Clack vs Clangour - What's the difference?
clack | clangour |
an abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a clatter; in sound, midway between a click and a clunk
Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
chatter; prattle
* South
To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
* Thackeray
To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
(UK) To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.
(British, Canadian) A loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din.
* 1920 , , Chapter XXIV: Death and Love,
(British, Canadian) To make a clanging sound.
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As nouns the difference between clack and clangour
is that clack is an abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a clatter; in sound, midway between a click and a clunk while clangour is (british|canadian) a loud, repeating clanging sound; a loud racket; a din.As verbs the difference between clack and clangour
is that clack is to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click while clangour is (british|canadian) to make a clanging sound.clack
English
Noun
(en noun)- Whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack .
Derived terms
* clack box * clack dish * clack door * clack valveVerb
(en verb)- We heard Mr. Hodson's whip clacking on the shoulders of the poor little wretches.
- (Feltham)
clangour
English
Alternative forms
* clangor (qualifier)Noun
(en noun)- And always, as the dark, inchoate eyes turned to him, there passed through Gerald's bowels a burning stroke of revolt, that seemed to resound through his whole being, threatening to break his mind with its clangour , and making him mad.
