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Jangle vs Altercation - What's the difference?

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Jangle is a related term of altercation.


As nouns the difference between jangle and altercation

is that jangle is a rattling metallic sound while altercation is warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.

As a verb jangle

is to make a rattling metallic sound.

jangle

English

Verb

  • To make a rattling metallic sound.
  • To cause something to make a rattling metallic sound.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Like sweet bells jangled , out of tune, and harsh.
  • To irritate.
    • The sound from the next apartment jangled my nerves.
  • To quarrel in words; to wrangle.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Good wits will be jangling ; but, gentles, agree.
  • * Carlyle
    • Prussian Trenck jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rattling metallic sound.
  • * Longfellow
    • the musical jangle of sleigh bells
  • (obsolete) Idle talk; prate; chatter; babble.
    • (Chaucer)

    Usage notes

    * somewhat harsher than jingle

    Related terms

    * jangly * jingle

    altercation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.
  • * (rfdate), Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
    • "What the hell is it to you who are my friends?" roared McMurdo in a voice which brought every head in the carriage round to witness the altercation .

    Synonyms

    * dispute, wrangle