What's the difference between rackett and rackety?
Rackett
Definition:
(n.) An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys.
Example Sentences:
(1) More on Cook with Steve Rackett: "There is a player in the England side that has captained 4 first division county games this season and averaged over 70 while doing it.
Rackety
Definition:
(a.) Making a tumultuous noise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her autobiographies had it both ways, as did she – "between the efficient young housewife of my first marriage and the rackety 'revolutionary' of 1943, 44, 45, there seems little connection.
(2) For one so self-conscious in his career choices, he's remarkably unself-regarding to talk to; almost as rackety and frank as Freddie Quell, his character in Paul Thomas Anderson's film – our movie of the year, of which his performance is the centrepiece.
(3) Goods are loaded on to a flotilla of wooden boats that grind their way up and down the lake using rackety diesel engines taken out of old tractors.
(4) Despite being owned by the same people as the ever-expanding Polpo chain, Spuntino retains the air of a rackety insiders’ secret.
(5) His traumatic childhood left him with the conviction – fully corroborated by events in the 20th and 21st centuries – that order in society has no more substance or solidity than a rackety stage set.
(6) To begin with, it was a different kind of image problem: in Georgian society gin was considered rackety and sordid, not fusty and old-fashioned as it was in the swinging 60s.
(7) Emin's beautiful body is her one great idea, but I suspect that she is rather prudish, which means that there are limits to the use she can make of her body and its rackety past.
(8) The play, about a pill-popping matriarch and her rackety family, will be adapted for the screen by Tracy Letts, who won a Pulitzer prize for the work.
(9) The Golden Globes are often seen as a cheerfully rackety outfit given colossal importance simply by preceding the Oscars, but they are also an institution that, in specifically honouring comedies, favours that lighter kind of movie which can be overlooked in the general solemnity of awards season.
(10) And today I still love it not for its ambivalent social message but because it reminds me of my granny, and the teas and the friends she used to have, because of the rackety parrots and the fabulous RP station announcements.
(11) Yet Gingrich's erratic conduct, his rackety private life and flamboyant intellectualism – he may have written more books than Reagan read – only serve to highlight the contrast between the two men.
(12) Now Joan Bakewell has responded that she feels that Berry would probably have led a quiet unchanging rural life, while a woman like herself "whizzed about" in a more "rackety" existence, so feminism mattered a lot more to her.