(v. i.) To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher.
(n.) High-sounding language, without importance or dignity of thought; boisterous, empty declamation; bombast; as, the rant of fanatics.
Example Sentences:
(1) I took some Bolivian textiles to the interview and ranted on about Eduardo Galeano and Márquez.
(2) Eva Carneiro, the Chelsea doctor, has had her responsibilities at the club scaled back after being on the receiving end of a rant from José Mourinho on Saturday, and she is not expected to continue being on the bench during games.
(3) Of Khan's murder accusation, Anwar replied: "It's a madman's rant.
(4) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
(5) As West said in a 2013 Twitter rant , he is interested in consulting all types of people to solve the world’s problems.
(6) Now then, in his infamous rant at the press, Joe Kinnear told hacks to ask people like you what they thought of him.
(7) Homegrown talent Facebook Twitter Pinterest There’s not much in the way of English-speaking talent, but Papi Jiang has become China’s biggest internet sensation after her satirical rants on topics of popular culture went viral on Youku (A Chinese version of YouTube) earlier this year.
(8) At first it was everyday stuff like what he wants for dinner but then essentially he began ranting.
(9) Donald Trump has reportedly yelled down the telephone at Australia’s prime minister and veered off into rants about China and Nato with French leader François Hollande.
(10) Consider their peerless dead parrot sketch which, in many people's memories, ends when Cleese does his huge rant, and Palin grudgingly offers to replace the bird.
(11) Those human cytokines known as interleukin 8, platelet factor 4, beta thromboglobulin, IP-10 and melanoma growth stimulating factor or GRO can be assigned to a subfamily based on their location on chromosome 4 and unique structural features, whereas the second subset consisting of LD78, ACT-2, I-309, RANTES, and macrophage chemotactic and activating factor (MCAF) are all closely linked on human chromosome 17.
(12) Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling lied about the tape recording of his racist rant in a bungled attempt to neutralise the controversy, according to the National Basketball Association.
(13) Carneiro had only previously made one post on her public page but she took to the social media platform to “thank the general public for their overwhelming support” in the wake of Mourinho’s rant.
(14) Updated at 3.00pm BST 12.58pm BST "I could rant like this for hours... let's do some questions."
(15) Or even that little-known film called Pulp Fiction, in which Christopher Walken gives a virtuoso performance as Captain Koons, with a deranged rant about hiding his watch from evil "yellow slopes".
(16) Our results indicate that RANTES and MIP-1 alpha are crucial mediators of inflammatory processes in which eosinophils predominate.
(17) He spent two days wandering around town … ranting to anyone that would listen.
(18) The federations brought forward the launch of their poster campaign against police funding cuts after Mitchell was accused of calling Downing Street police officers "plebs" in a foul-mouthed rant last week.
(19) Thus you can witness unironical celebrations of Rand Paul as an original thinker, despite the fact that his every core policy proposal reads like a distorted Xerox of an older Xerox of his father’s decades of rant-pamphleteering.
(20) When the allegations against him were first aired on ESPN on Sunday, he ranted on Twitter against Adam Schefter, the journalist who reported them, and dismiss the claims as “lies”.
Ranter
Definition:
(n.) A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.
(n.) One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; -- called also Seekers. See Seeker.
(n.) One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt.
Example Sentences:
(1) They seem to think in a toxic media market, dominated by professional ranters and by one player, News Corp, intent on using its market dominance to pursue bleedingly obvious political and commercial agendas – that the ABC is not only comprehensive and reliable, but essential.
(2) Within this apocalyptic tradition, Cohn identified the Flagellants who massacred the Jews of Frankfurt in 1349; the widespread heresy of the Free Spirit; the 16th-century Anabaptist theocracy of Münster (though some have criticised Cohn's account of this extraordinary event as lurid); the Bohemian Hussites; the instigators of the German peasants' war; and the Ranters of the English civil war.
(3) For Abbott, on the precipice of fulfilling his destiny in politics, it would have seemed like collegiality, not outright soul-selling, to become a man for Peta and for Brian down in party headquarters, a man for the colleagues, a man for the Liberal party base, a man for Rupert and for Alan Jones and for Ray Hadley (when Scott Morrison wasn’t available) – a man who would validate the various irrationalisms of the wireless ranters and the white male columnists in Rupert’s employ – young and older fogeys who cherish past certainties, and who feel just as ambivalent about the future as Abbott himself feels.
(4) It is a book fair in October with "all-day cabaret starring assorted ranters, poets, singers and comics; all-day film showings and two kids' spaces".
(5) MSNBC's resident ranter and news commentator Keith Olbermann – who once described a Republican senator as "an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model" – tweeted his umbrage at Stewart's intimation that he is unhelpfully hyperbolic, possibly before smashing his Blackberry underfoot.
(6) The derogatory comedy of Bernard Manning and Benny Hill was elbowed off the airwaves by proudly anti-racist, anti-sexist comics of the younger generation: anti-Thatcher ranter Ben Elton; Alexei Sayle, who describes his younger self as "a fat man in a suit, shouting at people for not being political enough"; feminist comics French and Saunders, Emma Thompson and Jo Brand.
(7) This week he will be interviewed by the rightwing ranter, radio host Rush Limbaugh, Limbaugh's TV equivalents, all three prime time hosts on Fox News, and play verbal softball with Oprah Winfrey.
(8) We were correct not to engage with the ranters on the right.
(9) More pub ranter than soundbite-spewing talking head.
(10) This has not been not a harmonious year, and male rage is definitely part of the landscape – the trolls, men’s rights movement misogynists, Gamergate ranters, and the perpetrators of the actual violence, which has not stopped.
(11) An intriguing snapshot of a hack's navel, it at least earned me the grand sobriquet "Ranter of the Guardian" in the Daily Mail (who know a thing or two about publishing ill-thought-through opinions themselves, after all), though the affair needn't be examined in any further detail here.
(12) This week’s cause for irritability is the stupidity of both the pro-privatisation lobby (the government and red-necked Conservatives, who want to privatise everything that moves) and the anti-privatisationists (the “keep your mucky capitalist hands off our perfect NHS” ranters).
(13) More than any other modern novelist, he has used fiction as confession and the displacement of confession: his ranters, complainers and alter egos, from Portnoy to Zuckerman to Mickey Sabbath all seem Rothian, even when they are only standing in for Roth.