What's the difference between rumble and thunderclap?

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.

Thunderclap


Definition:

  • (n.) A sharp burst of thunder; a sudden report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It launched Waldman into the public eye with a thunderclap she says was horrifying.
  • (2) Thunderclap headache described as severe, unusual and sudden was the main symptom in every case though the higher frequency of focal of diffuse signs in groups with a correct diagnosis attracted more careful attention in referral and diagnostic-therapeutic management.
  • (3) Recently in the literature a new name has been coined for them--thunderclap headaches, and some authors regard them as a sign of minor intracranial haemorrhage.
  • (4) Over the weekend men could be seen puffing on water pipes in a palm-shaded park, children playing between the flowerbeds and couples chatting demurely on benches as the unmistakable thunderclap of high explosive rippled through the air a few miles away – smoke rising between the minarets of a nearby Ottoman-era mosque.
  • (5) Most patients with a minor leak complain of a thunderclap type headache, which is usually located in the occipital area, or which seem to involve the whole brain.
  • (6) In the case of the 1960s, their bafflement would be total: imagine the fan from 1960 – with his Brylcreem, his Tommy Steele albums and his suspicion that trad-jazz might be the future of pop – gawping incredulously at the sight of Thunderclap Newman and Jimi Hendrix.
  • (7) Headache episodes with the thunderclap profile may require angiography for diagnosis even if the cerebrospinal fluid is bloodless.
  • (8) In the UK, the protest was launched at 11:30 with a thunderclap , a mass call on social media for wider opposition to spying.
  • (9) Estimates produced few thunderclaps on Monday but it emerged that the health department had only found out about the budget's big surprise – the multi-billion medical research fund bankrolled by copayments – very late in the process.
  • (10) None went on to have an unequivocal subarachnoid haemorrhage, and we conclude that angiography cannot be justified in patients with this type of "thunderclap headache".
  • (11) He is clearly the odd one out, the summer breeze among the rhetorical thunderclaps and bolts of lightning.
  • (12) Then, on 4 June, it plans a “thunderclap” on social media to tell young people that they have just three days left to register and influence their futures.
  • (13) Johnson replied: “I’m sure that your words will have broken like a thunderclap over Brussels and they will pay attention to what you have said.

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