different between clang vs tintinnabulation

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)

1. A loud, ringing sound, like that made by free-hanging metal objects striking each other.
2. Quality of tone.
3. The cry of some birds, including the crane and the goose.
4. (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 […]

5. (music) Alternative form of klang

Translations

Verb

clang (third-person singular simple present clangs, present participle clanging, simple past and past participle clanged)

1. (transitive) To strike (objects) together so as to produce a clang.
2. (intransitive) To give out a clang; to resound.

Derived terms

• clanger
• clanging
• clangy

Translations

English

Etymology

Noun of action from tintinnabulate, from Latin tintinnabulum (“a bell”), from tintin?, a reduplicated form of tinni? (“ring, jingle”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?nt?n?næbj??le??n/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?nt?n?næbju??le??n/

Noun

tintinnabulation (countable and uncountable, plural tintinnabulations)

1. A tinkling sound, as of a bell or of breaking glass.
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 20

     Across the darkling meadows, from the heights of Hare, the tintinnabulation sounded mournfully, penetrating the curl-wreathed tympanums of Lady Parvula de Panzoust.

2. The ringing of bells.
   • 1849, Edgar Allan Poe, The Bells

     Keeping time, time, time,

     In a sort of Runic rhyme,

     To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells

     From the bells, bells, bells, bells,

     Bells, bells, bells —

     From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

Related terms

• tintinnabulate
• tintinnabulum

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