different between knell vs gong

English

Etymology

From Middle English knellen, knillen, knyllen, knullen, from Old English cnyllan (“to strike; knock; clap”), from Proto-Germanic *knuzlijan? (“to beat; push; mash”), from Proto-Indo-European *gen- (“to squeeze, pinch, kink, ball up”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /n?l/
• Rhymes: -?l
• Homophone: Nell

Verb

knell (third-person singular simple present knells, present participle knelling, simple past and past participle knelled)

1. (intransitive) To ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
   • 1647, John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, The Spanish Curate, Act V, Scene 2, in The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, London: T. Evans et al., 1778, Volume 2, p. 288,^[1]

     I’ll make thee sick at heart, before I leave thee,

     And groan, and die indeed, and be worth nothing,

     Not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee […]

   • 1816, Walter Scott, The Black Dwarf, Chapter 7,^[2]

     “ […] God!—the words of the warlock are knelling in my ears!”

   • 1824, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Autumn: A Dirge” in Posthumous Poems, London: John & Henry L. Hunt, p. 166,^[3]

     The chill rain is falling, the nipt worm is crawling,

     The rivers are swelling, the thunder is knelling

     For the year;

   • 1846, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The New Timon. A Poetical Romance, London: Henry Colburn, 4th edition, 1846, Part II, p. 86,^[4]

     Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known,

     Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word—ALONE!

2. (transitive) To signal or proclaim something (especially a death) by ringing a bell.
   • 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Woodnotes, Number II” in The Dial, Volume 2, Number 2, October 1841, p. 212,^[5]

     Let thy friends be as the dead in doom,

     And build to them a final tomb;

     Let the starred shade that nightly falls

     Still celebrate their funerals,

     And the bell of beetle and of bee

     Knell their melodious memory.

   • 1909, Alfred Allinson (translator), The Well of Saint Clare by Anatole France (1895), London: John Lane, Prologue,^[6]

     The church bells knelled the peaceful ending of the day, while the purple shades of night descended sadly and majestically on the low chain of neighbouring hills.

   • 1931, Robert E. Howard, The Gods of Bal-Sagoth in Weird Tales, Volume 18, Issue 3, October 1931, Chapter 3,^[7]

     His right hand, clenched into an iron mallet, battered desperately at the fearful face bent toward his; the beast-like teeth shattered under his blows and blood splattered, but still the red eyes gloated and the taloned fingers sank deeper and deeper until a ringing in Turlogh’s ears knelled his soul’s departure.

3. (transitive) To summon by, or as if by, ringing a bell.

Translations

Noun

knell (plural knells)

1. The sound of a bell knelling; a toll (particularly one signalling a death).
   • c. 1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act V, Scene 4,^[8]

     ...he is able to pierce a corselet with his eye; talks like a knell, and his hum is a battery.

   • 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Line 1,^[9]

     The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

2. (figuratively) A sign of the end or demise of something or someone.
   • 1879, John Richard Green, History of the English People, Volume 8, Modern England, 1760-1815, London: Macmillan, 1896, Chapter 2, pp. 41-42,^[10]

     But at the close of the war there was less thought of what [Britain] had retained than of what she had lost. She was parted from her American Colonies; and at the moment such a parting seemed to be the knell of her greatness.

   • 2000, Simon Caulkin, “Taking over by talking back,” The Guardian, 1 October, 2000,^[11]

     The internet sounds the knell for conventional brands, predicts Professor Alec Reed, who has set up an Academy of Enterprise to chart the emerging individual economy. By making price and other comparisons ever easier, the internet strips them of mystique and turns them into commodities.

Derived terms

• death knell

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