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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To make light metallic sounds, as those of a small bell.
  2. v. Informal To urinate.
  3. v. To cause to tinkle.
  4. v. To signal or call by tinkling.
  5. n. A light, clear metallic sound or a sound suggestive of it.
  6. n. An act or instance of tinkling.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To make or give forth a succession of little clinking sounds; clink or tink repeatedly or continuously.
  2. To tingle.
  3. To cause to clink or tink; jingle; ring.
  4. To affect by tinking sounds; lead or draw by ringing or jingling.
  5. To cause to ring or resound.
  6. n. A succession of small tinking or clinking sounds; a soft jingling noise.
  7. To tinker.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.
  2. v. intransitive, informal, juvenile To urinate.
  3. v. transitive To cause to tinkle.
  4. v. transitive To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling.
  5. n. A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.
  6. n. UK, informal A telephone call.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To make, or give forth, small, quick, sharp sounds, as a piece of metal does when struck; to clink.
  2. v. To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
  3. v. To cause to clonk, or make small, sharp, quick sounds.
  4. n. A small, sharp, quick sound, as that made by striking metal.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. make or emit a high sound
  2. n. a light clear metallic sound as of a small bell

Etymologies

  1. Middle English tinklen, frequentative of tinken, to emit a brief metallic sound, perhaps of imitative origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (8)

Words with the same meaning

  1. clink
  1. ring
  1. tinkling
  1. ting-a-ling
  1. tintinnabulation
  1. ting
  1. tingle
  1. tink

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. sound
  1. go

same context (23)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. clink
  2. jingle
  3. jangle
  4. clinking
  1. clatter
  2. peal
  3. chime
  4. gurgle
  1. thrum
  2. reverberation
  3. chink
  4. whirr
  1. cadence
  2. twang
  3. rumble
  4. creak
  1. crunch
  2. plash
  3. chirp
  4. scrape
  1. thud
  2. trickle
  3. squeal

rhymes (9)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. dinkel
  1. finckle
  1. finkle
  1. kinkle
  1. sprinkle
  1. trinkle
  1. twinkle
  1. winkle
  1. wrinkle

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. chinkie
  2. jingle
  1. tingle
  2. trinkle
  1. wind chimes
  2. wind bell
  1. wind chime
  2. tinkle
  1. ting
  2. tink
  1. tinkling
  2. sprinkle

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