Clanged vs Clanked - What's the difference?
clanged | clanked |
(clang)
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
(clank)
To make a clanking sound
To cause to sound with a clank.
As verbs the difference between clanged and clanked
is that clanged is past tense of clang while clanked is past tense of clank.clanged
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(head)Anagrams
*clang
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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
clanked
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(head)clank
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Derived terms
* clankless * clankyUsage notes
* Clank'' usually expresses a duller or less resounding sound than ''clang'', and a deeper and stronger sound than ''clink .Verb
(en verb)- The chains clanked .
- The prisoners clank their chains.