rumbling
part of speech
verb form (rumble, rumbles, rumbled, rumbling); noun (a rumbling, rumblings); adjective (rumbling)
meaning for a pupil
1) Rumbling is making a long, deep, low sound, like thunder far away or a big truck passing. tree →
2) Rumbling is the sound your tummy makes when you are hungry. tree →
3) Rumblings are early signs that people are unhappy or that trouble is coming. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Jeremiah uses the rumbling of wheels to describe an invading army so terrifying that fathers forget their children. In the primary lessons: In stories, rumbling sounds build tension: thunder, a volcano, an earthquake or a monster coming. In science, rumbling is a low-pitched sound made by slow vibrations. In safety lessons, a rumbling from a mountain or the ground can be a warning sign. Phrases: «rumbling tummy», «rumbling thunder», «rumblings of trouble».
examples
- At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers look not back to their children for feebleness of hands; (Prophets JER.47.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- My tummy was rumbling before lunch. tree →
- We heard thunder rumbling in the distance. tree →
- A train went rumbling over the bridge. tree →
- The volcano had been rumbling for days. tree →
- The rumbling of the trucks woke the baby. tree →
- There were rumblings of anger among the players. tree →
- The ground started rumbling and the dog barked. tree →
- The old washing machine was rumbling loudly. tree →
- Every now and then a dull rumbling was heard. tree →
note
It is the -ing form of «rumble»; drop the e before -ing (rumble → rumbling). Can be a verb form, an adjective (a rumbling noise) or a noun (the rumbling). In British slang, «to rumble someone» means to find out their secret; this is different from the sound.
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «rumbling» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.