Clatter vs Bang - What's the difference?
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A rattling noise.
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, title= A loud disturbance.
Noisy talk or chatter.
To cause to make a rattling sound.
* (Jonathan Swift)
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* 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
To make a rattling noise.
To chatter noisily or rapidly.
* Spenser
(Northern English) To hit; to smack.
* 1988 , , Friday Night Live
* 2010 , Gerald Hansen, Hand in the Till
A sudden percussive noise.
A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
An explosion.
(US, especially plural) A fringe of hair cut across the forehead.
* W. D. Howells
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(US) The symbol , known as an exclamation point.
(mathematics) A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
(figuratively) An act of sexual intercourse.
An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
(slang, mining) An explosive product.
(slang, US, Boston area) An abrupt left turn.
(label) To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
(label) To hit hard.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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To engage in sexual intercourse.
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* 1972 , (Mario Puzo) and (Francis Ford Coppola), (The Godfather) (film):
(with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.
(label) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
* The Century Magazine
, directly.
* {{quote-news, year=2011
, date=September 18
, author=Ben Dirs
, title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia
, work=BBC Sport
Precisely.
With a sudden impact.
a verbal emulation of a sudden percussive sound
Clatter is a related term of bang.
As a noun clatter
is a rattling noise.As a verb clatter
is to cause to make a rattling sound.clatter
English
Noun
(en noun)The Dust of Conflict, chapter=7
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Synonyms
* commotion * racketVerb
(en verb)- You clatter still your brazen kettle.
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- When he came to Nottingham, he entered that part of the market where butchers stood, and took up his inn(2) in the best place he could find. Next, he opened his stall and spread his meat upon the bench, then, taking his cleaver and steel and clattering them together, he trolled aloud in merry tones:...
- I see thou dost but clatter .
- "I can't watch it because I have to go outside and clatter someone in the nuts!”
- “An Orange bitch clattered seven shades of shite out of her,” Padraig eagerly piped up.
Derived terms
* clatterer * clatteringly * clatterybang
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- When he struck it with a hammer, there was a loud bang .
- Tiffany has long hair and bangs .
- his hair cut in front like a young lady's bang
- An e-mail address with an ! is called a bang path.
- Load the bang into the hole.
Synonyms
* strike, blow * explosion * (hair cut) fringe, bangs * exclamation point, exclamation markAntonyms
* (abrupt left turn) hangVerb
(en verb)- The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks.
“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/19/2
- Moe Greene: He was banging cocktail waitresses two at a time!
- His hair banged even with his eyebrows.
Synonyms
* nailAdverb
(en adverb)- The passenger door was bang against the garage wall.
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- ''He arrived bang on time.
- Distracted, he ran bang into the opening door.
Interjection
(en interjection)- He pointed his finger at her like a gun and said, "Bang !"