clink
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(onomatopoeic)(onomatopoeia) The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
You could hear the clink of the glasses from the next room.
1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V When Frere had come down, an hour before, the prisoners were all snugly between their blankets. They were not so now; though, at the first clink of the bolts, they would be back again in their old positions, to all appearances sound asleep.
- 2.
Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.
- 3.
(dated, slang)A prison.
If he keeps doing things like that, he’s sure to end up in the clink.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(ambitransitive)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.
The hammers clinked on the stone all night.
- 2.
(dated, humorous)To rhyme.
- 3.
(Scotland, transitive)To clinch; to rivet.
Nguồn gốc từ
From Middle English clinken, from Old English *clincan (compare clynnan, clynian (to sound; resound)), from Proto-Germanic *klinganą (to sound).