rattleとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Verb from Middle English [Term?], either from 古期英語 [Term?] (not attested) or Middle Dutch ratelen, ultimately imitative. The noun (c. 1500) is from the verb.

名詞

rattle (複数形 rattles)

a baby with a rattle (2)

1. (onomatopoeia) a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another.

   I wish they would fix the rattle under my dashboard.

   • (Can we date this quote by Matthew Prior かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     The rattle of a drum.

2. A baby’s toy designed to make sound when shaken, usually containing loose grains or pellets in a hollow container.
   • 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. A device that makes a rattling sound such as put on an animal so its location can be heard.
4. (music) A musical instrument that makes a rattling sound.
   • (Can we date this quote by Sir Walter Raleigh かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

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

5. (dated) Noisy, rapid talk.
   • (Can we date this quote by Hakewill かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     All this ado about the golden age is but an empty rattle and frivolous conceit.

6. (now まれに) Trivial chatter; gossip.
   • 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, III.v.5:

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

7. (dated) A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
   • 1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Goldsmith, Oliver”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:

     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.

8. A scolding; a sharp rebuke.

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9. (zoology) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.

   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.

10. The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; death rattle.
11. Any plant of the genus Rhinanthus, whose seeds produce a rattling noise in the wind.

派生語

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.
   • (Can we date this quote by P. G. Wodehouse かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     “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: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by 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.

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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.

派生語

参考

語源 2

From Arabic رَطْل‎ (raṭl), variant of classical رِطْل‎ (riṭl), ultimately from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra).

名詞

rattle (複数形 rattles)

1. (historical units of measure) Alternative form of rottol: a former Middle Eastern and North African unit of dry weight usually equal to 1–5 lb (0.5–2.5 kg).

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