What's the difference between rumbling and rumpling?

Rumbling


Definition:

  • () a. & n. from Rumble, v. i.

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.

Rumpling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rumple

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A large man with a rumpled shirt, snowy beard and hair pulled into a ponytail, the commissioner resembles a hippy Santa Claus but is a tough, shrewd operator.
  • (2) He is sound in wind and limb, vision and hearing, his eyes sparkle, his face is scarcely rumpled by time.
  • (3) So how did this rumpled everyman, who dresses in T-shirts and baggy trousers to meet corporate chiefs, end up being courted by the global elite, from princes to politicians?
  • (4) The eternal undergraduate, all rumpled shirt, baggy cords, student specs and unkempt hair, he looks as though he's just got out of bed - which he has.
  • (5) A witty man, who was a curious mixture of mischief and irritability, and who always had the rumpled appearance of one who had spent the night sleeping rough, Gray was seldom seen without a cigarette in one hand and a glass in the other.
  • (6) The eggs produced were non-viable and the egg capsule comprised a rumpled lipid and ruptured chitin layer.
  • (7) Perseveringly urchin-like, he was rumpled enough to evoke Minnesota Fats' observation that dressing a pool player in a tuxedo is like putting whipped cream on a hot dog.
  • (8) Still there are no houses or cars, just hills in folds like a rumpled blanket, empty fields – and then a crowd of black cows, way off in the lee of a line of trees.
  • (9) A vegetarian with a penchant for cardigans and rumpled trousers, he has campaigned using public transport and carrying a rucksack.
  • (10) And it is true that a lot of female selfie aficionados take their visual vernacular directly from pornography (unwittingly or otherwise): the pouting mouth, the pressed-together cleavage, the rumpled bedclothes in the background hinting at opportunity.
  • (11) The most famous bed in contemporary art, a tangle of stained and rumpled sheets bearing expensive witness to a time of heartbreak for the artist Tracey Emin , is coming to the Tate gallery on long loan from its new owner, the German businessman and collector Count Christian Duerckheim.
  • (12) The result is that New Labour’s second generation often looks like a smooth, besuited set of careerists, elite members of a spadocracy against which Corbyn appears the paragon of rumpled authenticity.
  • (13) Somehow Corbyn looks smaller and more permanently rumpled than he actually is.
  • (14) Early into the administration he met the president and his economics team, "and it was just clear that rumpled professors with beards just didn't come across as being so impressive.
  • (15) Across the valley to the west is the rumple of a high glacier, a face of snow; to the east, a horseshoe cup of grey and green.
  • (16) And while both vied for the White House as crusading liberal outsiders fueled by big rallies and throngs of youthful supporters, Jackson in 1984 was the loquacious, nationally known, media-anointed heir to Dr Martin Luther King Jr, at a time when Sanders, exactly one month Jackson’s senior, was the rumpled, twice-elected socialist-independent mayor of Burlington, Vermont.
  • (17) Expect the long-promised marriage tax bonus , a rumpled old rabbit to pull out of the Tory top hat, the idea that a small sum will send cohabiters dashing down the aisle.
  • (18) And if so, how will it cope with the fact sex is now so restricted in mainstream movies it's easier to shoot a twerking Disney star than rumpled sheets on celluloid?
  • (19) So when Matthew Dear plays London's Boiler Room club night, with everyone else's clothing lumpen and translucent with sweat, it's a pleasure to see him imperious in an elegantly rumpled white collared shirt and gothic Teddy Boy hair.
  • (20) On a July evening nearly a year later, Dr Anna Pou, wearing rumpled surgical scrubs, answered a knock on her door.

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