What's the difference between rumble and thunder?

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.

Thunder


Definition:

  • (n.) The sound which follows a flash of lightning; the report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
  • (n.) The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt.
  • (n.) Any loud noise; as, the thunder of cannon.
  • (n.) An alarming or statrling threat or denunciation.
  • (n.) To produce thunder; to sound, rattle, or roar, as a discharge of atmospheric electricity; -- often used impersonally; as, it thundered continuously.
  • (n.) Fig.: To make a loud noise; esp. a heavy sound, of some continuance.
  • (n.) To utter violent denunciation.
  • (v. t.) To emit with noise and terror; to utter vehemently; to publish, as a threat or denunciation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Thunder now have a 2-0 series lead but can't afford to let their guard down considering they're about to face a wounded and fired up Kobe Bryant at home.
  • (2) The Oklahoma City Thunder, like most of the pre-postseason favorites, actually seemed to right themselves in Game 7 of their tougher-than-expected-series with the Memphis Grizzlies.
  • (3) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
  • (4) Last year, Feinstein thundered against the NSA monitoring Merkel, even as the senator remained a staunch supporter of most other NSA surveillance, to include its domestic operations.
  • (5) The Clippers rallied at the end of the period, outscoring the Thunder 8-0 to take a 90-86 lead.
  • (6) We are told the thunder and lightning made it impossible for the engineers to position the control room barge, thus delaying the operation.
  • (7) The Thunder, who seemed in perfect position to take a commanding 3-1 series lead until the game's final minutes instead find themselves tied 2-2 with an incredibly talented Clippers team that has luck, momentum and even public sentiment on its side.
  • (8) Washington always throws its weight around with willing sidekicks like Australia, but the convention is to do it in private, not thunder unpredictably in public about what you might or might not do, and issue contradictory statements about bilateral agreements agreed between leaders.
  • (9) Seven tonnes of thunderous fireworks lit up the night sky at Sydney harbour for the 1.5m revellers who lined the shores to welcome the new year in Australia.
  • (10) Their massed voices roll like thunder across the open-sided, scaffold-roofed stadium.
  • (11) Ribery lashes the thing towards goal with thunderous fury, Pyatov does well to get down and save, but Mamadou Sakho is on hand to tuck the ball home from close range.
  • (12) 2.28am GMT 15 mins Saborio seeks to redeem himself with a spot of helpful cheating, completely failing to take his distance at a Galaxy free-kick and somehow getting away with it - blocking the set piece near half-way and launching an RSL counter that concludes with Kyle Beckerman thundering a shot towards goal from the edge of the box.
  • (13) Durant’s Thunder team-mate Russell Westbrook and Blake Griffin of the Los Angeles Clippers also withdrew because of health concerns.
  • (14) The Warriors and Thunder gave us the best game of the year There's usually no better way to ensure a game won't be memorable than to hype it up as a potential playoff preview.
  • (15) In the three weeks since McCrory, a Republican, signed the legislation, a battery of prominent businesses and celebrities have issued thundering denunciations.
  • (16) The Xbox One has beat-em-'up Killer Instinct and game creation package Project Spark, while PS4 has third-person shooter Warframe and flight combat sim, War Thunder.
  • (17) We have seen a complete failure on the part of the Turnbull government to properly negotiate resettlement arrangements with PNG and to negotiate resettlement arrangements with third country options,” he thundered.
  • (18) 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.
  • (19) A thunderous mix of vuvuzelas and roars from the crowd greeted the former South African president as he was driven across the pitch in a golf cart with his wife Graça Machel.
  • (20) The product of energy flux and efficiency implies the unexpected conclusion that shocks occurring on atmospheric entry of cometary meteors and micrometeorites and from thunder may have been the principal energy sources for pre-biological organic synthesis on the primitive earth.