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clang
English
Etymology
1570, of imitative origin; Compare also Saterland Frisian Kloang, West Frisian klank, Dutch klank, German Klang (from klingen), Danish and Swedish klang, Latin clangere.
Pronunciation
- enPR: kl?ng, IPA(key): /klæ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Noun
clang (plural clangs)
- A loud, ringing sound, like that made by free-hanging metal objects striking each other.
- Quality of tone.
- The cry of some birds, including the crane and the goose.
- (psychology, psychiatry) A word or phrase linked only by sound and not by meaning, characteristic of some mental disorders.
- 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
- For much of this day, Mrs Y. wrote in her diary, covering page after page in a rapid scrawl full of paligraphic repetitions, puns, clangs, and violent, perseverative crossings-out […]
- 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
- (music) Alternative form of klang
Translations
Verb
clang (third-person singular simple present clangs, present participle clanging, simple past and past participle clanged)
- (transitive) To strike (objects) together so as to produce a clang.
- (intransitive) To give out a clang; to resound.
Derived terms
- clanger
- clanging
- clangy
Translations
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reverberation
English
Alternative forms
- reverbation (rare)
Etymology
From Old French reverberation, from Medieval Latin reverberatio.Morphologically reverberate +? -ion
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?i?v??(?)b??e???n/, /???v??(?)b??e???n/, /???v??(?)b??e???n/
Noun
reverberation (countable and uncountable, plural reverberations)
- A violent oscillation or vibration.
- The discomfort caused by the bat's reverberation surprised Tommy.
- An echo, or a series of overlapping echoes.
- The reverberation that followed Marilyn's shout filled the cavern.
- The reflection of light or heat; a reflection in, or as though in, a mirror.
- Like the several reverberations of the same image from two opposite looking glasses.
- (chiefly in the plural) An evolving series of effects resulting from a particular event; a repercussion.
- Reverberations from the Vietnam war affect our society to this day.
Translations
References
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “reverberation”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
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