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CLANG

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A loud resonant repeating noise

Example:

he could hear the clang of distant bells

Synonyms:

clang; clangor; clangoring; clangour; clank; clash; crash

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("clang" is a kind of...):

noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))

Derivation:

clang (make a loud noise)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make a loud noise

Example:

clanging metal

Synonyms:

clang; clangor

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "clang" is one way to...):

go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence examples:

Cars clang in the streets

The streets clang with cars

Derivation:

clang (a loud resonant repeating noise)

clanger (a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate)

clangor (a loud resonant repeating noise)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The gong clanged and knelled.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

As I opened my door I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had fallen.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The train pulled in to Sixteenth Street Station, and the waiting electric car could be seen, the conductor of which was impatiently clanging the gong.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

From sea to sea there was stringing of bows in the cottage and clang of steel in the castle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A man followed me from London Bridge Station, and I have no doubt—Great heaven! what is that? It was a clang of the bell, followed instantly by heavy steps upon the stair.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With one sweep of his powerful arm, the Count threw the door shut, and the great bolts clanged and echoed through the hall as they shot back into their places.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But there was one particular nightmare from which he suffered—the clanking, clanging monsters of electric cars that were to him colossal screaming lynxes.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Hans sighed as though awakening from sleep. The clang of the plate had aroused them to life in a new world.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

And romantic it certainly was—the fog, like the grey shadow of infinite mystery, brooding over the whirling speck of earth; and men, mere motes of light and sparkle, cursed with an insane relish for work, riding their steeds of wood and steel through the heart of the mystery, groping their way blindly through the Unseen, and clamouring and clanging in confident speech the while their hearts are heavy with incertitude and fear.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp clang of the bell.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)