Clank vs Rattling - What's the difference?
clank | rattling | Related terms |
To make a clanking sound
To cause to sound with a clank.
Lively, quick (speech, pace).
(intensifier) good, fine.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}* (James Joyce)
rattle (a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another)
(nautical)
Clank is a related term of rattling.
As nouns the difference between clank and rattling
is that clank is a loud, hard sound of metal hitting metal while rattling is rattle (a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another).As verbs the difference between clank and rattling
is that clank is to make a clanking sound while rattling is .As an adjective rattling is
lively, quick (speech, pace).clank
English
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.
rattling
English
Adjective
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Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}
- I'd like nothing better this minute, said Mr Browne stoutly, than a rattling fine walk in the country or a fast drive with a good spanking goer between the shafts.