different between clank vs gong

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klæ?k/
• Rhymes: -æ?k

Noun

clank (plural clanks)

1. A loud, hard sound of metal hitting metal.

Usage notes

• Clank usually expresses a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink.

Derived terms

• clankless
• clanky

Translations

Verb

clank (third-person singular simple present clanks, present participle clanking, simple past and past participle clanked)

1. (intransitive) To make a clanking sound

   The chains clanked.

2. (transitive) To cause to sound with a clank.

   The prisoners clank their chains.

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Malay gong, possibly onomatopoeia.

Noun

gong (plural gongs)

1. (music) A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a sonorous sound when struck with a soft hammer.
2. (Britain, slang) A medal or award, particularly Knight Bachelor.

Translations

Verb

gong (third-person singular simple present gongs, present participle gonging, simple past and past participle gonged)

1. (intransitive) To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong.
   • 1903, H. G. Wells, The Truth About Pyecraft

     Poor old Pyecraft! He has just gonged, no doubt to order another buttered tea-cake!

2. (transitive) To send a signal to, using a gong or similar device.
   1. To halt (originally, a contestant in a talent show; later, a performer, a speaker).
      • 1996, Stephanie Holt, Maryanne Lynch, Motherlode

        As she was gonged, host Daryl Somers swept rapidly across and salvaged an embarrassing situation by putting his arm around her and asking her whether she had children.

   2. To warn.

      The driver gonged the pedestrian crossing the tracks, but the pedestrian didn't stop.

3. (Britain, slang, transitive) To give an award or medal to.
   • 1997, Peter Stone, The Lady and the President (page 147)

     In 1972 he was awarded the British Red Cross Silver Medal for his services to the Red Cross. In 1978 he was 'gonged' once again, this time with the Queen's Jubilee Medal, marking the 25th year of her reign.

References

• The Gong Show on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English gong, from Old English gong, where it was originally a variant of the noun gang (“a going, walk, journey, way, etc.”), derived from the verb gangan (“to go, walk, travel”), whose relation to go in Proto-Germanic remains unclear. Doublet of gang.

Noun

gong (plural gongs)

1. (obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
   • c. 1000, Aelfric, Homilies, Vol. I, p. 290:

     Þaða he to gange com.

   • c. 1400, The Lay Folks Mass Book, Appendix iii, p. 125:

     I knoweleche to the that ther nys no goonge more stynkynge thenne my soule is.

   • a. 1513, Robert Fabyan, New Cronycles of Englande and of Fraunce, Vol. II, p. xxxii:

     The Iewe of Tewkysbury which fell into a Gonge vpon the Satyrday.

   • a. 1577,, George Gascoigne, Grief of Joye, Vol. II, § lxii:

     A stately Toye, a preciows peece of pellfe,
     A gorgeous gong, a worthles painted wall...

2. (obsolete) The contents of an outhouse pit: shit.

Alternative forms

• gang, gonge, goonge, goung, gounge, gung, gunge

Synonyms

• (outhouse): gonghouse; see also Thesaurus:bathroom
• (feces): See Thesaurus:feces

Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Mandarin ? (“merit; achievement”).

Noun

gong (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) A kind of cultivation energy, more powerful than qi.
2. (uncountable) An advanced practice that cultivates such energy.

References

Drung

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *gu? (“body; back”)

Noun

gong

1. back
2. body
3. health

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay gong.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/
• Hyphenation: gong
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

gong m (plural gongs, diminutive gongetje n)

1. gong, disc-shaped metal percussion instrument

Indonesian

Noun

gong (first-person possessive gongku, second-person possessive gongmu, third-person possessive gongnya)

1. (music) a large gong

Jingpho

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *gu? (“body; back”)

Noun

gong

1. physical body

Lashi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?/, /???/

Noun

gong

1. body
2. middle

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?^[1], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

French

Noun

gong m (plural gongs)

1. gong

Derived terms

• sauvé par le gong

Malay

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

gong (plural gong-gong, informal 1st possessive gongku, impolite 2nd possessive gongmu, 3rd possessive gongnya)

1. a large gong
2. sound of a gong

Mandarin

Romanization

gong

1. Nonstandard spelling of g?ng.
2. Nonstandard spelling of g?ng.
3. Nonstandard spelling of gòng.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Malay gong

Noun

gong m (definite singular gongen, indefinite plural gonger, definite plural gongene)

1. (music) a gong (percussion instrument)

Synonyms

• gongong

References

• “gong” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????/

Etymology 1

From the verb gå

Noun

gong m (definite singular gongen, indefinite plural gonger or gongar, definite plural gongene or gongane)

1. time

   Kor mange gonger hende det?

   How many times did it happen?

See also

• gang (Bokmål)

Etymology 2

From Malay gong

Noun

gong m (definite singular gongen, indefinite plural gongar, definite plural gongane)

1. (music) a gong (percussion instrument)

Synonyms

• gongong

References

• “gong” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From French gong.

Noun

gong n (plural gonguri)

1. gong

Declension

Spanish

Alternative forms

• gongo

Etymology

From Malay gong.

Noun

gong m (plural gongs)

1. gong

See also

• batintín

Zou

Adjective

gong

1. thin

References

• http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf