different between clank vs tinkle
clank
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klæ?k/
- Rhymes: -æ?k
Noun
clank (plural clanks)
- 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)
- (intransitive) To make a clanking sound
- The chains clanked.
- (transitive) To cause to sound with a clank.
- The prisoners clank their chains.
Translations
clank From the web:
- what clank means
- what cranky means
- what clanker mean
- clank what is a mastery token
- clank what are gems
- clanked what does it mean
- what does clunker mean
- what does clanky mean
tinkle
English
Etymology
From Middle English tinclen, equivalent to tink +? -le (frequentative suffix).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?t??k?l/
- Rhymes: -??k?l
Verb
tinkle (third-person singular simple present tinkles, present participle tinkling, simple past and past participle tinkled)
- (intransitive) To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.
- 1753, Robert Dodsley, Agriculture
- The sprightly horse / Moves to the music of his tinkling bells.
- 1753, Robert Dodsley, Agriculture
- (transitive) To cause to tinkle.
- (transitive) To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling.
- To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
- And his ears tinkled, and the colour fled.
- (intransitive, informal) To urinate.
Synonyms
- (urinate): See Thesaurus:urinate
Derived terms
- atinkle
- tinkle-down
- tinkle the ivories
Translations
Noun
tinkle (plural tinkles)
- A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.
- (Britain, informal) A telephone call.
- Synonyms: call, ring
- (informal, euphemistic) An act of urination.
Translations
tinkle From the web:
- what twinkles
- what twinkles in the sky at night
- what twinkle twinkle little star
- what twinkles in the highwayman
- what tinkles on the shingles
- what tinkles
- what twinkles in the sky
- what twinkle does the poet refer to
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