rattle
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)
the death rattle
Types & categories
- noise hypernym
- crepitation rale hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
make short successive sounds
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- rattle down also see
- yack also see
- rattle derivation
Sense 3 noun
a baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken
Types & categories
- toy hypernym
Related & opposite
- rattle derivation
Sense 4 verb
shake and cause to make a rattling noise
Types & categories
- shake hypernym
Related & opposite
- rattlesnake derivation
- rattle derivation
- rattle derivation
Sense 5 noun
loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake's tail
Types & categories
- tail hypernym
Parts & wholes
- rattlesnake part holonym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | rattle |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | rattle |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | noise |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | crepitation rale |
| 2 | also see | Related & opposite | rattle down |
| 2 | also see | Related & opposite | yack |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | rattle |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | sound |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | ruckle |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | crackle |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | rattle |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | toy |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | rattlesnake |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | rattle |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | rattle |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | shake |
| 5 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | rattlesnake |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | tail |