Concept cluster: Actions > Metallic or hard object sounds
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Clanging.
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Clattering, making or filled with a clattering sound.
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(intransitive) To make the sound of a wild animal, to bay.
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With a banging sound.
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Characterized by banging sounds.
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(transitive) To contact (someone via) a pager device.
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(intransitive, transitive) To operate a bellows; to direct air at (something) using a bellows.
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A sound of rapid motion.
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Producing an elastic, bouncy sound, like a "boing"
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A low-pitched, resonant sound, such as of an explosion.
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Loud, resonant sound; a repeated loud sound.
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Something that makes a booming sound.
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A rattling or scampering noise.
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An act or sound of braying.
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The noise made by the bittern; a boom.
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(informal, transitive) To open a remote-controlled door to allow (a person) to enter after he/she has sounded the doorbell or buzzer.
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To make a cash register or slot machine noise.
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(England, dialectal, rare) To chatter (to talk or make noise) or chuckle.
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An intermittent noise, as from vibration.
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To compress the lips and then separate them quickly, resulting in a percussive noise.
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To chink or clink; to make a ringing sound, as of metal or glass being struck.
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(UK) Alternative spelling of chink in the armor. [(idiomatic) A weakness; a weak point (particularly of something formerly considered near-invincible or perfect).]
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The sound of something that chinks.
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(transitive, obsolete) To cheer up; to make (someone) happier.
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(dialectal) The chattering of teeth due to trembling, shivering, etc.
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The sound of a chitter.
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The box or chamber in which a clack valve works.
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(engineering) A valve; especially one hinged at one edge, which, when raised from its seat, falls with a clacking sound.
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Alternative form of clack dish [(historical) A dish with a movable lid, formerly carried by beggars, who clacked the lid to attract notice.]
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(by extension) Any device that makes a clacking noise.
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clackers
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(intransitive) To move with a clackety sound.
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(informal) Being or making a clack sound.
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To produce, in bellringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang.
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To move in a noisy and clumsy manner.
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(chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, informal, often in the phrase drop a clanger) A very noticeable mistake; an attention-getting faux pas.
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A noise that clangs.
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With a loud, metallic or cymbal-like, clanging sound.
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Canada, US standard spelling of clangour. [(Britain, Canada) To make a clanging sound.]
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(Britain, Canada) To make a clanging sound.
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(obsolete) Making a clang, or a ringing metallic sound.
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Having a clanging sound.
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Something that makes a clanking noise.
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A noise that clanks.
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Making a clanking metallic sound.
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(obsolete) To abuse with words; to revile; to scold.
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(intransitive) To make a rattling sound.
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Marked by clattering
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To make a clicking noise with a sucking action of the tongue, to express disapproval or impatience, urge on a horse, etc.
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To move with alternate clicking and clacking sounds.
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A clicking, clacking sound, as of horse hooves on a pavement.
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The sound or action of a click.
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Emitting a click sound.
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(transitive, intransitive) To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.
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(slang) handcuffs
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Capable of producing a clinking sound.
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Someone or something that clinks.
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(colloquial) money
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With a clinking sound.
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clinking, making a clinking sound, like glass on glass.
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To clatter lightly; to make a soft rattling noise.
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(transitive) To make some object hit something, thereby producing a clomping sound.
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To make such a sound.
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To make this sound; to walk so as to make this sound.
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(transitive) To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound.
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A sound that clunks.
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Being or making a clunk sound.
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A critical moment or event.
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(intransitive) To make a din, to resound.
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Obsolete form of jingle. [The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself.]
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With a grinding sound or motion.
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(slang) A serious accident (especially to come a howler or go a howler; compare come a cropper).
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A clattering sound.
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A rattling metallic sound; a clang.
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The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself.
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A thudding or thunking sound.
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(idiomatic) To come into conflict.
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to make a sound
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A small plastic cylinder that makes a high-pitched groan when shook.
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(transitive) To produce an oom-pah sound.
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(countable) A bassy grunting or thudding sound.
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(obsolete) A violent palpitation of the heart.
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Groupings of frequent irregularly repeated sounds of moderate magnitude and lower-than-average pitch.
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With a pattering sound.
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To produce such a sound.
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With a quick tapping sound
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One who makes a plinking sound.
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(informal) Having a simple, repetitive, percussive melody.
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(archaic, chiefly African-American Vernacular) To make such a shrill, high-pitched noise.
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To make a whizzing sound
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A loud noise.
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Alternative form of ratatat [A swiftly repeated knocking sound.]
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(onomatopoeia) A rapid succession of percussive sounds, as made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another.
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A toy that makes a rattle sound; a rattle.
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Anything that rattles.
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With a rattling sound or motion.
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(obsolete, intransitive) Of a bull (or similar animal): to bellow again, or as a reply.
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With a rocking sound or motion.
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(intransitive) To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.
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That which makes a rustling noise.
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(tiddlywinks) A shot where the wink enters the pot but bounces out again.
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(intransitive, informal) To produce a raw and discordant sound with electric guitars.
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To make something click, to make a clicking noise.
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To produce such an effect.
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(law) In a legal casebook, a short summary of a legal action placed between more extensively quoted cases.
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With a strumming sound or action.
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(intransitive, rare) To make a shrill sound like a boiling teakettle.
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Alternative form of thrum [A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.]
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In a thudding way; making a thudding sound.
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With a thwacking sound.
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Alternative form of thock [To make, or cause to make, a thock sound.]
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A thudding noise.
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A sound of something ticking.
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The crackling sound heard when a bar of tin is bent, caused by the crystal twinning in the metal.
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To emit a high-pitched sharp or metallic noise.
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To produce such a sound.
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(intransitive) To create a trill sound; to utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver.
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(chiefly of an object) To make a noise like something moving quickly through the air.
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(medicine) A rattling or uvular utterance of the r-sound.
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Alternative spelling of whirr [To move or vibrate (something) with a buzzing sound.]
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To move or vibrate (something) with a buzzing sound.
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Anything that makes a whirring noise.
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(transitive) To send, signal, or call by a whistle.
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Alternative form of whizz-bang [(Britain, military slang, historical) A small calibre shell from World War I.]
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A sound or motion that zooms.

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