What's the difference between trundle and wallower?

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.

Wallower


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, wallows.
  • (n.) A lantern wheel; a trundle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) University websites wallowed in self-congratulation in the wake of the REF, where experts assessed research in 36 subject areas, looking at quality, the infrastructure that supported it, and its impact on the outside world.
  • (2) Let them wallow in the content that Bolt provides them, carefully calibrated to both infuriate Australia’s dwindling bigoted minority while reassuring them.
  • (3) As the turbulent commercial radio sector enters another new phase, Park wants to sweep away the thinking that has left too many of his colleagues wallowing in self-pity, and turn his fire on a familiar target.
  • (4) Her parents divorced when she was young, money was tight and there was no cable TV to wallow in.
  • (5) Unashamedly wallowing in pop Celebrating its 18th birthday, this year's V line-up reads like a typical, if solidly suburban, teenage house party playlist.
  • (6) The outrage is thumped home by this coincidence of timing: that the Premier League has reached its quarter century, now wallowing in £2.8bn annual television deals, with clubs spending £50m on right-backs , in the same year that the authorities have finally brought criminal charges for those deaths 28 years ago.
  • (7) Trimming, triangulating, sneaking small policy advantages and wallowing in the narcissism of small differences, the parties seemed locked in a distant and disreputable Westminster charade.
  • (8) The message is loud and clear to all dictators: you can arrest the opposition every other day, pass draconian laws and let your country wallow in poverty, as long as your troops are available for us when we need to go on a peace keeping mission in, say, Somalia.
  • (9) It was 12.24am, local time, when Alessandro Diamanti walked forward for the final, decisive kick and, when it was all done, Italy had booked a semi-final against Germany while England were wallowing in the familiar sense of deja vu that comes with another harrowing disappointment in a penalty shoot-out.
  • (10) When inspiration strikes, you have to hope that the other 10 people on stage will give you space to wallow in your "moment".
  • (11) Other newspapers, too, wallowed in the rumours of orgiastic high court judges, sado-masochistic cabinet ministers and aristocratic sex slaves wearing cards that read 'If my services don't please you, whip me'.
  • (12) Kevin and Perry Go Large is an excuse to wallow vicariously in the misery of adolescence.
  • (13) There, you wallow in yesteryear’s fabulosity, cast off by someone whose spending habits you’re morally outraged by but whose taste you can’t fault.
  • (14) He says his research allowed him to wallow in 70s conspiracy films such as The Conversation, The Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor, "though reading Pynchon and the Illuminatus!
  • (15) To wallow in it would be fun but sullying, and also obscures the fact that Simmonds has done us a favour.
  • (16) "The pursuit of judicial refuge may produce a paradoxical effect: in the short term a rich infusion of talent for the benches; but beyond that, critics argue, the future looks bleak.Sympathy for barristers – popularly perceived as wallowing in claret, six-figure salaries and refresher fees – is limited.
  • (17) When he wasn't writing, he was usually swimming, most often in his moat, or wallowing in the massive cast-iron bath that lived at the back of the house.
  • (18) It’s so routine.” Media coverage of climate change in Fiji doesn’t have the luxury of wallowing in the sort of cosseted denialism seen in the US, Britain or Australia.
  • (19) It would be amazing to be able to relish the moment and wallow in some exciting new technology and upcoming entertainment, but unfortunately it's all coming loaded with all this woolly, drab bullshit around it.
  • (20) A sly kick at the rear of Winston Reid’s legs prompted the winger’s second yellow card – and an early wallow in the Radox.

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