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Knell vs Tinkle - What's the difference?

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Knell is a related term of tinkle.


In lang=en terms the difference between knell and tinkle

is that knell is to signal or proclaim something by ringing a bell while tinkle is to indicate, signal, etc by tinkling.

As verbs the difference between knell and tinkle

is that knell is to ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll while tinkle is to make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.

As nouns the difference between knell and tinkle

is that knell is the sound of a bell knelling; a toll while tinkle is a light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.

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

    tinkle

    English

    Verb

    (tinkl)
  • To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell.
    • The glasses tinkled together as they were placed on the table.
  • * Dodsley
    • The sprightly horse / Moves to the music of his tinkling bells.
  • (intransitive, informal, juvenile) To urinate.
  • To cause to tinkle.
  • To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling.
    • The butler tinkled dinner.
  • To hear, or resound with, a small, sharp sound.
  • * Dryden
    • And his ears tinkled , and the colour fled.

    Related terms

    * tinkle the ivories

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A light metallic sound, resembling the tinkling of bells or wind chimes.
  • * 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) , ch. 2:
    • At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. . . . There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.
  • (UK, informal) A telephone call.
    • Give me a tinkle when you arrive.
  • (informal, euphemism) An act of urination.