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Jingle vs Tintinnabulation - What's the difference?

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Jingle is a synonym of tintinnabulation.


As nouns the difference between jingle and tintinnabulation

is that jingle is the sound of metal or glass clattering against itself while tintinnabulation is a tinkling sound, as of a bell or of breaking glass.

As a verb jingle

is to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.

jingle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The sound of metal or glass clattering against itself.
    • He heard the jingle of her keys in the door and turned off the screen.
  • A short tune or verse, especially one used to advertise something.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 3 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992) citation , page= , passage=The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.” }}
  • A carriage drawn by horses.
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    • Verb

  • To make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
    • The beads jingled as she walked.
  • To cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself.
    • She jingled the beads as she walked.
  • (dated) To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect.
  • * Macaulay
    • Jingling street ballads.

    Derived terms

    * jingle bell

    Related terms

    * jangle

    See also

    * clink * rattle ----

    tintinnabulation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tinkling sound, as of a bell or of breaking glass.
  • * 1919, , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 20
    • Across the darkling meadows, from the heights of Hare, the tintinnabulation sounded mournfully, penetrating the curl-wreathed tympanums of Lady Parvula de Panzoust.
  • The ringing of bells.
  • * 1849,
    • Keeping time, time, time,
    In a sort of Runic rhyme,
    To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
    From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
    Bells, bells, bells —
    From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

    Related terms

    * tintinnabulate