lawyers there for work.
  • (3) "You regroup and start hustling again, but it's crucial that you believe in your own creative processes.
  • (4) The president, played by Martin Sheen, had to hustle to find new neckwear from someone on his staff with less than a minute to air.
  • (5) The flat is opposite Covent Garden tube station in the heart of London, and a stone's throw from the hustle and bustle of Leicester Square.
  • (6) Journalists and the public roll their eyes as he makes yet another passive-aggressive claim that referees are against him, directors tire of his constant hustling and players perhaps weary of his intensity.
  • (7) Like most provincial towns around Russia , Kirov is far from the hustle and bustle of Moscow's political life.
  • (8) Every mainland resident aspires to move to the island someday, which is why the Lagos Hustle will never stop.
  • (9) For the serious riders, this outing was a warm-up for the Wolfpack Hustle race on 15 August, which drew international contestants.
  • (10) Spike Jonze's Her joined American Hustle as one of the unexpected early frontrunners in the awards race after being named as best film of the year by the National Board of Review.
  • (11) The Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, was hustled away from Parliament Hill and was safe, a spokesperson confirmed .
  • (12) One cannot help but admire the bovine hustle with which the Labour party and most of the commentariat converged on the story that it had lost the election not because it had chosen the wrong Miliband, but because it had failed to address voters’ “aspirations”.
  • (13) Cooper was Oscar-nominated for his acting work on 2012’s Silver Linings Playbook and last year’s American Hustle , both of which were directed by David O Russell.
  • (14) Photograph: Alamy A great place to while away an afternoon, enjoying the tranquillity of the gardens, which make a stark contrast to the usual hustle and bustle of Delhi.
  • (15) Sure, movies should be fun and a great deal of the fun – indeed, I would go so far as to say the primary fun – of American Hustle lies in the fact that it resembles, in Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's spot-on description, "an explosion in a wig factory".
  • (16) Both American Hustle and 12 Years a Slave are expected to be among the nominees for the 2014 Oscars, which will be announced on 16 January.
  • (17) Similarly Henville, who has served prison time for drug offences, is shown trying to go straight (“I didn’t rob anyone or hustle anyone – I was just trying to be a young entrepreneur at the time,” he says of days as a dealer).
  • (18) Tony Jordan, who had a hand in several of the pivotal television dramas of the past 20 years, from EastEnders to Hustle and Life on Mars, is reminiscing over his formative years as a market-stall holder partly because he has just launched a competition to find new writers for his recently formed production company Red Planet.
  • (19) To get to the beach, they were hustled through a small gap in a fence that lined the sand.
  • (20) The Nativity has been a long-standing project for Jordan (Life on Mars, Hustle, EastEnders), who began researching it five years ago .

Rustle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves.
  • (v. i.) To stir about energetically; to strive to succeed; to bustle about.
  • (v. t.) To cause to rustle; as, the wind rustles the leaves.
  • (n.) A quick succession or confusion of small sounds, like those made by shaking leaves or straw, by rubbing silk, or the like; a rustling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
  • (2) There is the sound of engines hissing and crackling, which have been mixed to seem as near to the ear as the camera was to the cars; there is a mostly unnoticeable rustle of leaves in the trees; periodically, so faintly that almost no one would register it consciously, there is the sound of a car rolling through an intersection a block or two over, off camera; a dog barks somewhere far away.
  • (3) From ovary we can perceive a rustle produced by gas crossing in abdominal cavity.
  • (4) 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.
  • (5) The hillsides of the West Bank are rustling with industry.
  • (6) Recipe supplied by Sasha Martin, globaltableadventure.com Merguez sausage and sweet potato hash This unusual take on hash is quick to rustle up.
  • (7) Late summer light glances off stubble-filled fields, a delicate breeze rustles through the trees and birds chirp contentedly.
  • (8) On the cash-strapped Independent, they worry the money will dry up if Lebedev is jailed, while Evening Standard staff wonder how the local TV station is going to be rustled up out of an operation that has already been shorn of all journalistic fat.
  • (9) As the chancellor has found, even after Mervyn King has thrown the best part of £400bn at the economy, a recovery can't be rustled up to order.
  • (10) They used the guns they found there to rustle cattle in neighbouring Kenya and what is now South Sudan.
  • (11) It was once the scene of cattle rustling, with the various clans – including the Matheniko, Gei and Dodoth – of the Karamojong people stealing from and ambushing one another using guns looted from armouries after the fall of Idi Amin.
  • (12) There are lots of menacing notices about ‘DON’T COUGH – you will deafen millions of people’, ‘DON’T RUSTLE YOUR PAPERS’, and ‘Don’t turn to the announcer and say was that all right?
  • (13) You relax with a glass of local vin rosé , listening to the river and the rustling trees.
  • (14) He considers one of the key challenges to be starting a dialogue with spiritual leaders, known as spear masters, who get young men fired up to go cattle rustling in exchange for hefty fees.
  • (15) But first let it be said, whatever the merits of this latest policy, it would not have been rustled up unless the US economy was in the doldrums.
  • (16) Another wet, grey morning – and another rustle of music on the wind, this time by Tchaikovsky and this time in New Cross, south-east London, played by children at Myatt Garden primary school.
  • (17) Nasa scrambled to get replacement equipment aboard Dragon, as did schoolchildren who rustled up new science projects.
  • (18) Fifteen years after the fledgling business failed to rustle up $2m from Silicon Valley, Alibaba will be raising $21bn or more and will be valued at around $160bn, with dealings due to start next Friday.
  • (19) A thick tropical garden protects the breakfast terrace from the street, and Arthur often rustles up the egg and bacon himself.
  • (20) Or she's just stepped off Christopher Kane's catwalk at LFW and is rustling up a quick cake before she heads back to the after party.