Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A metallic sound, sharp and hard but not resonant: the clank of chains.
- v. To make a sharp, hard, metallic sound.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A sharp, hard, metallic sound: as, the clank of chains or fetters.
- To cause to sound with a clank: as, to clank chains. See the noun.
- To give a ringing blow to.
- To sound with or give out a clank.
- To deposit, put, place, or set down with a clanking sound.
- To move with a clanking sound.
Wiktionary
- n. A loud, hard sound of metal hitting metal, especially such a repetitive sound.
- v. intransitive To make a clanking sound
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than
clang , and a deeper and stronger sound thanclink . - v. To cause to sound with a clank.
- v. To sound with a clank.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a loud resonant repeating noise
- v. make a clank
Etymologies
- Probably imitative. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Somewhere in the distance a train was shunting; _clank, clank, clank_ went the wagons.”
“The fact that it lost that high pitched clank is probably due to the fact that the recoil lugs are now mostly seated due to work-lapping and peening.”
“I hear a metallic "clank" as I start to walk across the ramp.”
“Clapping hands, smacking counter tops, stomping shoes on tile-they all have a nice "clank", "thud", or "bom" which delight a curious 13-month-old.”
“It makes such a satisfying "clank" when your vote is cast, like it weighs something.”
“Behind him, Gideon heard the clank of a rifle bolt slamming home.”
“She tossed the iron into the brazier, where it landed with a metallic clank.”
Simon & Schuster: Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
“The corridors, she realized, had rubber mats so you could not hear sounds outside your cell, which heightened your surprise and panic when your cell door would clank open.”
“(Soundbite of clank, clank) (Soundbite of laughter) Mr. WALLACE: ... steel on steel, baby.”
“Then I saw the Flibberty's mainsail hoisting, and heard the clank of her chain coming in, and I woke up.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘clank’.
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henryar's list
marmoleum, menagerie, cyan, ochre, pilfer, discombobulate, loquacious, iridescent, amethyst, derelict, botulism, equilibrium and 240 more...
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Onomatopoetic
words (seemingly) formed in imitation of a natural sound
plash, guff, woof, splash, crash, pow, crack, bang, whoosh, whizz, whallop, fizz and 116 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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onomatopoeias (1 syllable)
1 syllable words that mean what they sound like.
(dictionaried or un-dictionaried words | onomatopoeic in nature)
onomatopoeias (2 syllable) | onomatopoeias (3+ syllables)
gush, buzz, pop, woof, boo, bam, bang, bash, bump, clang, clap, click and 102 more...
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Steampunk
Words used quite often in steampunk
ansible, airship, chymical, valve, clockwork, dirigible, thaumaturgy, copper, bronze, difference engine, gear, rivets and 516 more...
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Random Words
lochia, confused, innoxious, naive, cockatrice, derisive, parsley, passive, casual, football, innuendo, Rumanian and 176 more...
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A Salpicon of Random Palavery
More random words and phrases that reflect my eclectic, stream-of-consciousess style of word and idea gathering.
durometer, mock-grudge, nimini-pimini, chrisom, sine metu, monteverdian, tagh, monodic, sharakan, watermen, wherrymen, winged gudgeon and 137 more...
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je les adore!
fusillade, foal, celestial, abattoir, byzantium, berlin, casablanca, babylon, balkans, albion, avalon, between the devil... and 471 more...
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whitmanian
from the poetry and prose of walt whitman
celebrate, assume, loafe, grass, summer, distillation, atmosphere, undisguised, naked, mad, breath, loveroot and 291 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Some Words I Love to Use
arcology, strumpet, crux, confected, pedant, bluestocking, cogitation, incensed, lovecraftian, cygnet, dactyl, adytum and 539 more...
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Fun Words
Words that have funny meanings or are just fun to say.
kumquat, chimichanga, sarsparilla, rutabaga, rumpus, flummox, encrusted, prestidigitation, pomegranate, preposterous, dentiloquist, sepulchre and 323 more...
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Aeonn's Words
discombobulation, dank, crass, abolishment, quite, ubiquitous, crank, catapult, sponge, click, queer, irish and 124 more...
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Kapow! (I'm Batman)
Sound effects from the show. Swiped from here: http://www.batmania.com.ar/paginas/serie_onomatopeyas_cantidad.htm
aieee, aiieee, awk, awkkkkkk, bam, bang, bang-eth, bap, biff, bloop, blurp, boff and 69 more...
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kmenier's list
Onomotopoeia
velvet, egregious, degenerate, acrimonious, clank, covalent, snarky, magneto, banyan, palimpsest, coeval, uproarious and 20 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for clank.
hernesheir "I know NUSSINK!" Sep 24, 2009
bilby Vot about Kolonel Klink? Sep 24, 2009
sionnach klearly it's klunk! Sep 24, 2009
hernesheir Which has more gravitas, or evinces more gravity due to the size or mass of the object making the sound: clink, clank, or clunk? (Cf. dicsusions @ cheese grits - grit-groat-grout) Sep 24, 2009
yarb My dead bottle thuds in the bin with the same dull clank
as the Curfew Bell has in the Garden of Rest at 8.
- Peter Reading, Curfew, from For the Municipality's Elderly, 1974 Jun 22, 2008