Clang - What does it mean?
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A loud, ringing sound, like that made by free-hanging metal objects striking each other.
Quality of tone.
The cry of some birds, including the crane and the goose.
(psychology, psychiatry) A word or phrase linked only by sound and not by meaning, characteristic of some mental disorders.
* Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
To strike (objects) together so as to produce a clang.
* Prior
To give out a clang; to resound.
* 1933 , Norvell Page, Wings of the Black Death
* 1920 , Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
* 1917 , Rose Wilder Lane, Henry Ford’s Own Story
clang
English
Noun
(en noun)- For much of this day, Mrs Y. wrote in her diary, covering page after page in a rapid scrawl full of paligraphic repetitions, puns, clangs, and violent, perseverative crossings-out
Verb
(en verb)- The fierce Caretes clanged their sounding arms.
- A cell door clanged metallically and Wentworth was flung inside. He tripped, collapsed upon the concrete floor.
Chapter XXIX
- The clanging and groaning of the train came nearer, and it staggered slowly into the station like a prey- laden monster into its lair.
- Then the sparks flew from the anvil while the great hammer clanged on the metal, shaping it, and Henry begged to be allowed to try it
