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Knell vs Jangle - What's the difference?

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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)
  • to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
  • not worth a blessing nor a bell to knell for thee
  • * , The New Timon. A romance of London , Chapter 86
  • Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, / Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word, alone .
  • to signal or proclaim something by ringing a bell.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • the sound of a bell knelling; a toll.
  • * 1750 , , Line 1
  • The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

    Derived terms

    * death knell

    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