Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Rat"

A: Oh, he probably said Pack-Rat, it refers to a person who keeps things even when they’re not very important. It can be an insult but it doesn’t have to be.

A: It doesn't make sense. Maybe they meant to write "rate" instead of "rat".

A: I've never heard of "rat position" before. By instinct, it looks to me like a typo/autocorrect of "rat poison."

A: You could even remove 'Until I' and say "At least we would be out of the rat race had I worked up the seniority in my job." The English language can be a little complicated !

A: I would take this phrase to mean that even though someone has grown older, they did not lose any of their bad qualities.

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A: Mom to child: Your room is so messy, it looks like a rat's nest. Pick up your things!

A: I think you're a little confused? Rattle has nothing to do with rats. Rattle as a verb means to shake, or as a noun means something that makes noise when you shake it. Rattles are common toys for babies, since babies like to make noise.

Examples with "rat":

"I have a pet rat."

"The old house is infested with rats."

"I smell a rat." (An idiom, it means you think you're being deceived.)

Examples with "rattle":

"Give the baby her rattle."

"The snake shook its rattle." (Rattlesnakes have a rattle on the tail that makes noise as a warning.)

"The ape rattled the bars of its cage."

A: If a person does something wrong and someone else who sees them do it tells a person of authority about what the person did, they are telling on them/ratting them out. "I was cheating on my test and Billy ratted me out."

A: Rats are bigger and a mouse is much smaller

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A: Just 'snitch.'

A: A rat and a mouse (though related) are different animals.

Rats are a larger animal that can grow to 2 pounds (sometimes larger in the wild). They have long, pointy heads and a hairless tails. While many can be shy, they sometimes can be very aggressive as well. Because they grow so large, bigger ones are often too big for cats to catch, so small dogs are ideal.

Mice are smaller. They stay small, and their ears are larger compared to their head size. They have fur on their tails, and are very shy. It is very rare and odd for a mouse to act aggressive. Cats have no problem catching a mouse--so long as they are fast.

A: Ohhh, figuratively, if you called someone a mouse I would take that to mean "meek" ("Don't worry about him, he's a little mouse"). But if you called someone a rat ("That guy is a rat!"), I would take that to mean "a cheat, liar or creep".

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A: I slept well last night

A: I m doing work Alone in afternoon

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A: It's used to describe the neverending competition between society members to achieve a certain goal.
It came from the idea of lab rats being in a maze fighting each other to get to the cheese first even though in the end the scientists will just drag them right back to the beginning after they do

A: The rats without breakfast showed a slowed epigenetic system in their liver which relates to fat metabolism, and a shorter period of body temperature rise while eating. The team conclude that the abnormal rhythm in body temperature and liver cause the declined energy consumption, and increased the chance of obesity.

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A: Almost perfect, but I would change "a number of traits" to "numerous traits"

A: Your friend is right. In more slang, eaten doesn't have a harsh t sound, BUT it is still two syllables. You pronounced it a lot like "een" when a slang version would sound more like "ee-unn" (it is so hard to write out sounds... listen to the recording to hear what I mean)

A: eating*