clang

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Now the clang is almost a repetition, a very primitive form of analogy 4 If the comparatively simple conditions of a laboratory can so readily flatten out discrimination, what must be the effect of city life?

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  1. noun A loud, resonant, metallic sound.
  2. noun The strident call of a crane or goose.
  3. intransitive and transitive verb To make or cause to make a clang.

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  • The hum of traffic and the "clang, clang, CLANG" of scrap metal bouncing around the iron bed of a flatbed truck on Riverview Drive is muted by the "plop, splash" of catfish jumping out of the water at North Riverfront Park Lake. —  Riverfront Times | Complete Issue
  • Let's hear 'clang, clang, clang' tonight, not 'bam! bam! bam!' —  Baseball Prospectus
  • This was but very little sail: but it was all we could hope to be able to set, and without a wind even that was of no use to us The pumps, in the meantime, kept us fully occupied; clang--clang--clang they went, till I thought I never should get the sound out of my ears. —  Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman
  • Now the clang is almost a repetition, a very primitive form of analogy 4 If the comparatively simple conditions of a laboratory can so readily flatten out discrimination, what must be the effect of city life? —  Public Opinion
  • Even the clang-clang of eight bells has music -- not boisterous nor disturbing, but muffled in the velvety air. —  Mrs. Falchion, Volume 1.
 

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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

clatter ·  clank ·  thud ·  peal ·  rumble ·  clash ·  bang ·  creak ·  screech ·  din ·  crash ·  clamor

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clang:   clanging ·  clanged

Etymologies (3)

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  1. Probably from Latin clangere, to ring, clang.

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  1. Not in Middle English or Anglo-Saxon; = Old High German chlang, Middle High German klanc (klang-, also klank-), German klang = Swedish Danish klang, sound, clang, ring, clink; in form from the preterit of the verb represented by Old High German chlingan (preterit chlanc), Middle High German G. klingen (preterit klang) = Middle Low German klingen = Icelandic klingja, clang, ring, clink, a verb parallel to Middle High German G. klinken = Middle Low German klinken = Middle Dutch, Dutch klinken = English clink: see clink. Cf. Latin clangor, clang, clangor, Greek κλαγγή, a clang, clash, rattle, from the verb; Latin clangere, Late Latin also clingere, make a loud sound, clang, = Gr.κλάζειν (perfect κέκλαγγα), scream, bark, clash, rattle. All ult. imitative, the forms in Teutonic agreeing with clang being mixed with those agreeing with clank and clink, and further associated through imitative variation with numerous similar forms: see clink, clank, click, clack, etc.
  2. Not in Middle English or Anglo-Saxon; formally from the noun, but partly, as an imitative word, an independent verb; cf. Latin clangere, clang, = Greek κλάζειν (perfect κέκλαγγα), scream, bark, clash, clang: see clang, n., and clank, clack, etc.
 

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