rattleとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Middle English [Term?], from 古期英語 hratele, ultimately imitative. The noun (c. 1500) is from the verb.

動詞

rattle (三人称単数 現在形 rattles, 現在分詞 rattling, 過去形および過去分詞形 rattled)

1. (transitive, ergative) To create a rattling sound by shaking or striking.

   to rattle a chain

   Rattle the can of cat treats if you need to find Fluffy.

   • 2011 February 5, Michael Kevin Darling, “Tottenham 2 - 1 Bolton”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     It was a deflating end to the drama for the hosts and they appeared ruffled, with Bolton going close to a leveller when Johan Elmander rattled the bar with a header from Matt Taylor’s cross.

2. (transitive, informal) To scare, startle, unsettle, or unnerve.
   • 1923, P. G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves

     “Tut!” said old Bittlesham. “Tut is right”, I agreed. Then the rumminess of the thing struck me. “But if you haven’t dropped a parcel over the race,” I said, “why are you looking so rattled?”

   • 2014, Richard Rae, "Manchester United humbled by MK Dons after Will Grigg hits double", The Guardian, 26 August 2014:

     That United were rattled, mentally as well as at times physically – legitimately so – was beyond question. Nick Powell clipped a crisp drive a foot over the bar, but otherwise Milton Keynes had the best of the remainder of the first half.

3. (intransitive) To make a rattling noise; to make noise by or from shaking.

   I wish the dashboard in my car would quit rattling.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To assail, annoy, or stun with a ratting noise.
   • c. 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene ii]:

     Sound but another [drum], and another shall / As loud as thine rattle the welkin’s ear.

5. (transitive, obsolete) To scold; to rail at.
   • 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], OCLC 228727523:

     This came to the Bishop's Ear, who presently sent for the Curate, Rattled him to some Tune, with Menaces to the Highest Degree

6. To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering.

   We rattled along for a couple of miles.

7. To make a clatter with one's voice; to talk rapidly and idly; often with on or away.

   She rattled on for an hour.

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名詞

rattle (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 rattles)

a baby with a rattle (2)

1. Object that rattles.
   1. Any of various plants of the genera Rhinanthus and Pedicularis, whose seeds produce a rattling noise in the wind. [from 10th c.]
   2. A baby’s toy designed to make sound when shaken, usually containing loose grains or pellets in a hollow container. [from 16th c.]
      • 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], OCLC 960856019:

        Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

   3. (music) A musical instrument that makes a rattling sound. [from 17th c.]
      • 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], OCLC 37026674, (please specify |book=1 to 5):

        The rattles of Isis and the cymbals of Brasilea nearly enough resemble each other.

   4. (zoology) The set of rings at the end of a rattlesnake's tail which produce a rattling sound. [from 17th c.]

      The rattle of the rattlesnake is composed of the hardened terminal scales, loosened in succession, but not cast off, and modified in form so as to make a series of loose, hollow joints.

2. Rattling sound.
   1. (onomatopoeia) A rapid succession of percussive sounds, as made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another. [from 16th c.]

      I wish they would fix the rattle under my dashboard.

      • 1902, Arthur M. Winfield, The Rover Boys in the Mountains Chapter 4

        The rattle of a drum.

   2. (now rare) Noisy, rapid talk; babble. [from 17th c.]
      • 1627, G[eorge] H[akewill], An Apologie of the Povver and Prouidence of God in the Gouernment of the VVorld. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Iohn Lichfield and VVilliam Turner, […], OCLC 863459859:

        All this adoe about the golden age is but an empty rattle and frivolous conceipt.

   3. (uncountable, now rare) Trivial chatter; gossip. [from 17th c.]
      • 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, III.v.5:

        “And pray where, Lady Honoria,” cried Mrs. Delvile, “do you contrive to pick up all this rattle?”

   4. A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer. [from 17th c.]
      • c. 1794, Jane Austen, Lady Susan:

        ‘Sir James is a young Man of an amiable disposition, and excellent character;—a little too much of the Rattle perhaps, but a year or two will rectify that […] .’

      • 1856 February​, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith [from the Encyclopædia Britannica]”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, OCLC 30956848:

        It may seem strange that a man who wrote with so much perspicuity, vivacity, and grace, should have been, whenever he took a part in conversation, an empty, noisy, blundering rattle.

   5. (obsolete) A scolding; a sharp rebuke. [17th–19th c.]
   6. A rough noise produced in the throat by air passing through obstructed airways; croup; a death rattle. [from 18th c.]

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