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Clack vs Claque - What's the difference?

clack | claque |

As verbs the difference between clack and claque

is that clack is to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click while claque is .

As a noun 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.

clack

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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
  • Whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack .

    Derived terms

    * clack box * clack dish * clack door * clack valve

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
  • * Thackeray
  • We heard Mr. Hodson's whip clacking on the shoulders of the poor little wretches.
  • To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
  • To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
  • (Feltham)
  • (UK) To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.
  • claque

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A group of people hired to attend a performance and to either applaud or boo.
  • A group of people who pre-arrange among themselves to express strong support for an idea, so as to give the false impression of a wider consensus.
  • A group of fawning admirers.
  • Anagrams

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