different between cymbal vs cymbaling

English

Etymology

From Middle English cymbal, from Old English cimbal, cimbala and Old French cimbale, both from Latin cymbalum (“cymbal”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (kúmbalon), from ????? (kúmb?, “bowl”). See also chime.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?mb?l/, [?s?mb??]
• Rhymes: -?mb?l
• Homophone: symbol

Noun

cymbal (plural cymbals)

1. (music) A concave plate of brass or bronze that produces a sharp, ringing sound when struck: played either in pairs, by striking them together, or singly by striking with a drumstick or the like.
   • 1605–08, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act V, sc. 3:

     The trumpets, sackbuts, psalteries and fifes,

     Tabours and cymbals and the shouting Romans,

     Make the sun dance.

   • 1611, King James Version, 1 Corinthians 13:1:

     Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

   • 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe, Act V:

     Trumpets and Drums shall fright her from the Throne,

     As sounding Cymbals aid the lab'ring Moon.

   • 1881–82, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, "The Mystic Trumpeter":

     I see the Crusaders' tumultuous armies—hark, how the cymbals clang ...

Hyponyms

• china

Derived terms

• cymbalist
• splash cymbal

Translations

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?m?b??l/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

cymbal m (definite singular cymbalen, indefinite plural cymbalar, definite plural cymbalane)

1. alternative spelling of symbal

Swedish

Noun

cymbal c

1. cymbal
2. dulcimer

Declension

English

Alternative forms

cymballing

Noun

cymbaling (uncountable)

1. Action of the verb to cymbal; the playing of cymbals.
   • 1886, At a hole in a rotten weir they executed a recitative; where a tributary brook fell over a stone breastwork they trilled cheerily; under an arch they performed a metallic cymballing; and at Durnover Hole they hissed. - Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Castorbridge
   • healthandage.com

     The voices of passing children reverberated like gongs - booming, peeling, cymbaling into switchbacking rollercoasters of sound.

   • "Manpurse" of vgmix.com

     It starts out with grungy-sounding guitar and lots of reverse cymballing. You start to segue in a softer, synthier sound but immediately put the guitar back into focus."

   • procolharum.com

     Mick Grabham's guitar (which contributes some rhythmical chops not found on the record) sounds as though it is going through a Leslie speaker, and Chris Copping appears to be going for a neo-Garth Hudson Lowrey-silver sound at times. BJ eschews the rapid quaver cymballing that he favoured in the play-out on the record. "

2. the crashing together of two things as cymbals
   • 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas

     Whereupon, he sat down amid a universal pounding of chest—lids, and cymbaling of tin pans; the few invalids, who, as yet, had not been actively engaged with the rest, now taking part in the applause, creaking their bunk— boards and swinging their hammocks.

   • 1855, Herman Melville, Benito Cereno

     As during the telling of the story, Captain Delano had once or twice started at the occasional cymballing of the hatchet-polishers, wondering why such an interruption should be allowed, especially in that part of the ship, and in the ears of an invalid; and moreover, as the hatches had anything but an attractive look, and the handlers of them still less so, it was, therefore, to tell the truth, not without some lurking reluctance, or even shrinking, it may be, that Captain Delano, with apparent complaisance, acquiesced in his host’s invitation."