What's the difference between rubble and rumble?

Rubble


Definition:

  • (n.) Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls.
  • (n.) Rough stone as it comes from the quarry; also, a quarryman's term for the upper fragmentary and decomposed portion of a mass of stone; brash.
  • (n.) A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock.
  • (n.) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Who shot you in the back as you drove on your motorbike to dig your children out of the rubble?
  • (2) Such extravagant claims will be familiar to the scheme's architect, Richard Rogers, whose designs for the office development beside St Paul's Cathedral in the 1980s were torpedoed when Charles implied in a public speech that the plans were more offensive than the rubble left by the Luftwaffe during the blitz.
  • (3) The authorities had vacated the area, leaving barricades and piles of rubble in place.
  • (4) "Some people pulled me out from the rubble," said shopkeeper Sharifuddin Aurfan, who was wounded.
  • (5) Probably the starkest document yet to emerge from Labour’s election rubble, it underlines how hard it will be for Corbyn to send out a cohesive message when MPs, including those in his administration, are fundamentally opposed to his ideology .
  • (6) It takes time for Dhaka's ramshackle emergency services to arrive, so hundreds of locals clamber over and through the rubble, tearing at the concrete blocks and mangled metal with their hands.
  • (7) The turnstiles had been abandoned and you didn't even need a ticket, and there was rubble lying around everywhere.
  • (8) Supporters see him as saving South Korea from poverty and irrelevance by building up the economy from the rubble of the Korean war.
  • (9) Much of Libya and Yemen is reduced to rubble in a war where outside powers are the principal actors, prepared to fight until the last local is dead.
  • (10) When it knocked down our buildings, it didn't replace them with anything more offensive than rubble."
  • (11) A day earlier, the child's mother, Lauranie Jean, was pulled from the rubble of the house.
  • (12) People are literally sleeping amongst the rubble, children have died of hypothermia,” said the agency’s director in Gaza, Robert Turner.
  • (13) Restaurant Bar de la Marine (28 rue Achard) is a little oasis of comfort amid the rubble of the past and the concrete of the future.
  • (14) As they continued to trawl through water and rubble for the missing, on Monday police said they had reduced the number of people believed to have died in the Utøya massacre from 86 to 68 – the vast majority of them teenagers taking part in a leftwing political summer camp.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Syrian child pulled from rubble after Aleppo airstrike The fight for control of Aleppo has intensified in recent weeks following gains made by rebel groups battling the forces of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad.
  • (16) Pictures showed a large group of people lying on polished tiled flooring, most of them near to a wall and surrounded by rubble and other debris.
  • (17) The foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, said on Sunday: “While there are reports of extensive loss of life, at this point there are no reports of Australian deaths.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Emergency workers in Kathmandu continue to pull survivors from the rubble a day after the earthquake Twitter and Facebook pages are showing images of Australians in Nepal and many families have reported dozens of loved ones missing on the Red Cross’s Family Links website.
  • (18) Elsewhere in the shattered capital, an Israeli rescue team freed a 22-year-old man from the rubble.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rescuers search for five children trapped under rubble.
  • (20) "There are people still alive underneath [rubble], you can hear them crying for help, but time is running out.

Rumble


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance.
  • (v. i.) To murmur; to ripple.
  • (n.) A noisy report; rumor.
  • (n.) A low, heavy, continuous sound like that made by heavy wagons or the reverberation of thunder; a confused noise; as, the rumble of a railroad train.
  • (n.) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
  • (n.) A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
  • (v. t.) To cause to pass through a rumble, or shaking machine. See Rumble, n., 4.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
  • (2) In two exceptional patients with a prolonged PR interval, this apical sound was separated from a presystolic rumble that occurred during an accelerated phase of mitral inflow or at the A wave of mitral valve echograms.
  • (3) So little wonder that the spectacle of five safety incidents in a week – however minor – could trigger rumblings of distrust from a nervous public.
  • (4) As soon as the feed-in tariff was removed, that position looked very different.” What’s more, Rumble believes that solar energy was just a few years away from being cheap enough not to require government support to grow.
  • (5) The students said they were told in London that a journalist would accompany them and that they risked deportation or detention if they were rumbled.
  • (6) It was here in 1974 that the heavyweights fought the Rumble in the Jungle under the gaze of dictator Mobutu Sese Seko .
  • (7) The LV dimension was significantly decreased in HCM with rumble as compared with those of HCM without rumble and the normal subjects.
  • (8) It sounds like the rumblings of a typical North Korean purge.
  • (9) Sir Richard Dalton, former UK ambassador to Iran "Iran seems to have been tipped off and come clean because it knew it was about to be rumbled.
  • (10) "Fortunately Denmark seem to have rumbled this sneaky Dutch trick just in time to bench him... " 1 min: Denmark set the game in motion ... 2 min: Already the game has settled into the pattern we all foresaw, with Holland staking out the full width of the pitch and stroking the ball around deliberately.
  • (11) Rumblings of discontent had been circulating for months with the two clashing over player recruitment following a summer of inexplicable inactivity at Bloomfield Road , and the point of no return appeared to be reached when then-Burton boss Gary Rowett was openly offered the job in September.
  • (12) 1 Muhammad Ali's 'rope-a-dope' Ali's "rope-a-dope" plan for 1974's Rumble in the Jungle – his fight against unbeaten George Foreman for the world heavyweight title – was one of the riskiest strategies ever seen in boxing.
  • (13) On cardiac examination, a pansystolic bruit and a diastolic rumble were audible at the tricuspid focus.
  • (14) Less noticed, because less obviously political, are current intellectual rumblings, of which French economist Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century , a withering indictment of growing inequality, is the latest manifestation.
  • (15) All that changed on China’s “Black Monday” last week, when the stock market sell-off that had been rumbling along for weeks turned into a rout.
  • (16) There are rumblings that Goldman and UBS should go without some of their fees if it is found they got the valuation wrong.
  • (17) Turkish police appeared uneasy at the size of the crowd gathered near a fragile border fence and fired teargas grenades to disperse them, adding the crack of smaller explosions to the rumbling of the Isis advance.
  • (18) Factors necessary for the production of a diastolic rumble appear to include central flow, a flexible stent, and the presence of biologic material.
  • (19) Discontent has been rumbling at New York fashion week since 2010, when the official catwalks were relocated from the more intimate Bryant Park space to the Lincoln Centre.
  • (20) Perhaps because few of us know what a gene actually does, the debate about whether we are a product of our DNA or our environment rumbles on.