Clink vs Ting - What's the difference?
clink | ting |
(onomatopoeia) The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another.
* Tennyson
(humorous, dated) To rhyme.
(slang) Jail or prison, after (w) prison in Southwark, London. Used in the phrase (in the clink).
Stress cracks produced in metal ingots as they cool after being cast.
ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
The apartment in a Chinese temple where the idol is kept.
(Webster 1913)
English onomatopoeias
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As nouns the difference between clink and ting
is that clink is the sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass while ting is the sound of a small metallic bell.As verbs the difference between clink and ting
is that clink is to make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another while ting is to make a ting sound.clink
English
Etymology 1
Onomatpoeic, as metal against metal. Related to (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m). Maybe from (etyl) , related to call. English onomatopoeiasNoun
(en noun)- You could hear the clink of the glasses from the next room.
- When Frere had come down, an hour before, the prisoners were all snugly between their blankets. They were not so now; though, at the first clink of the bolts, they would be back again in their old positions, to all appearances sound asleep.
Verb
(en verb)- The hammers clinked on the stone all night.
- the clinking latch
Etymology 2
From prison in Southwark, London, itself presumably named after sound of doors being bolted or chains rattling.Noun
(en noun)- If he keeps doing things like that, he’s sure to end up in the clink .