Knell vs Jangle - What's the difference?
knell | jangle | Related terms |
to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* , The New Timon. A romance of London , Chapter 86
to signal or proclaim something by ringing a bell.
the sound of a bell knelling; a toll.
* 1750 , , Line 1
To make a rattling metallic sound.
To cause something to make a rattling metallic sound.
* Shakespeare
To irritate.
To quarrel in words; to wrangle.
* Shakespeare
* Carlyle
A rattling metallic sound.
* Longfellow
(obsolete) Idle talk; prate; chatter; babble.
In intransitive terms the difference between knell and jangle
is that knell is to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll while jangle is to make a rattling metallic sound.In transitive terms the difference between knell and jangle
is that knell is to signal or proclaim something by ringing a bell while jangle is to irritate.knell
English
Verb
(en verb)- not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee
- Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, / Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, alone .
Noun
(en noun)- The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
Derived terms
* death knelljangle
English
Verb
- Like sweet bells jangled , out of tune, and harsh.
- The sound from the next apartment jangled my nerves.
- Good wits will be jangling ; but, gentles, agree.
- Prussian Trenck jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.
Noun
(en noun)- the musical jangle of sleigh bells
- (Chaucer)