What's the difference between rung and trundle?

Rung


Definition:

  • () of Ring
  • (p. p.) of Ring
  • () imp. & p. p. of Ring.
  • (n.) A floor timber in a ship.
  • (n.) One of the rounds of a ladder.
  • (n.) One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.
  • (n.) One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel; also, one of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hancock is covering the same portfolios but has moved up a rung from his previous position as a parliamentary under secretary of state.
  • (2) In other cases local numbers were reported to state agencies but then not up the next rung, to the federal government.
  • (3) The National Association of Estate Agents said: "This announcement has added a new rung to the property ladder, one within reach of thousands of young families."
  • (4) They usually didn’t get him the best delivery times,” Runge said.
  • (5) In the first half of 2014, UK sales of vinyl are expected to be 1.2m, more than 50% up on the same period last year Hanging over everything Runge showed me was an awkward question.
  • (6) I've just rung my boss and my workplace is under water.
  • (7) But on the flip side you see a young boy and outstanding player in Amavi make the wrong decision at the wrong time to take someone on that late in the game, and unfortunately we came away with nothing.” Pardew had rung the changes at half-time as Palace struggled to find their rhythm and looked like a team with too many players in unfamiliar roles.
  • (8) "It's no good hoping people will climb the property ladder if the bottom rung is missing.
  • (9) are described: an analytical one, a Runge-Kutta simulation and an "asymptotic" method.
  • (10) The proposed law would only allow gay couples the right to adopt if they were married, not in a civil partnership – a distinction that has rung alarm bells among equality groups.
  • (11) The coupled equations for flow through collapsible tubes are solved using a Runge-Kutta finite difference scheme.
  • (12) For young people already struggling to reach the bottom rung of the housing ladder, it looks to be pulled up even further.
  • (13) And that was a good decision, I think.” Runge made regular trips to the plant at Orsman Road, N1, where he inspected what was on offer – not just presses, but an archive of the metallic master copies of stampers used to make thousands of different records, by artists including Simon & Garfunkel and the Manic Street Preachers, all of which could conceivably be put back into production.
  • (14) And helping borrowers move up the property chain can help free up homes lower down the chain for those borrowers looking to get on the first rung of the ladder."
  • (15) About 83.3 per cent were illiterate and belonged to the lowest rung of the socio economic scale.
  • (16) Edward M Kennedy, who died of brain cancer on Tuesday at the age of 77, was a man who made it his life's work to, as President Obama said in the funeral that took place in the church hours later, "give a voice to those who could not be heard", and to "add a rung to the ladder of opportunity".
  • (17) Study of cardiac arrhythmia may be pursued vertically, as up the rungs of a ladder, from symptom to ECG, to EPS, to local lesion, to intracellular metabolism and to alterations of the latter and their effects on charge-transfer by ions across the cell membrane.
  • (18) For Gabriela Salinas, commercial manager of a publishing company, the gender pay gap is particularly evident on the top rungs of the corporate world.
  • (19) Hoarding isn't the privilege of a few Saudi royals; it is a feature at almost every rung of the property ladder.
  • (20) Analysis by the Guardian of 50 of the UK's most valuable companies shows that women account for only 14% of staff serving on executive committees – the management level just one rung below the boardroom and which are viewed as the pipeline of talent to fill future board vacancies.

Trundle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) A round body; a little wheel.
  • (v. i.) A lind of low-wheeled cart; a truck.
  • (v. i.) A motion as of something moving upon little wheels or rollers; a rolling motion.
  • (v. i.) A lantern wheel. See under Lantern.
  • (v. i.) One of the bars of a lantern wheel.
  • (v. t.) To roll (a thing) on little wheels; as, to trundle a bed or a gun carriage.
  • (v. t.) To cause to roll or revolve; to roll along; as, to trundle a hoop or a ball.
  • (v. i.) To go or move on small wheels; as, a bed trundles under another.
  • (v. i.) To roll, or go by revolving, as a hoop.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is why, you see, people with rucksacks pummel all those in their immediate vicinity with their giant sacks as they trundle on their way, whacking them about as they blithely move about trains, pavements or any other public area.
  • (2) The vehicle has been trundling around the large Gale crater looking for evidence that Mars was habitable in the ancient past.
  • (3) "Outside of the COI I'd say we had been trundling along nicely.
  • (4) We left with a wind-up frog that seemed entrancingly lifelike in the shop floor demo, but at home just trundled dully up and down the bathtub until it caught black mould and was banished to the airing cupboard.
  • (5) 5 min: Hughes brings down Trundle in the middle of the park and Bristol City will take this chance to chip the ball into the box.
  • (6) Instead of shooting from an increasingly tight angle, he drags the ball back into the path of Lahm, trundling along behind him.
  • (7) It denies the rebels have surface-to-air missiles, despite video footage showing the truck-mounted system trundling through east Ukraine (and more recently heading back to Russia).
  • (8) The train now trundles through silent stations, its wagons free of the crowds of men, women and children who once clung to roofs and ladders.
  • (9) Viktor Nemets plays the decent, dogged driver who trundles through lawless rural badlands before grinding his gears in a gutted community where the menfolk have gone to the bad and the police are too busy tracing nude pictures out of girlie magazines to do anything about it.
  • (10) The $2.5bn (£1.6bn) trundling science lab began its mission on Mars after a dramatic arrival last month in which the rover was winched to the surface from a spacecraft hovering overhead on rocket thrusters.
  • (11) The clearance falls to Shaw, who trundles forward until someone deigns to close him down, which is quite a while.
  • (12) Jamaica meanwhile try a couple of long balls over the top (their predicted tactic pre-game) before Woodbine tries a shot from distance that trundles weakly out for a goal kick.
  • (13) The breakthrough came after nine minutes when Navas cut the ball back into Touré’s path and the Ivorian’s shot flicked off two players before trundling past Myhill almost in slow motion.
  • (14) Trundling on a cheesy tourist trail around the Italian capital (the Trevi fountain, the Spanish Steps), it tells four whimsical stories that never intersect, meaning that its most watchable stars – Alec Baldwin, Penélope Cruz, Roberto Benigni and Allen, appearing in one of his movies for the first time since Scoop, in 2006 – never interact.
  • (15) One plan is for a mass "kiss-in" as the Popemobile trundles past.
  • (16) There is little sign that the country faces yet another fateful election next Sunday, except for a couple of posters in support of the ruling Justice and Development party, or AKP, and a solitary election van trundling through the streets blaring AKP’s campaign messages through the rows of immaculate yellow and beige housing blocks.
  • (17) Over four days as the train trundled its way through the heart of Russia and in to Mongolia, two people who were adamant they were not looking for love, opened their hearts, fell madly in love, began planning a future, pledging to spend the rest of their lives together.
  • (18) If you live in rural Cumbria, chances are you don’t see the inside of many buses: in some parts a bus comes trundling along once a week.
  • (19) 76 min: Uruguay substitution: Alvaro Pereira, who has played well, trundles off, to be replaced by Abreu, author of that splendid winning spotkick against Ghana.
  • (20) Google’s cars are trundling slowly around city streets, a strategy that exposes them to more risk and uncertainty, but also means that any accidents are likely to be slow-speed bumps and scrapes.