rumble
part of speech
verb (rumble, rumbles, rumbled, rumbling); noun (a rumble, rumbles)
meaning for a pupil
1) To rumble is to make a long, low, deep sound, like thunder or a big truck. tree →
2) (noun) A rumble is such a low rolling sound. tree →
3) (UK informal) To rumble someone is to find out their secret or trick. tree →
sense in the lessons
Used in stories and weather: thunder rumbles, a volcano rumbles before it erupts, a hungry tummy rumbles. In science about sound: low-pitched sounds and vibrations. A "rumble strip" on a road makes the car rumble to warn the driver.
examples
- Thunder rumbled in the distance. tree →
- My tummy is rumbling; it's lunch time. tree →
- The train rumbled over the bridge. tree →
- We heard a rumble before the volcano erupted. tree →
- The ground rumbled during the earthquake. tree →
- Mum rumbled our plan to stay up late. tree →
- The trucks rumbled past the house. tree →
- “We landed and we heard the rumble of water going gloomily through the darkness of the forest. tree →
note
Regular verb: rumbled, rumbling (drop the e). It is an onomatopoeic word: it sounds like what it means.
In the corpora
- The trumpet call is air blasted out through the trunk; elephants also make deep rumbles other elephants feel through their feet.
- Elephants recognise old friends after years apart and greet them noisily with rumbles, ear flapping and trunk touches.
- Elephants talk with very low rumbles that travel far, and they may feel them through their feet as well as hear them.
- Stroke a cat on your lap and you feel a low rumble through its body: the purr.
- Elephants hear very low rumbles we cannot hear and feel them through their feet, and they may sense distant thunderstorms.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «rumble» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.