Jingle vs Commercial - What's the difference?
jingle | commercial |
The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself.
A short tune or verse, especially one used to advertise something.
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A carriage drawn by horses.
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To make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
To cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
(dated) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
* Macaulay
Of or pertaining to commerce.
* 1900 , , Chapter I,
As nouns the difference between jingle and commercial
is that jingle is the sound of metal or glass clattering against itself while commercial is an advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.As a verb jingle
is to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.As an adjective commercial is
of or pertaining to commerce.jingle
English
Noun
(en noun)- He heard the jingle of her keys in the door and turned off the screen.
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Verb
- The beads jingled as she walked.
- She jingled the beads as she walked.
- Jingling street ballads.
Derived terms
* jingle bellSee also
* clink * rattle ----commercial
English
Hyponyms
* infomercialHypernyms
* advertisementAdjective
(en adjective)- A two minutes' walk brought Warwick--the name he had registered under, and as we shall call him--to the market-house, the central feature of Patesville, from both the commercial and the picturesque points of view.